The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-04-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE TORNADO IN AMERICA.  25 OHILOREN KILLED.  As communication gradually opens with the small towns and hamlets in the States visited by the recent cyclone, the list of the fatalities and destruction caused by the visitation is constantly lengthening. and from all parts comes news of loss of life and injury to limb, while the destruction of property is immense. Numbers of farm buildings have been razed to the ground, the crops and fruit destroyed, and the live stock maimed and killed. The storm was very general in South Dakota, but the worst effects were apparently felt in Missouri. At Higginsville, in the latter State, eight persons were killed outright, three so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of, and 25 more or less wounded. At Coudry seven were killed and the same number injured. At Hawkins Bank eight were killed and three were injured. At Steeleville seven were killed, and at other places in Missouri one or more bet their lives, and others sustained injuries. In one farmhouse alone 13 persons were injured. The smaller towns have suffered most. Telegram from various places in Thnnessee likewise announce that the cyclone has caused great destruction to property, and that many persons have been wounded. Everything that lay in the path of the storm is said to have been either swept away or levelled to the ground. At Robinsonville, a village of 300 inhabitants, it is reported that not a single house remains standing. The oyolone burst upon the village in the form of a funnel-shaped cloud, and sone 20 or more persons, for the most part negroes, were killed on the spot. A fire broke out in the ruins of a Chinese laundry and spread rapidly in all directions, burning fiercely among the wreckage. The country to the east and west of the village was devastated by the storm, and many persons perished, mostly coloured field labourers. The school-house, which was blown down, causing the death of 25 coloured children, was situated at Indian Creek, about a mile from Robinsonville. One of the teachers belonging to the school, who had a narrow escape during the recent cyclone st Tunica, perished with his pupils. A terrific cyclone burst over the State of Michigan. The business portion of Ypsilanti was destroyed, and many other buildings had their roofs completely blown off and were otherwise damaged. Several persons were injured, and the streets are blocked with fallen trees. Great damage wah done at Saline, Chesterfield, Royal Oak, Rea, Clarksville, and the first-mentioned town is reported to have been obliteruted. A serious railway accident due to the storm occurred at Chesterfield. Two cars which were in a siding of the Grand Trunk Railway at that place were blown on to the main line just ahead of the express from Toronto. The enginndriver applied the brakes, and thus checked the speed of the train, but was unable to stop in time to avert a collision. The force of the impact was such as to pile the coaches on top of one another. The passengers, however, had a most miraculous escape, and only the baggageman was killed. The town of Rea has been for the most part laid in ruins, and several persons have been killed and injured. At Clarksville a woman was killed, and at Royal Oak a mother and father were burned to death in an overturned building in presence of their children, several of whom were severely injured. In Western Kansas the cyclone was accompanied by torrents of rain in some places, while elsewhere the ignition of the wreckage of farms started several prairie fires. Several hundred cattle and large numbers of sheep perished.  A telegram from Qairnper, in the Department of Finisterre, France, announces that two deaths from cholera have occurred in the lunatic e.sylum at that place.  Two -boys, named Winhirly, aged 10 and seven years respectively, living at Lumpskin, in Georgia, murdered a negro boy by st,bbing him with harpened sticks.