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RUINOUS CONTRASTS. 



From the San Francisco Chronicle, MELBOURNE, (Australia), Argus, Jan. 



April 30, 1893. 7, 1893." The weather is very dry and 



THE MISSISSIPPI BISING.-LANDS COVERED P r f ent Outl 9 k for the C . min g Vintage is 



ON THE MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS SIDES. not * P ro 18in S as Previous years, black 



/TUX -i m, spot and odium have made their appeai- 



ALTON (111.), April 29.-The danger a ^ ce in the vine yards." (a six months 



line for the stage of water has been tl r0 uaht) 

 passed, and those who have interests at 



stake are watching the water creep up to S. F. Chronicle, April 30, 1893. 

 and over their possessions. Missouri 



points are flooded Unless a fall soon ^4 NAMA ' .^P nl ??--The government 



sets in great damage will follow. continues with unabated effort to combat 



QUINCY, (111.), April 29.-The most the terrible famine that for sometime 



serious hailstorm known for years struck ha f. been raging throughout the Oauca 



Quincy and this vicinity and did much valle / and the J 10 , 1 1 " 8 , ot whlc ^ wer e re- 



damage to fruit and other trees. Win- cently augmented by the eruption of the 



dows and conservatories were smashed Sotora volcano and the consequent dam- 



all over town. The river is rising rapid in ? U P of the Principal rivers of the 



ly and a repetition of last year's flood is dlstnct - 



feared. ODESSA, April 29. The abnormal 



HAIL STORM IN ILLINOIS. weather continues. The winter wheat 



ALTON, (111.), April 29. During last crop in the southern provinces has been 



night this vicinity was visited by a hail- almost destroyed by the cold. Food prices 



storm the like of which was never equaled are rising and famine threatens. The 



around here. All vegetation was literally Government will probably be compelled 



torn to pieces. The Missouri, Kansas and to revive the embargo on grain. 



Eastern tracks were greatly damaged. BERLIN, April 29.-Farmers are wail- 



The loss will foot up in the thousands. ing over the f ack of rain . The COU ntry 



From the San Francisco Examiner, is baked and unless a change occurs soon 



April 30, 1893. crops will be damaged and we shall have 



[Special to the EXAMINER.] a vegetable famine. The seeds now sown 



DALLAS, (Tex.), April 29. It was are . bu 1 rne( L u P-, ,S? er lndas . tr ; les are 



learned from passengers on the east- fenously affected The proprietor of a 



bound train this evening of the des- lar e dye works says the air is so dry he 



tructionby a cyclone of Cisco, in this cannot gel colors to toke. For the same 



State, during last night. There are not reason , J r ^ n , J ? lvet A ct ?- r jf 



more than twenty-five or thirty houses ar ? un( * Chefield find the greatest diffi- 



left standing, and up to the time the train 5 ultv , m cutting silks, which become 



passed, about 2 o'clock this afternoon, brittle, owing to the absence of moisture. 



30 > 1893 

 twelve more persons missing. [Special to the EXAMINER.] 



APPEALS FOR AID. LONDON, April 29. The extraordinary 



Ihe following telegram was also weather continues to be the one vital sub- 

 received by Mayor Levy from Cisco: ject of conversation. For fifty-seven days 



"Cisco has been destroyed by the most now there has been no appreciable rain- 

 destructive cyclone that ever visited fall in and about London. Farmers are 

 Texas. More than four-fifths of the complaining that a few more days of 

 people are without shelter. There were drought means ruin for them. All over 

 many killed and wounded. Help is the continent, from Italy nortnward, the 

 needed to bury the dead, take care of the same cry is going up from vineyard and 

 wounded and relieve those who lost every- orchard and farm. The only people not 

 thing." complaining are some of the large dry 



After the cyclone passed much of the goods houses. They say the pleasant 

 wreckage was burned, having caught fire weather has felmost doubled their eales 

 from overturned stoves. It is therefore and that the season has been the most 

 probable that most of the missing, about a profitable known in a score of years, but 

 score, have been burned to death or their the price of vegetables all over Europe 



