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S. A. Hill — Tornmhes a>id Haihlorms of April [No.2, 



escaped in a most miraculotis way, for branches of trees wei-e falling all 

 round them, but only one man was slightly injured. The shed which 

 has been built for their convenience had half the roof blown down, 

 while houses innumerable have been unroofed. In all the years that I 

 have been in India it was the severest storm that it had ever been my 

 lot to witness." 



A Naini Tal correspondent writes under date 2nd May : — " Another 

 sharp thunderstorm, with heavy rain, broke over the station last evening 

 about 6-30 p. m., and one or two minor ones occurred during the night. 

 The great storm of yesterday did much damage, the roads being strewn 

 with the leaves of trees,- cut off by the hail, and all flowers, fruit trees, 

 &c., exposed to its violence were cut to pieces. Government House 

 suffered severely, and nearly two hundred panes of glass were broken 

 by the hail. Clouds are still hanging about, and the distant roll of 

 thunder proves that the disturbance of the elements is not yet over. 

 The traditional ' oldest inhabitant ' cannot remember such severe wea- 

 ther in the month of May, but it seems to bo part of the same storm 

 that lias broken over Calcutta, Darjeeliug, &c." 



(2.) Extracts from the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore). 



Moradaiad, 1st May. 



A perfect cyclone swept over Moradabad last evening. The wind 

 was so high that it blew sixty empty goods vans from the sidings in 

 which they were standing for at least two miles oat of the station along 

 the line in the direction of Ohundousie. This was not sufficient. Dame 

 Nature, not content with a rather heavy goods train, thought sho might 

 as well have a mixed train, and sent after them thirteen empty lower 

 class carriages. All these seventy-three vehicles went careering gaily 

 along the line by themselves for two miles without let or hindrance 

 when the foremost of them mot with an unfortunate bullock lying across 

 the line, and no cow-catcher being at hand, it was, as Stephenson 

 predicted, bad for the "coo"; but it was still worse for the empty 

 goods vans, for the first one, in coming in collision with the bullock 

 got derailed, and all the others followed suit, tearing up the track for a 

 distance of about two miles. Some of the vans were turned upside 

 down, and looked somewhat like huge tortoises on their backs. The 

 train, which should have reached Barcilly at 3-14 a. m., never turned up 

 at all. But the train from Allyghur, due at 10-2 p. m., did not arrive 

 till 3-14. A very large poepul tree between Chundousie and Moradabad 

 had been torn up by its roots and sent right into the telegraph posts, 

 ■which not only knocked them down, but destroyed them entirely for a 

 considerable distance on both sides. The wreck of broken and damaged 

 cai-ringes was amazing. 



