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and May 1888 in the Dok?) and BohnUand. 



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Bareilly, 1st May. 

 A violent storm of quite a cyclonic character burst on and in the 

 vicinity of the Roliilkliand and Kiimaon line last evening. At Bareil- 

 ly it began to blow in violent gusts about half-past 7 and raged at 

 intervals, subsequently accompanied by rain till about 12 o'clock, in 

 fact, even xip to 4 this morning there were heavy showers. The cor- 

 rugated iron roofs of the Doonarain and Richha Road stations, re- 

 spectively at 21| and 27| miles from Bareilly, were blown off, and the 

 stations considerably wrecked by the violence of the wind. The whole 

 length of line from Atmora, 16| miles from Bareilly, to Baheri, 31 J 

 miles, a distance of upwards of fifteen miles, was strewn, not only with 

 branches torn off from adjacent trees, but many of the trees themselves. 

 In consequence of the line having to be cleared of these obstructions, 

 the Naini Tal train, which should have arrived at Bareilly junction at 3- 

 20, did not reach that station till half-past 7, being upwards of four 

 hours and ten minutes late. The Moradabad train is also late ; it 

 ought to have arrived here at 3-41 p. m. aud is not here yet 20 past 8. 



Ohaziabad, 4th May. 

 The hailstones whicli fell here during the storm of the 1st were of 

 phenomenal size. Some selected ones, to which accredited witnesses tes- 

 tify, were three and four inches in diameter and weighed from four to 

 eight ounces. Those of medium size were as large as cricket balls. 

 They were not quite round, but spheroidal, and the rebound of the large 

 ones was not less than fifty feet. A gentleman, many years a resident 

 here, had never seen anything like it. 



Sliahjahanpiir, ith May. 

 An exceedingly violent hurricane burst over the city and station of 

 Shahjahanpur on the evening of the 1st. The wind began to rise about 

 4 o'clock p. M., and blew violently from an easterly direction, when on a 

 sudden it veered round to a westerly direction. The consequence of this 

 sudden change in the direction of the cuiTcnt of air must have been a 

 considerable downward pressure of the opposing currents ; and the trees, 

 both through the city, the civil station, and cantonment, suffered very 

 much, I arrived at the Shahjahanpur Railway station from Bareilly at 

 11p.m. There was not a single ticca gf/iajvj/* in attendance, owing to 

 trees and branches of trees of all sizes lying across the road from the 

 Railway station to the city and all round. In going round the city on 

 the morning of the 2nd I found enormous trees and branches strewed 

 about in all direction, and many roofs and walls crushed in by them. 



* Thika ijdri, liackiicy csuTiiigc. 



