180 S. A. Kill— Tornadoes and Hailstorms of April, ^'c. [No. 2, 



The thatched roofs of the three porticoes of the Government Native 

 School were blown clean ofE. I hear several people in the city have been 

 Mled from the falling in of roofs and walls, which have been crushed 

 in and knocked down by the falling branches and trees. The kutcherry* 

 compound had an appearance as if the trees had been cut down for the 

 purpose of forming an ahattis to stand a siege. The oldest inhabitant of 

 Shahjahanpur says he cannot remember ever to have experienced so severe 

 a Imrricsne. The accounts from Moradabad (native accounts) are most 

 wonderful, even in the way of imagination. One is that that there wore 

 several shocks of earthquake at the time the tempest occurred in that 

 station, and that here and there cracks appeared iu the earth. Another 

 that a ])arty of five hundred souls forming a wedding procession be- 

 tween Moradabad and Powajan were caught in the storm, and all perish- 

 ed, the bridegroom amongst them, with the exception of five men. A 

 third, that many poor people who were watching their cucumber, melon, 

 and water-melon beds in the vicinity of the Ramgunga River were 

 overwhelmed in the dense columns of sand-dust borne along by the 

 storm-wave, and being daily dug out and carried into Moradabad for 

 identification. The weather to-day, the 4th of May, is quite cool, need- 

 ing no 2ounkha even in the middle of the day. ' 



* Magistrate's Court. 



