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at Mud Point the house was found standing,
all the bunds being washed away & traces of the
fury of the storm everywhere visible.
At Diamond Harbour the "Bentick" Sanatarium
had drifted anchor & all over the land;
an Arab ship was sunk in Rangafulla
Channel (island) another at Hospital
Point; trees blown down everywhere &
some torn up by the roots. The banks of the
river as well as the river itself, were dotted with
the bodies of cattle & human beings, further
up the effects of the storm appears thicker
& more disastrous from the more populous
nature of the districts, all the villages on
the banks of the river being razed to the ground.

Midnapore

The following letter from Midnapore gives a graphic
description of the storm by one who was travelling
from Ooloobariah & was caught in the midst of it.

I left Calcutta (Garden Reach) at 5 PM on Tues-
day Octr [October] 4th & reached Ooloobariah at about 7.30 PM

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