Si - . Louis, the great city in the State of Missouri,
was visited on Wednesday evening with a terrible cyclone, which sunk many vessels in the Mississippi, overthrew most of the tall buildings, rooted up great trees, and so destroyed the gas and telegraph-posts that communication was cut off, and the citizens left in darkness. The falling buildings crushed hundreds, eight or nine fires broke out in different places, and many bodies show signs of death from electric shocks. It was necessary, in fact, for the Mayor to order all transmission of electricity to cease. The convicts in the gaol could not escape, but the lunatics in the asylum did, and added greatly to the general panic and horror. The number of the dead and wounded is not yet known, but it is believed to exceed a thousand, while the pecuniary loss exceeds three millions sterling. The people are showing the usual American energy, rebuilding has already commenced, the great temporary ball for the Republican Convention, which was destroyed by the storm, is to be rebuilt in ten days, and the citizens are hardly willing to accept the national aid which Congress at once offered to supply. The wind is said to have travelled at eighty miles an hour, not an unprecedented speed, but there would appear to have been high electrical disturbance besides, marked by an extraordinary continuous noise which drowned all other sounds.
