People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — St. Michael a land of Desolation. [ARTICLE]

St. Michael a land of Desolation.

Joseph M. Melio. Jr., of Providence has received a letter from his father, a resident of Arriffess, St. Michael, in the Azores, whioh was recently devastated by a waterspout, confirming the news of the disaster. Mr. Melio said that St Michael is a land of mourning and desolation. At Povoaoo whole families and eattle and farming produote as well as the houses were swept away. . •'■raflwfcfc