1896 - An Eastern Cyclone - New Bedford, Massachusetts is Devastated by Wind.

THE LOSS IS OVER $100,000.
Buildings Blown Down and Many Persons Injured - Fire Adds to the Horrors of the Occasion

New Bedford, Mass., Sept. 19 - A cyclone from the west struck this town early this morning dealing out destruction on every hand and perhaps death in one instance... About 6.30 o'clock a huge bolt of lightning descended from a cloud of inky blackness upon the big cotton shed of the Bennett mills... The crowd near the mill fire ran for shelter and about twenty of them found it in a new building at the corner of Coggeshall and North Front streets. No sooner had they entered than a wind took up the building, raised the roof bodily and the whole structure fell with a crash...