ABSTRACT
.... 1I.1l_.' •• '''''''J Dlcelllbet '1111, lI711. The Late Cyclonl • 51t of bedstead) to raise a safe place for the children; One son of Babu Uma Charan Banerjea, a boy of eleven, climbed with some constables to the roof, but the hurricane tore it down, and the boy was killed in its fall. The great waves came suddenly upon the ruined house. Uma Charan Babu and his wife, who had each a child in their arms, were carried away and saw no more of their companions. He knew nothing further until he was found by a relief party next morning lying on a mass of floating debris, whIch had become entangled amongst some trees. His wife was near him and alive; but both the children were lost. They had been carried across a river for the distance of half a mile. In these few hours they lost four 80ns, their only daughter and her two young children, besides other members of the household, numberin_g eleven in all. The unhappy parents left Dowlut Khan on the following day, partly on account of the cholera-breeding smell consequent on the destruction of 80 many human beings and cattle, and partly to visit Gya and there make the "shraddh" to ensure the salvation of the souls of their dead. Happily their eldest son was at Dacca and so escaped; so also has another boy who had been given in adoption to a cousin.
