- black: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; " ...
- (disastrously) in a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began"
- Some well built wooden structures destroyed; most masonry and frame structures destroyed with foundation. Rails bent.