Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-14
The Texarkana CycIene.

special 10 the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, July 13.-Reports reaching
here every hour bring still more narrowing
details of the Texarkana cyclone. At the
last report twenty-one bodies had been ex-
humed from the wreck OF the buildings
Charles Seymour, an engineer on the Iron
Mountain railroad, who left there this fore
noon, tells your correspondent that light
ming did not strike the brick block. 1t was
blown over on the saloon by sheer force of
the wind. Many people were in the saloon
who did not frequent the place, having run
in to escape the flood of rain which preceded
the wind. All the bodies taken out were
badly charred by the fire. 1t is expected
that the ruins will be cleared away and all
the bodies gotten out tonight. The Paragon
saloon, upon which the three-story brick was
blown, was one-story frame, the most
popular saloon in town.
Associated Press Report.
TExARKANA, ARK, July 12.- Eight
ings wrecked by the cyclone. Colonel May!
field, Ferd Smith, Johnnie May, and others
whose names have not been learned, were
seriously wounded, and will probably die
to-day. Great crowds of excited people are
congregated around the wreck. There are
only seven or eight more bodies in the ruins.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
LITTLE Rock, July 13.-A Texarkana
special to the Gazette says: "The number Of
men buried by the falling of the walls of
Markham's saloon is estimated at from
thirty-five to seventy five. Up to O'Clock
pm. nineteen bodies had been recovered
They were Colonel Mercer, John Morefeld.
w. J. Morefield, Robert Henderson, Nat
Vice, Milton Strange, w. 3. Russell, John
Poland, II. e. Spencer, Tony King, Billy,
the lunch man, James Lawrence. Badly
wounded: Stan Staples, of Richmond, Ark;
Prof. A. Rosswinder, Tom Hum. locomotive
engineer, Guy and Charles Varnell and
Lige Vaughn, colored. Two of the negroes
are still alive. All the whites, except James
Lawrence, are dead. The citizens are still
at work in the ruins, and many more bodies
will be recovered before morning. The stores
are all closed in respect to the unburied dead.
Terrific Explosion.
MILTON, n. Y, July 13.-On the West
Shore read near here this afternoon, Thomas
Esgan, foreman, was in the act of tamping
hole for blast, in which there were about
two kegs of black powder, when suddenly
there was an explosion. William Powers,
one of the laborers who was at work above
Eagan, says that he heard the blast and then
heard shrieks, and looking down saw Eagan
sitting upright with stone weighing about
100 pounds on his feet. He hurried to him
ard threw it off with an iron bar. He then
left Eagan to help others. He saw two Ital-
isns lying dead and two alive. One of the
latter was crushed on the breast and another
was sitting partly up, with his legscrushed
and stone on them weighing five tons.
They got jacks and endeavored to move the
slone but could not. He will no doubt die.
Powers says there were twenty-eight men at
work there. and he knows eighteen are safe.
Foreman Eagan sud laborer, NJ. Callahan,
were brought TO Milton on board. Others
were cared for as best they could be at the
place OF the accident. The physicians of the
region round about were soon on hand al
leviating the sufferings as best they could.
The list of killed and injured, as handed in
by the time-keeper, is as follows: Killed
two Italians, and third missing, supposed
TO be buried under the ruins. Injured
Thomas Eagan, foreman; John Fennimore,
will die; Michael Callahan, case serious;
James Sedore, Barney Koran, an Italian,
will die; two more Italians, badly crushed
The pames of the Italians cannot be ascer-
ssined, all are known by numbers only.