The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-07
hesitate to recommend.

OSlhS ICOClNONls anu dtSSl
shows the heaviest amount of dam
age from light cause, in the expert
ence of the oldest residents. Your
correspondent has taken special pains
to-day to interview farmers from the
country coming from various localities
in the storm region, and feels juSti-
fled in saying the loss to farm proper
ty and crops in north west Texas will
reach, if it does not exceed, 81, 100000.
A farmer from the HutchinS neigh
borhood, twelve miles south west of
Dallas, says the wind, hail and rain
was terrific and destroyed everything
in the shape of crops. Corn, cotton,
oats, wheat and everything of
that character was cut
to pieces and blown from the face of
the earth. Most of the wheat had
been harvested and stood the shock,
and although badly shattered it can
be partly gathered up. Corn and cot
ton growing in fields was literally cut
to pieces and ruined. Oats were
blown from the ground and in
spots the grains scattered from
the heads thicker than it was
ever sown. For miles around in the
Hutchins' neighborhood there cannot
be made a bushel of grain to the acre.
He says it will take constant labor
for month to replace the fences, as
the material was broken into kindling
wood. The people are unable to help
each other. All suffered alike. 1t is
now too late to replant and make a
crop of any kind, and a
great many of the poorer
farmers and renters will suffer greatly
for the next year. In order to pur-
chase the necessities they will have
to work in other localities by the
day, for farmers who were fortunate
enough to escape the hail, which av-
eraged larger than hen-eggs, and in
some places resembled great chunks
of ice, as large as mans double-tists,
in many places drifted up in banks.
a great many frame buildings
were injured, but no one is reported
killed; although numbers of persons
were slightly injured. Esquire Car
roll from near Cedar Hill, reports wide
spread destruction of crops in that
neighborhood.I In Wesley Chapel neigh
borhood residence and blacksmith
shop and carriage house were both
destroyed. At Duncan station En-
erson'S new store house was blown
down; reaperS and farm wagons were
picked up by the wind and torn to
pieces, and portions of them carried
distance averaging from two hun
dred yards to over mile. AT what
is known as Kidd's Springs, on the
Trinity river bluffs, two miles west
Of Dallas, Il part OF the residence of
j. w. Kidd, was destroyed and his
family barely escaped death. Two
miles further another farm house was
destroyed, and still further to the
west another was literally torn to
pieces and the inmates injured, one
it is supposed fatally, but the name of
the family is aforementioned. From
E. w. Cameron, residing about fifteen
miles west of Dallas, and near the
Tarrant county line, it is learned in
the locality three miles south
of the Texas and Pacific
track, strip. of 1.-The county mile
in width was swept clear. Crops are
all destroyed and many farm build
ings totally demolished.
No people are known to be killed.
Mr.. Cameron says his loss will eX eed
$4,000, and his is only sample of the
case out of hundreds. The prairies
are strewn with dead rabbits, chick
ems, ducks, game, etc. There is but
little loss to live stock in theBstrick
en- sections. Orchards lare torn to
| pieces and the fruit crop destroyed.
Great trees were torn up by the roots
and many two feet in diameter were
twisted in two. Reports indicate the
storm ragged in belts, and alternate
strips of the county escaped. The
cyclone center appears to have been
near Greenville, about thirty-tive
miles northeast of Dallas, and where
upwards of 100hOuses were destroyed,
and scores of people wounded, few
fatally. Rain was badly needed in
localities and crops were mHch bene-
fitted, but in the aggregate the harm
done will exceed the good by at least
a full million dollars.
The allies of the late white defend
ants in the alleged kukluXing of ne
groes in Delta county, the case against
| whom was dismissed recently by
for want of jurisdiction, are now in
| soon institute suit in the state courts
in Delta county against United States
| Attorney Bigg n and Deputy United
States Marshal Thomas Wright for il
| legal arrest and false imprisonment.
| Tt appears the proceedings were made
under an act that the full benefit the
! United States supreme court last
| October had declared unconstitutional,
and that if any prosecution of the
parties was 10 be made in behalf of
the negroes it should have been made
in the state courts.
The June term of the federal
courts, northern district of Texas.
Hon. A. u. Mccormick pre-
siding opened this morning.
Large numbers of lawyers. litigants,
and others are attending. There are
big and important dockets. The case
of the New York and Texas land
Company VS.. State Land Commits
sioner Walsh and others, the most i'm
portant in the court, will probably
not be heard this term.
Peny Kenche, a notorious cattle and
horse thief of North Texas and the
Indian Territory, has been captured
in Wilbarger county by Deputy
United States Marshal Allen.
John Tweedon, the white man ac-
complete OF the Choctaw Indian John
Garland, who robbed a widow near
Wheelock, Indian Territory of 1890,
was captured to-day in Collin county
by Deputy United States Marshal
Schofield. Garland was captured here
late Saturday night. The 1.-TWO are
now in DALLAS Jail and will have a
preliminary trial tomorrow before u.
S. Commissioner Beltly. Garland has
confessed the crime and given the
whole thing away.
GALVESTON, June About ILLS
this morning the neighborhood of
Twentieth and Postoffice streets was
startled by a pistol shot. and it was
soon ascertained that Martha Rector,
residing in the second story of a
frame building on the southeast