The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-03
IT SWEEPS OVER INDIANA WITH
SAD, TERRIBLE AND IRE
SISTIBLE FURY,
Leaving DesOlatiOn and Death
to Mark the Course of
Its Wild Career.
HoadIey Makes Some Humane
Suggestions to the Ohio
Legislature.
And the StOckmen Initiate 6
Most Important Session
at Dodge City.
DEATHS MESSENGER.

A Cyclone Wipes an Entir
Town out of Existence!
MUNCIE, Ind, April "A destruc
tive cyclone struck this county abou
3 O'Clock, yesterday afternoon, com
pletely wiping Oakville (seven mile
south of here on the For
Wayne railway, out of existence, ant
doing incalculable damage to life ant
I property. About 5 o'clock a heavy
black cloud came rising from the ives
and another from the north. The TIVE
| clouds seemed to meet at the house O.
Tevis Cochrane, two miles from Oak
vile, and lifted it bodily from its fiool
and foundation, and, tearing it int
kindling wood, deposited it in al
directions.
The following were killed:
Mrs. Anna Dearmond, widow, aged
fifty.
Susan Hill, aged fifteen. When the
latter was discovered she was in al
most a nude condition, her clothing
having been literally blown from heI
person.
The babe of G. G. johnson was found
dead in a field one hundred yards from
where the house stood, with its head
crushed in.
The body of Charles Brown was ia
tally injured.
Turner Johnson, twelve years old
son of G. G. johnson, was blown twen-
ty rods. His skull was crushed and he
will probably die.
Nancy Myers, sixty years old, had
her arm broken.
Lemonia Myers, aged thirteen, had
her arm broken.
John Kaufman and wife are both
badly bruised.
Jeff Hoover, engineer at saw mill,
had his leg broken in two places, and
is injured internally and will proba-
bly, die.
Jeff Miller had his hip dislocated.
Mrs. Jeff Miller is badly bruised.
Fred Coldstock, of Shelbyville, had
three ribs broken.
Widow Hiner received a bad cut in
the shoulder.
Fifteen others were more or less in
jured, but none SO seriously as those
above mentioned.
Among the houses demolished was
that of John Sullivan, in which were
himself, wife and six children, the
youngest being baby two weeks old.
Most miraculously none of the fami-
ly were injured in the least. The baby
was found in bed covered with debris,
but unscratched.
TERRIBLE DESOLATION.
CHICAGO, April 2.-The daily News
special from Muncie, Ind, gives the
following additional details of the
Oakville cyclone In the path of the
storm for miles east and west of the
valley the damage is equally great
and every farm passed over was made
a perfect wreck. Barns, houses, or
chards and fences levelled to the
ground. Everything presents a
scene of desolation. On the
farm of James Sanders. four miles
east of Middletown, his barn and
house were completely destroyed
Sanders, who is a merchant in Middle
town, but who was not at The place al
the time, and had taken refuge in 4
barn, was instantly killed. At the
town of Murray, a family of eight
persons had their house blown tC
splinters, and the father, William
Lines, was killed. w. Frank, {
painter living four miles west of Oak
vile, while out on his farm was caught
by the storm andinstantly killed. Th'
condition of the denizens of Oakvillt
is terrible to think of. Without
homes, clothing, food, or bedding
they were found standing in tn,
cold binding snow storm, O.
shivering in the few fireless house.
that yet remained. The people Wht
were more fortunate have thrown
open their homes to the sufferers, ant
are making arrangements to feed thu
hungry until such time as they ma,
be able to sustain themselves.