St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-30
Terrible Rains, Accompanied by a Tor
nado, Deal Death and Destruction
in Texas.
Two Thousand People in East Waco
Driven From Their Homes in the
Terrific Storm.
Suspension of the Shackamaxon
Bank at Philadelphia Interests
Many Depositors.
Thomas L. Huggard, the Cashler'
Aids in the Misrepresentation
of About 100000.
Storm Troubles.

Waco. Tex, May 29.-The violence of
the late storms here are overShadowed by
the rain and tornado of Wednesday night.
The rainfall did not cease until yesterday
morning. All the streams in and close to
the suburbs of the city, the banks OF which
were dotted with hundreds of residences,
oyerhowed and transformed their surround
ings into vast sea. The scenes OF terror
and confusion were heart-rending. The
peonle fed for their lives from their homes
in the midst of the raging stream. Thomas
Denninghoff. his wife and three small child
rem. remained in their house, which was
swept away and all were drowned. Their
bodies We're recovered and buried yesterday.
Howard Lewis. his wife, his sister and three
small children lost their lives in similar
manner. Eleven persons are known to have
perished and five others are unaccounted
for and reported to be drowned. The dam
age to property by the tornado was very
large. The total damage in the city is esti-
mated at $50, 600. The BraZos river rose
two feet above high water mark. The
finest
COTTON PLANTATIONS
in Texas are located along its bank and
were submerged The losses in McLennon
county will aggregate fully a quarter of
million dollars. The grain crop Is de-
strOyed, beaten to the earth by the wind
and terrific rain. East Waco has been in
undated since Sunday and the scenes there
yesterday were indeScribable. Seeing that
the waters of the BrazoS river threatened
them with watery graves the population,
about 3, 600 persons, fled from their homes
in the midst of the storm, aided in escaping
by the light of the vivid lightning and hun
dreds of lanterns. No lives are reported lost in
this portion of the city. The river rose all
day, but at O'Clock last evening it appeared
to have come to a StandStlll. There were
no trains on any of the roads yesterday.
Scores of bridges are swept away and the
roadbeds are badly damaged by washouts.
At Iredell and Morgan in Bosque county,
naRber of
RESIDENCES WERE WRECKED,
but no fatalities are reported. At 1880
o'clock last night the BraZos river had fallen
six inches The highest point reached was
thirty-two inches above the high water
mark of the great overflow Of last year.
The approaches to the suspension bridge
on the east side of the river, were demOl-
ished and large distractions from above
may carry both bridges away at any mo-
ment The estimates of the damage
to property in and about Waco do not in
clude the damage to crops and from prop
erty, which cannot now be estimated, but
good judges place the damage to the grow
ing crops at $500, 600. The storm was so
terrific for the space of three hours that it
may be properly called tornado, accom-
panied by rain. Between 9 and 10
o'clock at night the rain fell in binding
sheets and was blown against the large
buildings. producing sound like the distant
roar of Niagara. Everybody m the cry
was up all night. Many colored people
thought second deluge was upon them and
prepared themselves to go by vigorous pray
ing