San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-14
MURDEROUS MOTHER.
NATURE WIND WRECKS AND WA.
TER-WASHES OHIO.
Inundations-Tornad Water Spouts
-Floods-Darkness Distress-Death
and Destruction.

COLUMBUS, o., May l3.-The Stat,
Journals Xenia special says: About
O'Clock last evening terrible clouds wer,
seen gathering, followed by terrific light
ming and peals of thunder This Taste,
until o'clock, when an extraOrdinar,
clap of thunder seemed to open tn,
gates and rain fell in torrents. People
living in houses on Water street escaped
by every way possible. The spOu
seemed TO vent its fury on that portion
of the city. For $50 yards the Little
Miami railroad is swept away. The
spout struck the houses on Water street
and tore them TO pieces as IL they were
shells. A resident of the street says thai
within two minutes after the clap Of
thunder, he stood in water to his waist
he being about 70 yards from the creek
| When the water reached the residence
OF Aaron Ferguson, it was swept away,
with nine inmates, and lodged against a
bridge, where they were afterwards res
cued. The next damage was at the coal
| yard of Samuel Clark, in which was 10.
Gated tenement house occupied by a
family named Powell, nine in number
| Up too p. ID. none of them have been
heard from. The next point of destruc-
tion was in what is known as the bot
toms. A dozen houses, occupied mostly
by colored people, were swept away.
| Dozens of horses were lost, and railroads
leading out Of the city were swept
| away, so 1t is impossible to hear from
outside points. At least dozen trains
are within a few miles of the city. Tele-
graph wires are down and business is
suspended. One family named Morris
were swept away. The last seen of
them was ut the Miami street bridge,
when the man was seen at the window
by the terror stricken crowd moving a
lighted lamp. The next moment the
house collapsed and they were gone.
Only one, II boy IL years of age, has
been found. The work of finding the
bodies still continues tonight. The
mayors Office has been turned into a
morgue. There are now y bodies there.
The scenes are heartrending. Whole
families lie disfgured on the cots.
Following is list of the kiled-Mrs.
Lindsay. cOlored, Mrs. Casey cOlOred,
Mrs. Anderson. cOlOred, child named
Anderson, Mrs. CorcOran, a white lady,
crippled idiot named CorcOran, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Anderson, Steven Dun
don, Grin Morris, wife and five children
(white), William Paul. wife and five
children (colored), VIM. Evans and wife.
In addition to the above, Two more
bodies were found this evening, being
children. They are not identified. The
complete number of deaths, whose bodies
have been found is %, with IL still miss
ing.
At Lebanon, Ohio, the Methodist Epis-
COpal church, the Lebanon house, grist
mill, warehouse and several residences
were unrOOted. shade trees are ruined.
Nearly every railroad across the state
was crippled. Some will require sew
eral days to repair.
ODELL, ILL, May 13.-Yes terday af-
ternoOn terrible cyclone struck this
village, demolishing one brick block. 1t
wrecked three warehouses, unrOofed the
hotel, the Masonic Hail and a fOur-story
building. 1t wrecked the upper part of
the Angel block. Scarcely a store in
town escaped injury. The loss will
amount to $4,000. Houses, barns and
sheds were twisted off their foundations
and completely destroyed. Three feet
in diameter timbers we're twisted up.
The storm did not last over five minutes.
1t fatally Injured Lottie Zwillkle, 10
year-old girl, who was carried over 200
feet in the air and fell on the railroad
track, smashing her skull. She has since
died. Charles Hoke, livery man, 5. S.
Cole, hardware merchant, and two
children Of Charles Miller are seriously
hurt.
DAYTON, May l3.-Dayton is isolated.
No trains run in or out. The telegraph
and telephone wires are all down. A
storm of wind, rain and hail as big as
hen eggs struck Dayton and vicinity at
8 O'Clock last evening. Small streams
became rushing torrents, and the Miami
a mighty flood, rising nine feet in three
hours, inundating 80 acres houses in the
Fourth Ward Of Dayton, drowning
horses and cows and terrifying the city.
Shaker village, three miles east of
here, was terribly shaken, many build
ings being unroofed, bans blown down
and cattle injured. A special train with
Superintendent Tucker was wrecked
near Osborne, and Tucker and six
other were injured The north bound
freight on the Cincinnati, HambletOn
and Dayton Railroad, dashed into a
washout at Postum run, five miles south
of Dayton, and the Bottom engine was
carried 100 feet down the mighty torrent
before sinking, then rolled over and
over. AT daylight, farmer a mile
across the water, noticed a signal of dis
tress and rescued the freight crew from
tree tops. Engineer John McCutcheon
and the fireman were seriously injured
The rainfall was At inches In three hours.
There was much destruction in the Big
and Little Miami valleys, from the
sources to the OHIO river, and additional
disasters are reported by country people
constantly coming in.
indianapolis, May l3.-The Wabash.
st. Louis and Pacific east bound pass
enger train struck washout six miles
below Lafayette at $50 this morning;
the whole train OF seven coaches were
thrown from the track. The cars were
piled upon each other promiscuously,
but no one was hurt, except the bag
gagemaH, whose injuries are not serious.
The Journals Greenfield, Indiana.
special reports that news has been re-
ceived at that point from Wilkin-
son, 10 miles distant, on the Indiana,
Bloomington and Western railway, that
the form yesterday blew down all the
buildings In town, except three. Samuel
White was killed and his wife fatally
injured. A boy named Shelter was also
killed and about twenty persons serious
ly hurt, several of whom will die. Wires
are down, and direct communication Is
impossible.
An Attica, Indiana, special to the
Journal gives the following list of the
dead and injured from yesterdays
storm: Killed, Mrs. Lott Davis; fatally
wounded, Mrs. Morehead, Mrs. Abe
Nathans, viii Vandeventer, James Idle;
seriously injured, Mrs. Kirby and son,
Reed Brady, Robert Paris, Mrs. Moore
head. The last named, son of Mrs.