Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-12
AKRON TORNADO"
Many Houses DemOlished-A Number of People
Seriously Injured.

Many Houses DemOlIshed-A Number of People
Seriously Injured.
AKRON, OHIO, May 1l.-Darkness
shut in SO quickly after the tornado that
tore through the southern part of the
city Saturday evening, that not
half an idea could be COTTON of tn 9
flerceness or extent of the terrible
storm. To-day has been so calm and
sunshiny that even half dozen people
who stood about their wrecked homes,
scarcely realized that the elements could
ever work themselves into such fury,
Professor Egbert of Buctel college, who
was out in the storm, calculates
that it was travelling at the rate of
four miles minute, so that its
track of about mile and half through
this city was traversed in little more than
twenty seconds. 1t moved in almost a
straight line through a well-settled part
of the city, and scarcely q foot of the
mile and half but is strewn
to-day with splintered house timbers,
broken furniture, uprooted trees and
leveled barns and outhouses. In a trip
over the storms path to-day nineteen
dwellings were counted that were either
ripped into kindliug wood or so badly
wrecked that they cannot be occu-
sons who were injured all will
probably recover. The most seriously
hurt are:
Mrs. Wilson KIplinger, bruised and
burned on the legs by the overturning of
stove.
Daughter of Gebhart Herman, burned
on the legs and back by her dress taking
fire from the kitchen stove.
Melvin Irish, struck by flying timbers
and pinned down by falling floors.
Mrs. Irish, internally inju red.
Mrs. Allen Coup, hit by flying bricks.
Daughter of A. G. Baker, bruised Sc
riously; in q critical condition.
John Wheeler, teamster, blown under
fence and internally injured.
William Poole, buried in the debris of
his barn, and suffering from bruises and
spinal conclusion.
Daughter of Wilson KiplInger, hit by
flying timbers and burned by stove.
Seventy-fiYe buildings, including resi-
dences and barns and outhouses were
damaged by the wind and not one es-
capped that was in the direct line of the
tornado. Uprooted trees are counted
by scores. Many that were blown down
or cut of are from 100 to 200 feet
in diameter. Buildings that resisted the
winds a1e in dangerous condit ion, and
many will have to be torn own. Gut
houses in some cases were transplanted
from fifty to 100 feet and set down in
neighboring yards. Thousands of
people visited the scene of de-
struction to-day, and a force
of special police stood guard over the
of residences and house furnish
ings. In several churches relief papers |
were started and several thousand dol |
lars will be raised for the immediate |
wants of the homeless people. William |
Poole and his daughter had Just |
driven in their barn. They were |
caught up with the building and /
relied with it to the bottom of |
the hill on which It stood. The barn of /
Albert Funkon, on Exchange street, was
torn to pieces and his horse blown into /
B vacant lot near by and killed.
The people whose houses were de-
stroyed had their all invested in
them and majority of the houses were
That no lives were lost is
most wonderful. In most instances
families took refuge in cellars and thus
escaped serious injury, the tornado at
sharon, this county just one month ago,
having put everybody on the alert.