Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06

Zeus are making demand on the county
for $1,000 to help take care OF the suf-
| ferers.
LATER. s. Baugh, wife and two
children are seriously hurt and are in
critical condition. They are at the house
of Mr.. Bratcher.
| Kinnon and wife are badly hurt and
are the house of Mr.. Bratcher
| Special to the Gazette.
/ GRANBURY' $ TALE OF WOE.
GRANBURG, TEX, May 5.-A terrible
wind and rain storm visited this place at
8 Pollock yesterday evening and consid-
cradle damage was done. The Christian
church, Nash's livery stable and
Thracher's drug store were the
worst damaged, while several
residences, barns and out buildings
were entirely demolished. Reports are
| coming in from east of town that indi-
| cate much worse state of things than
in town. Several persons are reported
| killed and wounded, and houses and
fences demolished, but no particulars
are obtained yet.
THE PARTICULARS.
| pecial to the Gazette.
GRANBURY, Tex, May 5.-A destruc-
tive oyoloRe visited Fall creek, in the
cas- tern portion of this county yesterday
afternoon at pm. AS soon as the re-
port that lives were lost reached Gran
bury this morning your reporter started
at once for the scene of trouble.
The beginning of serious trouble was
at the residence of Mr.. Lee Rhodes,
about twelve miles east of this place.
Mr.. Rhodes large family and number
of visitors, about twenty persons in all,
were in the house, a part of which is q
story and garnet frame building and
part a log building boarded on the outside.
Seeing the storm approaching the peo-
pie, all but two, went into
the log building for greater security.
The wind came from the east. blowing q
granary against chimney which fell on
the roof crushing it IN, as well as the
loft, the whole coming down upon the
occupants of the room, "a majority of
whom were women and children.
MISS DELLA CARMICHAEL, aged seven
teen, was instantly killed;
Also MARY CARMICHAEL, aged ten, and
the little baby of Mr.. Gibbs.
Mrs. Rhodes and her twelvs-Year-old
daughter Nora are seriously hurt and may
die.
Mrs. Gibbs and her ten-year-old
daughter Tilla, are also seriously in
jured.
Other children in the house were
bruised, but not seriously.
little further south Mr.. John Man
ley 's house was wrecked and he was
seriously injured.
Charles Houston Is house was demol-
ished and Mrs. Rushing hurt.
Mrs. Campbell's house was blown
away, but no one was injured
Mrs. Berkley's house was demolished
and her arm broken in two places.
Mr. McCiaung's house was blown
down and his wife and child badly in
iured
Mr.. Robertson 3 house was demolished
and Mrs. Payne hurt.
Other housec wrecked are those OF Alt
Massey, Lowery MCPHERSON, George
Wolflif, McHensley and Mr. Brooks, but
no one was injured. The damage to out
houses, fences, crops and timber is very
great.
Reports of great loss of life come from
Robinson creek, seven miles east of Fall
creek. Eight persons were killed, five
of them being members OF DR.. Grifhn's
family.
Some damage was done to houses at
Granbury and Acton, but the appalling
news from Fall creek makes such dam
sge appear insignificant. The scene of
the damage beggars description.
IN KAUFMAN COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette.
KAUFMAN, TEX, April ga sewers
storm passed over Kaufman from the
northwest last evening. doing but little
damage here, but at Kemp it did great
damage, blowing down several frame
houses and blowing the ends off of two
brick storehOuses belonging to Stewart s.
Co. (, and Terrell & Co. No lives lost.
Reports from Egypt, seven or eight
miles east of Kaufmans says that heavy
hail storm did much damage to the grow
ing crops in that neighborhood. The
continuous rains for the past two or three
weeks have done great deal of damage
to farmers. A large per cent. of the
cotton crop will have to be planted over,
The present outlook is indeed gloomy.
BLOW AT TERRELL.
Special to the Gazette.
TERRELL, TEX. May 5.-The people of
Terrell were excited last night over the
appearance of another storm cloud from
the northwest. The devastation of the
day before had been noticed all day, and
it was an easy matter to allow the mind
to rise high in Imagination. The wind
came en- with great fury and turned and
twisted trees like tender weeds. Frame
houses jostled on their foundations, and
a few were damaged to some extent.
The Harris block, the Grif1tn iron house
and John Harris stable lost portions of
tin and iron roofs. The wind lasted q
half hour or more and made things rattle
in lively way.
The wagons blown away at Poetry had
not bean found yesterday.
A number Of our people went down to
Wills Point yesterday to see the wreck
of the Cyclone there, and they describe it
as wretched picture.
AT FoRNEY.
Special to the Gazette.
FoRNEy, Tex, May 5.-The heaviest
rain Of the season fell here yesterday
accompanied with a severe wind but not
doing any serious damage IN this imme-
Giate section. A severe hail storm about
seven or eight miles south OF here did
much damage to growing crops.