Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-29
As srnN nY IN EYEWrrNnas


The following graphic description " the
Norman cyclone has been received VA this
city by relative of the WligI ., oo
Dear. i wrote you yesterday morning that
J WINS going out to try ana render any ns
slstumce needed, caused by tie Two storms
the evening before. ns I had Just heard
that there was considerable death and de.
stwctiOn caused thereby
ora storm passed Just east of mn about
pal he aud Tine other north about three
nr $3.50 y, m. la the one just enst its work.
Tugs could boz distinctly seen. but the other
was ohscuTcd hy outside whlrling clouds.
Tile nrst had apparently "a column Of water
standing on end m thr center " 10, which
looked about ten feet through nud several
hundred feet high. This had winding curves
aud bends which were constantly changing
ana HWnying from eHd tp "ud. Ike large
cable or am Immense serpent dnuRllnE ln
ihc heavens, nnd being irfknd nhd swung
from side To tldp ul % rapidly passed. nnr,h.
east, but seemed fOU heavy for uuy rupld
contention. The Noise WIS simply uWfnl
nnd sounded llRe 20 thousand thuudws q
WAS too frlghtful 40 Dog grand, though wife
aud ! ntOod nt our dairy door watching u
feeling safe 10 Give right under Fluuul
but from twenty 90 one hundred ferl Vide,
son within thc three miles of Dos COURSE
nearest me therr were i've homes swept
aWuy, three of which could have been seen
dust, SO ! dld NOT know of ibis destruction
until this morning when / learned no ono
was seriously huri, most or them saved
I nt iho Same time heard N tho terrible
dciulniiou ana uluY deaths west uf me,
30 I ai once Went in tx direction la render
any help needed, but The dead aud wounded
had been mnsty gathered on of tie prui-
flc The evening an1 night before. The do
sifueiiOn here was tlEhiinl 90 behold ter
rDlc words ~ description canuOt portray d
shadow of %. IN thr space Of ! ~ by .
miles which ! truycrsed. from ls % 20 homes
were literally sliywed iuio uplipiow ana
Iu aHIt
tO make q good Ere. Eighteen dead bodies
Wefo gathered at three places on OF the
prairie hacked end rut almost beyond rocog
milton Ola gray headed men aud women
were lying Side by slide with young people
iu their prime iogeihpf with children. aud
babes but few mouths 0id. Three or
four more were reported 10 Doe dead in tif
neighborhOOd, twO west two miles lust
across the Canadian river, ana two more
about nine miles northeast 10 all from
tweuig-three 10 twenty uge sure and may
be- from three 10 four more, Further north
east ] could not hear.
Aside from ihnso deaths. the work Of
destruction was Hinply awful n Travelled
along tho wake on the storm for about three
miles and nearly half milo Of lia crnfof
WAS almost swept clean of every thing
blown away. Nearly every thing on the
top Of the ground WIS., gone q wis blcs
gag 70 thess People no. most q them
nfHi Settled their claims Tor theso were
their salvation.
ln the centT OF ihf storm can De- found
few dead horeca. some cattle hogs and
chickens, but fewer horses ana COWS than
one would think fear or Instinct must
have caused these % get into fagincs f0r
safety. Tor only where They were pcnncd
could ans dead bc found
1 saw wagon axCls With only the hubs
lqf thereon scattered along The trlrir.
probably brought for miles, FOR everything
INC plOWs wagons, larfoWs etc, were
rruehe1 into spinnters and swept away. a
beayv stalk cutter hnd half the steel cat
ter thrown On one side " the atorm and