Omaha daily bee., 1893-04-30
AWFUL DESTRUCTION
Cisco, Tex, Wiped from the Face of the
Earth by Cyclone.
DEATH FOLLOWED IN THE STORMS WAKE
There Were Many Victims of the Winds
Fierce Fury.
OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE WOUNDED
Words Are Inadequate to Paint the Scenes
Of Death and Ruin,
HELP NEEDED IN THE WRECKED TOWN
other Sections Touched by the visitor Of
Death-A Fearful Death Roll-Ptti.ul
Condition of the People of the
Stricken Towns.
lip NEEDED IN THE WRECKED TOWN


ford, Tex, special says: Your correspond
ent learned from passengers on the west
bound train this evening that the destruc
tion by the cyclone at Cisco was simply APP
palling There are not more than twenty
five or thirty houses left standing and up to
the time the train passed there about 2
o'clock this afternoon, twenty-one dead
bodies had been recovered from the ruins
and there were yet ten or twelve persons
missing. Strong buildings with walls two
feet thick were leveled to the ground. A
heavy freight engine and Z whole train Of
cars We're blown from the track and demo-
ished and several hundred feet of the inside
track of the railroad were torn up. The num-
Der of injured runs up to something like 100.
Citizens from Wcatherford went out this
morning TO render any assistance possible.
The building which Frank Hickman occu-
pied was blown down and his five children
were killed
Nearly the Entire Town Destroyed.
Late this evening Mayor Levy received
the following telegram from Messrs. Bell &
Coleman of Weatherford, who went to Cisco
this morning:
Town nearly all demolished, twenty killed,
l25 injured hundreds without food shell
John F. Patterson, chairman relief committee.
The following telegram was also received
by Mayor Levy:
CISCO Ten, April 29.-To George =. Levy,
Mayor, Weatherford Tex: Cisco has been
destroyed by the most destructive cyclone
that has ever visited Texas More than four
ffths of the people are without houses Many
killed and wounded. Help Is needed to bury
the dead and take care of the wounded and
rpliaNn those 1pDpndppt who lost pVprythiuu
w. G. DAVENPORT, County Judge.
G. w. GRAVES, Mayor.
Mayor Levy has called meeting OF the
citizens of Weatherford to take measures for
the relief of the sufferers.
Mayor Rollins of Gainesville, in response
to an appeal from Cisco, has also started
measures Of relief for the sufferers and is
sued an appear for contributions.
A message from Valley View stated that
severe storm passed over that town at 5 80 p.
m, blowing down several houses and doing
much damage to property. No one hurt.
At Ringgold Montague county, the storm
unroofed the house of Mrs. Berga blew sew
eral freight cars off the sidetrack and caused
the terrorized people to take refuge in q large
cellar, where they suffered greatly from con
finement and suffocation. None were seri-
ously injured.
CIsco's Death List.
Among the dead at Cisco are the following:
DANIEL CAMERON.
II. NJ WHITESIDES.
-. SIMS.
TEXAS CENTRAL BRAKEMAN
MRS. CHAKLES JONES and CHILD.
MRS ]. |. THOMPSON.
NJ. b. OWENS CHILDREN.
MRS. HORTON.
MRS KNIGHT.
FIVE CHILDREN OF MIR. HICKMAN who
were in bed asleep, crushed to death by the
falling house.
Hickman and wife had gone outside to see
what the roaring noise was and were blown
off their feet. Mr.. Hickman is badly injured,
Those Injured.
w. p. SEBASTIAN, severe cut on head
FRANK VERNON, will probably die.
Mrs. VERNON, leg broken.
Mrs. DAVIS, crippled in back.
NJ. B. OWEN, leg broken.
JIM HAYES, badly cut on head
A DAUGHTER of Mrs. STEVENS, will proba-
bly, die.
MRs. Powers and DAUGHTER, badly in
iured.
Mrs r. w. JONES' head injured badly.
WILLIAM WALKER head bruised.
GEORGE HARRIS, badly hurt.
Mrs KINARD, hurt badly.
| Mrs JONES' badly hurt.
SECTION Boss, (namc not known, and
| WIFE, severely injured
H. L. BIpwELL, head and arm badly cut
| and back injured.
| Mrs. w. ID. CHANDLER, ankle crushed.
| Miss ELSIE MoELLER, arm broken.
| Conservative estimates place the number
| of wounded at about $50. The dead and in
| jurcd are being cared for as best they can
| under such extreme circumstances. Names OF
dozens of the injured cannot now be OBJ
tanned as everything is in such a state of
| confusion.
Other Victims Claimed.
The cyclone travelled northeast, blowin-
down houses and laying waste farms. The
houses blown down are too numerous tc
mention.
Mrs l.. d. Lard, four miles northeast Of
Eastland, was killed. Mr.. Lard was severely
| injured and others were more or less hurt
Mr. Furguson, four miles northeast Of
Cisco, was killed and his house burned
The wind storm lasted not more than
few minutes. 1t was followed by heav,
rain.
Telegraph communication is PRACTICAL,
cut off.
Besides the fifteen known TO be deaC
there are several who have not yet beel
accounted for and they are undoubtedl.
buried somewhere in the debris of tn
ruined buildings.
The IN ayor of Fort Worth, Tex, sen
$500 by wire tonight and stated that badl
needed supplies were on the way here.
A freight train consisting of fourteen car
heavily laden was hurled completely fror
the track and totally wrecked. The brake
man and conductor were killed.
The most conservative estimates place tn
total property loss at over S2,OOO0OO
Fire Followed the Wreck.
Immediately after the cyclone had passed
flames were seen issuing from several Of tn
wrecked buildings. 1t is possible that som
Of the missing were burned to death, or thei