Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-01
TELEGRAPHIC.
STORM And DEATH.
4 Cyclone Visits Cisco, Texas, with
Fearful Results.
THE TOWN ALL DEMOLISHED.
MANY Persons Killed and Wounded.-
Millions Worth OF Properly
Destroyed.

DAIIrs, Tex, April 29.--Passengers
on mn east.bound train this evening
told OF a vast amount OF des'rucI'oh
wrought by a cyclone at Cisco ihe'o
arc not more than twenty-five or
thirty houses standing and up TO inc
time the train passed, about : O'CLOCK
this afternoon, twenty.one bodies hnd
heep recovered from the ruins anu
there were ten or twelve more persons
missing. 80. .
Everything Is in such confusion TINT
Il IA more difficult to get the names OF
the Injured than the dead. Seven
miles northeast Of Cisco Mrs. Il. ID.
Lsdd was killed. Three miles further
on Mr.. Ferguson was KILLED. The
number of injured runs up to hum
dred.
ID. b. Cleman and other citizens from
weatherford went out this morning to
render any assistance possible. The
building which Frank Hickman
occupied was blown down and i've
CUlluItn hlllcus 1ato 'hio HNas't
Mayor Levy received tho following
from Bell and Coleman;
The town In nearly all demolished;
twenty killed and 1876 injured. Hun.
Jreds are without food or shelter.
Raise ali the relief possible and send to
John II. Patterson, chairman OF the re-
lief committee.
Tho following telegram was also re-
atx htgM
Cisco has been destroyed by the
most destructive cyclone that ever
visited Texas. More than four-fifths oi
the people are without houses. There
were many killed and wounded. Help
is needed TO bury the dead, take care OF
the wounded ana relieve those de-
pendent who have lost everything.
w. q. DAvENpoRT, County Judge.
q. W. GRAVES, Mayor.
Mayor Levy called a meeting Of the
citizens of Weatherford to take meas.
urea for the relief OF the sufferers. A
Gainsville special TO the Net0s says:
Mayor Rollins received u message
this afternoon from County Judge
Davenport OF Eaetland county ami
Mayor Graves OF Cisco appealing for
aid for the storm sufferers at Cisco.
Mayor Rollins at once Issued an ap-
peal 70 the citizens OF Gainesville Tor
contributions. A message from Valley
View states that n severe storm passed
over that town at $3.50 PM, blowing
down several houses and doing much
damage to property.
At Ringgold, Montague county, the
storm unroofed the house OF Mrs
Birge, blew several freight cars OIL a
side track, and caused tho terrorized
people TO take refuge In large cellar,
where they suffered greatly from con.
finement and sutlocation.
A special from Cisco confirms the
worst features OF the cyclone. Less
than nfty houses remain standing, the
storm having swept everything In III
path, three quarters Of mile wide.
ThroughE ashland county not a church
or school house IL standing and but
one business house Is intact IL Ia i'm.
possible to detail tho damage done &c
lfe and property.
After the cyclone passed much Of
the wreckage was burned, having
caught fire from overturned stoves. II
IL, therefore, probable that most OF tn,
missing, or about score, were burned
to death or their bodies cremated.
Many streets are impossible on foot
Physicians estimate That not less than
200 are Injured, OF whom forty will
die. The property loss will excee,
s2,000,000.