The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-05-06

Over Thirty Killed and Forty Fatally
Wounded One House Out of4 Undam-
aged.
DALLAS. Texas, April 26.-'fhe News
correspondent learned from passengers on
the east bound train this evening that the
destruction by the tornado at Cisco was
appalling. There are not more than 20 or
30 houses left standing, and up % the time
the train passed there, about , p. m, 81
dead bodies had been recovered from the
ruins. and there were 10 or II more per-
sons missing. Strong one-story buildings,
with walls two feet thick, were leveled to
the ground. A heavy freight engine and
whole train of cars were blown from the
track and demolished, and several hundred
feet Of side track was torn up. The num-
Der injured is something like 100. The
building which Hank Hickman occupied
was blown down and his five children killed.
This evening Mayor Levi received the
following telegram from two citizens OF
Weatherford, who went to Cisco this morn
ing: aTowu nearly all demolished.
Twenty-one killed. l25 injured. Hun.
dreds without food or shelter. Raise all
the relief possible and send TO John +.
Patterson, Chairman Relief Committee"
The following telegram was also receiv-
ed by Mavor Levi from County Judge
Davenport and Mayor Graves, of Cisco :
Cisco has been destroyed by the most
destructive cyclone that has ever visited
Texas. More than four-fftts of the peo-
pie are without houses. There are many
killed and wounded. Help is needed to
bury the dead and take care OF the wound
ed and relieve those that lost everything.
A message from Valley View stated that
a severe storm passed over that town at
$50 D. H., blowing down several houses
and doing much damage to property. No
one was hurt Several freight cars were
blown off the side track and caused the
people to take refuge in cellars.
DALLAS, Texas, April 30.-Further de-
tails of the disastrous tornado which wiped
out the town of Cisco Friday night have
been received.
Out of 400 residences in the town only
one is uninjured-that of City Marshal
Epplen. A freight train waiting at the
depot for orders was hurled completely
from the tracks and totally wrecked. The
engine, weighing over 20 tons, was turned
completely over. The brakeman was in
stantly killed, and the conductor died this
afternoon from his injuries. The conser-
yative estimates place the total property
loss at over S2,000.000
Immediately after the tornado had passed
flames were seen issuing from several OF
the frame buildings 1t is thought some
of the missing, of which there are score,
were burned to death and their bodies ere
mated. Several of the streets of the city
are so full of debris as to prevent the pas
sage OF even foot passengers. For miles
around the city the ground is covered with
wrecks of brick or frame buildings, house
hold furniture and utensils, fences, tele-
graph poles, freight cars, etc.
Physicians estimate that of the 200 OF
more injured 40 at least will die. All the
physicians from dozen nearby towns are
here, and more are needed.
The stock of groceries available in the
town today did not suffice to give even a
scanty breakfast to the suffering people.
Trains from Weatherford and other adj
joining places, laden with supplies, arrived
during the day.
Many homeless and wounded ones are
resting in improvised tents, but by far the
greatest portion are out in the open air,
with nothing to shelter them from the cut
ting wind that has followed the storm.
Individual estimates of Losses are now i'm
possible, except to say that in nearly every
instance it is total, many not even saving
enough clothing to protect themselves IRON
the Indictment weather.
r. F. Willie, who arrived here on the
Texas Pacific east bound train, was at Cisco
and hour and ii half. He says at that
time q dead persons had been found.
Over 100 injured were counted.
FLYING BALLS OF ICE.
ALTON, ILLINOIS, April 30 Yesterday
morning the country northwest Of this city
was visited by severe hailstorm The
average size of hailstones was as large as
an orange, one picked up at Melville meas
nring IL inches in circumference At
the Monticello Seminary three hundred
window lights were knocked out lu
many instances roofs were shattered by
the flying balls of ice. The Missouri,
Kansas and Eastern roads new tracks
were washed away. causing loss of
at least 100000. The Mississippiis now
two miles wide, here with every prospect
OF reaching the disastrous stage of last
year.
STANTON, VA, April pa terrific
rain and hailstorm visited this section this
afternoon Hailstones covered the ground.
The streets were running streams, which in
some instances ran into buildings.
A house on Bleyin's ranch, eleven miles
from Ponca Agency, Indian Territory,
was destroyed by tornado on Friday
night, and six persons were killed.
Wheeling, West Virginia, was visited
by a terrific electrical and rain storm, ac-
companied by heavy winds. Owing to the
damage done the wires the city on Saturday
night was in total darkness. A large new
three-story brick building was blown down.
PARIS, Texas, April 30.-There was
A cloudburst on the Boston Mountains
last night that has broken communication
on the Frisco Railroad. There is gap of
thirty-fve miles between Mountainburg
and Greenland on which the trains cannot
pass. There are no passenger trains run
ming between Fort Smith, Ark, and Mon
ett, Mo-, today. Several passengers were
on the trains going each way. The whole
country IS flooded. The Arkansas River
is as high as ever known, and is eight
miles wide in many places. Five miles
south of Fort Smith tornado swept the
country, doing immense damage. Five
/, farmhouses, in range from southwest to
northeast, were completely demolished.
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