The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
a CYCLONES FURY.
e Causes heath and DeetxuCti0
IN Oklah oma Territory.
Human Beings to the Number Of n
Least Seventy-Ffve Are Kflled-A
Great Many Injured-Some
Narrow Escapes.


Two distinct cyclones, terrific hail
storm and waterspout combined to
wrcak awful destruction in the newly
built towns in Oklahoma Tuesday
night It is reported that seventy-five
human lives We're sacrificed. 1t is posi-
tive that forty We're killed, while sew
eral were fatally and scores seriously
injured. The damage to property is in
estimable.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
The names OF the killed, so far as
know. are:
Nathan Banks, wife ard two children. VIII
liam Broughton- Rev. John Cole. Smith Ellis,
Miss Finney. Annie Heddins, Edward johnson.
Mrs William Mahoney and four daughters.
Miss Nuns;ncer. James o Malley. John O'Con-
ner, John OConner, ST.. wife and three chill
dren. John Peary, wife and seven children, Mr..
Plemores, Mrs John Rooney. Mr.. johnson and
family of four persons. There were forty in
jured SO far as known
TOWNS WRECKED.
Orders for thirty-one collins have
been received here and at Norman, and
supplies have been telegraphed for
from other points The brunt of the
storm was laid upon the prosperous
little town of Norman, on the Santa
Fe railroad. about 20 miles south of
here. At that point thirty-one people
were killed, dozens injured and the
town almost completely destroyed.
Farther on the towns of Downs and
Keolzul1 Falls Jared but little better.
The towns were nearly devastated and
scores OF people injured fatally.
CRUSHED To DEATH.
The house Of J. O'Connor. near
Moore, was destroyed. and O'Connor
and his wife and three children and five
neighbors who had sought shelter in
the building were crushed to death.
The frame house Of Nathan Banks was
torn to pieces and he was killed. while
Others OF his family Of six were badly
in jured, three Of the children and Mrs
Banks fatally. The home Of Henry
Dyer was demolished.
West Of Norman eight houses We're
demolished and FIVE people badly in
jured. last OF the stricken town two
men and two women We're killed.
SWEPT AWAY.
At Downs twenty or more people
We're hurt, but none killed so far as
known.
In Guthrie little damage was done.
| but miles west Of there three houses
were swept away and one man killed.
In Pottawattonie county thousands
of dollars of damage was done and a
number of people badly injured. while
the town of keokuk Falls is reported
swept away.
ALL KILLED But A BABT.
| The Pearv family lived in substan-
| tial farmhouse southwest Of here and
all were seated in front of the hearth
when the storm came. They had no
warning and the entire building was
| lifted with its weight of occupants and
smashed on the ground so yards away.
| When the search party found il
| Wednesday morning the mother, father
and seven children were dead. but one
| wee infant 10 weeks old set up wall
ing. 1t lay on mattress ur-hurt- Mrs
Maroney was a near neighbor to the
O'Connors and the Pearys. Her body
with those of her four little girls, were
hauled from pond Wednesday morn
ing They We're mangled horribly.
MARVELLOUS ESCAPES.
Two Chickasaw Indians who were or
the open prairie were found completely
denuded and with limbs broken. They
will live to tell their story.
Cattle and horses We're found 20 miles
| from the places where they We're owned
One horse was discovered inpaled on q
telegraph pole above the cross arms.
Eight miles northeast Of here Mrs
Henry johnson. the wife Of Swedish
section boss. was out of doors when She
saw the storm coming. She could no
raise the lid of her storm-cellar: and. il
her hurry. she grasped her two little
boys and ran into a pond with them
The storm sucked the pond dry and lef
the woman and her charges unhurt.
A NEGRO TOWN RUINED.
At Langston. a negro town about l:
miles from Guthrie, thirty houses were
carried away and fourteen people
killed. The negroes are panic-stricken
They are overcome with superstition
that the last day has come and tina
Langston will oe depopulated. The,
have no money and no energy and i
they remain in Langston they can onl,
do it by aid from the outside.
TEXAS SUFFERS.
GAINESVILLE. Tex. April 27.-A death
dealing cyclone swept down in Mon
tague county. 80 miles west of here
Wednesday, night. The storm strucl
? miles east OF Bonita. small railroad
town, an.lutterly destroyed everythin:
in its path. denolishing houses. twist
ing down trees and swapping off ever,
telegraph pole in its path. TIE hous,
of a farmer few miles from Bonit;
was strewn for mile around and tn,
man killed outright. Three of his chill
dren We're blown into well and ell O.
them were drowned
IN Arkansas.
FORT SMITH. Ark, April GA cyclon,
swept over the little town of Jensen. 1.
miles south of here. about midnigb
Wednesday night. blowing down min,
buildings and damaging several others
Tennessee Bank Fails.
/ NASHVILLE, Tenn, April %. Til,
Second national bank of Columbia 4,