The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-30
The Wounded Number More
Than One Hundred and Fifty.
Many of Them Fatally.
A TRAIN BLOWN AWAY.
4 Heavy Freight Engine and Its
Train of Cars Picked Up and
Demolished.
swath Three-Fourths of Mile Wide is
Cut Through County and Not
Thing is Left Standing
in its Place.
DEAD.


DEAD.
DANIEL CAMERON.
R. NJ. WHITEsIDEs-
SINS, Texas Central brakeman.
Mrs. CHARLES JONES and child.
Mrs. J. Z. THOMPSON.
FIVE CHILDREN OF MR.. HICKMAN who
Eere in bed asleep were crushed to death
by the falling house. Hickman and his
wife had gone outside to see what the
rosrIng noise was and were blown off
bheir feet. Hickman was seriously in
lured.
CAPTAIN WHITEsIDEs.
CHILD OF NJ. B. OWENS.
n. BLEDsoE.
Mrs. J. T. THOMAS.
Mrs. HORTON.
Mrs. KNIGHT.
FATALLY INJURED.
FRANK VERNON.
Mrs. DAVIS.
jim HAYES.
DAUGHTER OF Mrs. STEVENS.
Mrs. POWERS AND DAUGHTER.
Mrs. Il. w. JONES.
GEORGE HARRIS.
Mrs. JENNARD.
SECTION Boss. name unknown, and wife
H. L. BIDWELL.
DALLAS, Texas, April pa Netos
correspondent learned from passengers
on the east-bound train this even
ing that the destruction of the cyclone at
Cisco is simply appalling. There are not
more than twenty-five or thirty houses
standing up to the time the train passed,
about o. clock this afternoon. Twenty
one bodies had been recovered from the
ruins, and there were ten or twelve more
persons missing. Strong one-story build
ings, with walls two feet thick, were lev
eled tothe ground. a heavy freight en-
CINE and a whole train of cars were blown
from the track and demolished, and sew
eral hundred feet of side track of the rail-
road torn up. The number injured runs
up to hundred.
D. B. Cleman and citizens from Wealth
erford went out this morning to render
any assistance possible. A building
which Frank Hickman occupied was
blown down and five children were killed.
Late this morning Mayor Levy received
the following from Bell and Coleman:
''Town nearly all demolished; twenty
killed; 125 injured; hundreds are without
food or shelter; raise all the relief posi-
bic and send to John F. Patterson, chair
man relief committee. -
The following telegram was also re-
ceived by Mayor Levy from Cisco: 'sCisco
has been destroyed by the most destruc-
tive cyclone that ever visited Texas. More
than four-ffths of the people are without
houses. There are many killed and
wounded. Help is needed to bury the
lieve those dependent who lost everything
Signed, w. q. Davenport, county Judge;
G. w. Graves, mayor"
Mayor Levy has called meeting of citi-
zens of Weatherford to take measures fol
the relief of the sufferers.
A Gainesville special to the Neacs says:
tsMayor Rollins received message this
afternoon from County Judge Davenport
of Eastland county and Mayor Graves Of
Cisco, appealing for aid for the storm
sufferers al Cisco. Mayor Rollins at once
issued an appeal to the citizens of Gaines
vile for contributions.
r. T. Willie, who arrived at Dallas to-
night, was at Cisco an hour and half.
He says twenty-one dead persons have
been found and over $50 wounded
counted.
A Meas special from Cisco confirms the
worst features of the cyclone. Less than
rrt.- t,o.,eao -e,,asn etopd;p, 4y,a -+o-w-
having swept everything in lis path three
quarters of mile wide. Through East
land county not church or school house
is standing and but one business house is
intact. 1t is impossible to detail the dam
age done to life and property.
Everything is in such confusion that il
Is more difficult to get the names of the
injured than OF the dead.
Seven miles northeast of Cisco Mrs. L.
=. Ladd was killed and three miles fur
ther on Mr.. Ferguson was killed.
A message from Valley View states that
asevere storm passed over the town al
$50 pm, blowing down several houses
and doing much damage to property. Nc
one was hurt.
At Ringgold, Montague county. the
storm unroofed the house OF Mrs. Birge,
blew several freight cars off a side track
and caused the terrorized people to take
refuge in a large cellar, where they suf-
fered greatly from confinement and suffo-
cation, and were seriously injured.
After the cyclone passed much OF the
wreckage burned having caught fire from
overturned stoves. 1t is therefore prob
able that most of the missing, about a
score, were burned to death or their dead
bodies crelnated. Many streets are i'm
passable on foot. Physicians estimate
that not less than 200 are injured, OF
whom forty will die. Property loss will
exceed 8, 000, 600.
The business portion of the town is
totally destroyed. Out of forty-five busI-
ness houses, forty were blown to frag-
slents and four others were so damaged as
TO be useless. Twenty-Five residences
were wiped out of existence, and there is
scarcely a house In town that escaped
serious damage. Besides fifteen known
to be dead there are several who have not
been accounted for, and those were I'M