The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-03-28
CYCLONE In TEXAS.
LARGE FAMILY ALMOST EXTERN
MATED.
Balls OF Ice Weighing IS Ounces Fell.
Roofs Penetrated, Cows Killed and Pro-
perty Damaged by this Unprecedented
Hail.

BAH.
LoNGvIEW, Tex, March 18.-A cy.
clone swept over this place at o'clock
this morning, accompanied by hail
stones of immense size. The greatest
fury was six miles east of here, where
1t struck the large country home of
John Cain, lately occupied by a large
family of negroes. The house was IN
an ancient grove of oaks, twenty in
number. Every one of them were torn
up and piled up in terrible confusion
with dead fowls, dogs and COWS, and
five dead, and eight badly wounded
negroes. Old man Alexander Lester
was found fifty yards away entirely
nude and dead. His wife, Sarah, was
pinned under a tree, mangled and dead.
| Alexander Lester, Jr, was mangled,
! and Is dead. Robert Lester, nine years
| old, was found near tree without
mark of violence, dead. Jasper Collins
was pinned under large oak, snugei.
, ly covered, his head crushed, and lis
limbs broken, dead. Beside him
craWled painfully out, his young wife.
Mollie Collins. with an ugly hole in the
centre Of her forehead. She will recover.
Sissy Lester, infant, was found in
fallen tree top with legs and arms
crushed, dead. Silas johnson, who was
visiting, was bruised from head to foot
but no bones broken, will recover.
Frank Dizer, also visiting. leg broken
below the knee, may recover. Dock
Simmons, who was in bed with Alex
ander Lester, Jr., had his head bruised
and will die. ODESSA Lester, four
years of age, leg and both arms broken,
will die. She was found many yards
away in the fields. Arthur Lester, six
years old, leg broken in two places
above and below the knee and other.
wise badly bruised. and will die.
Willie Lester, five years old, slightly
hurt. Says he woke up long ways
from home in field, suffering from
hail and rain.
MIR. Ben Hope, a white man near by,
brought assistance Immediately, and
the dead and dying were taken to a
one-room house belonging to E. c.
Ed wards. a son in law, where they
were laid in bed in strange confusion,
dead, unconscious, suffering side by side.
The correspondent of teh mistaking
living for the dead. Mrs. Hall and
Wilson were attending the worst hurt,
while the wounded who were able, hob
bled, painfully bleeding about the yard,
in the rain, bem gaming the fate Of their
relatives and friends.
Half a mile south of this house, the
house of Mr.. Davis, white man, was
completely demolishe,, but with the
exception of few pal 4ful bruises, ali
escaped death. John Bufett's wagon,
near by, was blown away and much of
it has not been found yet. The grain.
cry Of Nick Harris, two miles east, was
unroofed. The house of Sallle Jones,
colored, was wrecked and her four
year-old daughter, Lorllla, was perhaps
fatally wounded by hail stones. a
passenger train passed just as the cy.
clone Vept oy, narrowly escaping it.
al previous accounts of immense
hail stones and wind dWindle into in.
significance. Many of these BLOCKS of
ice weighed fron fourteen to eighteen
ounces. while others found as late as 9
o'clock, after warm rain and warm
weather, were larger than goose egg.
Two Of these missiles passed through
the roof of e. E. ThOrnton's residence,
making hole like cannon ball, while
fowls roosting in the trees were killed
by the hundreds. a cow belonging
to Frank Lawson was killed, and stock
bear many marks from theseice stones.
About 300 window lights were broken
IN this place. Farm feIces and fruit
trees were Frustrated for miles around.