The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-18
Body of an Old Lady Carried a Quarter
of a Mile and Torn Limb from Limb
by the Furious Twister.
DONE IN INDIANA
Portions of Six Anderson Glass
Factories i'm Ruins.
Wabash and Hartford City Receive a
Less Serious VisitatiOn-Great
Solar Cycl lie Reported.

KUNKLE, o., May ia tornado passed
one-fourth of a mile west of here at 4:So
o'clock this afternoon. killing five per-
sons. fatally injuring two others and
slightly wounding several more. The dead
are:
DANIEL BARRETT. right leg broken.
arm torn on ana iRte I'm Eyvr rn' disembowled
and legs torn off.
MARTHA DASO. granddaughter of the
above. head crushed, died two hours AFTER
wards.
GEORGE oXINGER. body beaten into a
shapeless mass.
MYRTA DASO, crushed and lying In her
sisters arms. dying four hours later.
The injured were:
CHARLES COLE, fatally hurt inter-
Mrs. CHARLES COLE, head crushed;
JENNIE CREEK, head crushed; will re-
cover.
Houses. fences. trees and Instructions of
all kinds In the path of the storm were
carried away and nothing left to mark the
spot where they had stood except huge
holes in the ground. Tie path of the
storm was about one-quarter of a mile
wide and six miles in length, the great
funnel-shaped cloud travelling in an ir-
regular southeasterly course. The greatest
damage was done about a mile from where
it rose and passed on east.
The building in which were Daniel Bar
rett. his wife and their granddaughters,
Myrta and Martha Daso. is so complete
ly demolished that not even a portion of
the foundation is left. The first remnants
Of the house are at least one hundred
yards from where it stood. Here began IA
few scattered boards and further on can
be seen larger portions of the building. and
about forty rods from where 1T stood lies
the roof almost intact. together with por-
tions of the frame work.
Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst mangled,
was carried over a quarter OF a mile and
dropped in a cemetery, her dismembered
limbs being found about one hundred yards
further on. There was very little left of
the woman's body that resembled the form
of a human being. Portions of the trunk
were found in three fields. The search for
her remains continued fully an hour before
enough was found for burial
Daniel Barrett was carried about forty
rods from where the cyclone struck him.
His hand was torn off at the wrist and
scattered to the winds, one leg was beaten
juries. He was still breathing when found.
conscious.
Martha and Myrta Daso, who were in an
other part of the house. were left near
where the house seems TO have gone TO
Was arpsrentIy injured only about the head,
which was crushed in on the left side, show
ing a great hole.
The younger sister, aged ten, lay almost
in the arms OF Martha, and her bones in all
! parts of her body were broken and ground
into the flesh. Nothing could be done TO
relieve the little ones suffering, and she
died at 10 o'clock in the evening.
George Oxinger, a hired hand on the
place, who was in the field blowing. saw
the storm coming and made for the barn.
He succeeded in getting his horses in
side and started for the house. wnicn was
about ten rods distant and exactly in lire
with the storm. Witnesses say that the
whirled into the air at least a hundred
feet, together with timbers, fences, I ess
and other debris scooped up in the rolling
avalanche. Ox,nger's life,ess body was
found about one hundred yards from
where 1t was lifted into the air. Ellis bones
protruded from the flesh, and his body
indicates that he cane in contact with
many OF the flying trees and beams.
James Whittle, another farm hand in
escape. He was in the field with a team
in company with Oxinger and started for
the barn. To the fact that his team be-
came unmanageable AM broke away from
him he probably owes his life.
nunnl1 Is a w of 45J inhabitants in
Williams county. northeast of Fort Wayne,
on the Detroit division of the Wabash, but
a full list Of the victims has not been OBJ
tanned. Every house and barn in the path
of the storm was leveled. The courier who
! rode into Bryan with the news was too
greatly excited to give definite details. He
returned TO Kunkle with physicians, and
until they get back to Bryan little will be
known of the loss of life and extent of in
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