St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-18
Five People We're Killed and
Seven WounAed
IN A LITTLE ONO TOWN.
Every House in the Monsters
Path Destroyed.
ONLY MEAGER DETAILS KN1Wy.
Terrific Hail Storm Sweeps
Through Cleveland.
ILLINOIS SUFFERS ALSl

KUNKLE. O., May IA cyclone
passed one-fourth of a mile west of here
at 80 o'clock this afternoon, killing
i've persous, fatally injuring two others
ard slightly wounding several more.
The dead are:
DANIEL BARRETT, right leg
broken. arm torn off and internally in.
jured.
MRS. DANIEL BARRETT. leg torn
from The body and entrails torn out.
MARTHA DASO, head crushed; died
two hours afterwards.
GEORGE OXlNGER, body beaten
into shapeless mass.
MRrA DASO. killed.
Injured:
Charles Cole, fatally hurt internally.
Mrs. Charles Cole, head crushed; will
die.
Jennie Creek, head crushed; will re.
cover.
The scene of the cyclone is hard one
to describe. Houses. fences. trees and
obstructions of all kinds in the path of
the storm have been carried away and
nothing left to mark the spot where
they stood except huge holes in the
ground.
The scene devastated is about one
quarter of a mile wide and six miles in
length, the great funnel-shaped cloud
travelled in an irregular southeasterIv
course. the greatest damage being done
about mile from where 1t rose, and
passed on east.
The building in which Daniel Barrett
his wife and their two granddaughters
Mrta and Martha Daso. is SO
'i'''i - COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED
that NOT even a portion OF the founda-
ton is left. The first remnants OF the
house are at least 100 yards from where
itstood.. Here began a few scattering
boards, and further on can be seen
larger portions of the building. and
about forty rods from where it stood
lay the roof, almost intact, together
with portions of the framework.
Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst
mangled, was carried over quarter OF
mile and dropped in cemetery, her
dismembered limos being found about
hundred yards further oD. There
was very little left of the woman's body
that resembied the form of human
being. Her breast and abdomen were
rent in two. and her entrails. lungs and
other internal organs scattered broad
cast through three five-acre fields. The
search for her remains continued fully
all hour before flesh half her weight
was found.
Daniel Barrett was carried about
forty rods from where the cyclone
struck him. His hand was torn off at
the wrist and seated to the wiuds. one
leg was beaten into pulp, and he suf-
fered internal injuries. He was still
breathing when found, but died soon
afterward, without becoming conscious.
Martha and Myrta Daso. who were in
another part of the house, were left
near where the house seems TO have
gone to pieces. Martha, the eldest,
aged fourteen, was apparently unin-
jured only about the head, which was
crushed in oh the left side, showing a
great hole from which
THE BRAINS ooZED.
Mingled with blood, the younger, ,aget.
ten. lay almost in the arms of her sister,
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 of Barrett's, who was in
the field plowing. saw the storm coming,
and made for the barn. Ee succeeded
in getting his horses inside, and
started for the house, which Was about
ten rods distant from the barn and ex-
actly in line with the storm. Witnesses
say that the man was lifted from the
ground and whirled into the air at least
hundred feet, together with timbers,
fences, trees and other debris, scooped
up in the rolling avalanche. OXinger'S
lifeless body was found one hundred
rods from where it was lifted into the air.
His bones protrudeo from the flesh and
his body indicates that he cane in con-
tact with many OF the flying trees and
beams.
James Whittle. another farm hand in
the employ of barrett. had most
miraculous escape. He was in the field
with team. in company with OXtnger,
and started for the barn. To the fact that
his team became unmanageable and
broke away he probably owes his life.