The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-29
CYCLONE IN TEXAS.
" LARGE FAMILY ALMOST EXTERN
MATED.

IVA EO
H"ils OF Ice Weighing 1s Ounces Foil.
ROOFS Penetrated, cows Killed and Pro.
perty Damaged by this Unproo.deDtsd
Hail.
| LONGVIEW, Tex, March ia cy.
clone swept over this place at O'clock
this morning, accompanied by hail.
stones OF immense size. The greatest
fury was six miles cast of here, where
1t struck the large country home of
John Cain, lately occupied by 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
live 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 tree, mangled and dead.
Ale Xander Lester, Jr., was mangled,
and is dead. Robert Lester, nine years
old, was found near a, tree without
mark Of violence, dead. Jasper Collins
was pinned under large oak, snuggi.
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 q
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
Simmons, who was in bed with Alex
ander Lester, Jr., had his head bruised
and Will die. ODESSA LISTER, 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 Il field, suffering from
hail and rain.
NIT. ben Hope, a white man near by,
brought assistance Immediately, and
the dead and dying were taken to
one'room house belonging to e. @.
Edwards, a son n.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,
| ', "'tS Uoe'Aoou w lo VOL CSOiOp kkOD-
bled, painfully bleeding about the yard :,
In the rain, bemoaning the fate Of their
relatives and friends.
llalf mile south of this house. the
house OF Mr.. Davis, a white man, was
completely demolished, but with the
exception of q few painful bruises, all
escaped death. John Buffett's wagon.
near by, was blown away and much of
1t has not been found yet. The grain.
cry or Nick Harris, two miles east, was
unroofed. The house Of SalIfe Jones.
colorcd, 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 swept by, narro wly escaping it.
All previous accounts Of immense
nan stones and wind dwindle into In.
Significance. Many OF these blocks of
ice weighed from fourteen to eighteen
ounces, while Others found as late as 8
O'Clock, after warm rain and warm
weather, were larger than a goose egg.
Two Of thess missiles passed through
the roof of g. Il. Thornton's residence.
making a hole like cannon ball, while
fowls roosting in the trees were killed
oy the hundreds. A COW belonging
TO Frank Lawson was killed, and stock
bear many marks from these ice stones.
About 300 window lights were broken
IN this place. Farm feEces and fruit
trees were prostrated for miles around.