The record-union., 1894-03-19
WIND AND HAIL.
a DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE PASSES
OVER TEXAS.
Five People Killed and Many Others
Injured Near Longview-Much
Property Ruined.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
LoNGvIEw (Tex.). March 1S.-A cy-
clone swept over this place at o'clock
this morning, accompanied by hailstones
of immense size. The greatest injury was
six miles east of here, where it struck
the large country home of John Cain,
lately occupied by family of negroes.
The house was in an ancient grove of
oaks, twenty in number. Every one of
IL EN- was uprooted and piled up in terri
bic confusion with dead fowls, dogs and
cows, and five dead negroes.
Old man Alexander Lester was found
fifty yards away entirely nude and dead
His old wife, Sarah, was pinned under a
tree, mangled and dead. Alexander Les
ter, Jr., was mangled and is dead. Robt.
Lester, years old, was found near tree
without mark of violence, dead. James
Collins was pinned under tree, Snugly
covered up, with his skull crushed and
broken, dead. Beside him crawled
his painfully cut young wife,
with an ugly cut IN her
Lester, an infant, was found in a
fallen treetop, with her legs and arms
crushed, dead. Silas Johnson was bruised
from head to foot, but will recover.
Frank Diser has a leg broken. Dock
Sims, who was sleeping at Alex
ander Lester's, had his head
bruised and will die Orin Lester, years
old, had both arms broken and will die.
She was found many yards away in a
field. Arthur Lester. years of age, had
his leg broken in two places and was 9TH
erwfse badly bruised and will die. Will
lie Lester, D years of age, was slightly
hurt.
Ben Hoppe, white man living near
by, brought assistance, and the dead and
wounded were taken to a one-room house
belonging to Z. G. Edwards, where they
were placed in bed in strange confusion,
unconscious, suffering, side by side. The
correspondent often mistook the living
for the dead. Two physicians were at
tending those most injured, while the
wounded who were able hobbled around
the yard.
Half mile south white mans
house was completely demolished, but
with the exception of a few painful
but not severe bruises, all escaped.
John Kuffets' wagon, near by, was
blown away and none of is has been
found. The grapary of Nick Harris, two
miles east, was unroofed. The house of
Sallie Jones, colored, was wrecked, and
her 4-year- old daughter was perhaps ia
tally injured by hailstones. A passenger
train passed just as the cyclone swept by,
narrowly escaping 1t.
All previous accounts of immense hail
stones and wind dwindle into insignifi-
canoe in comparison with this storm.
Many of the blocks Office were from fifteen
to eighteen ounces i'll weight, and others
were found to-day after u warm rain and
warm weather. larger than goose eggs.
Two of these missiles passed through the
roof of G. e. Thornton's house, making
hole like a cannon-ball Fowls roost-
ing in the trees were killed by thousands.
A COW belonging to Frank Lawson was
killed, and live stock bear many marks
from the ice stones. About 800 window
lights were broken in this place, while
farm fences and fruit trees were pros
trated for miles around.
Full particulars will doubtless swell
the casualties.