The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-19
DEATH IN A CYCLONE.
Ten or Twelve Lives Lost in a Mid
night Blow in Texas.

Longview, Tex, March 18.-A cyclone
swept over this place at / o'clock this
morning, accompanied by hail stones of
immense size. The greatest fury was
miles east of here, where it 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 was 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 old wife, Sarah, was pinned under a
tree, mangled and dead
Alexander Lester, Jr., was mangled
and is dead.
Robert Lester, 9 years old, was found
| near tree without mark of violence
dead
Jasper Collins was pinned under large
oak, snugly covered in bed with his head
crused and limbs broken, dead Beside
him, crawled painfully out his yonng
wife, Mollie Collins, with an ugly hole in
the center of her forehead. She will
| recover
Sissy Lester, an infant, was found in a
fallen tree top with her legs and arms
| crushed, dead.
Silas Johnson, who was visiting, was
bruised from head to foot, but no bones
broken, and will recover.
Frank DiZer, also visiting, had a leg
broken below the knee. He may recover.
Dock Simmons, who was in bed with
| Alexander Lester, Jr., had his head
bruised and win die.
Odessa Lester. years Of age, had leg
and both arms broken, and viii die. She
was found many yards away in a field.
Arthur Lester, g years old, had a leg
broken in two places, above and below
the knee and was otherwise badly
bruised He will die.
Willie Lester, years old, was slightly
hurt. He says he woke up a long ways
from home in field suffering from hail
and rain.
Ben Hope, white man near by,
brought assistance Immediately and the
dead and dying were taken to a one room
house to E. c. Edwards, a sou-in-aw
where they were laid in bed in strange
confusion unconscious and suffering, side
by side, the correspondent often mistak-
ing the living for the dead Drs. Hall
| and Wilson were attending the worst
hurt, while the wounded who were a6le
hobbled painfully, bleeding about the
yard bemoaning the fate Of their relatives
and friends.
A WOMAN's HOUSE BLOWN AWAY.
Half a mile south of this house, the
| house of Mrs. Davis. a white woman
was completely demolished, but, with the
| exception of a few painful bruises, all es
| capped.
John Buffett's wagon house near by was
| blown away, and much of it has not beer
| found yet.
The grainery of Nick Harris, two mile.
! east, was unroOfed.
The house of Sallie Jones, colored, was
| wrecked, and her 4-year-old daughter
Lorilla, was perhaps fatally wounded by
| hailstones.
A passenger train passed just as the
| cyclone swept by, narrowly escaping it,
All previous accounts of immense hail
| stones and wind dwindled into insignifi-
cance. Many of these blocks of ice
| weighed from fourteen to eighteen ounces
| while others, found as late as o'clock a.
m. to-day, after a warm rain and warm
weather, were larger than a goose egg
| Two or three missels passed through the
roof of c. 4. ThOrnton's residence, max
| ing hole like cannon ball, while fowls
| roosting in the trees were killed by the
! hundreds.
About 800 window lights were broken
in this place, farm fences and fruit trees
were Frustrated for miles around.
Full particulas will doubtless swell the
! casualty.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED NEAR JACKSON.
jackson, Tex, March 1S.-About II
| O'Clock tonight cyclone coming from
! the southwest struck James Erwin
| place, one mile and half west of town
| The residence was occupied by j. G. Nor
gan, wife and two children. The house
| and all it's surroundings were torn com
pletely asunder and scattered for 2OC
yards in different directions, but all the
family escaped unhurt except few slight
| bruises.
The path of the cyclone was only about
seventy-fve yards wide and about 3OC
yards in length at this particular place
but it dipped down again about one mile
northeast, completely demolishing an
othsr house occupied by a negro family
named Bill Jones, Mr.. Whites barn anC
several other out houses. So far no one
has been reported killed though severa
were injured.