New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-20
Dr.DLY SOUTHERN STORMS.
,,noEs WORK HAVOC IN THE LONE
STAR STATE.
,,,,v PEOPLE KILLED AND CROPS AND
r1rLpINGs Observation-Disclosures DE-
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,o,svew. Tex. March ia tornado swept over
,,oce at ] O'clock yesterday morning, accom-
'iI.9 bv hailstones of immense size Six miles
pau" Iare = struck the large country home Of
e Coi, lately occupied by large family of
'V" o The house in an ancient grove of
.o,,v in number. Every oak torn up
, iiod nm in terrible confusion with dead fowls
49,, ard cows and five dead and eight badly
,o1 negroes An old man. Alexander Lester
w., found fifty yards from the house
Soaa His wife Sarah was pinned under a tree
''.o,od and dead. Alexander Lester. jr., was
i"'"e e,od and &c dead Robert Lester. nine years
Ia, 80 found near tree. without mark Of
,o,o,ca dead Jasper Collins was pinned under
. large oak st in his bed, with his head crushed
81 I,nhs broken, dead. Beside him crawled pain
f,,,v his Young wife Mollie Collins. with an ugly
,Io IN the center of her forehead. She will re-
Ter Sissy Lester infant was found in a
s,,o,, ,reo-top with legs and arms crushed. dead
cus robneon a visitor. was bruised from head to
Co, hut no bones were broken. and he will re-
cove, Frank Dizer. also visitor had his leg
broken below the knee Doc Simmons, VINO
MOS in bed with Alexander Lester, jr.. had his head
,r,,ised and will die odessa Lester, four years
ola had a leg End both arms broken and Will die
Shs was found many yards away in the field.
Arthur Lester six years OLD, had his leg broken
in two places aud Will die Willie Lester, five
,e.rs old. was slightly hurt. He says he woke up
a long way from home in field with the hail and
rain descending Zen Hope. white man. near by.
brought assistance. and the dead and wounded
wore taken TO n house belonging 10 E. c. Edwards.
Half a mile south of this house the house of Mr..
Davis white man. completely demolished.
Int with the exception of a few bruises all es-
caped injury John Kufets wagon was blown
away and much Of il has not been found yet. The
sranarv Of mick" Harris two miles east, was UNI
roofed The house of Salie Jones, colored. was
wrecked. and her four-y ear-old daughter Lorilla
,,as perhaps fatally wounded. a passenger train
nassed lust as he tornado swept by narrowly es-
Gazing it, All previous accounts of immense hall
stones and wind dwinde into insgniflcance Many
Of the blocks Of ice from fourteen TO eighteen
ounces in weight and others were found as iate
ae Q A. m Yesterday, after warm rain and warm
veather larger han a soose's egg. Two OF these
missiles passed through the roof OF c. r. THORN
TONS house making hole like cannon BAH, while
FOULS roOstine il the trees killed by the hun
S-eds COW belonging Frank Lawson was
killed and fences~and fruit trees were Frustrated
for miles around.
Full particulars will doubtless swell the list OF
tn casualties.
Jackson Tex March l9-About II o'clock Satur-
Sav night tornado struck James Erwin's place, one
sn1 2 half miles west of town. The house was &C.
clriel by ]. c. Morgan, wife AMI two chlldren'
The house and all its surroundings were scattered
for 2oo yards in different directions but all the fam
ily ESCAPED unhurt. except a few slght bruises
The storms path was only about seventy-hVe yards