St. Paul daily globe., 1894-03-19
DEADLY TEXAS CYCLONE.
THE FIR SOUTHERN STaTE lEyAS-
TATED 6Y A ST0RM.
MANY PERSONS ARE KILLED
Houses Are Torn TO Pieces and
Tossed About, Trees Arc VI .
rooted. Several Persons Killed
and Wounded by the Wild
Fury Of the Winds-Vorst
Storm Experienced for Years.

LoNGvIEw. Tex. March 1s.-A, ey-
clone swept over this place at / % clio ek
| tits morning accompanied by bail
stones of immense size. The greatest
fury was six miles east of here, where
1t struck the large country home
OF John Cain. lately occupied by a
large family of heroes. The house
WAS i'll an ancient grove of oaks
twenty in number. Every one OF them
was uprooted and piled up in terrible
confusion with deal 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. man
gled and dead. Alexander Lester Jr.
was mangled and is dead. Robert Les
ter, nine years old. was found near a
tree without mark Of violence, dead.
JeSper Collins was pinned under large
oak, snugiy covered in bed, with his
head crushed and limbs broken, dead.
Beside him crawled painfully out
his young wife. Mollie Collins,
with an ugly hole in the center 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
below the knee. may recover.
Dock Sims, who was in bed with
Alexander Lester Jr., had his head
bruised and will die. Odessa Lester,
four years OLD, leg and both arms
broken, will die. She was found many
yards away Ill the field. 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 d field, suffering from hail and
rain. MIR. Ben Hope, white
man near by, brought assistance and
the dead and wounded were taken TO i
one-room house belonging TO E. c.. Ed
wards, s0n-in-law. where they were
placed in bed in strange confusion, un-
conscious. suffering, side by side. The
correspondent often mistook the dead
for the living. Drs. Hall and Wilson
were attending those most badly in-
iured. while the wounded who were
able hobbled painfully bleeding
about the yard. bemoaning the fate
OF their relatives and friends Half
mile south the house OF Mr.. Davis,
white man. was completely demolished.
but with the exception of few
painful bruises. all escaped. John
kutfetS wagon near by was
blown away ana much of it has not yet
been found. The grainary of Nick
Hardis, two miles east, was unroofed,
the house of Sallie Jones, colored, was
wrecked aud her four-year-old daughter,
LOrilia, was perhaps fatally injured by
hail stones.
A passenger train passed just as the
cyclone swept by. narrowly escaping it.
All previous accounts of immense
stones and wind dwindle into insignifi-
eance in comparison with this
storm. Many of the blocks of ice
were from fifteen TO eighteen ounces in
weight, and others were found at a.
IN. today, after warm rain and warm
weather, larger than goose egg.
Two of these missiles passed
through the roof of G.. E. Thorn
tou's residence, making hole like
cannon ball, while fowls roosting
in the trees were killed by the hun
dreds. A COW belonging to Frank Law
son was killed, and stock bear many
marks from these ice ston es. About
800 window lights were broken i'll this
place. while farm fences and fruit trees
were Frustrated for miles around.
Full particulars will doubtless swell
the CASUALTY.