The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-18

Kunkle, o., May IA cyclone passed
one-fourth mile west of here at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon, killing five per-
sons and fatally injuring two others
and slightly wounding several more.
Dead:
Daniel Barrett, right leg broken, arm
torn off and internally injured.
Mrs. Daniel Barrett, leg torn from
body and entrails torn out.
Martha Dasho, head crushed, died
two hours afterwards.
Myrta Dasho.
George Oxinger, body beaten into
shapeless mass.
Injured:
Charles Cole, fatally hurt internally.
Mrs. Charles Cole, head crushed, will
die.
Jennie Creek, head crushed, will re-
cover.
Nothing Left But Huge Holes.
The scene of the cyclone is a hard
one to describe. Houses, fences, trees
and distractions of all kinds in the
path of the storm have been carried
away and nothing is left to mark the
spot where they stood except huge
holes in the ground. The country de-
vastated is about one-quarter of a mile
wide and six miles in length, the great
funnel-shaped cloud travelling in an ir-
regular southeast course, the greatest
damage being done about a mile from
where it rose and in passing on east.
The building in which were Daniel
Barrett, his wife and their two grand
daughters, Myrta and Martha Dasho,
is so completely demolished that not
even portion of the foundation is left.
The first remnants of the house are at
least 100 yards from where it stood.
Here began a few scattering boards
and further on can be seen larger por-
tons of the building and forty rods
from where it stood is the roof, almost
intact, together with portions of the
frame work.
Almost Beyond Belief.
Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst
mangled, was carried over a quarter
of a mile and dropped in a cemetery,
her dismembered limbs being found
about 100 yards further on. There
was very little left of the woman's
body that resembled the form of
abdomen were rent in two and her
entrails, lungs and other internal Or
gans were scattered through three
! forty-acre fields. The search for her
remains continued fully an hour before
all were found.
Daniel Barrett was carried about
forty rods from where the cyclone
struck him. His hand was torn off at
the wrist and scattered to the winds,
one leg was beaten into a pulp and he
suffered internal injuries. He was still
breathing when found. but died soon
afterwards without returning to con-
seriousness.
Martha and Myrta Dasho, were in
another part of the house, and were left
where the house seems to have gone
to pieces. Martha, the elder, aged IA,
was apparently injured only about the
head which was crushed in on the left
side, showing a great hole from which
| the brain oozed, mingled with blood
The younger, aged 10, lay almost IN
the arms of her sister and her bones
in all parts of her body were broken
and ground into the flesh Nothing
could be done to relieve the little ones
suffering, and she died at 10 o'clock
in the evening.
Picked Up Like a Feather.
George Oxinger was in the field plow-
ing. He saw the storm coming and
ran to the barn. He succeeded in get
ting his horses inside. He started for
the house and was ten rods distant
from the barn and exactly in line with
the storm. Witnesses say the man
was lifted from the ground and hurled
into the air at least 100 feet Oxinger's
lifeless body was found about 100 rods
from where it was lifted into the air
His bones protruded from the flesh
and his body indicates that he came
in contact with many of the flving
trees and beams.
James White, a farm hand in the
employ Of Barrett, had a miraculous
escape. He was in the field with a
team in company with Oxinger and
started for the barn. To the fact that
his team became Unmanageable and
broke away from him, he probably
owes his life.
The whirling cloud seemed to go
very slowly in its forward course. and
gave many people who otherwise
would have been killed, time to get ont
of its course.
The course seemed to be somewhat
zigzag and rolled from right to left
as well as upwards in it's course. Rain
came down in torrents. Where at
o'clock stood fields of wheat, now
stand ponds of water
All vegetation is cut off close TO the
ground. Hundreds of people from
every direction focked to the scene.
The scenes around the dead and DIV
| ing were heartrending. Mr.. and Mrs
Cole are being tenderly cared for in
other houses and all that medical skill
and tender care can do is being done.