Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-18

KUNKLE, O., May IA cyclone
passed one-fourth Of mile west OF here
at 4:3O o'clock this afternoon, killing
sve persons, fatally injuring two others
and slightly wounding several more.
The dead are:
Daniel Barrett, right leg broken, arm
torn off and internally injured.
Mrs. Daniel Barrett, legs torn from
the body and entrails torn out.
Martha Duss, head crushed, died two
hours afterwards.
George Oxinger, body beaten into a
shapeless mass.
Myrta Duse, injured; Charles Cue,
fatally hurt internally; Mrs. Charles
Cue, head crushed, will die; Jennie
Creek, head crushed, will recover.
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 having
been carried away and nothing
left to marx ths spot where they stood
except the huge hole in the ground.
The space devastated is about quar-
| ter OF a mile wide and six miles in
| length, the
GREAT FUNNEL-sHAPED CLOUD
travelling in an irregular southeasterly
course, the greatest damage being done
about a mile from where it rose, and
| passed on east.
The building, In which were Daniel
! Barrett, his wife and their two grand
/ daughters, Myrta and Martha Duse, 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.
Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst
maugled, was carried over quarter OF
a mile aud dropped in cemetery, her
| dismembered limbs being found about
| 100 yards further on. There was very
little left OF the woman's body that re-
sembled the form of human being.
! Her breast and abdomen were rent in
two, and her entrails, lungs aud other
| internal organs scattered broadcast
through three forty-acre fields.
rods from where the cyclone struck him.
His hand was torn of at the wrist and
scattered to the winds. He was still
breathing when found but died soon
afterward without becoming conscious.
MARTHA AND MYRTA DUsE,
who were in another part of the house,
were left near where II seems TO have
gone 10 pieces. Martha, the eldest,
aged II, was apparently injured only
about the head, which was crushed in
on the left side, showing a great
hole, from which the brain ooEed, min
gled with blood. The younger, aged 10,
| lay almost in the arms Of her sister,
and the bones in all parts Of her body
were broken and ground into the flesh.
! Nothing could be done 10 relieve the
| little ones suffering, and she died at 10
! o'clock in the evening.
George Oxiuger, hired hand OF Bar
rett's, who was in the field plowing,
| saw the storm coming and made for the
barn. He succeeded in getting his
| horses inside and started for the house,
which was about ten yards distant from
| the barr and exactly in line with the
! storm. Witnesses say tnat the man
was lifted from the ground and
whirled into the air al least a hundred
feet, together with t!mbers, fences,
trees aud other debris, scooped up in
the rolling avalanche. Oxinger's life
| less body was found about one hundred
| rods from where 1t was lifted into the
air. His bones protruded from the
| flesh and his body indicates that he
came in contact with many OF the fly
| Ing trees and beams.
CLEVELAND, o., May 1.-THE worst
I hail storm that has visited this city In
years ragged here for nearly an hour
| this afternoon. The storm was accom-
panied 0y heavy rain aud thunder and
| lightning. Many hailstOnes were as big
as hen eggs, aud were driven before a
brisk south wind. Thousands OF win
dows were broken. Greenhouses were
wrecked aDd several wrecks were caused
/ oy horses trying 10 escape the bonn
bardment OF ice. Several thousand
| dollars damage was done.