The record-union., 1894-03-20
TIE TEXAS CYCLONE.

IL IIsAAS C1CLONJS
LoNGvIEw (Texas), March l9.-Follow-
ing is a revised list of the dead and
wounded at Lansing's Switch, the center
of Sunday mornings cyclone, six miles
east of here: The dead number eight
Alexander Lester, Sarah Lester, AleXan-
der Lester, Jr., Robert A. Lester, Jasper
Collins, Sissy Lester, Dock Simmons and
Arthur Lester.
Fatally injured: Mollie Collins, Frank
Disor and Odessa Lester, all colored.
There are ten or fifteen others seriously
injured, both white and colored.
STORM UNPARALLELED IN SEVERITY.
DALLAS (Tex.), March 19.-The storms
which swept over northern Texas Satur-
day, yesterday and last night, and pre-
vailed to-day, are unparalleled in severity.
The death list will reach twenty, and the
list OF Injured over hundred.
AT Emery, capital Of Rain County. the
cyclone knocked the town nearly out of
existence. There were many other towns
visited and handled roughly.
TWO TOWNS REPORTED WIPED OUT.
NACoGDoCHEs (Tex.), March Icy es-
terday cyclone passed through this
county, and yesterday tornado ira
versed wide scope of country. Rain
has been falling in sheets, SO that no COM
munication with the stricken section has
been had, and only nleager details are OBJ
tainable. Every house in the Whitaker
negro1 colony was blown away, and a
number severely hurt.
In the Grimes neighborhood, eight
miles from here, there is not fence or
house left. Dan Grimes was killed and
his wife received fatal injuries.
This morning cyclone began opera
tions two miles east of here, running all
the houses in the McGuiston Mill settle
ment. The corpse of a young lady who
died last night was mangled beyond
recog milton. Many inmates of the house
were fatally injured. Jake Baganier, an
old man, was killed. Relief parties have
been organized to go from here.
1t is reported that Hilland, in Bell
County, and Bartlett. in Williamson
County, were wiped out. but no authentic
news was obtainable from those places,
as the wires are down.
LAID BARE EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH.
LUFKIN (Tex.), March 19.-Y Yesterday
about 8 o'clock a destructive cyclone
struck this section and laid bare every
thing in its path. About a dozen farm
houses within three miles of this place
were demolished and number OF people
narrowly escaped death. Every tree,
fence and other obstacle in the path of the
storm was torn up and the roads in vari-
Gus directions are INSTRUCTED and it is al
Again this morning, about 8 O'Clock a
cyclone struck the edge of the town, and
three houses were wrecked and their
contents scattered over the country for a
distance of mile or two. Several per-
sons were seriously injured, but none
fatally. The people in the points of the
storm touched are in a terrible condition.
The damage to property and stock will
reach thousands OF dollars.
OVER A DOZEN DEAD.
DALLAS (Texas), March l9.-The cy-
clone and ice storm which devastated
Longview Sunday struck the little town OF
Emory, thirty miles south OF Greenville,
Saturday night, and demolished the west
ern part of the place. A relief train with
doctors sent from Greenvilie found the
people helpless and panic-stricken. over
a dozen were dead and dying and many
others more or less injured.
The identified dead are: G.. Walker,
Miss Esther Alexander, b. Henry and
the 4-year-old child of Henry Murray.
Three unidentified bodies were found
north of Emory.
Fifty are wounded, some very seriously.
The storm came from the southwest, and
swept the earth of everything in the
track for fifty miles in length and one
hundred yards wide. Halstones of an
extraordinary size fell in many places.
III il S1ORM -EBAChES OhIIA dOMAs
GAINESVILLE ('Iexas), March l9-Yes-
terday's cyclone reached we'll into the
Chicllasaw Nation, and much damage is
reported. Twenty miles north of here
the home of j. b. Putnam was blown
down. His 14-year-old daughter was
killed and his wife fatally hurt.x Other
memb bers of the family were badly hurt.
Nearly all the stock on the place was
killed.
The report that the most violent cleo
trical and hailstorn ever known has
been prevailing here the past three days.
causing the streams to overflow their
banks, is true. Much damage will be
done to crops and cattle. The NJ. X. and
T. and Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe trains
are delayed on account of the water.
AT Bartlett the Methodist anu Baptist
Churches were wrecked, and the school
house was blown from its foundation. In
addition much damage was done to fenc-
ing and houses. No one was seriously
hurt The wind blew regular tornado
at Saratoga, thirty miles north. and i've
persons were killed. Saratoga is several
miles from railroad and telegraph line,
and it is at present impossible To verify
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