The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-18
IN THE CYCLONES PATH.
Rain, Hail and Wind
Enraged.
A Scene, of Devastation and
Death.
Many People Killed and Manned by
the Tornado.
An Ohio Towns Fearful Visitation.
Narrowing Details of the Disas-
ter-Namss OF Thoss
Killed.
By the Associated Press.


KUNKLE. O., May II. - A cyclone
passed one-iourth of mile west of here
at 4 80 O'Clock this afternoon, killing
FIVE persons and 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, leg torn from
body and entrsils tern out.
Martha Dasho, head crushed; died
two hours afterwards.
Myrta Dssho.
George OyiRger, body beaten into
ehapeless mass.
Injured: Charles Cole. fatally hurt
internally. Mrs. Charles Cole, head
crushed; will die. Jennie Greek, head
crushed; will recover.
The scene OF the cyclone is hard one
to describe. Houses, fences, trees and
obstructions 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 devastated is
about quarter of mile wide and six
miles in length, the great funnel-shaped
cloud travelling in an irregular southeast
course, the greatest damage being done
almost 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 Dssho, lie
so completely demolished that not even
a portion of the foundation is left. The
first remnants Of the house are at least
100 yards from where it stood. Here
began few scattering boards, and fur
ther on can be seen larger portions Of
the building, and about 40 rods from
WHARF II af4.>-s - .i-o- ruff, aimOsJ inthut,
together with portions of the frame
work. Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst
mangled, was carried over quarter OF a
mile and dropped in a cemetery, her
dismembered limbs being found 100
yards further on. There was verv little
left of the wnmsn's body that resem bled
the form of human being. Her breast
and abdomen were rent in two. and her
entrails, lungs and other internal organs
were scattered through three 4O-acre
fields. The search for her remains con-
tinued fully an hour before all were
found.
Daniel Barrett was carried about 40
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 in
ternal injuries. He wss still breathing
when found, but died soon afterwards
without returning 10 cepeoieuencsu.
Martha and Myrta Daeho, who were
in another part of the house, were left
where the house seams 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 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 in
to the flesh. Nothing could be done to
relieve the little ones suffering, and sne
died at 10 O'Clock in the evening.
George Oxinger was in the field plow-
ing. He saw the storm coming and ran
to the barn. He succeeded in getting
his horses inside. He started for the
house and was 10 rods distant from the
Witnesses say the man vas lifted from
VIC BtOu'N hnu l4tU bu6 klI at
least 100 feet. Oxinger's lifeless body
was found about 100 rods from where it
was lifted into the air. His bones pro-
truded from the flesh and his body in
dictates that he came in contact with
many of the flying trees and beams.
James Whitman, farm hand in the
employ of Barrett, had a most mirac-
ulous 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
brokeaway from him, he probably owes
his life.
The whirling cloud seemed to 20 very
slowly in its forward course and gave
many people who otherwise would have
been killed time to get out of its course,
The course seemed to somewhat zigzag
and rolled from right to lefs as we'll as
upwards in it's course. Rain came down
in torrents. Where at 4 O'Clock stood
fields OF wheat, now stand ponds of
water. All vegetation is cut off close to
the ground. Hundreds of people from
svery direction focked to the scene.
The scenes around the dead and diving
were heartrending. Mr.. and Mrs. Cole
are being tenderly cared for in other
houses and all that medical skill and
tender care can do ia being dnna