Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-18
KILLED BY A CYCLONE.
Kunkle, O., Visited by a Funnel
Shaped Cloud.
VICTIMS FEARFULLY MANGLED
Five Persons In One House Were Killed
and Several Others Seriously Hurt-vio-
lent Hailstorms Reported In Ohio and
Illinois.

KUNKLE, O., May 1S.-A cyclone passed
quarter of mile west of here, killing
five persons, fatally injuring two others
and slightly wounding several more. The
dead are:
Daniel Barrett, right leg broken, arm
torn off; died from internal injuries.
Mrs. Daniel Barrett, legs torn from the
body.
Martha Dase, head crushed; died two
hours afterward.
-. George Oxinger, body beaten into a
shapeless mass.
Myrta Dase died from her injuries.
The Injured.
Charles Cole, fatally injured internally;
Mrs. Charles Cole, head crushed, will die;
Jennie Creek, head crushed, will recover.
The scene of the cyclone is hard one
to describe. Houses, fences, trees and OBJ
structions of ell kinds in the path of the
storm have been carried away, and moth
ing is left to mark the spot where they
stood except holes in the ground.
The scene devastated is about quarter
of a mile wide and six miles in length, the
great tunnel shaped cloud travelling in an
irregular shaped course. The greatest
damage was done about mile from where
it arose.
The building in which were Daniel Bar
rett, his wife and their two granddaugh-
tiers, Myrta and Martha Dase, is so COM
pletely demolished that not even a portion
of the foundation is left. The nearest
remnants of the house are at least 100 yards
from where it stood. Here are few scat
tered boards, and farther on can be seen
portions of the building. About 40 rods
from where it stood lays the roof, almost
intact, together with portions of the frame
work.
Mrs. Barrett, who was the worst man.
gled, was carried over a quarter of mile
and dropped in cemetery, her dismem-
bered limbs being found about 100 yards
farther on. There was very little left of
the woman's body that resem bled the form
of human being.
Cyclones Fearful Work.
The search for her remains continued
fully an hour before flesh of half her
weight was found. Daniel Barrett was
| carried about 40 rods from where the cy-
clone 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 after
ward without becoming conscious.
Martha and Myrta Dase, who were in
another part of the house, were left near
where the house seems to have gone to
pieces. Martha, the eldest, aged A. was
apparently injured only about the head,
which was crushed. Covered with blood,
the younger, aged 10, lay almost in the
arms of her sister. Bones in all parts of
her body were broken and ground into the
flesh. Nothing could be done to relieve
the little ones sufferings, and she died
soon after.
George Oxinger, a hired man of Barrett,
who was in the field blowing, saw the
storm coming and made for the barn. He
succeeded in getting his horses inside and
started for the house, which was about 10
rods distant from the barn and exactly in
line with the storm. Witnesses say that
the man was lifted from the ground and
whirled into the air at least 100 feet, to-
gether with tim bers, fences, trees and
other debris scooped up in the rolling ava
lanche. Oxinger's lifeless body was found
about 100 yards 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 flying
beams and trees.
James Whittle, another farmland in the
employ of Barrett, had most miraculous
escape. He was in the field with team
in company with Oxinger and started for
the barn. His team became unmanagea-
| BILE and broke away from him, and to
that fact he probably owes his life