Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-16

fatalities uan be given, a. many FER.
sons, and espt ciAlly children, are mice
ing, aud ma1y o. tho Injured are in
suoh critical shape that score may
Jio before morning.
Itis quite conservative TO estimate
that the Itt Of fatalities will feaou
SIXTY while tue injutei will reach Unn
hundred. A. least hfty houses are
Wrecked. Most Of them are email
cottages, except In FAirvicw anu
Washington avenues, where the hand.
come residences OF l.. y. Ely, Captain
J. ID. Ssllsf, Mis- P.t Ma ungiy Rnd
Jsmes Fails also uuccumued. fhe lots
will reacn least SO 1000, and but little
" aay Of " was covered by cyclone
Insurance.
a GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.
About tho most graphic description
given by any OF the iulutud was thnt
VI W. =. Bostwlck, who sAidi
ri ives at Mt. John lrviut's hOuau
whtn heard the noise OF the ~.
pfoachiug storm. Just ~ looked cut
1 saw Captain Bsrges's h,uso blown
into the ar, aud then Mt. Shoster'u
house. Toe air was iillvd win great
trees and timbefs anu every c0nceiv-
able Kind Of article. | was fascinated,
pstriGcd, tor sav that u WAS coming
directly upon u. nnd that II could not
10 long IN feHCh Jog us, 10 was n black,
sufpebt ne cloud, twisting whiting IN
tho center, but at the bottom Il seemed
be moving ttcsdily. / woke up
from my alumber AM called 70 tho
family, whJ were IN the hguor, hud
asker them not " run UuL l iuartd
that we would oil DO struck ny Il Ing
liuiboiH.
"rhen came au awful crash, sense
Of tufioostlou, aud when 10 was over
the house wac gone anu myself AM
fanny were scattered about tLu yAfi
nnu under the dtDrs. IL was ovuf In
such shof, umo that / cannot give
you an IIoa oi how long II wus."
In just a Tow minutes tue police OIL.
Gers were appealed to tor shelter for toe
dead anu wounded, aud umbulancuu
and oil kindg OF cOnNOyauces were
pressed Into service. a vacant store
loom on the nOf,h slide 81 the Cluti
plsEs, aud another on the tOuth side
Of tho courtroom were ttansf,tfoI
into imprUmplu m0fguUs And n0spltale
Tor tho wuuuJtd down town, while
every fcliience left standing Ia Fair
Wow 10 illluI with wounded. The vic.
TINS hto horribly mangloI. Jonn
Amta nnd VIE ana two children are
dead aud n tvr.yeat.gld boy fatally
wounded.
Tue must miraculous escape, 10 far
a. learned by the reporter, was the
casc Of tue family Of Captain Eli. The
residence, quite to0my brick H,fuc-
tute, was fnEed TO the gtou u anu but
Tor the presence Of some heavy timbefs
standing upright Ia tho utbri' whloh
sheltered tuem rom the avalanche Of
brick aud stone, they would have all
penshUd, but "a IL T., only ono rier-
Der, little gifl, was bfuuud.
TOR MELiER.
A public meeting raised $1,000 for
the immediate relief Of tho sutiytois
ami thu permanent relief committee,
consisting Of e.. II. Smith, q. 81 Ran.
del, G.. u. Dore,8ter anu Colonel
George II. Murphy will take dsna.
lions. IL l. distinctly stated that 40.
nations from pOints outside Of GfnyB1n
county viii 10 received. DenlA0n ms
responded nobly anu nurse, aud ply.
siclAns from that city nfe here ttnipt-
lNE kINM NV nhhhANs ~ AhilthhAH
running into the city placed tpVeia
lraIn, NJ the disposal OF the local au.
thOtitles.
AT JUSTIN, TENAs.
JUSTIN, Texas, May l0.-At this
place W. J. Evans was killed by the
cyclone anu seventeen wounded.
Al Grlbtel 5priugg, nJr,n OF here,
three pcfBona were killed anu several
iulufeJ,
A baby, which was thought 10 have
been killed by tue storm, was found u
have died Just before ghu been blown
away. Nj. Hunt hnd family are
severely iDjuftd. II Is expected that
At least twO OF them viii die. One
Guild was found VITA large wooden
splinter eJuok through It, head, but
was stlll living.
Ed. rfue, n iarmer, by blowing from
HE wagon hAi tuttuo ribs broken.
GfiDbrl springs Ia almost demolished,
uut lew houtoi fomain standing,
AT OTHER PLACEa.
DEsToN, Texas, May l0.-Ths cy.
CLIQUE vnich cut out the heart Of this