Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-16
TORNADO In TEXAS
Jumping, Whirling Windstorm Works Its
Terrible Destruction.
DEATH LIST WILL EXCEED ONE HUNDRED
Hundreds More Are Manned and Many Are
Still Missing.
WEST END OF SHERMAN IS DEMOLISHED
Similar Reports Come from Howe, Gribble
Springs and Justin.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IN COUNTRY PLiC S
Storm First Strikes the Earth IL Few
Miles North or Fort worth and
Travels to the Northern
boundary.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IN COUNTRY PLiC S

DALLAS, Tex, May ia special to the
News from Sherman Tex, says: Just few
minutes before o'clock this afternoon a
tornado, not exceeding two blocks in width,
but carrying destruction and death in its
wake, swept through the western half of the
city, travelling almost directly north The
approach Of the terrific whirlwind was an
nounced by a deep rumbling noise not unlike
reverberating thunder. A fierce and driving
rain accompanied it, Late tonight it Is re-
ported that forty people have been killed
south of town, in addition to the city's death
list. Wagons are unloading the dead and in
jurei every moment.
The News reporter, standing on the north
side of the court plaza, had his attention
called to the peculiar appearance Of the
clouds. They were parted at the lower side,
converging into perfect funnel shape, while
boiling, seething mass of vaporous clouds
We're rapidly revolving in the rift. The air
wau SUDDENLY filled with trees and twigs, and
the downpour of rain brought with 1t a
deluge Of mud. The tornado then felt
In its full force From the point where it
seems to have first descended to where it
suddenly arose from the ground, just
north of the city, 1t left terrific marks of it's
passage, not a house in its pathway escaping;
twisted and torn out of shape. Fences are
gone. The iron bridge Houston street is
completely wrecked and blown away, not
withstandlng its hundreds of thousands of
pounds of steel and material The number
of persons wounded will reach not less than
100, and 1t will be several days before the
exact number Of fatal fatalities can be given,
as many persons and especially children, are
missing, and many of the injured are in such
critical shape that a score may die before
morning.
60 NAMES OF THE DEAD.
The list of killed as far as reported by the
authorities up to / a. m is as follows
MRS. OTTO BALLINGER and TWO
CHILDRE...
MRS. l. l.. BURNS and TWO CHILDREN,
JOSEPHINE aged g. and GROVER, aged TO-
JOHN AMES and WIFE and TWO CHILL
DREN.
REV. ]. S. SHEARER.
MRS LUKE MONTGOMERY and TWO
CHILDREN. Another one is also missing.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, a farmer
MRS GEORGE ANDERSON and AN IN
FAINT DAUGHTER.
MARY BELLE JENKINS.
d. l.. PIERCE and SON TOM aged IA.
MRS DAVE HERRING and TWO chill
DREN,
JOHN TAYLOR.
MRS. l. l.. BURLES.
and years of age, have not been identi-
fed, and are being held in the morgue for
Identification.
The list of colored people killed. 50 far
learned up to 10 a. m., is as follows:
JIM ENGLISH.
JAMES WALKER.
MRS. NORA NICHOLSON and TWO
CHILDREN.
LUCY BALLINGER and DAUGHTER
CHARLEY COX, son of Eliza Cox.
MARY LAKE and THREE CHILDREN,
LETITIA, JOHN and FATUS.
KATY KING, colored
AN INFANT of the Ballinger family has
been found.
Charles Weddle Of Fairview is dead, with
piece of timber driven through his body.
The family of John Hamilton have been
discovered, all badly injured. One of the
Hamilton boys, aged 20 years, will die. Two
girls, one aged 10 and one 8, were fatally
injured, and another girl, aged IL, injured
internally.
1t Is impossible to get correct list n
all the missing. Nearly every family in
the district has some member they cannot
account for, and 1t is believed that most
Of the missing are dead.
SOME OF THE INJURED ONES.
An incomplete list of the wounded is as
follows:
Tom jenkins, wife and FIVE children.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Miller and two chill
dren.
heavy silver of wood was driven through
the thigh of Granville jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Hasell and little son.
with n. +. Woodward, were in the cellar at
the formers residence and were covered with
debris. Mr.. and Mrs Halsell were both pain
fully bruised about the thighs supposed to
have been blown through a window.
Eliza Cox, colored hurt in the breast.
Harriet Lake, colored, cut and bruised.
Ben Cephus, colored, his wife and son
Clarence, all have limbs broken and are in
precarous condition.
Lette and Lumme Burns are badly hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs, Jesse Brown, badly bruised.
Mrs, Brown, arm broken.
Ike Shearer, son of Rev. Shearer, who was
killed ia badly bruised
The greatest number Of accidents is re-
ported from the coored settlement along
Post Oak and Lincoln streets, between Curry
and Lost streets, where several people were
killed outright
Mrs, j, b. King and two children are seri-
ously injured.
Phillip Nichols received painful hurts about
the head.
Mrs. John Rivine and four children all
more or less injured
W. S. Bostwick who was in the same
residence, Is cut seriously.
Otto Ballnger, whose family were all
killed, is badly hurt about the head
Hester and Mamie Nicholson, colored, of
the family of which six were killed, are
seriously hurt.
Dave Herring and Mrs. d. l.. Pierse, who
alone escaped death at their home, are per
haps fatally hurt.
Mary aPtrick, colored and three children,
all badly hurt internally.
Matte Johnson, colored, head hurt and
injured internally, will not live until morn
ing.
John and Alice Newhouse, colored, and
four children badly hurt
HARRIET Hendricks, colored both legs
broken.
Miss Eva Pierce, daughter Of d. L. Pierce,
left leg and right arm broken
Mr.. and Mrs, Wright Clark, painfully
hurt.
MANY ARE MISSING.
The number OF missing Is large and in
cludes great many children, and II is
quite probable that the most OF them are
: dead.It is very conservative to estimate
that the list OF fatalities will reach sixty,
while the injured will reach 100 At least
nifty houses were wrecked. Most OF them