The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-18
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Disastrous Cyclone Sweeps a
Portion of Texas.
DEATH AND RUIN IN IT'S TRAIL.

from Reports Received So Far II Il. prob.
""'e mat More Than One Hundred Per-
sons Have Been Killed and Thousand.
Oh Dollars Worth of Property DESTROYED
sherman, Tex, the Scene of the Great.
est Destruction-Other Places Visited.
SHERMAN, Tex, May ls.-Saturday was
VI nave been observed by the ex- Confeder.
etes Oh sherman as Decoration day, bur
instead OF this seventy-flve new graves
We're prepared in the city cemetery for
victims OF terrible and appalling en-.
'aihity' About 4:3O o'clock Friday after.
noon cyclone struck the baseball park
when game between the sherman and
san Antonio teams was i'm progress. and
many OF the spectators were killed The
entire western end of the town was wipcd
out. The loss of life is appalling The
number of persons killed will probably
reach 100, and it will be several DAYS be-
Tore the exact number Of fatalities can be
given, as many persons, and especially
children, are missing, and many of the in
Jured are in such critical shape that a
score may die before morning.
still Searching for Victims.
The work of rescue and search for the
missing Is still going on. The business
part OF the town is deserted and the great
est excitement prevails. The Western
Union office is overflowed with anxious
ones sending messages and inquiring the
tate of other towns. Every available
wagon, buggy, and horse is i'm use by
searchers and workers on the field of
death. The sherman courthouse was i'm.
sufficient To hold the dead and wounded
Friday night. The vacant Moore build
ing on the south square was utilized at
y O'Clock, fifteen colorcd people dead or
dying, being placed there The storm
struck sherman without warming at tho
southwest corner of the city, and cleareda
path OF 100 yards wide along the west end
OF the town Houses, trees, fences and
everything went before the terrible force
of the cyclone. The negro part of the
town suffered the most severely There
are probably thirty negroes killed Ten
bodies have been picked up in Post Oak
creek.
Entire Family Killed.
L. III. Montgomery's entire family, con
sisting of his wife and three children, was
killed. Mrs. Montgomery was found
across the street from her home One body
was brought in with the head completely
severed There are at least twenty bodies
which have not yet been identified. Some
old soldiers have compared the scene of
Friday afternoon with that just after
Raging battle, but such comparison can
not he made, us bleeding, mangled, killed
and wounded women and children were
never seen on "A battlefield From the
point where the storm seems To have first
descended to where it suddenly arose from
the ground just north of the city il left
terrific marks of its passage, not a house
in-its pathway escaping, not "a tree or
shrub left standing. The cyclone passed
just one block west of the North Texas
Female co lcge and sherman institute, i'm
which were 800 young women.
Seventy Houses Destroyed.
Seventy houses in the city of sherman
were destroyed. Every vacant building in
the city was converted into morgue or
hospital One building alone contained
fifty wounded persons.
Among the corpses which have been
identified are those of: John Ames, wife.
and two children; Mrs. George Anderson
anu lIlluni utuRnitT' MIN -u'l ipdiiiuHti
and daughter. Mrs. l. l.. Burns and two
children, Johnnie, zaged 3, and Grover,
agud 10; Charles Cox, son of Eliza Cox;
William A Hamilton, farmer; Mrs. Da-
vitl Herring and two children; Mary Belle
Jenkins; Mrs. Mary Lake and three chill
dren, Letitia, John and Fatus; Mrs Luke
Montgomery and two children; another is
also missing; Mrs. Nora Nicholas and two
children; ID, l.. Pierce and son Tom aged
10; Rev. j. Shearer, james Walker.
Great Loss of Life Elsewhere.
At Gribble Springs, eight miles north Of
Denton, four persons We're killed and five
others mortally injured. Loss of property
was great. At Justin twelve houses We're
blown down, one man, w j. Evans of
Kcllar was killed, and seventeen other
persons were injured one fatally.
stretch of country eight miles long and
100 yards wide was devastated. AT Howe
eight persons were killed and many in
iurcd The path Of the cyclone at this
point was quarter Of Il mile wide. Ten
farmhouscs and as many barns were
wrecked