The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-16

| 1850.
The storm passed two miles from Deni-
son and is thought to have broken up
beyond there. Telegraph and telephone
wires between here and Denison are down
and many other towns have no commune
cation. 1t is feared that the restoration
of telegraphic communication will bring
information of the loss of life and prop
erty in surrounding towns greater than
already estimated The following is a
list of the seriously injured in this city,
SO far as ascertained-
Professor and Mrs. Kohler. seriously
Six children of ]. B. Irwin, all badly
hurt.
DIR. Michael.
Mrs Crafghead
Mrs. Atklns
CLARK, horse trainer. head wounds,
may die.
Mrs. Chrisholm, badly bruised, may die.
Anderson Brody. bruised.
broken
Two sons of Rev. ]. D. stero, body
wounds.
Two children of John Amos.
Otto Ballinger, head wounds.
Jane Tuckett.
Harriet Tuckett.
Mr. Patrick, wife and child.
Ben Cephalius, wife and two children. 4
Charles Puckett.
Merdy Patrick.
Vina Hogan Cox.
Matte Jefferson.
Lucy Ballinger.
Jane Muffin.
Mrs. John Lake.
George Nicxerson.
James English.
Tom Jenkins, wife and five children
children.
"A heavy silver of wood was driven
through the thigh Of Granville jenkins
Mrs. and Mr.. Ed Halsell and little son.
with B. F. Woodward were in the cellar
of the formers residence and were COW
cred with debris, all Injured more or
Mr.. and. Mrs. Halsell, both painfully
bruised about the thighs, supposed to
have been blown through window
breast
Harriet Lake. colored, cut and bruised
Mrs. and Miss Josie Brown, badly
bruised.
Mrs. Brown, arm broken.
Ike Shearer, son of Rev. Shearer, badly
Mrs. =. B. King and two children. seri-
Philip Nichols, hurt about the head
Mrs. John Irvines and four children
all more or less injured
W, S. Boutwick, who was in the. same
residence, is cut very seriously.
pred, OF the family of which six were
killed, are seriously and internally hurt
Dave Herring and Mrs. D. L. Pierce,
are perhaps fatally hurt.
Mary Patrick, colored, and three chill
aren, ,a al fatally hurt internally,
hurt internally; will die.
John and Alice Newhouse, colored, and
four children. badly hurt.
broken.
Miss Eva Pierce, daughter of D. L.
Pierce, left leg and right arm broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Clark, painfully
hurt.
A permanent reMef committee. consist
ing of G. H. Smith, C. B. Randeil. D. B.
dorchester and Colonel George Murphy,
has been organized in Sherman. and will
take donations for the relief of sufferers,
1t Is distinctly stated that donations from
points outside of Graysen county will not
be received. Denison, has responded no.
bly,, and nurses and physicians from that
CITY are mere rendering great assistance.
All railroads running into the civ
placed special trains at the disposal Of
the local authorities and brought help
from all neighboring cities.
Reports are that the storm killed MANY
persons in the county west of Howe.
1t is impossible to get a correct List of
all the missing. Nearly every family
in the district has some member not ac-
counted for, and is believed that some
A waterspout accompanied the tornado.
and the creeks are all out of the banks.
Several objects thought to be human
bodies were seen in the water but could
not be reached. The authorities are max.
ing every preparation possible to dredge
all the creeks In the vicinity at an early
hour
It is q remarkable incident that in every
case where, there were deaths the bodies
from the houses. destroyed were found
$50 to 200 yards from the buildings. in a
direction opposite to that from which the
storm. storm was was, ,nsd moving The storm was
the bodies were found to the southward.
Telegraph and telephone poles were torn
safe to assume that at least ore-fourth of Of
the number of injured Will die in the next
twenty-four hours.
Another storm of a similar nature
passed about six miles west Of the city
at about the same hour Several houses
were blown down and many persSns in
At Carpenters Bluff, on Red River, it is
reported that six persons were hurt, five
seriously. Buildings and other structures
A daughter Of Thomas Jenkins was found
lying IN pool of water. She was evil
den5lydrowned, for no marks or bruises
The Houston street steel suspension
bridge in Sherman was torn to pieces, and
huge iron girders were twisted like straw.
were blown thousands Of feet. Whole
families were externinated
as;1a Tne b2dies bodies cf Mrs M @ Otto Baliinger and
street general merchandise store. were
blown 500 feet up Grape Hill
Mrs.. Z: p. Ely and two children were
their home. a bureau fell near the family
and stairway on top Of the bureau, pro-
All fhe 'buqldines on on sixth street were
CARRIED upw ard by the mighty whirl wind
Many prsya tei homes have been turned