The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-20
STORIES OF 4 CYCLONE.

From Living Viotims-Cow and Calf tn
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 Grave.
 A special correspondent of the st. Louis Globe-Democrat is furnishing some remarkably interesting letters about the Texas cyclone at Sherman. Here is a portion of the latest at hand;
 Everything gone," nothing left, everything lost"-such expressions abound in the reports of the viewers sent out to travel the path and to pre- pare careful and detailed estimates of the destruction The relief committee has been impressed with the complete ness Of the cyclones work, Down at Houston street bridge Eliza Cox, col ored, lost the little cabin paid for at two dollars a week and the one hundred and fifty dollars worth of "plunder" in 1t. Up on FairvieW, J, B. IrVine's ten thousand dollar house, barn, outbuild- ings, carriages and granaries went in the same clean sweep The loss is just as total" in one case as the other and this applies to hundreds. Farmers
 
 chicken or a hoe. City negroes are wearing clothes hastily donated to 2oV- CT their nakedness for the storm took, in several instances, what they had on their backs.
 The relief committee had hopes at first that something might be saved to the sufferers. There were sent out through the surrounding country mo- tices requesting "all persons finding in the track of the late storm pictures, watches. jewelry or other articles that may be of value or interest to surviving members or friends of the injured fam lilies to bring the same to headquar- ters." It might be supposed that such requests would prompt the restoration of many small articles. Such has not been the case. Several torn or soiled photographs have brought in. Almost nothing of value has been recovered.
 My place cost me six thousand dOl- lars a year ago. said one Fairview resident, as he surveyed the scene i've got the lot left"
 A refrigerator is a strongly built compact article of furniture One that stood in Fairview house had one hundred pounds of ice in it when the cloud came. The ice was found in the next yard. Several pieces of the re- frigerator were discovered at a greater distance In the house of Captain Birge a vase stood on the top of a large sideboard The vase has been recoV cred; it has slight nick in the top of it. There is not trace of the side board
 People who ran from the central part of the city out Washington avenue to the rescue, within five minutes after the cloud had passed, encountered the strangest spectacle ever seen in Sher- mans streets. They met, coming from the path of the storm, negress who weighed probably three hundred pounds. She hadn't a garment upon her. The mud, which the cyclone had churned to the consistency of Fhin paste, was from the famous black waxy" of North Texas. With this the negro woman, as in the case of all who came out of the cloud, was plastered from crown to soles.
 She looked more like one of those big sea lions when it comes up glstening
 
 anything I can think of," said one of the citizens who was favored with a full view of the living picture. She had no clothes upon her" he continued, and as she walked along she held In front a piece of an old skirt she had picked up somewhere"
 Professor J. F. Kohler had an experi- ence with the cyclones inclination to rob it's victims of the clothing on them. The musician lived in the house of B. R. Long, with his wife and child. He had gone home early that afternoon, and had left a bundle of orchestra scores, with his violin, on the porch outside of the door. The house stood on the side hill with a basement story. Professor Kohler lay down to rest, and was aroused by the roaring noise. The members of the Long family ran down to the basement, as they had been told to do by Nlr Long a few days before in discussing such an emergency They called to the Kohlers to follow them. Professor Kohler caught up the baby and started for the stairway He glanced out and saw the cloud so near that he concluded they would not nave time to join the Longs. He told his wife to drop down on the floor, and got down beside her. covering the baby with his own body.
 "I don't think I was unconscious at any time" said the professor "I saw the house lifted from over us and car ried away, We remained, as it seemed to me. fiat on the floor. Yet my trous- Il, ,Tf I hny idea when or how it was done. When things stopped moving we were still ly- ing on the floor. The baby, which had been under me, was sitting on my breast. Timhers were over us. A plank was under the small of my back We were covered with black mud. The baby was the first to speak She cried out
 "I can't see mamma, my face is so dirty
 "'Never mind, baby l said. Let's be thankful we're alive.
 The first person who came to the res cue of the Kohlers was woman. She ran away, got a quilt, came back and spread it over them.
 q and my wife were both dressed when the cyclone came" said the pro- lessor. Our clothing was stripped from us, except a very small portion. When the debris was lifted off us, clothing had to be. brought to us at once. We needed it. How that plank got under the small of my back while I was lying flat on the floor I can't imag- inc At first didn't feel any serious effects, but in 9 couple of days 1 be-