The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-05-23
A CYCLONES WORK.
Over Hundred Persons Loso Their
Lives In Texas.
The City OF sherman Feels the nrunt Of
the storm Northeastarn Kansas
and Southeastern Nebraska
sufre- from Tornado.

tunc< from "A TORNADO.
sherman. Tex, May 1o.-Bodies OF
dead children are hanging on the
branches OF the ash. oak and orange
trees of Denton and Grayson counties
to-day. A cyclone, the most terrible
northeastern Texas has ever expert
eiced. dashed out lives and wrecked
homes i'm the village of Justin and the
cities of Denton and Sherman Friday.
Almost hundred persons are dead. AS
many more are missing. To-day was
TO have been observed by the ex-confed-
crates of Sherman as Decoration day.
but instead OF this rs new graves will
be prepared in the city cemetery for
victims OF a terrible and appalling ca
iamity.
The Victims.
Following is q list Of the known dead
in this city:
r. L, Rurns. wife and two Children.
Mrs. Otto Paulding and two children;
James Nicholson, wife and two childreni
r. H. Montgomery. wife and two children;
John Ames, wife and two chilureni REV.
Mr.. shearer; eight members OF Pearce and
Richardson families at Wakefield farm;
child OF Mrs. Craighead, Mrs. Burns ana
two children, Mrs. James Davis, Mrs. John
Fields. Lucinda Lake. coloreu; charles
Cox. colored: Eliza Cox. colored; Rosina
Lake. colored: Sloan Ballinger, coiored;
Katie Ballinger, colored: William Neicker-
sons four children, coiored; Wright clark
and three members OF his family, colored;
Mrs Athens; eighteen unidentified dead at
the city hall: DIR. Sadler. who has not been
seen since storm, believed 10 have been
killed.
AT Justin w. ]. Evans was killed. At
Gribble Springs list of II deaths is re-
ported.
Many Buildings Demolished.
Atleast so houses are totally wrecked.
Most of them are small cottages, except
An Fairview and Washington avenues,
where the handsome residences of l.. h.
Ely, Capt. j. c. Stalter, Mrs. Pat Mat
tingly and James Falls also succumbed.
The loss will reach at least Sl5O,000 and
but little. II any, of IL was covered by
.cyclone insurance.
The devastation i'm spots where the
cyclone was the worst is complete.
Trees were stripped OF their foliage
in some places, while in others they were
uprooted. Houses. once the pride of
the city, are i'm some instances entirely
gone, and In others only pile of rub
Dish marks the place where they stood
Disasters at Othor Points.
Another storm OF similar nature
passed about six miles west OF the city
mt about the same hour. Several houses
were blown down and many persons in
iured. Their names cannot be obtained
AT Carpenters Bluff, on Red river, II
is reported that six persons were hurt
five seriously. Buildings and other
structures in the way were demolished
Six persons were injured, one OF then
finally. by a cyclone which passed neal
Mound Ridge. A stretch of country
about eight miles in length and lO'
wards in width was devastated. Samue
Bass, farmer, was fatally injured ant
his house demolished. Five others
whose names are unknown, were mor'
or less seriously injured.
Deaths Number 1O5.
Sherman, Tex, May Fisherman wa
visited Sunday by more than 10000 per
sons, some coming through curiosity
Others TO help take care of the WOUNDED
and bury the dead. Thousands in
erected the track OF the storm. Physi
clans have now organized n regula
corps of nurses and the wounded ar
receiving the best possible treatment
The death list now reaches los. Con
tributions are coming in from all part
of the country. They are very niue
needed. All contributions should b
sent TO C. IL. Smith, chairman OF tn
relief committee. l.. III. Montgomery
a furniture dealer. whose family, cor
sistlng OF his wife and three children
perished, is now confined in the Jail
raving maniac
News has just been received in TIL
city by Drs. Hastings and Morrer, {
Howe, Tex, who went with the ca
penter's Bluffs searching and reli,
party, who state that at Carpenter
Bluffs, five are dead and eight MOI
seriously injured.
The Kansas storms.
Kansas City, Mo, May 20.--Twent.
eight killed outright. so or more II
jured. some of them fatally, and n pro-
.erty loss aggrcgating about Si,o0O,Ot
is now given as the estimated damaf
done by Sundays cyclone In Marshal
Nemaha and Brown counties, Kan. Flu
Their reports may increase these figure
as telegraph communication with Il
stricken points is still imperfect NJ
CONSERVATION prevails. The deaths an
property losses are distributed as fc
lows:
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