The herald., 1896-05-16

were covered with debris.
Mr., and Mrs. Halzell were potn pam
fully bruised about the thighs, suppose
+o have been blown through window.
riiza Cox. colored, hurt in the breast
Harriet Lake, colored, cut and badly
pan Genius. colored, his wife and sor
Clarence. all have limbs broken and are
III a precarious condition. :,
Lettie and Lumrnie Barnes are paoiy
hurt.
bruised. Mrs. Browns arm being broken
Ike Shearer, son of Rev. Shearer, who
was killed, is badly bruised.
THE greatest number of fatalities Is
reported from the colored settlement
along Post Oak and Lincoln streets
between Cure and Lost streets
where several were killed outright.
Few persons in the demolished houses
are able to tell Just how the storm burst
upon them, and only in one or two in
stances were parties able to get out
of it's deadly path.
Mrs. ]. p. King and two children are
seriously hurt
Philip Nichols received painful cuts
about the head.
Mrs. John Irvine and Tour chlioreh'
all more or less injured.
w. 8. Boutwick. who was in the same
residence, is cut very seriously =.
otto Ballinger, whose family was all
killed, is badly hurt about the head
Hester and Mamie Nicholson, colored,
of the family of which SIX were kliie"'
are seriously hurt.
Dave Herring and Mrs. d. l.. Pierce,
who alone escaped death at their home,
are perhaps fatally hurt. -,
Mary Patrick, colored, and SIX chill
dren, all badly hurt.
Matte Johnson. colored. head hurt ana
injured internally; will die.
John and Alice Newhouse, coloreo'
and four children. badly hurt
Harriet Hendricks, colored, both legs
broken.
Miss Eva Pierce. daughter of ID. l..
Pierce. left leg and right arm broken;
MIR. and Mrs. Wright Clark, painfully
hurt.
The number of missing is large ana
includes a great many children, ana IL
is quite probable that the most Oh thehi
are dead.
II is very conservative to estimate
that the list of fatalities will reach sixty,
while the injured will reach 100. AL least
forty houses are wrecked. Most of them
are small cottages, except IN falrVieW
and Washington avenues, where tHe
handsome residences of l.. F. Ely, cap
tain j. G. Saller, Mrs. Pat Mattlngly ana
James Fallas also succumbs.
The loss will reach at least $looOoo,
and but little of any of it was covered
by cyclone insurance
About the most graphic description
given by any of the injured was that
Of w. S. Bostwick, who said:
Il was at John Irvine's house wnen
heard the noise of the approacnlnS
storm. Just as looked out | saw Capt
Berge's house bown into the air and then
Mr.. Shearer's house The air was fill
ed with great trees and timbers and
every conceivable kind of article. 1t
was a black. serpent cloud, twisting,
writhing in the center. but at the bot
tom it seemed to be moving steadily
suffocation, and when it was over the
house was gone and myself and fam
lily were scattered about the yard and
under the debris
In just few minutes the police Off
GERS were appealed to for shelter for the
dead and wounded, and ambulances and
all kinds of conveyances were pressed
into service. A vacant store room on the
north side of Court plaza and another
on the south side and the court room
were transformed into impromtu NOR
CUES and hospitals for the wounded
down town, while every residence left
standing on Fairview is filled with the
wounded.
The physicians and druggists respond
ed promptly to the call for succor and
drugs and everything needed came
spontaneously. Hundreds of ladies res
pended to the call of humanity and with
score of physicians were soon at work.
Color and caste disappeared in the su-
preme moment of woe and deSolation.
On West Houston street several are
dead. A man named Bill Hamilton is
fearfully injured. Mr.. Cephus and child,
colored, are reported dead. Several ne
sroes have been picked out of the creek,
dead. A young white woman, uniden-
titled, was found dead three hundred
yards south of Elys residence.
Every moment brings new victims.
1t is likely as many as fifty people are
dead. The victims are horribly man
gled. John Ames and wife and two
children are dead and a 5-year- old boy
fatally injured.
A public meeting raised $4,000 for the
immediate relief of the injured and the
permanent relief committee will take
donations. 1t is Distinctly stated that do
nations from points outside of Grayson
county will not be received Denison has
responded and nurses and physicians
from that city are here. All railroads
running into the city placed special
trains at the disposal of the local au-
thorities and brought help from al,
neighboring cities.
Reports are that the storm killed
many persons in the county west of
Howe
A large number of police and search
Ing parties are looking for missing peo-
pie. Nv
Three additional deaths have been re-
ported up to l a. m.
The unknown woman at the rooro,,e
mas been identified as Mrs. l. L. Burtes
:, Another infant of the Ballinger fam
lily has been found dead.
Cnarles Weddle of Fairview is dead
with piece of timber driven throupt
his body. va 'us /
The family of John Hamilton have
heen discovered, all badly injured. One
O. the Hamilton boys. aged 20, will die
Wo girls, one aged Is and one 9. Were
"a injured, and another girl, agej
ii. injured internally.
1t is impossible to get a correct lis,
OF an the missing. Nearly every fanil,
IN the district has some member thai
they cannot account for, and if is he.
heVed that most of the missing are dead
"A Watefspout accompanied the CIV.
cione, and the creeks are all out of thei,
banks. Several objects, thought to he
human bodies We're seen in the water
put lhey could not be reached. The Off.
GERS are making every effort TO dredpf
ail creeks in the vicinity tomorrow.
"A great many of the wounded are ir
private houses scattered all over tbf
CITY 1t is safe to assume that at lea q
one-quarter of the number injured vii
Ole within the next twenty-four hours
another storm of a similar nature
passed about six miles west of the cit,
at about the same hour. Several house
We're blown down and many persons in
Jured. Their names cannot be obtained
At Carpenters bluff it is reported ST,
people were hurt, five seriously.
buildings and other structures in tn