The record-union., 1896-05-17
Fatalities Conservatively Estimated at
Two Hundred.
Another Hundred Men, Women ana
Children Already Reported Seri-
ously Injured, and Two Score OF
the Sufferers Not Expected to Re-
cover-Missouri, Illinois and South
Dakota Also Visited by Destructive
Storms.

Storms.
SHERMAN (Texas), May 16.-The
horror stricken people of Grayson ana
Dexter Counties have been engaged for
the last twenty-four hours in the grue-
some work of recovering and counting
the dead victims of yesterdays cy-
clone and alleviating the sufferings or
the injured The story of the disaster
to life and property cannot be fully told
tonight Two hundred corpseS, by
conservative estimate, from all points
stricken by the fury Of the elements,
may cover the fatalities. Another hum
dred men. women and children have al
ready been reported seriously injured,
and two score of the sufferers are not
expected to live.
The injured in the neighborhOOd of
Sherman are scattered over territory
ten miles in length, being cared for by
friends and strangers. which renders
the task of gathering names slow and
difficult in the midst of the accompany
ing flood and debris. The property loss
is heavy.
The storm of wind, rain, thunder and
lightning began near Justin, in the
southeast corner of Denton County,
and passed easterly and north through
Grayson County to the Red River, OH
the Indian Territory border, when it di-
vided into two bodies. One passed to
the east, striking the town of Joel,
Chickasaw Nation.
The main fork of the tornado con-
tinued due north some distnace above
the earth, but descended at Carpen-
Dl,,f ioht ar of
tearing everything from it's path.
Houses and barns were scattered over
the prairies; men, women and children
blown in every direction, and many so
badly injured that fatalities may result.
Stock was killed and the dead bodies
carried for hundreds of yards in mid
air Large timbers were picked up as
If so much paper, twisted and torn into
, splinters, and the stouter pieces hurled
through dwellings or what may have
been in the way. The cyclone travelled
100 miles. but its width was confined to
150 yards.
The list of dead, as far as recovered
and identified, is as follows:
At Sherman, between Post Oak Creek
and Grays Hill-Mrs. L. H. Montgom-
cry and two children, the third one
Baldinger and two children; John
Ames, wife and one child; Mrs. j. l..
Burns and two children; Elder ]. D.
Shearer and wife; William Hamilton,
farmer; Mary Bell Jenkins; Mrs. George
Anderson and infant daughter; Mrs.
Dave Herring and two children D. T,
Pierce and son Thomas; John Fields;
n H Pierce and three children; E Her
L {v1
FAINT, white man and two white chill
dren recovered this afternoon, not iden-
titled All the above are white. The
colored dead are: Wesley Patrick's in
FAINT child Eliza Cox and son Charles;
Joseph Walker; Lucy Ballinger and
daughter; Mary, John, Letitia and
Fastus Lake; James Walker; Nora
Nickenson and two children; Kate
King; Frank Andrews: granddaughter
of Lucy Ballinger and unidentified
woman.
At Denton-Five killed and twenty
injured.
At Justin-Three killed.
At Howes and vicinity-Twelve killed,
including Mrs. James Davis and three
little girls
Near Van Alstyne, Grayson County
Mrs. Johnson killed.
Five miles southeast of Sherman
One killed. five injured, one fatally.
At Gribble Springs-Four killed and
thirty-five injured.
AT Mound Ridge-Six injured. one
fatally.
At Red River-John Devaut and three
members of family fatally injured.
AT Joel, Chickasaw Nation-Twelve
injured, some fatally; thirteen houses
destroyed
The village of Keller was destroyed
and several injured.
The following are among the seriously
injured at Sherman: Professor and
Mrs. Kohler, ]. B. Irwin's six children,
DR. Michael, Mrs. Craighead, Mrs.
Atkins, "Handwound" Clark, a horse
trainer: James, Heron, leg broken
head wounded; John Ames and two
children, Jane and Harriet Tucker. May
Patty, Jim English, Bulge Patrick,
wife and child, Ben Cephalus, wife and
two children, Mrs. Chisholm, Charles
Puckett, Murdy Patrick, Matte JEFF
ferson, Jane Muffin, Mrs. John Lake
Georgia Nickerson, Tom Jenkins, wife
and five children, Henry Miller, wife
and two children, Granville jenkins
piece of wood pierced thigh; Ed. Halsell
wife and son, and b. +. Woodard, In
cellar OF Halsell residence and buried
under debris: Harriet Lake, colored;
Lettie and James Burns, Jesse Brown
and wife, Ike Shearer. son of Rev
Shearer. who was killed; Philip Nichols
Mrs. John Irvine and four children, and
w. ). Boutwick, who was in the Irvine
residence; James, Hester and Nanny
Nickerson of the family which was
partly killed. David Herring and Mrs
T. III. Pierce, who alone escaped death
at their respective homes, probably
fatally hurt; Henry Patrick, colored
and three children; Matte Johnson
colored, fatally; John Newhouse, wife
and four children, Harriet Hendricks
colored, legs broken; Miss Eva Pierce
daughter of T. H. Pierce, who was
killed, leg and arm broken; Wright
Clark and wife. Mrs. Dan Burly
In the community five miles from this
city a man named Taylor was killed
his wife fatally injured. Buck Allsop's
wife and children badly hurt and Mrs
Martin also.