Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-05
CYCLONE HEROD DYING
JOHNNY lRVlNE'S WORK OF RESCUE
 AFTER THE STORM.

i Gangrene Atzlicting the Wounded Suffer-
 ers-Although Struck by 8 Splinter In
 the Thigh the Boy Pulled Timbers Of His Mother and Sisters.
 Johnny Irvine, one of the heroes of the sherman (Tex. cyclone, is dying. Gangrene, the deadly poison which the surgeons fear more than they do the wounds from this storm mangling, has set in.
 The 1ryines occupied one of the finest places ill Fairview, the northwestern suburb of the city. They had & big house, equipped with the luxurious com forts of life As the stormcloud came up the members of the family gathered i'll one room and clasped hands tightly. The house stood squarely in the path of the cloud. Not one stick of it was left connected with another. Barns, car- rlages, the contents of the granaries- eyerything-went Mother and children were torn from each other Several of the children were carried across the street and dropped i'll the yards of the neigh. l bors.
 Johnny, tae eldest boy, only r, got out of the wreckage before the first res cuers arrived. He pulled the timbers away from his mother, found the chil- l dren and relieved them and was trying to help the hired man out when his strength gave way and he sank down. A splinter had plowed long, jagged H. I poisoning has set in, and the doctors have no hopes.
 The havoc wrought in the Irvine fam fly is shown by the following official re- port of the committee, made at head l quarters:
 Mrs. J. B. Irvine, hurt in head and arms and one foot; Miss Jennie Irvine, badly hurt about back Miss Maggie IT, vine, badly hurt about face and back Bass Irvine, l. years old, cut about 1 head and back; little Nellie Irvine, 8 l years old, badly cut about the limbs little Mary Irvine, badly bruised about face, head and feet; Mrs Irvine's baby, l slightly bruised William Bostiek, the hired man, hurt about the hips; Miss Mollie Strong, visitor at the Irvine 1 house, bruised and shocked Not a member of the Irvine family at home escaped injury. but the death of John will be the first fatality. <"
 Claude E. Jones, the Kansas City base ball player, who became demented over the sights of Friday evening and wan dered away into the country east of ! Sherman iS more rational He tried several times to do himself injury by dashing his head against the bars of the cell of the insane ward, where he was confined. The scalp was cut and blood flowed profusely. Whether or not the hemorrhage relieved the brain, it is eer- tain that he seems on the road to re- covery now.
 The young man has had great ter TOT of cyclones. He says he was jn one which struck Kansas City several years ago. Only the morning of the day of i the Sherman visitation Jones was talk ing to his fellow players of the San An tonic baseball team at the hotel about cyclones, and was predicting that there would be one soon.
 When the stormcloud passed over, 1 he went to the scene, and when he saw the dead was moved to such demonstra- tion of grief that people thought that hs must have lost relatives. Soon after that he became possessed with the hallucina- tion that he was to be held responsible, and wandered away in the night. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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