Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-16

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WHOM May Die.
.grpvAN. TEN. May ia terrific
.,,rc struck this city at $50 o'clock
t. ,rernoon. Killing many people. ana
. GREAT damage TO property. The
...i,r or people killed IS not known
,,I. reported to be 10 to %. There Is
.t settlement and great confusion.
., % will be very late, and probably
,,, before the list can be had.
... unidentified dead are being taken
no courthouse. Gray's Hill and
....-.iev both were badly damaged. and
'.. cyclone passed directly west Of the
..,b Texas Female College. barely
......nc n S. $. Sales, a liveryman, ar
.l after the cyclone lie stated that
.,v, al least seven men, women, and
..r4,er lying along the avenue dead.
... many wounded. The devastation in
...,s where the cyclone was the worst
i. complete
.r,,.s were stripped in some places.
.4r. In others they were uprooted.
,.,y houses were demolished.
r,.fain EIy's fine residence was blown
, reees His wife and two children
acre at home. but. fortunately. escaped
s.trout serious injury
Nothing remains to mark the spot
micro only a few hours before stood the
-srn,dcent residence Of Captain Bur
,.s. His family were absent from the
mousse az the time.
STORY or EYE-WITNESSES.
Mayor Tone. Of Denison. who was in
sherman during the storm. gives the fol-
osUe account Of the cyclone;
70 was ON the courthouse square
r.rt 3 o'clock and heard roaring
,g.rd coming from the south. The air
,.. fbiek with mud and small specks
-..amtlng ashes The cyclone did not
strike the courthouse or the jail. but fol-
i,.l up POst-Oak creek. The roaring
fH net continue over two or four mn
rt.s During all this time it ralned
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In about five minutes rumors began 10
.,-,4l that many lives had been lost,
,rI tho reports grew worse and worse
a.. +.ra passed By o o'clock fifty dead
bodies had been brought into the build
.r,- auI searching parties are out Tor
.uad children have been found in
t-... under lcvelled houses. and in
v..tOak creek. An iron bridge over
p..-Oak creek was twisted into scrap
ruu.
Professor and Mrs. Kohler We're both
faur and. 10 is feared. seriously in
t,r. The six children OF j. Is. Irwin
.ra au badly hurt Dir. Michael was
,.nrft Iu The storm and badly hurt.
Dr. -a8Ier left for the southern part OF
Che town just before the storm, and has
not Set been heard from. Ii Is feared
lr WAS BILLED
Sri. James Davis and Mrs. Denofeld
,.ho lived south OF the town. were both
Eue3 u is feared that the destruction
ir tlat part of tine county is serious.
f.ass-fl.etIg was Reid tonight at
t.s courthouse iu Sherman 90 devise
means to relieve the distressed.
Following .s Est OF the dead, so far
as known
E Is Burns. wife. and two children.
So. otto Paulding and two children.
James NlcllsOn, wife. and three chill
Lr,l
J. d. montgomery, wife. and two chill
tr,U
John James. wife. and two children.
N., Sehtrer
sW rm.iIcs at Wakefield
child NJ Mrs. Craighcad's.
Nrs Burns and two children
Nrs James Davis.
Nrs John Fields.
Lucinda lake lc0lored).
Charles Cox (col0red.
Eliza Cox lcolored).
Eosua Lake (colored).
Sloan Ba.l.uger (c0loreh.
kate Bauuger Ocolored.
william Nlckcrson's four children (col- |
rrtU
Wight Clarke. and three members of /
d. family (colored).
Nrs Athens
Eighteen unidentified dead at the city |
Jan
ur SalIor. who has not been seen since |
tas Storm is thought 20 have been killed. /
There arc many injured. some Of whom /
Iay die.
PROBABLY 100 KILLED.
uENIs0N TEN.. May 15-The city Of /
h1eruan vls visited by the worst cyclone /
il the history Of North Texas about /
O'Clock This evening. The path OF the
cyclone was fifty yards wide. IL struck |
N- cty at The west end Of Postoak /
C'h and swept I'm a westerly direction /
j several blocks. and then spread and /
tl0rt its force. The track of the cyclone /
h -les0me sight the devastation be
i1s c'mr,ete-houscS. trees, fences, In /
iat everything in its pathway. Is de-
tryel The loss Of life viii probably 4
reach l' with as many more bruised /
and wounded The City Hall and the
t.reroom formerly occupied by S. G.
Holmes have been turned into temporary 4
hospitals and eighteen bruised, mangled,
lr. uulltel bodies are awaiting idcnti-
aon a. these two places az this writ
Nearly every house I'm Fairview Adj
.tr has been turned into q hospital