The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
GrewSome Task of Recovering
the Bodies and Rescuing
the Injured.
CARING FOR THE WOUNDED.
Scores Of Physicians and Trained
Nurses al Work Among the
Disasters Victims.


TINS OF yesterdays cyclone and allevia-
ting the sufferings of 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
Jury of the elements, may cover the fatali-
ties. Another hundred men, women and
children have already been reported seri-
ously injured, and two score of these
sufferers are not expected to live.
The wounded in the neighborhood OF
Sherman are scattered over a 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 accompanying flood and
debris. The property loss is heavy.
The storm of wind, rain, thunder and
lightning began near Justin, in the south
east corner of Denton County, and passed
easterly and northerly through Grayson
County until the Red River on the Indian
Territory border was reached, 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 continued due north some
distance above the earth, but descended at
Carpenters Bluff, eight miles east of here,
tearing everything from its path. Houses
and barns were scattered over the prairies,
men, women and children blown in every
direction. many being so badly injured
that fatalities may result. Stock were
killed and the dead bodies carried for hun
dreds of yards in midair. Large timbers
were picked up as if so much paper, twisted
and torn into splinters, ana the stouter
pieces hurled through dwellings or what
may have been in the way. The cyclone
travelled 100 miles, bat its width was con-
fined to $50 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. II. Montgomery,
two children, third one missing and un-
doubtedly dead; Otto Baldinger, two
children; John Ames, wife, one child;
Mrs. J L. Burns, two children; Elder ]
P. Shearer and wife; William Hamilton,
farmer; Mary Bell Jenkins; Mrs. George
Anderson and infant daughter; Mrs. Dave
Herring and two children; D. I. Pierce
and son Thomas; John Fields; T. II.
Pierce and three children; E. Herring;
fant; white man and two white children
recovered this afternoon, not identified.
All the foregoing are white.
The colored dead are: Welsey Patrick's
infant child; Joseph Walker; Lucy Bal
linger and daughter Sloan; Mary, John,
Letitia and Fastus Lake; James Walker;
Nora Nickenson and two children; Kate
King; Frank Andrews; granddaughter OF
Lucy Ballinger, and an unidentified
woman.
At Denton, five killed and twenty
wounded.
At Justin, three killed.
At Howes and vicinity, twelve killed,
including Mrs. James Davis and three lit
tie girls.
Near Van AIstyne, Grayson County, Mrs.
Johnson killed.
Five miles southwest of Sherman, one
killed and five injured, one fatally.
AT Gribble Springs-Four killed. thirty
FIVE injured.
AT Mound Ridge-Slx injured, one
fatally.
At Red River-John Devaut and three
members of family fatally injured.
At Joel, Chickasaw Nation-Twelve in
iured, some fatally; thirteen houses de-
stroyed.
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, horse-trainer;
James Heron, leg broken, head wound !;
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Harriet Tucker, May Patty. Jim English,
Bulge Patrick, wife and child; Ben
| Cephalius, wife and two children; Mrs.
Chisholm, Charles Pickett, Murdy Pat
rick, Matte Jefferson, Jane Muffing, Mrs.
John Lake, George Nickerson, Tom Jen-
kins, wife and five Children Henry Miller,
wife and two children; Granville Jenkins,
piece Of wood pierced thigh; Ed Halzell,
wife and son and B. F. Woodward, in the
cellar of the HalzeIl residence and buried
under debris; Harriet Lake (colored), Let
tie and James Burns. Jesse Brown
and wife; Ike Shearer. son of Rev.
Mr.. Shearer, who was killed; Philip
Nichols, Mrs. John Irvine, four chill
dren and w. S. Boutwick, who was in
the Irvine residences; James, Hester and
Nanny Nickerson, of the family which was
partly Killed; David Herring and Mrs. T.
II. Pierce, who alone escaped death at
their respective homes, probably fatally
hurt; Henry Patrick (colored) and three
children, Matte Johnson (colored), ia
tally; John Newhouse, wife and four chill
dren, Harriet Hendricks (colored), legs
broken; Miss Eva Pierce, daughter of T.
Il. Pierce, who was killed, leg and arm
broken; Wright Clark and wife; Mrs. Dan
Dusty, cut her foot.
In the community, five miles from this
city man named Taylor was killed. his
wife fatally injured, Buck Allsops, wife
and children badly hurt, and Mrs. Martin
was also injured.
Messrs. Dennis, Gibbons, Riley. Brown,
Howdy, Shell, Bob Martin, Corder, Dave
Taylor, J. w. Fields, Despair and Jim
Davis had their homes swept into the air