The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-05-16
CYCLONE IN TEXAS.
Fully Fifty People Killed in
One Town.
ONE HUNDRED OTHERS INJURED.

Are Missing and the Most of Them Are
Probably Dead-FuIl Particulars Are
UnobtainabIe.
SHERMAN, Tex, May 16-Just few
minutes before o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon a cyclone, not exceeding two
blocks in width, but carrying wide
spread destruction and death in its
wake, swept through the western half
of the city, travelling almost directly
north. The extent of the disaster is as
yet unknown, but it is as likely that as
many as so people are dead, and the
number of persons wounded will reach
not less than 100. 1t will be several
days before the exact number of fatali-
ties can be given, as many persons, and
especially children, are missing, and
many of the injured are in such critical
shape that score may die.
The list of killed as far as reported by
the authorities is as follows:
Mrs. Otto Baldinger and three chill
dren.
Mrs. I. L. Burns and two children,
Johnnie, aged 3, and Grover, aged 10.
John Ames and wife and two chill
dren, Susie and Mamie.
Rev. J. S. Shearer.
Mrs. Luke Montgomery and two chill
dren; another is also missing.
William Halton, farmer.
Mrs. George Anderson, an infant
daughter.
Mary Belle Jenkins.
Charles Weddle of Fairview.
D. L. Pierce and son Tom, aged IA.
Mrs. Dave Herring and two small
children.
John Taylor.
Mrs. Burles.
T. w. Jenkins, wife and 5-year-old
daughter.
An unknown lady and two little
white children, about 4 and 6 years of
age, have not yet been identified and
are being held in the morgue for identi-
fication.
The list of colored people killed SO far
as learned is as follows:
James Walker.
Mrs. Nora Nicholson and two chill
dren.
Lucy Ballinger and daughter.
Charley Cox, son OF Eliza Cox
Mary Lake and three children, Letitia,
John and Fatus.
Jim English.
Katie King.
An incomplete list of the wounded is
as follows:
Tom Jenkins, wife and five children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Miller and two
children.
A heavy silver of wood was driven
through the thigh of Granville Jekins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Halsell and little
son, with B. f. Woodward, were in the
cellar at the formers residence, and
were covered with debris. Mr.. and
Mrs. Halsell, both painfully bruised
about the thighs.
Eliza Cox, colored, hurt in the breast.
Harriet Lake, colored, cut and bruised
about the head.
Ben Cephus, colored, his wife and son
Clarence, all have limbs broken and are
in precarious conditions.
Lettie and Lummie Burns are badly
hurt.
Mrs. and Mr.. Jessie Brown, badly
bruised. Mrs. Browns arm broken.
Ike Shearer, son of Rev. Shearer,
who was killed, is badly bruised.
Mrs. j. B. King and two children are
seriously injured.
Phillip Nichols received painful cuts
about the head.
Mrs. John Irving and four children,
all more or less injured.
w. S. Bostwick, who was in the same
residence, is cut very seriously.
Otto Ballinger, whose family were
all killed, is badly hurt about the head.
Hester and Mamie Nicholson, col
ored. of the family Of which six were
killed, are seriously and internally
hurt.
Dave Herring and Mrs. d. l.. Pierce,
who alone escaped death at their home.
are perhaps fatally hurt
Mary Patrick, colored, and three chill
dren, all badly hurt internally.
Matte johnson, colored, head hurt
and injured internally; will not live.
John and Alice Newhouse, colored,
and four children, badly hurt.
Harriet Hendricks, colored, both legs
broken.
Miss Eva Pierce, daughter of d. L..
Pierce, left leg and right arm broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Clark, painful
ly hurt. WV. -.
The family of John Hamilton have
been discovered, all badly injured. One
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