The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-16
SCORES DEAD
A Wild, Twisting Whirling
Death Dealing Wind.
Sweeps Down on Sherman Texas
Last Evening.
DEATH LIST GREAT.
Over so Killed and a Hundred
Wounded.
Its Deadly Path Not Over Two
Blocks Wide.
DEATH LIST GREAT.

Dallas. Tex. May ia special TO the
News from sherman Tex, says.
Just few minutes before 8 last
evening q cyclone not exceeding two
blocks in width, but carrying wide
spread destruction and death in its
wake swept through the western part
Of the city. travelling directly north
The approach Of the terrific whirl-
wind was announced by a deep rum
bling noise not unlike reverberating
thunder. al derce and driving rain ac-
companied it, 1T is reported that forty
people have been killed south of town
in addition to the oity's death list
wagons are unloading the dead and in
iured every moment
The News reporter standing on the
north side of the court plaza. had his
attention called to the peculiar appear
ance of the clouds. They were parted
at the lower side. converging into a
perfect funnel shape, while a bollins
seething mass of VapOrous clouds We're
rapidly revolving in tue rift me ar
was suddenly nlied with trees ana
twigs and the dOwnpOur Of rain brought
with 1T a deluge Of mud
From the point where 1T seems to
have first descended TO where it sud-
denly arose from the ground just north
of the city it left terrific marks of
it's passage, not a house i'm its path es-
Gaping not q. tree or shrub left stand
Fences are gone. The iron bridge on
Houston street is completely wrecked
and blown away. Notwithstanding its
hundreds of thousands of pounds of
steel
The number of persons wounded VIII
reach not less than Zoe. and it viii be
several days before the exact mum Der
of fatalities cam be given as many per
sons, and especially children. are miss
ing and many of the injured are IN
such a critical shape that a score may
die at once The list of killed, as far
as reported by the authorities. lis as
follows.
Mrs Otto BalIinger and two children
Mrs L. Burnie and two children.
Josephine. aged 8. and Grover, aged 10.
John Ames and wife and two emil
dren.
Rev j. S. shearer.
Mrs Luke MONTGOMERY and two chill
dren5 another one IS also missing.
VIM Hamilton, farmer
Mrs. George Anderson and an infant
daughter-
Mrs Belle Jenkins
D. j.. Pierce and son Tom, aged a.
dren-
AN unknown woman and two little
white children about q and years of
age have not been Identified and are be-
ms held in the morgue for Identified
ton.
The list Of eoIored people killed is as
follows.
JAS Walker.
MIS- Nicholson and two children.
Lucy Ballinger and daughter.
Charley Cox son of Eliza Cox.
Mary Lake and three children, Lett
tia. John and Fatus.
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 jenkins
AIR. and Mrs. I'D Halseu and little
son, with r. r. Woodland, were in the
cellar at the formers residence and
We're covered with debris
41r- and Mrs Halsell were both pain
fully bruised about the thighs. sup
posed to have been blown through a
window
Eliza Cox, coiored. hurt ia the breast
Harriet Lake. cOI0red, cut and
bruised.
Ben Cephus. colored. his wife and son
Clarence all have limbs broken and are
in a nrecariOus condition.
Letitia ana Lunie Burns are badly
hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Brown. badly
bruised.
Mrs Brown. arm broken.
Ike Shearer, son Of Rev. Shearer, who
was killed, is badly bruised
The greatest number of fatalities are
reported from the colored settlement
along Post, Oak and Lincoln streets,
between Curry and Lost streets.