The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-16
Fatal CYCLONE IN texas
Yany Persons Killed in a NindstOrm
ut Sherman.
LIST OF KILLED AND INJURED
Havoc Wrought BY the Hurricanc-iiand.
some Dwellings Public
Buildings Turned Into Hospitals.
Escape of a College.

Dennison, Texas, May 16-The city of
Sherman was visited by the worst cy-
clone In the history Of North Texas
about five o'clock this evening. The
path of the wind was 150 yards wide.
1t struck the city at the west end OF
Post Oak creek and swept In westerly
direction for several blocks and then
spread and spent its force. The track
of the cyclone is a gruesOme sight. the
devastation being complete--houses,
trees. fences and In fact everything In
its pathway destroyed. The loss OF life
Will probably reach one hundred with
as many more bruised and wounded
The city hail and the store room, for
merly occupied by y. G. Holmes. have
been turned into temporary hospitals
ana eighteen bruised, mangled and mu-
tilated bodies are awaiting identifica-
ton. At this writing nearly every
house in Fairview Addition has been
turned into Il hospital.
The unidentified dead are being taken
to the court house. Grays hill and Fair
view were badly damaged and the cy-
clone passed directly west OF the North
Texas Female college. barely missing 1t.
Is. r. Sales. a delivery man, drove down
Houston avenue directly after the cy-
clone. He stated that he saw at least
seven men, women and children lying
along the avenue dead and many
wounded.
Houses. once the pride Of the city,
are In some instances entirely gone. and
in others only pile Of rubbish marks
the place where they stood.
Mayor Lone. Of Denison, who was In
Sherman during the storm, gives the
following account of the cyclone:
II was on the court house square
about o'clock and heard roaring
| wind coming from the south. The next
thing l knew the air was thick with
mud and small specks resembling ashes.
The cyclone did not strike the court
house or JAIL but followed UP Post
Oak creek. The roaring did not con-
tinue over Two or three minutes. Dur
ing all this time II rained hard. In
about five minutes rumOrs began to
spread that many lives had been lost
, and the reports grew worse and worse
as time pressed. BY 9 o'clock fifty dead
bodies had been brought into the public
| buildings and sarching parties are out
| for more.
Dead children have been found in
| trees, under leVeled houses and in Post
| Oak creek. An iron bridge over Post
Oak creek was twisted into scrap iron. "
A mass meeting was held tonight at
| the ccurt house In Sherman to devise
means to relieve the distressed. Hun
dreds or homes are blown away.
LIST OF KILLED AND INJURED.
Following is list Of cad, SO far as
known.
K. l.. Burns, wife and two children:
Mrs. otto Pauiding and two children;
James Nicholson. VIII" and tow chill
! dren;T Il. II. Munt soIn-ry, wife and Two
children: John Ain-s. wife and two chill
Iren: Rev. MIR. Shearer; eight members
| OF tearce and Richardson families at
the Wakefield farm: child OF Mrs.
Craighead: Mrs. Burns and two chill
dren: Mrs James Davis: Mrs. John
Fields; Lucinda Lake. colored: Charles
! Cox, culOred; Eliza Cox. colored: Rosi-
ia i.aket color-d: Sloan Ballinger, col
! ored; Katie Bullinger, colored; william
| Nickersons four children, colured
| Wright Clark and three members of
his family, colored: Mrs. Athens: eigh-
teen unidentified dead at the city hall; ;
DIR. Sadler. who had not been seen since
the storm, believed to have been killed.
Seriously inured
Professor and Mrs Kohler: six chill
dren of j. b. Irwin; Edward True.