The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-26
CYCLONE LET LOOSE.
Death and Destruction Left in Its
Narrow Path.
EIGHT SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED.


the Academy Building Were Injured,
Some OF Whom VIII Die--The Structure
Smashed into Kindiing Wood.
Arlington, Ca, March PA cyclone
cut path Of death through this little
town Monday. 1t left eight children
dead in the ruins Of Arlington acad-
smy. Many others and one of the many
teachers will die. So far as is now
known the names of the eight whose
bodies have been recovered are: Genie
Butler, Kenneth Boynton, Maud john
son, Willie McMurria, Alice Putnam,
Ollie Paramore, Claude Roberts. Mary
Wellong.
The list Of injured, as far as can be
summed up, is as follows: Alton Carter.
leg broken; Ethel Carter, internally in
!ured and will die; Professor w. A. Irv-
hgton, internally injured and will die;
Dudley Killebrew, both legs broken;
Ben McMurray, head crushed, will die;
Bette Paramore, arm broken and hurt
Internally; Nola Roberts, shoulder dis
coated; George Riley, arm broken and
hurt internally; Simon Sanders, leg
broken, hurt internally, will die; Clara
Thighpen, arms broken, hurt internally
and will die; Ernest Weltons, leg
broken.
Taking Out the Victims.
Thirty-fve children and the teachers
went down in the wreck. Men who are
removing the ruins are sick at heart
and almost afraid to continue, dread
ing what may be found at any instant.
The horror came upon the town at $3.50
in the morning and without warning.
There was sudden roar, which passed
away as quickly as it came, and the
harvests of death had been reaped.
No larger than a bed blanket was the
cloud in which the cyclone was hid. 1t
rushed down from the northwest, missed
the business section by bare block,
tore through the residences of w. ID.
Cowdry and DR.. w. E. Saunders, de-
molished them and then took the little
academy and twisted 1t into fragments.
Luckily nobody was in either of the
two residences, and so the death list
is confined to the academy pupils.
People Hear the Roar.
Persons who heard and saw the
death cloud were startled. Nobody
dreamed, however, that 1t had caused
horror until a scream came from the
direction of the academy. The town is
for the news to spread that there was
a disaster. Men left their work and
women their homes. Nearly every
body had child in the school, and
when the white-faced men and weep
ing and screaming women saw what
had happened the scene was heartrend-
ing.
Children, wounded and bleeding and
unable to walk, were creeping and
crawling and staggering out from I'M
der the wrecked building. Others, alive
but helDlessly fastened down by
broken beams and flooring, were pite-
ously pleading for assistance, while
others, silent and mangled, told tale
all too horrible for the parents who
looked upon the work Of the small
cloud
Rescue Work Begun.
Rescue work was soon begun. Men
and women, too, tore at the twisted
timbers, sobblng and screaming. &C.
casionally nature was kind to a mother
and she was tenderly carried away un-
conscious. other towns were asked to
send aid, and doctors came from far
and near. All that was possible was
done for the mangled little ones, while
the dead were borne to homes of sor-
row.
Nearly every household Is stricken,
and in every street are women wiring
ing their hands, sobbing men and chill
dren weeping because some little chum
is either dead or dying. The academy,
which lay directly in the path of the
death cloud. was a new two-story
structure. 1t was knocked into great
heap, and the work Of death was done
even before the danger was realized.
The structure was smashed into kind
ling wood, and the broken timbers and
dead bodies were mixed together in
sickening confusion.
HuRT IN A BIG FOUR WRECK