The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-05-19
Eight Blocks Are Completely
Destroyed and Loss Of Life
is Appalling Scores Of Per-
sons Injured.
Neighboring Towns and Cities
Respond to the Call for Aid
and Surgeons and Nurses
Hurry to Stricken Town.

- ALIAS, Texas, May 1s.-A spec
isi to the News from Goliad,
Texas. says:
Ninety are dead. over hundred are
injured. In addition there is a gaping
wound in the town-the path of one of
the most destructive tornadoes ever
known In Texas.
The tornado struck this place about
3:45 o'clock this afternoon lasting only
about five minutes, leaving death and
destruction everywhere in its wake. 1t
came from the southeast without warn
ing. completely dem olishing a strip about
two blocks wide throughout the whole
western part of the town, about mile
long.
Among the many houses demolished are
the Baptist church and parsonage just
ed church.
1t is impossible to estimate the num-
Der of houses destroyed, but it is thought
the number will reach 100. Damage done
cannot be approximated but 1t is very
great. About all the human dead and
wounded have been taken care of.
The path of devastation is strewn with
all kinds of debris and dead and wounded
animals.
The pitiful cries of the injured are heard
everywhere, and at times are heartrend-
ing.
report from the country around Go
lad is to the effect that no damage was
done.
A special train bearing the O'Connor
Guards, six physicians, nurses and many
volunteers came from Victoria, and also
a special train from Cuero bearing physi-
clans, nurses drugs and volunteers. Al
though everything is being done for the
relief of the injured, cries for physicians
and medical attention are everywhere
heard.
So far 80 dead and 120 injured have been
reported, of which the following is a par
tial list:
White Dead.
Mrs. johnson. aged 60.
Margaret Pope. aged s.
Stuart Dial
Pinkie Lott daughter of William Lott.
Mrs. Purl and two children, Maud and
Alice.
Two Augustine children.
Mrs. STOPPED and children, except one.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoardan and
three children.
Phosa Savage.
Mr.. Newcomb. wife and child.
William Threadwell.
Haywood Jones'
Thirteen unidentified.
The Injured.
Injured White--W. II. Maddox, both
legs broken and injured about head. prob
ably fatal; Mr.. and Mrs. N. L. Vandal-
sen and two children. none fatally; Mrs.
G. Pope, leg broken and other injury.
serious; = Maddox. child; Miss Beulah
Dial; William Lott. ribs broken, not
serious; Walter and Stuart Lott, legs
broken; Mr.. and Mrs. John Augustine,
badly injured; Mrs. Joe Savage injured
internally; Miss salie Good, badly in
jured; Mrs Gibson, badly injured. just
alive; Miss Libbie Carr, badly hurt; Bes-
sic Oscar; Mollie and Alice Park, not IA
tally; ]. A. Turner, wife, mother-in-law
and one child. not fatally; Clyde Harbi-
son; John Huring; Mr.. Beckar; Lynda
Smith; Mabinger and son Albert of
Victoria; James Rutherford and wife; -
Smith of Rockport; Mrs. HARRISON and
young son; Ruby Maddox; Baby Mad
dox; Mrs. Casey; Maud Casey; P. Huring.
Negroes Dead.
Able Jefferson, Alfred Robbins, Mollie
Lott, Gussie Jordan, Terrell Hall, Joe
Simon, Rufus Taylor, Pauline Simon.
Clayton Taylor. Cliff Douglass, Floyd
Lott Gussie Windey and baby, Topsy
Tippen. Fannie Taylor, Pauline Lott,
Geo. Taylor VIII Wesson and two chill
dren, John Barfield, Ethel Barfeld. Geo.
Paste and baby, Joe Schmidt Thirteen
unidentified making 45 dead negroes re-
covered.
There are 50 negroes injuaed, many
fatally and 1t is thought there are at
least fifteen dead not included in the
above list
THE PEOPLE HAD NO
WARNING OF DANGER.
CUSTOM, Texas, May1S.-A spec
ial to the Post from Goliad,
/ i Texas says:
At a quarter TO four this afternoon a
tornado struck the beautiful and his
torical town of Goliad and left death and
desolation in it's pathway beyond the
power of pen to portray.
A correspondent reached the scene at
o'clock on a special train from Victoria,
Texas, bearing doctors, nurses and medi-
cines, friends and relatives of Goliad
people and the O'Connor Guards. The
scene which met the eye on reaching the
scene of destruction, which was in the
western part of the city was appalling.
Between Church and Patrice streets
which runs north and south, a distance
of a mile, only one house was left stand
ing and scarcely vestige of man could
be seen.
Very little damage was done except
within these boundaries and foe a width
of $50 yards.
The tornado was preceded few min
utes by heavy hail storm ar1 a deep
rumbling sound, but no one had any pre-
monition of the disaster and there was
no opportunity for escape as the tornado
dealing death and destruction, was all
over in a few moments.
The section which has most suffered