Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-28
Storm Sweeps City of Goliad, Tex,
Killing and 1njuring Hundreds
~Waterspout in Min
neSOta.


reports from Goliad state that 90 per-
sons were killed and 1o3 injured by
the tornado which passed over that
city Sunday afternoon. The property
loss in the city and surrounding
country will probably reach 100000.
The storm swept the city from end to
end, and demolished $50 stores and
residences, many of which cannot be
repaired. There is only one telegra ph
wire working into Goliad, and owing
to the crush of official business it is
impossible yet to obtain a list of the
dead and injured.
The tornado, which was preceded
by terrible downpour of hail, lasted
only few minutes. The hailstorm
drove the people into their houses,
where they were caught like rats in
a trap, and the death-deakng wind
came upon them with terrific force,
leveling Everything in its path. The
tornado swept an area $50 yards wide
for distance of mile and a half.
Houses collapsed as if built of card
board, covering the dead and injured
with debris, which necessarily makes
the work of rescue slow. People
fiocked to the town from all of the sur
rounding country. Many of them had
relatives in the city.
Governor Asks for Aid,
The storm wrought severe havoc to
the surrounding country. but no lives
are reported lost. Gov. SayaIs has is
sued an appeal to the mayors of all
cities of 5000 population and over in
the state of Texas, asking them to
send foot to Goliad and raise funds for
the sufferers.
Waterspout in Minnesota.
La Crosse, Wis, May 20.-News
reached here Monday morning from
Preston, Mimi, few miles from
here on the Dubuque division of the
Milwaukee road that a water spout
struck few miles from there Sun
day night deluging the country for
miles around and causing the death
by drowning of four people and the
death of another by being struck by
lighting, besides a great property
killed by the lightning.
According to the reports eight
feet of water swept over the town,
moving eight or ten houses, Is to 20
feet from where they originally
stood. The Milwaukee road tracks
were washed out for four miles out
of town, the depot twisted around by
the water. The lumber yards owned
by the C. L. Colman Lumber COM
pany, are reported to be under from
two to three feet of mud and water
and the damage cannot be estimated
at the present time as much of the
lumber has been carried off by the
raging waters.
A confirmed report has just
reached here that Michael Wilbright,
living west of Forestville, lost four
children, his barn. house and all con-
tents, everything was swept down the
stream. Three of the children have
been found and the fourth one is still
missing.
Waterspout in Kentucky.
Cincinnati, May 21.-Shortly after
II o'clock Tuesday this locality was
stricken by a terrific wind and rain
storm, causing the loss of a half
dozen lives and injuring many. The
fury of the storm continued only a
half hour, but in that time over a
million dollars of damage was done
in the business section Of Cincinnati
and as much more in other parts of
the city and suburbs. Prior to the
unprecedented falling of rain dense
clouds were seen to the south and
the city became as dark as at night.
1t was afterwards learned that
there had been terrific waterspout
on the Lewisburg hills, in the south
ern suburbs of Covington, KY, and
it moved over the Kentucky suburbs
into this city, passing up the Miami
valley, with damages reported as far
as Dayton, o. While storm damages
are reported throughout Kentucky,
the worst point seems to have been
IN the suburbs of Covington, Ky,
where there was a waterspout. The
water rolled down the hills in wave
20 feet deep at places and was about
100 yards wide.
Many Cattle Perish.
St. Paul, Mimi, May ga special
from Helena, Mont, says: The cold,
soaking rain that fell in this section