The news & observer., 1905-04-30
(By the Associated Press. )


Laredo, Texas April 29.-(By mes
senger to Bermuda, Texas )-Later
details from the tornado which struck
this city yesterday evening indicate
that first reports by no means exag-
gerated either as to the number of
lives lost or the financial damage in
property.
Scores of people were injured and
are being attended by the various ply
sicianS.
1t will be impossible to state the
number of the injured, but it is not
believed that many deaths will result
from injuries.
The number of killed is sixteen in
this city. So far as can be learned
their names are:
Juan Guerrero, aged 46.
Julia Guerrero, aged IS.
PancilIa Guerrero, aged %.
Unknown Man Servant, Laredo Sem
mary
Pablo Munico, aged Sc.
Juanita JaramilIa, aged 13.
Unknown man, employed in the
Bruno Hotel.
S. MunoSe. aged so.
Three members of a family named
Trejo.
and 8 years respectively, named Bar
rera.
Miss Gayetan, aged II.
The four first mentioned in the list
were members of one family and
were employed on the ranch of George
Woodman. They were al lcrushed to
death by the falling in Of the heavy
walls of the adobe house which they
occupied The others mentioned in the
CT fa tn in,
The damage wrought at the Laredo
Seminary is severe. Not one of the
group of magnificent buildings which
go to make up that institution es-
capped damage. The barracks. the
primary building, Emery Hail. and
the chapel were damaged from fifty
to rs per cent. The escape from
death from teachers at present quar-
tered in the institution is considered
miraculous as the. walls of some of
the. buildings (which they occupied
were completely demolished Mrs. Eas-
ley, one of the teachers was heroically
rescued by several young cadets and
students of the institution, who low
cred her by a rope from second
story. She was badly bruised.
The Mexican National hospital
building had the roof lifted from the
edifice and it will require much time
to replace the building for patients.
A trip through the town fails to
show a locality that has not suffered
more or less from tho storm. Trees,
fences, telegraph and telephone poles
with corrugated roofs. chlmneys and
walls and debris of all Imaginable
kinds strew the streets.
The city authorities have set dill
gently at work cleaning away the
wreckage of the storm and at a late
a < ~
assume its customary tranquil appear
ance. Linemen are at work endeay-
oring to straighten out the tangle of
wires and it is believed that within
two days the electric light service can
be resumed. 1t is hoped to re-estab-
lish telegraph communications. at
least partially within two days.
Conditions in New Laredo, across
the Rio Grande river, are similar to
those existing on this. 1t is not Off
ciaIly known how many dead or in
jured there are but in an interview to-
night a city official of that place
stated there were five dead that he
knew of, although rumor has it that
ten lives were lost The five known
dead added to the list of Head on this
side of the river would bring the
number of dead in both cities up to
tWenty-one persons.
The storm made it's appearance
from the southwest in the neighbor-
hood of Lampasas, Mexico 70 miles
from this city and it is rumored that
great havoc was wrought in that 10.
cality, although it is not thought that
any loss OF life resulted.
DIR. ii. j. Hamilton, of the United
States Marine Hospital Service, has
placed one hundred and fifty tents
with beddin, etc, at the disposal of the
sufferers.