The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-02
SIXTEEN KILLED BY TORNADO
Scores Of People Injured Of Whom
Many win Die.
GREAT DAMAGE To PROPERTY
MI of tho Magnificent Buildings nc the
LAREDO Seminary We're More OF
less Damaged - Many Families
Left HomclesS-Every Part OF the
Town Suffered From the Storm.


Laredo, Texas, April es-By Messcn-
ger 20 Bermuda. Texas.-Later details
from the tornado which struck this
city yesterday evening indicate that
first reports by no means exaggerated
either as to the number of lives lost
or he financial damage resulting.
Scores of people were injured and are
being attended By the various physi-
clans
1t will be impossible 10 state the
numoer of the injured, but II is not
believed that many deaths will result
from injuries.
The number killed is sixteen in this
city. So far as can be learned their
names are:
JUAN GUERRERO, aged 46.
JULIA GUERRERO, aged Is.
PANEILLA GUERRERO, aged %.
-. -. GUERRERO, missing.
UNKNOWN MAN SERVANT, Laredo
Seminary.
PALLIO NUNC!O, aged Sc.
JUANITA JARAMILLA, aged Is.
UNKNOWN MAN, employed in The
Bruno Hotel.
S. MUNOSE,aged so.
Three members of a family named
Trejo.
One woman and two boys, aged s
and years respectively, named Bar
rera.
MISS GAYETAN, aged II.
The four first mentioned in the list
were members of one family and wer,
employed on the ranch Of George Wood
man. They were all crushed to deata
by the falling in of the heavy walls OF
a boarding house which they occupied.
The others mentioned in the list met
their fate in a like manner. The dam
age wrought at the Laredo seminary Is
severe. Not one of the group OF mag
nifcent buildings which go to make up
that institution escaped damage. The
barracks, the primary building, Emery
Hall, and the chapel were damaged
from so to rs per cent. The escapes
from death Of the teachers at presen.
quartered- in the institution, is consid-
cred miraculous, as the walls of some
of the buildings which they occupied
were completely demolished. Mis-.
Easley, one of the teachers, was hero
ically rescued by several young ca
dets, students of the institution. who
lowered her by a rope from a 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 no: suffered
more or less from the storm. Trees,
fences, telegraph and telephone poles,
and corrugated roofs, chimneys 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 late
hour tonight the city is beginning to
assume its customary tranquil appear
ance.
Linemen are at work endeayoring to
stra;ghten 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-estabiish telegraph
communications. ut least partially
within two Jays. Conditions I'm New
Laredo across the Rio Grande, are
similar to those existing on this side.
1t is not officially known how many
dead or injured there are, but In an IL
terview tonight 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 dead on this
side of the river will bring the dead to
twenty-one persons. The storm made
it's appearance from the southwest, I'm
the neighborhood of LaLlpasas. Mexi-
co, seventy-two miles from this city
and it is reported that great havoc was
wrought in that locality. although IL Is
not thought that any loss OF life re-
suited.
DIR. H. ]. Hamilton, of the United
States marine hospital service. has
placed 80 tents with bedding, etc, at