Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1905-05-26
WICKED BY WIND.
Fort Worth Was In the Path Of a
Terrific Blow.
ONE LIFE WAS LOST.
Part of Wall at Passenger station
Fell on J. n. Young, a Train
DIspa usheS, and Crushed
Him to Death.

Fort Worth. May PA terrific wind
storm passed over this city about I
o'clock Sunday night. causing the death
OF one man and doing considerable
damage to property. ]. II. Young. tel
egraph dispatcher at the Texas and
Pacific passenger station for the Rio
Grande division. was the victim.
when the wind was at its height
Young was at his desk with Ernest
Neis. the callboy. Young Neis remark
ed that they had better get out or the
wall to the station on the southwest
corner would fall on them. Young
laughingly remarked that their hats
would catch all the damage. whereupon
Neis walked away and Young got up
from his key and started across the
room when the wall fell. crushing him
/ from the neck down. causing instant
death.
He had been with the Texas and Pa
cific company for over ff.een years and
years OF age.
At $3.50 o'clock the weather bureau
ONCE report shows the wind blew six
ty-five miles per hour and two minutes
later It attained a velocity OF seventy
miles. heavy downpour of rain set
I'm. lasting several minutes after the
wind had ceased.
The Pullman company's office. in the
western portion OF the Texas and Pa
cific passenger station. was wrecked.
On Houston street buggy driven y
ladies was taken from the ground and
turned rompletely over without serious
Injury to the occupants. UP and down
Main street awnings were twisted and
torn from the buildings and were sent
whirling into the street.
Thick. heavy plate glasses were
broken in by reason OF the terrific wind
alone, and telegraph and telephone
poles in different parts OF the city were
blown down.
One of the heavy plate glasses broken
was that to the north side OF the en-
trance to the Cotton Belt city office in
the Fort Worth National bank build
, ing. at the corner OF Fifth and Main
streets. With all doors to the room
, closed tightly the wind was so severe
as to draw the glass out OF its frame.
A portion OF the heavy copper cornice
! on the seventh story OF this building
was torn away, falling to the ground.
and another part left twisted and hang
ing from the roof of the structure.
Trash cans along the sidewalks were
taken up and carried along at a ter
rife rate of speed.
People on the streets became panic
stricken. some crying out that the city
would destroyed.
over 1000 OF the local telephones were
dead after the storm Nineteen of the
long distance wires were out of com
mission
Live electrical wires were broken. as
n result of which a horse driven by a
Mr. Buckley, was killed. Two men and
a child were in the vehicle. the child
receiving stunning shock.
The st. James colored Baptist church
a frame building in the eastern part
of the city. is badly damaged. The
congregation was dismissed just in time
to avoid injuries.
One of the chimneys OF the Broad
way Presbyterian church. In which the
Presbyterian general assembly is be-
ing held, was blown down and the slate
roof considerab bly, damaged
At the First Methodist church parts
OF the tin roof were carried away. and
the congregation took refuge In the par
sonage adjoiningg
The Wells Mission church. a small
frame structure IN the western part Of
the city. was blown off it's foundation.
The Denver train from the north
TO" "hed the city two hours late. and
! was forced to run every slowly be-
tween here and Rhome on account
OF the high wind. The passengers be-
came Charmed at times.
The roof OF the cotton compress was
badly damaged.
Two coal cars were blown off the
Rock Island coal chute. blocking the
tracks so that trains were unable 10
deposit passengers In the city.
number of residences on the North
Side we're blown from their founda-
tions.
The roofs of the Grand hotel. = East
weatherford. and the Johnson House
In West Bluff street. were torn away
partially wrecked.
On the South Side a number OF chim-
neys were blown down by the wind.
Reports received from the outlying
districts to Fort Worth are to the ef-
feet that cyclonic storm prevailed
that considerable damage was done tC
property. but that no lives were losi
nor houses blown down.
HEAVIEST IN YEARS.