The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-05-22
WAS WRECKED
BY THE WIND
FORT WORTH WAS IN THE PATH or
A TERRIFIC BLOW.
ONE LIFE WAS LOST
Part of Wall at Passenger Station
Fell on J. II. Young and
Crushed Him to Death
Special to Daily Light.

| Special to Daily Light
Fort Worth. May ga terrific wind
storm passed over THIS city about !
| O'clock Sunday night. causing the death
| OF one man and doing considerable
| damage to property. j. FL Young, tel
egraph dispatcher at the Texas and
Pacific passenger station for the Rie
| Crands division. was the victim.
When the wind was at it's height
Young was at his desk with Ernest
Neis the callboy. Young Neis remark.
| ed that they had better get out or the
wsIl 10 the station on the southwest
| corner would fan on them Young
laughingly remarked that their hats
would catch all the damage. whereupou
| Neis walked away and Young got ur
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 fifteen years and
| has "a family. lie was forty-seven
| years ef age.
| At s so o'clock the weather bureau
| office report shows the wind blew six
! ty five miles psr hour and two minutes
! later it attained q velocity of seventy
miles. heavy dowupuar OF rain set
/ in lasting several minutes after the
| mind had ceased
! The Pullman cumpany's Office fin the
/ western portion OF the Texas and Pa
| ctfic passenger station. was wrecked
/ On Houston street buggy driven x
| ladies' WAS taken from the ground and
| turned completely over without serious
| injury 20 The occupants tn and down
/ Main street awnings were twisted ana
| torn from the buildings ana were sent
| whlrtiHg into the street
| Thick, heavy plate glasses were
/ broken In by reason of the terrific wind
| alone, ana TELEGRAPH and telephone
/ poles in different parts Of the city were
/ blown down
| one - the heavy plate glasses broken
| WAS that 20 the north side Of the en-
/ trance 20 the Cotton Belt city Office In
| the Fort Worth National bank build
/ ing at the corner of Fifth and Main
| streets with an doors to the room
| closed tightly the wind was SO severe
/ as 10 draw the glass out OF its frame
| A portion Of the heavy copper corr Gee
/ or the seventh story of this buuilaE
/ was torn away. failing to the groun8
/ and another part legt twisted and hang
ing from the rooi ~ the structuro.
/ Trash ears along the sidewalks were
I taken up and carried along al "a ter
| rife rate az speed
/ People or the streets became p8ulc-
1 s'rtekeF Some CRYING out that the city
| would b. destroyed
Over loue ~ TAG local telephones were
/ dead after the Storm .slreteen 81 tha
| long distance wires were oat of com
I mission
| Live elaetrIea1 wires were broken. as.
| result ~ which a horse driven by a
| Nh BUtE ey was Euled Two men aud
| child were go the vehicle the chile
| receiving stunning shock
| The 81 James co}ere1 Baptist church
| frame building. In tlie eastern part
OF the city ~ badly damaged. The
| congregation waN dismissed Just in tim.
to avoid injuries
| One ~ thu chinneyE - the Broad.
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