Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-06
TORNADON NORTHERN TEXAS
Many HouseS Destroyed by Storm in
Vicinity of NaOona.
VICTIMS ESTIMATED At SIXTY
Fourteen Bodies Are Recovered at
NacOnR and Ten at Mon
taEue-DnmaEe by Hail
Heavy,

DALLAS, Tex, July 5.--A special to the
News from Nacona, Tex, says that a
tornado and thunderstorm passed a few
miles west and south of here this after
noon, killing fourteen persons and injur-
ing many others and destroying a number
of houses. The latest reports from the
storm swept district give the following
casualties:
Dead:
MRS. c. c. sHACKLEFORD.
MINNIE SHACKLEFORD, daughter of
X. 6. Shackleford
MRS s L. TUMBLEsoN and three chill
MRS MARY LESTER and four children.
CALEB WHITE.
MRS. IRA WILLIAMS
FRANK EAKIN. son Of Sam Eakin;
killed by lightning.
Injured;
James Simpson.
Miss Alice Simpson.
- Moore: arm broken.
- Hobbs; fatally
c. r. Christian and family
J. NJ. Steward and family.
G. II. Williams; leg broken.
Miss Mamie Austin; seriously.
Frank Woodson seriously.
Mrs. Jesse.
r. c. Shackleford and wife.
c. u. ShaCkleford; injured about head
Four of his children also received serious
injuries.
A child of Mrs. Mary Lester is believed
to be fatally injured.
Many farm houses were swept entirely
away. The Baptist and Methodist churches
at Belcher were considerably damaged
The Methodist church at Montague is
reported a wreck and the court house dam
aged, also other churches there. The Dixie
school house, six miles south of here, was
entirely blown away. Hailstones as large
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window glass. Reports Of the work of
the tornado are still coming in The num-
Der of killed and injured probably will
reach sixty.
Ten Dead in Montague.
MONTAGUE, Tex, July 5.-Ten people
are dead as a result of a tornado that
passed over Montague this afternoon. They
are:
MISS SADIE EARL daughter of A p.
Earl.
BURKE EARL, his son.
BABY OF LAWRENCE PILLOW.
TOMLINSON FAMILY, consisting of
husband wife and four children
Fatally injured;
Claibourne White, As years of age.
Houses totally demolished: ]. F. Clark s
drug store; d. Y. Lunns grocery store and
offices; old bank building, occupied by G.
L. Alcorn, real estate agent; store of Rowe
Hardware company; fifteen dwellings.
The tornado lasted perhaps thirty min
utos. Hundreds of head of stock in this
vicinity were killed outright by the wind
The number of injured is unknown.
Dead Estimated at Forty.
FORT WORTH, Tex, July 5--A tornado
which struck Texas In the upper edge Of
Montague county, coming from the north
east and swinging far to the southeast
tl,a 1Ag Tt L. AalG.
of forty lives, injured a large number of
crops and cattle.
Fortunately the tornado missed the small
towns in the section through which 1t
swept, but 1t zig-zagged in such a way as
TO take in the homes of many farmers and
stock raisers in the section.
At Jacksboro the force of the wind was
| terrific. The Baptist church and twenty
! other buildings were blown Off their founda-
tions and a number Of buildings totally
! destroyed.
| Mrs. Travis Calhoun was seriously In
! iured. Travis Calhoun, Mrs. Thomas Horton
and Henry Wesser and family were also
! injured.
| At Montague no lives were lost in the
| town, but in the country there was great
loss of life reported.
The wires are down in all directions and
] 1t is difficult to get particulars. Ten persons
are known to he dead in the neighborhood
! and unconhrmed reports are to the effect
that the list will go high as forty. Most
/ of those killed lived on Salt creek, along
which the tornado swept with special force.
! At Nacona the tornado passed a few
miles to the south and latest lists give the
dead at fourteen and the injured at forty
I one reliable man at Nacona, who has
been over the scene, says that reports were
! being received of the dead when he left
there and he places the loss of life at sixty.
Owing to the widely separated homes and
the fact that in many instances whole fami-
lies were wiped out, detailN and names are
! hard to set