The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30
 DEATH DEALT
 BY TORNADO Laredo, Tex, Experiences
 a Calamity. MANY LIVES SACRIFICED
  Scores are Injured in the Winds Onslaught. Exact FatsIitie. and Financial Loss to Property Not Yet Known. Four Members of One Fam
 fly Among Victims.

Laredo. Tex, April 29.--(By messen- l ger to Bermuda, Texas. )--Later details | from the tornado which struck this 1 city yesterday indicate that first re- 1 ports were by no means exaggerated. | either as to the number of lives sac- l rificed or the financial damage result ing. Scores of people were injured l and are being attended by the various physicians.
 It will be impossible to state the | number of the injured but 1t Is not 1 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 Guerr- ero, aged IS; Paniela Guerrero, aged 22; --------- Guerrero. missing; unknown man: servant of Lerado Seminary; Bal ilno Nuince. aged 56; Juanita Jaramil- la, aged IS; unknown man employed in the Bruno Hotel; S. Munoz, aged 30; three members of a family named Ire jo; one woman and two boys, aged and years respectively. named Bar rera; Miss Gayetan, aged IF years. Four of One Family.
 The four first mentioned in the list were members of one family and were employed on the ranch of George l Wordman. They were all crushed to death by the falling of the heavy walls of the adobe house which they occu- | met their fate In like manner.
 The damage wrought at tho Laredo Seminary is severe. Not one of the group of magnificent buildings which 20 to make up that institution es- caped damage. The barracks, the primary building, Emery Hall ana tne chapel were damaged from DO to 70 per cent. The escape from death of the 1 teachers at present auartered in the institution is considered miraculous as the walls of some of the ouliulngs which they occupied were compietely l demolished. Mrs. Easley, one of the 1 teachers, was heroicaily rescued by several young cadets students of the l tnatt ttutfou. they lowering her by a llroxs .fsom~ q second story. She was badly bruised. ,.., building had the roof lifted from the edIf,ce and it will require much time to replace the building for patients. l A trtp through the town falls to show a locality that has not suffered more or less from the storm. Trees' | fences, telegraph and telepnone poles corrugated roofs, chimneys and walls and debris of all imaginable kinds strew the streets.
 Clearing Away Debris.
 The city authorities have set dili- | gently at work clearing away the wreckage of the storm and at late hour tonight the city Is beginning to assume its customary tranquil appear ances. Linemen are at work endeaVor- ing to straighten out the tangle of wires and 1t Is believed that within two days the electric light service can be resumed. is hoped to re-establish teleeraphic communication, at least partially, within two days.
 Conditions in New Deredo, across the Rio Grande River, are similar to those existing on. this side. It Is not or dcially known how many dead or in- iured there are, but in an interview tonight A city official of that place stated there were five dead that he knew of, although rumor has 1t that ten lives were lost The five known dead added to the list of dead on this side of the river would bring the mum Der of dead in both cities up to twenty one persons.
 The storm made It's appearance from the southwest in the neighborhood of Lampasas Mexico, seventy-two miles from this city and 1t Is reported that great havoc was wrought in that locality, although 1t is not thought that any loss of life resulted.
 pr. H. J. Hamilton, of the United States Marine Hospital service, has placed 15O tents with bedding, etc. at the disposal of the homeless
 Rain, Hail and Wind.
 Shortly after o'clock last night after an exceedingly sultry day, dark lowering cloud made its apparenace In the southewest. Soon thereafter and with practically no warning, rain be- gan falling In torrents, accompanied intermittingly by heavy hail.
 The wind began, blowing at a hur, ricane velocity aIAl signs. roofs and doors began flying through the air. The wind wrought havoc with houses. telegraph poles, shade trees and in fact everything that came within it's path. The huts occupied by the poorer class es first were leVelled to the ground and as the wind increasN In velocity the more substantially constructed buildings were unroofed and In many cases demolished. The lightning f1ashed yiyidly and continuously add ing to the fears of the people The storm lasted about one hour and sup sided almost as quickly as 1t had made it's appearance. ..,o...,, ,,,,uo between San Antonio and points in Mexico was prostrated The MeNlcah National Railroad has temporarily abandoned it's schedule of trains on ac- count of lack of telegraph wires over which to arrange meeting points. A ,iatt at police headquarters by rep- rasentative of the Associated Press aIicIted the information that fourteen nersons are reported dead in this city. All are Mexicans who occupied houses of frau construction. Five persons arc Uanorted to have been killed in New iaredo. opposite this city on the Mexi- can boundary.
 Streets Impossible.
 The streets are practically impassa- ble heinz covered with debris of all kinds. The local telephone exchange was unroofed. the switchboard demol. ished. and every telephone is out Of service. It will require some time to complete repairs as the lines will have to be entirely rebuilt and new eN- change installed.
 The spans of the international foot bridge across the Rio Grande River were blown down on the Mexican side of tn eriver and communication except bv' means of skiffs is cut off.
 The city of New Laredo suffered se- verely. Among the buildings entirely destroyed Is the new Concordia hall which was used as an opera house
 The roofs of the Hamilton and Ross hNtAls of this eity were removed oV the