The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-23
WRECKED 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. II. Young, Train
Dispatcher, and Crushed
Him to Death.

Fort Worth, May pa terrific winJ
storm passed over this city about I
o'clock Sunday night. causing the death
of one man and doing considerable
damage to property. J. H. Young. tel
egraph dispatcher at the Texas and
Pacific passenger station for the Rio
Grande 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
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 Lis 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 family. He was forty-seven
years Of age.
At g.: so O'Clock the weather bureau
Office report shows the wind blew six
ty-flve miles per hour and two minutes
later 1t attained velocity Of seventy
miles A heavy downpour of rain set
In, lasting several minutes after the
wind had ceased.
The Pullman company's Office, in the
western portion OF the Texas and Pa
ciic passenger station. was wrecked.
On Houston street a buggy driv.n ~
ladies was taken from the ground and
turned completely over without serious
injury to the occupants. Up and down
Main street awnings were twisted and
torn from the buildings and were sent
whirlins 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 ter
rifle rate Of speed.
People on the streets became panic
stricken. some crying out that the city
would be 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
a result of which a horse driven by a
MIR. Buckley, was killed. Two men and
child were in the vehicle. the child
receiving stunning shock
The st. James eolored Baptist church,
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 considerably 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
In ha
the city, was blown Off its foundation.
The Denver train from the north
reached 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.i
badly damaged.
Two coal cars were blown off the
Rock Island coal chute. blocking the
tracks so that trains were unable to
deposit passengers in the city.
i A number of residences On the Mort tn
Side were blown from their founda-
tons.
The roofs of the Grand hotel, in East
Weatherford. and the johnson House,
In West Bluff street, We're torn away.
The Second ward school building was
partially wrecked.
On the South Side 8. number of Chin
neys were blown down by the wind.
Reports received from the outlying
districts to Fort Worth are to the eff
feet that cyclonic storm prevailed:
that considerable damage was done to
property. but that no lives were lost
nor houses blown down.
HEAVIEST m YEARS.