The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26
TEXAS TORNADOES
 CUT WIDE SWATH Dozen People Are kiIIed-Three
 By Lightning NORTH TEXAS IS FLOODED Storm Houses Save Many Lives-Dead Cattle In Storms Track-Heavy
 Rains Damage the
 Crops.
NORTH TEXAS IS FLOODED

Wills Point, Tex, May 25.-A tornado struck the eastern portion of Wills
 Point today. It cut a clean swath of l 200 yards in width through the entire 1 town, Three people are reported dead
 at thls hour, 10 o'clock. The dead: Mrs T. C. Douglas. Jesse Douglas, her s-year-old son. A child named Mcclellan.
 The injured:
 John Lancaster. Mrs c. H. Crick and two children. A second child of Mrs. Mcclellan. This list of injured Is all that can be secured tonight, as everything Is in confusion and everybody Is engaged in some work of mercy.
 The tornado came from the south west and travelled slowly to the north
 east carrying with it portions of build ings and other debris, as if 1t were whirling leaves Dead calves, horses,
 mules, cattle and fowls are scattered I throughout the path of the storm. The reason that few in the path of l the storm were killed Is that most of 1 the people have storm houses and made l timely use of them. Many cases have come under the ob-
 servation of the Associated Press cor respondent where the houees were torn l to kindling wood and no one was hurt. l relief fund has been started and the 1 first subscriptions being made by busi- l ness men from Longview who came here | this afternon to meet the remains of
 MT Yeates, the banker at Longview,
 who died there yesterday. The in- l jured and homeless are being cared for I fafa fuh hxyr ftrla1
 the country around has been received | up to late hour tonight.
 Hits Emery.
 Emery, Tex, May 25.-Late this after | noon a tornado bore down on Emery and for a few moments 1t seemed as If | the whole town was doomed. It approach ed from the southwest and appeared to
 be headed directly for the heart of the | town but suddenly veered to the west passing around the town, then after hay 1 in passed almost beyond the town limits | veered to the east and swept on until l well past the town boundaries. again
 changing It's course, going off in a north
 easterly direction. The dead:
 Walter Martin. aged 45 years.
 Mrs. Burkhalter. blind woman, aged l 40 years.
 - Harvey. aged about 40. Three negroes.
 1 Seriously injured: 1 Mss Simmons, aged 20 | i,.iss Cora York. | Miss Belle York.
 Six other white persons and between l thirty and forty negroes were more or l less seriously injured. ] Emery Is well provided with storm
 cellars and to this fact is due the small
 number of dead.
 Every building on the Cooper farm was
 demolished, as well as several costly res l idencss.
 The greatest destruction, however, oc- cured in the colored settlement, and
 many of those injured, it is feared. will l die.
 l Ft Worth, Tex, May 25,-One of the | most severe rain and electrical storms | for many years swept over North Texas | late last night causing much damage | to property and some loss of life. The l known dead are: w. P. Lyan, an Ellis county farmer struck by lightning Harry Seed. aged IS, of Rosebud, struck by lightning A. R. Sanderson, Park Springs, struck by lightning. Near Denton eight members of Ward low femily were injured, one fatally. when the home was overturned by the wind. Scores of barns and other small buildings were destroyed. general havoc played with crops and many farm ami mals killed.