The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-31
Disastrous Tornado at
 Zephyr. NEARLY EVERY STRUCTURE
 DEMOLISHED BY STORM
Fire Adds to Horror Of the
 Disaster.
Casualty List May Go over One Hua- dred and Death Li.t May Be Increased By Late
 Reports.

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 Brownwood, Tex, May 30.--A tornado pf great fury struck the, little village of Zephyr in the eastern portion ot Brown County at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and left path of death and destruction seldom paralleied.
 The death list has reached a total oi thirty-two. and the number of seriously and fatally wounded will reach fifty. A score or more are less injured.
 T. T. cabler. County Attorney. of Brownwood.
 e Mrs. T. T. cabler, and two chill sdren. IS years old and infant daughter. of Brownwood
 Mrs. Artie Hart, s7 years old. and son Robert. 6 years old, of Zephyr.
 Miss Gertie Huston. 25 years old Zephyr.
 Gibbs cloyce. 2 years old. son of Professor Cloyce. Zephyr.
 oscar Ware, 45 years old. and two sons, Harry and Frank, Zephyr.
 Miss Jessie Ware. IS years old, Zephyr.
 children, Miss Bertie. 25 years old, and West, 12 years old. Zephyr.
 B. F. Brown and wife, Zephyr.
 W. A. Mamsay, 50 years old, and son Ollie. 1s years old. Zephyr.
 C. M. Carter, 10 years. old and wife. sS5 years old. son Glover. IF and g. lyear-old inafnt, Zephyr. Captain Collins, 90 years old. Zephyr. Ruby Campbell. 3 years old, Zephyr. Rodney Campell. infant, Zephyr.
 The latter two children were those of Mrs. Bob Campbell. The iniured: Professor Skinner. cuts, bruises and sanjured internally.
 Mrs. skinner and four children, pain fully cut about head and body; Lucille Ianas splintered thigh. Fred B., inter nal.
 Mrs. Captain Collins. painful cuts. Nserlous. and abrasiors.. Mrs; pFol, ,s.a,sr' os's' = eiusAso apsu' Herbert Heating and wife, painful cuts and bruises.
 Mrs D. cabier, serious cuts about neck. limb broken. shock.
 Mrs Oscar Ware, bruised about'head and body, internal injuries.
 Infant child of Mrs oscar Ware, badly crushed by flying timbers;. will die.
 W. H. Hicks, cut about body. shock. Mrs w H Hicks. ribs broken, bad ly hurt internally 2 Miss Virgie Hicks, slightly cut and bruised by flying timbers.
 Gunder Hicks. jagged cut in neck From flying timbers.
 Dr. W. s. Wrenn. limbs broken and ribs crushed; very serious.
 Mrs. Wrenn. cut and bruised
 Mrs. Bob Campbell. badly cut about head.
 Bettie and Bertha Campbell. 2-year- old children of Mrs. Bob Campbell; seriously bruised and injured intern ally.
 Ramsay. crushed under house. Will Ramsay, slightly cut and bruis- T. J. Hanks and wife. cuts and Hanks 2-year-old daughter. one leg cut of at thigh. probably fatal. Mrs. Cloyce, wife of teacher m Zephyr school. limb broken, internal injuries.
 The above comprises the list of those most seriously injured.
 Many others, to total of sivty-sev- en. have minor hurts.
 The names of the injured passengers are:
 Mrs Leatha Walker. Chattanooga. Miss Annie Carson. Chattanooga Leo Walker. Chattanooga.
 Ella Quiace, colored, Chattanooga. Unknown colored woman, Rock Springs, Ga.
 All injured except last mentioned were taken to Chattanooga hospitals. The storm formed half a mile south
 
 th evinage, cutting a wide swath di- reetiy through the residence and busf- ness district.
 Nearly fifty houses were entirely de- unolished. Lightning struck a lumber yard and started a conhagration which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire las the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all attention.
 Work O4 Reecue.
 A section hand rode a handcar to ,Brownwood and spread the alarm. In 1.-two hours the Santa Fe Railroad was espeeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine surgeons and q iscore of Brownwood physicians aboard Hundreds of persons directly in the tetorm's path saved themselves by talk ling refuge in storm cellars. More than dozen bodies were horribly mu- Iftlated. County Clerk Thad Cabler land wife and two children. who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night, were killed.
 The big stone school building and two churches were spewt from the face of the earth. By daylight sixteen surgeons were Vorking on the wounded.
 Brownwood hurried her second re- lief train at noon today loaded with provisions, clothing and necessary arr hkicles and forty nurses.
 Tonight three persons are still un- accounted for. Two children were found dead late this afternoon two miles from town. having been blown that distance.
 A special train left Zephyr tonight for Temple. carrying the more serI- lousIy injured to the hospital
 The storm was 300 yards wide. and swept the earth for only a short dist ance. probably less than mile. It's fury is considered the most terrific of any tornado ever experienced In this section
 Scene of DesOlatiOn.
 I. I. Clingman. c. E. Kirkpatrick and nine surgeons who formed the first party out of Brownwod. found a desolate scene waiting them. The hilIsides at Zephyr were covered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burnixg buildinRs and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements which threatened q second storm. A hog roaming through the debsls- strewn streets was killed while et-