, 1935-05-19
FLOODS TAKE
HEAVY TOLLS
over TEXAS
Water Combines With
Wind To Kill Many;
Property Damage
Runs High


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ed, but only one Of the many per-
sons trapped was killed. Fifteen
were injured. four probably fatally
CrenShaw. living ut the home OF
his nephew, Harvey Bobbitt, was
killed instantly. Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
bitt we're injured and their two
year-old baby boy was critically
hurt.
Houses we're tumbled about as the
wind drove In from the southwest.
Blown From Homes
Gregg Spencer. negro, was killed
ard his 12-year-old daughter wa.
believed fatally injured when his
house was destroyed by the high
wind when IL hit near Weldon and
continued on to Belott and Cad
NOR, southwest Of Crockett.
Mrs. Tom KINNEY and her three
children narrowly escaped death
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The mother was blown bodily from
the house. with two children under
her arm, when she went TO close q
door as she heard the oar Of the
approaching storm.
When she recovered consciousness
she found one Of the children, Tom
ME Joe. 2, almost strangled tc
death. He had fallen face up. and
the driving rain had retarded his
breathing.
Mrs. KINNEY and another child
Sam. IL, were believed seriously in
tured.
The freakish storm sent one OF
Mrs. Kimmey's slippers through q
shatterproof windshield Of a cal
parked In the yard. It left a hole
In the windshield the exact shape OF
the shoe.
In a thirty-minute period, the
Weldon section felt four inches Of
rain.
Ten negroes were hurt at Cadmoa
and Oscar Gilbert and his small son
were injured when the storm hii
Belott. Five others suffered minor
injuries.
Rush county, scene Of the storm
which killed Mr. and Mrs. Phillips
was visited by a second cyclone
which passed seven miles northeast
Of Henderson and wrecked five
homes.
Towns Ravaged
Earlier the twister had ravaged
the town Of league, near Corsicana.
Dan DobbS, ice house workman, was
critically injured when the walls
collapsed under incessant beating
Of the twister.
Every structure in the town Of a.
600 inhabitants was damaged and
business houses were battered tc
wreckage. Mayor S. w. Robertson
estimated the damage at more than
100000. One hundred Of the zoe
houses in the town were either de-
stroyed OF damaged, while others
were battered. Twenty business
houses YER wrecked and the roof OF
the w. L. Watson store was ripped
off and deposited on the tops Of sew
eral parked automobiles.
Hearne suffered on estimated
100000 damage when the twistei
injured eight persons. The hard
blow raked the south and east resi-
Dental sections. Eight homes were
demolished and 80 partially destroy
ed. Fifty garages were flattened,
sturdy trees were ripped from the
earth, a $500 football field, tnclud-
ing a stadium structure and light
Ing equipment, was destroyed. a
large tourist camp was battered End
other structures damaged.
A child, Ann Brady. was found
under the debris Of her shattered
home. only slightly cut by the fall
ing timber.
Mayor Dave Mcneil Of Tenaha re-
ported IA persons had been treated
after q cyclone u mile wide and 8
20 10 miles long whipped through the
town. seriously injuring Mr.. and
AIRS. c. E. Harrison, and bringing
minor cuts and bruises tc IL negroes.
The storm cut a swath two blocks
off Athe business district. blowing
down Is houses and causing damage
tentatively set by Mayor Mcneil at
625, 1000.
Mcneil and about IS other per-
sons rode in automobiles through
the town as soon as the twister
struck. : orking in a driving rain
they picked up the injured and
rushed them 20 the establishment
of Mayor Druggist Mcneil. where
first aid was given.
An emergency call was placed to
Center. Texas. asking for doctors
and nurses. but Mcneil reported the
first aid treatment were over when
four doctors and q nurse from the
nearby town reached Tenaha.
Rivers Leave Banks
McNsil said In one Of the destroy
md homes were III negroes, only one
OF whom was hurt as the house
tumbled with q roar 20 the ground.
In a similar instance, eight negroes
were in a house and only one was
injured.
One Of the hardest rains In the
towns history, Mcneil said, drove
into the battered homes for about
30 minutes after the storms sud-
den visit.
Flood waters threatened Gaines
vile for several hours but started
receding as the sun shone for the
first time In days.
The Pecan and Elm Greeks, fed
by five inches Of rain. went cut Of
their banks and rushed into various
sections of the town. Lowland resi-
dents. awakened by the blasts OF
sirens, fled as the water rolled
crnsa fields and pushed into homes