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Show PEOPLE PERISH IN TEXAS STORM Lose Lives While Trying to Ford Streams, or Struck by Lightning. HOUSTON. Tex., May A. The heavy down-pour jf Inst night and this morning was accompanied by loes of life in pouthern Texas. Will Hawkins was drowned whllo trying to ford a creek near Franklin; Dr. Holland, Hol-land, living four miles from Bryan, was struck by lightning and instantly killed; Mrs. Michcll, living at El Campo, was killed by lightning. Three persona are reported to have been drowned near Taylor. At Austin, Gen. Smith and Roland J. Foster were drowned in a swollen stream. At El Campo Miss Annie Schumaker of Shiner was killed by lightning. |