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Show STOM AMD DEATH. i Cyclone Visits Cisco, Texas, villi Fearful Results. THC TOWS Alii IIUIOMSIIMI. Many lVrsonn hilled mil .Toundfd.- Mlllloni Horlli ol l'ropcrljr llcilrojtd. DAI MS, T.i , April 23 -l'aiscngcr. on in caattiouml train thli ocnlng toUofnvaat amount ot clcstruo lou wioucht by a cyclone nt Cisco. Tlioio .to not raoto tlian twenty-llvo or thirty nousisstamllni. nnd up tu Wo lluio the train passed, about 2 o'clock this afternoon, twenty one bodies nad l,een recoveieJ from the ruins nd thero were ten or twclvo more persona missing. ETerylhlnnlalnauchoinfuilontbat Itlsmorodinlcult to et Ihouamtauf the lnured than tbu dead. Beven miles northeast of Cisco Mrs, Is. V. I.sddwas klllod. lureomllM further on Mr. lVrguson waslUIIIed. The number of lulurod tuna up to a hundred. hun-dred. 1). II. Clcmsti and other cltliens from Wcsttieriord wont out this morning tu render any assistance) potilble. The lulldltiR which 1'rank lllckrnan occur ltd was blown down and II to children kllloil. Lato tblf ovenlng MajorLovy received tho following from Jlull and C'olemaiit The town la marly nil demolished, twenty killed and 125 Injured. Hundred Hun-dred are without food or shelter, liaise all the relief pculble and scud to John I'. l'atlcrion, chalrrnsn of tho relief re-lief committee. Tho following telegram was also received re-ceived by Mayor Levy from Glsooi Cisco has betn destroyed by thu most destructive cjolono that ever vltllid Texas. Moiothau four-filths of tho pt-oplo aru without houita. Thero were many killed and wounded. Help Is needed to t ury the diad, take euro of the wounded aud relieve those do. tendent whohavo lost everything. V. U. Davkmi'Out, County Judge. (I. V. Ouamj, Mayor. Mayor lievy called a meeting ol the clticens of Wtatherford to take measures meas-ures for the relief of the sufferers. A Ualnsvllle special to the Auit sayi: Mayor ltolllns received a messags this utlcrnoon from County Judgu Duveniort of Kaollnnd county and Mayor Uravea of Clsoo appealing for aid for thu storm euilerers at Cisco. Mayor ltolllns at once Issued an appeal ap-peal to the clllteni of Gainesville lor contributions. A message from Valley View states that a severe storm passed over tnat town at 6.30 p.m, blowing down several houses and doing much damsrre to properly. At IlluhKOld, Moutaguo onunty, the storm unroofed the house of Mrs. Dirge, blew several freight cars ofl a aldu track, and oauted the terrorized Iwople to tako refugo In a large cellar, ( where they sulleitd greatly Irom confinement con-finement aud aullocatlon. A special from Cisco confirms thu worst features of tho cyclone. i.ce than fifty houses remain aUudlng, tho storm having et everything mils lath, thne quarters of a mile wide, TbroughEastlaud county not a church or a school house Is standing and but onebusluoss house Is tutict. It Is Im- Jwssltle to detail tho damage done to If. and properly. Alter the cyclone passed much of the wrtokngo was burned, having caught tiro iron) overturned sloves. It Is, therefore, trobablethat most of thu miming, or about a score, woru burned to death or their bodies cremated. Many streets are Impassable on foot, l'hyslclsns estimate tnat not lesa than i.'0u are lojurcd, of whom forty will die. Tho property loss will ixcced JJ.UOO.OOO. |