Show A DEADLY CYCLONE fort WORTH texas texa may 15 A special to the ibe gazette trona from bherman tex says A most meet disastrous cyclone struck at tbs abs after afternoon noc n wiping out the western end of at the ahe town entirely the lose logs of life is appalling the dead are estimated at between thirty rod and forty this is a very conservative coni estimate many more are seriously seri outly wounded won abed at 6 this evening twelve bodies are arb lying in the courthouse and as many more are scattered across the desolate deF west end ol of the city no accurate estimate can be made yet of the loss lose of life and property properly rhe fhe work of rescue and search of the inlo missing slog goes on the business part of he town to is deserted deser teJ and 1 the be greatest excitement reigns the western union office to Is overflowed with anxious ones sending wes giesea saes es and inquiring the fate of other towi tow 8 every available wagon buggy and borse boree is in use by ear searchers robers ea chers and workers on the field of death art afi time grows later reports of greater lose of life and property are arriving many stories of miraculous escapes are told the seerman court house bouse is incur flament to hold bold the dead and wounded the vacant moore bul building laing on the south equale was utilized at 6 fl I 1 teen colored people dead or dying being placed there express draya bag gage wagons and all kinds of vehicles continue to come in with dead bodies around abou arou ad the moore building tile the highest excitement prevail alb anti and the greatest grea teat difficulty to ii to in gettles tao ta names of the victims and accurate re ports the storm struck sherman without warning oo on the southwest corner of the city and cleared a path yards wide along the west vest end of the town housep house trees fences and everything went wore be ore the tor ribe force of the cyclone toe the negro degro part of the town suffered the most severely there are probably thirty begnes killed ton ten bodies have been picked up io in postoak creek the flood or of rain MID which attended the storm was severe the to town n to Is a mass of mud and floating debris there to Is much difficulty in the dead and injured PALLAS DALLAs tex may 15 A special to the news from bherman texas texa eay just juet a few minutes before 5 rv clock this afternoon after a CYC cyclone IODe not exceeding two blocks block in width but carrying widespread wide spread destruction and death in its wake swept through the western bait of the city traveling almost directly north late tonight it is reported eliat forty people dave bave ben been killed of town in addition to tbt city a death list wagons are unload ing the dead and injured every moment the news reporter standing on the north side of the cobit plaza bad his attention called to the peculiar appearance of the clouds they were martou at the lower side converging into a perfect funnel shape while a boiling seething meas mass of vaporous clouds were rapidly revolving in ID the rift the air was suddenly filled with trees and twigs twig and the downpour of rain brought with it a deluge dole goof of mud then the truth dawned on all that a cyclone was at band from the he point where it seems to have first descan descended deJ to where it suddenly arose from the ground just north of the city it left terrific marks of its ite presage pa esage nut dot a bouse bones in its path escaping not a tree or shrub loft led standing nor oot inot twisted and torn out of 01 shape are gone the iron bridge on houston street is 18 COMPle completely complete tel lj wrecked and blown away notwithstanding its hundreds of thousands pounds of steel and material the tbt auml er of persons wounded will reach not less than and it will be sev oral eral days before the exact number of 01 fatalities can be given as many per sone and especially children are alse ing and many of the injured are in such critical shape that a score way may die before it is in quite conservative to estimate that the list of fatalities will reach sixty while the injured will reach one hundred at least fifty houses boom are wrecked most of them are small cottages except in fairview and washington avenues where we hand tome residences of L F ely captain J D mrs pt PA mattingly Mai tingly and james falls also succumbed the loss jose will reach least and but little it if say acy of it was covered by cyclone insurance about the most graphic description given by soy any of the injured was that thai of W 0 0 bostwick who said III 1 I was at mr john house when I 1 heard beard the noise of the approaching pro aching storm just as I 1 looked out I 1 saw captain belgea ld house blown into the air and then mr shearer s house the air was filled with great trees and timbers and every concely conce iv able kind of article I 1 was fascinated petri petrified fied for I 1 saw that it was wa coming directly upon us and that it could ool not ie long in reach log us it wag a black serpent no ne chud twisting writhing wrt lhing in the center tut but at the bottom it seemed a 0 be moving steadily I 1 woke up from my slumber and called to the family who were in the house bouse and asked askea them not to run out I 1 feared that we would woud all be struck by fl ing IDS timbers then came au an awful crash a sense of suffocation and when it was avei the be house was rone gone an ani and i myself sino and family were scattered about the be yard and under the debris it was over in such a short time that mat I 1 cannot give you an idea ot at how bow long it was fl in just juat a few mint minutes tee the police officers were appealed to td for shelter for the dead and wounded and ambulances and all kinds of conveyances wart war pressed into service A vacant store room on the north side of ahe court plaza and another on the be south side of the courtroom were wt re transferred into impromptu morgues and for or the wounded down town while every residence rei dence left eta in fairview Is filled with wounded the victims are horribly mangled jobu ames and wife and two children are dead and a five year y ear aid id boy fatally wounded the most miraculous escape so far se as learned by the reporter was the case came of we the family of captain ely the residence quite a roomy brick structure was razed raced to the grou ad and but for the presence of at some heavy umbers timbers standing upright in the debris which sheltered them irom the avala avalanche nobe ot of brick and stone they would have all perished but as it ii I 1 only one member a little sir girl was bruised A public meeting raised for the immediate relief of the sufferers anti and the permanent relief committee consisting of 0 H smith C biran del de C B dorchester Dor cester and colonel george H murphy will take donations it is distinctly stated that do nations from points outside of grayson county will be received deanson has rf responded nobly and nurses bursas and physicians from that city are here rendering great ais stance all railroads running into he be city placed trains at the dispo disposal fal of the local so au JUSTIN texas may 16 at this place W J evans evan was killed by the cyclone and seventeen wounded at gribbel spring north of here three persons were killed and several injured A baby which was thought to have been killed by the storm was found to have died just before aind been blown away mr hurst and family are severely injured it is expected that at least two ot of them will die one child was found with a large wooden splints splinter stuck through its bead but was still bull living ed true a farmer by blowing from his wagon bad therose ribs broken springs la in almost demolished but low few houses remain standing texas may 16 the oy cy alone cut out the heart of this county and grayson county just to the northeast started within a mile ol of justin Ju itin to in we this county A terrific wind was waa experienced here people were blown down houses demolished and farm buildings completely it W lived reports from the country indicate five people killed mol met of CC whom were wen traders to ID demons M whose names dames cannot be aa this time the roads are imp caWa and the small str streams eais of the are beyond their bancil B no far oo no one has bees reported killed it this town but the place ts to in skeen half bait under water and searching are slow in reporting report loy reports from justin sherman bherman an aoa gribbel are to the effect that hat NM worth of property has been in the two counties |