Show TORNADO ALMOST WIPES OUT TOWN I Half of Population of Texas Texas' Village Either Dead or Wounded With Fire V Raging V I V Brownwood Tex May 30 With With half of its population oi dead or wounded nearly every building in the town de demolished demol ol- ol and with fire raging in the ruins the survivors at Zephyr 15 miles east pf Brownwood in Brown county are in ina a tate state of demoralization and distress today as a result of a tornado that hit that town about midnight Saturday night Until they have restored communication it will vill be impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible to determine the extent of the disaster V According to a railroad man who reached Brownwood Sunday on a handcar hand hand- car ear the tho tornado was vas preceded de by a a. i hailstorm torm of or unusual severity the win 1 following a lull In the fall taU of tho the hail hall that 1 on and coming comins with a roar rOal sleeping sl citizens to wake sake w l la a star start Th They scrambled out of oC bEd only only to 0 be caught ht between the tottering walls wails of their houses In a short t. while th there thore re were ere scenes senes of ot wildest excitement and terror from end to end of ot the village Weeping women and anu children clothed h In ii lh the scantiest of attire rushed about In the ruins seeking loved ones from rpm whom they had hall het been leen 11 separated or lookIng look look- Ing lug for Cor places ces or shelter from froni the tho merciless mel mer i ciless storm After th the first m momentary I shock of oC the tho lie disaster had bad passed m men m. m women and children who had escaped escape I Ideath death Ileath or 01 serious Injury turned their I attention towards rescuing the dead I j jand anti and dying from Crom the lad had caught fire Ire This work hampered b by darkness and the limited number of or bodied able mono men was necessarily slow amI and lt It Is feared that some sonic who escaped the the- winds wind's rul fury met a worse tate fate in the fires tires that 01 folI lowed Relief Reller trains were flurried to tolie the lie seem scene nl and several lc automobiles carrying car ar- ar physicians provisions and cat cal supplies left leCt Brownwood e early thi i morning V V V A A- repOrt from Temple s s 's lr Irl ore r conditions are bad ball anti and tha that much damage dam dani- a age e Is feared to have b n dono lotho lo- lo cv tho country and th 1114 patch also alo states that 20 O to Jo dead as many Injured and a n number of ot houses destroyed IJ by fire iL k V The known dead a are V V B B. B 1 F F. BROWN BROV and ond wife V C C. A A. CABLER C. and wIC wife V THEODORE CABLES V ill clerk wife and two children 7 C. C M. M CARTER wife an art liki GIBSON CLOY V T n a at 2 V t M u tS c OSCAR WARE WARB wife and ancl three child chil chil- d dren von Among the he seriously Injured areV are aro Continued I on fin lse P. ehr t V V TORNADO ALMOST I Ip p WIPES OUT TOWN Continued from Pace e On One Robert Roberl Campbell wife wire and four chil dren dron Dr and wife wIre Professor Cloyes and family and Captain Collier Cullier and wife j Section II A In nil A section hand pumped a car t to Brownwood and spread tho the alarm In two hours the tho Santa Fo Fe railroad was speeding a Q special train to Zephyr with nine nino surgeons and a a. score o of Brownwood Brownwood Brown Brown- wood citizens When hen tho the first relief r I 1 party reached Zephyr the tho h hl ilia I clots I I were covered with debris of or all kinds intermingled with bodies bOdleR of animals and human beings Tho The ruins were vere dimly lighted by the burning buildings build build- In in ings KH s and the cries of or tho the wounded ed guided the rescuers in their work r Human bodies were ivore found round twisted i about trees and distorted In every overy conI con- con I able ceh-able shape Survivors 1 walked the streets S almost naked crying for tor lost relatives Daylight found round sixteen surgeons working on the wounded Brownwood S hurried her second relief tr train ln at al noon j toda today lo loaded with provisions cloth cloth- In lug ing and nece necessary sary articles and forty nurses Tonight ht three per persons ons aro are still unaccounted for Two children were vere found dead today two miles from Crom i Zephyr having been blown that dis die- tance tanco A special train tonight ht curried curried cur cur- I ried ned the more inure seriously injured to a hospitable at Temple Temple- |