Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1905 — TEXAS TOWNS ARE SWEPT BY DEATH [ARTICLE]

TEXAS TOWNS ARE SWEPT BY DEATH

Besom of Havoc Is the Rotary Terror, Which Harvests Per* haps Sixty Lives. LONG LIST OF THOSE INJURED Spares Neither Age Nor Youth, and Whole Families Are Decimated. Fort Worth, Tex., July 6. A reliable man at Nocona, who has been over the scene, says that reports were being received of the dead when he left there, and he places the loss of life at sixty. Dallas, Tex., July 6.—A special to The News from Nocona. Tex., says: A tornado and thunder storm passed a few miles west and south of here yesterday afternoon, killing fourteen persons, and injuring many others and destroying a number of houses. The latest reports from the storm-swept district give the following dead: Mrs. C. C. Shackleford; Minnie Shackleford, daughter of R. G. Shackleford; Mrs. S. L. Tumleson, and three children; Mrs. Mary Lester and four children; Caleb White; Mrs. Ira Williams; Frank, son of Sam Eakin, killed by lightning. Lint of Thoi* Tnjnwul, Injured James Simpson; Miss Alice Simpson; Moore, arm broken; Hobbs, fatally; C. R. Christian and family; J. M. Steward and family; C. H.Williams, leg broken; Miss Nannie Austin, 'seriously; J. J. Woodson; Mrs. Jesse; R. G. Shackleford and wife; C. Z. Shackleford, injured about head; four children serious injuries; child of Mrs. Mary Lester, fatally injured. Many Build Inga Destroyed. Many farm houses were swept entirely' away. The Baptist and Methodist churches at Belcher were considerably damaged. The Methodist church at Montague is reported wrecked, and the court house damaged; also other churches there. The Dixie school house, six miles south of here, was entirely blown away. Hail stones as large as lien’s eggs fell here, breaking out many window glasses. Reports of the work of the tornado are still coming in. The number of killed and Injured probably will reach sixty. Ten More Victim* of the Wind. Montague, Tex., July 5. —Ten people are dead as a result of a tornado that passed over Montague. They are: A. P. Earl: Miss Sadie Earl, daughter of A. P. Earl; Burke Earl, his son; baby of Lawrence Pillow; Tomlinson family, consisting of husband, wife and four children. Fatally Injured—Clalborn White. Houses totally demolished —J. F. Clark's drug store, D. Y. Lunn's grocery store and offices; old bank building, store of Rowe Hardware company, and fifteen dwellings. The tornado lasted perhaps thirty minutes. Hundreds of head of stock In this vicinity werekllled outright by the wind. The number of injured Is unknown. Fort Worth, Tex., July 0. —A tornado which struck Texas in the upper edge of Montague county, coming from the northeast and swinging far to the southeast, caused a loss, it Is believed, of over forty lives, injured a . large number of people and did untold damage to growing crops and cattle. At Jackslioro the Baptist church and twenty buildings were blown off their foundations and a number of buildings destroyed. Mrs. Travis Calhoun Is not expected to live. Travis Calhoun. Thomas Horton and Henry Vesser and family were also injured.