People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT.

Only Ono House Deft Standing at Gilchrist, Tex—One Fatality Reported. Burkesville, Tex., April 26.—A waterspout and cyclone played havoc about 12 miles west of here. Every house at Gilchrist was blown down but one. Flying timbers struck a Winchester in Ralph Gilchrist’s house, causing it to discharge. The bullet struck Miss Rosie Gilchrist, inflicting a fatal wound. Houses were blown down on the farms of A. C. Hancock, Jack Joyce, J. F. O’Donoghue and R. McQuinn. Several bridges weru washed away.