Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — FEARFUL STORM IN TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

FEARFUL STORM IN TEXAS.

Several Lives Lost and Much Property Destroyed in Its Path, A special from Long View, Texas, under date of June 29th, states: One of the 1 most destructive storms ever known here occurred last night. The main portion dij not strike this place, but twenty below here it carried death and destruction in its course. At New Prospect, a! neighboring town twenty miles south of here, five men were killed outright. At Fairplay, a small hamlet, one woman and two children were killed, having taken shelter in an old house on which a very long tree fell, crushing them; In the track of this tornado nothing was left. The county is thinly settled, which accounts for th e few lives lost. William M. Evarts, of New York, and Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, have more daughters than any other 1 Senators. ■ .. - j A New York man is said to be in j possession of Guiteau’s head, which he is going to exhibit