Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — A DECEMBER TORNADO. [ARTICLE]

A DECEMBER TORNADO.

One I.lfe I, nut and Several Fcrionx lfalolly Injured by > Storm In Texet. Reports of a destructive tornado have been received from Nacogdoches county, Toxas, Tuesday afternoon, about 3 o'clock a terriblo wind swept around Egg Nogg valley, which Is two miles from Nacogdoches. The wind blew with terrible velocity, sweeping everything bgforo It. Huge trees were blown about as so many matches. Houses, barns and fences were prostrated or blown coiuplotoly away. So far as hoard from only one life has been lost, that of Frank Purlin. It Is feared that moro fatalities and casualties will bo reported. A relief party has formed at Nacogdoches to visit the stricken section. A dispatch from Atlanta says thatabont 4 o’clock In the afternoon a disastrous storm occurred east of there, sweeping away farm houses and out buildings, and leaving death and general destruction to Its path. The residence of Samuel McAdams was destroyed and he and three children fatally hurt Ono child wot found tbroo hundred yards away, in a dying condition. Charles Lesev’S gin house, with all its contents, was destroyed. The bouse of Wes Dawson. colored, was demo* Ished, and several children fatally la* Jared. ' T"