Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 1902
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GOLIAD STORM.
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(Missing) Hundred Lives Reported Lost
And Many Wounded.
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A Story of Destruction and Disaster
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Goliad, Texas, May 18 -- This little city was almost blownaway this afternoon by
a tornado. Nearly one hundred lives were blown out, over an hundred lie
torn and bleeding, some of them in the ruins of their wrecked homes and over
five hundred, peole (sic) are rendered homeless. Death hangs as a pall
over the town. The dead and dying fill the people here with an appalling
gloom and white those who were uninjured are doing everything possible the task
is too much.
In the confusion here it is impossible to
get all the details of the awful catastrophe(y). But, in the track of the
storm nothing was left intact. More than one hundred houses were destroyed
and many others were injured. (Th)e list of killed and injured can not be
procured until morning.
(Missing) new victims are (missing) hourly. It is believed (missing) that
the number of (missing) will not go above seventy-(f)ive.
OTHER DISTRUCTION.
Gause, a small station on the (I.) & G.N. railway between Hearne and Austin was
visited by a cyclone and a number of people are reported killed.
A similar report comes from Ben Hur but
nothing reliable could be obtained.
DAMAGES AT MARLIN.
(Dur)ing the wind storm Sun(day), Robert Dupree was quite painfully hurt as was
Frank Greer. The boys were out with a number of companions in a pasture
northwest of town and when the wind came on they took refuge in the side room of
an old house. The wind blew (t)he shed and chimney down and (c)aught Frank
and Bob both un(d)er it.
Bob was injured in the (--)ck and in the ankle and Frank (receiv)ed a wound in
the side and on the head. The other boys escaped with slight bruises.
The school house sitting nearest the I &
G.N. tracks was blown off the blocks and damaged somewhat.
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(Title Missing)
The Death List is a Long One
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The Storm Lasted About Five Minutes and in
that Brief Space of Time Great
Damage was Done.
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Goliad, Tex., May 20, --
This place was struck by one of the most fearful cyclones ever known in the
state. It began about 3:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon and lasted five
minutes, but during that time fully ninety souls were ushered into eternity.
It came from the southeast without warning,
completely demolishing a strip about two blocks wide through the whole western
part of the town, about a mile long.
Among the many houses demolished are the
Baptist church and parsonage, just built, Methodist church, and a colored
church.
It is impossible to estimate the number of
houses destroyed, but it is thought the number will reach 100. Forty-two
negroes are dead and fifty-three injured.
Damage done cannot be approximated, but it
is very great.
About all of the dead and wounded have been
taken care of.
The path of destruction is left strewn with
all kinds of debris and dead and wounded animals.
The pitiful cry and groans of the many
wounded was heard everywhere and at times was heartrending.
A special train bearing O'Connor Guards,
six physicians, nurses and many volunteers came from Victoria, and also a
special from Cuero, bringing physicians, nurses, druggists and volunteers.
Although everything is done for the relief of the wounded, cries for physicians
and medical attention are everywhere heard.
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