A TERRIBLE TORNADO.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1454, 15 May 1905, Page 2

A TERRIBLE TORNADO.

NOW 03 HOUSE LEFT, STANDING ttN Track,

siiocKlMjc condition 0K thie CORPSES,,

ENORMOUS FORCE OF TORNADO,

SECOND' .tornado; causes MORE LOSS OE LIFE.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—CogJy ri gbit. Received 4,9 p.m., May 14,: NEW YORK, May, 13. Details of the tornado state that ft strode Snyder from the southwest. It cleared a track half a mile wide north-eastward, no building bei,ng left standing,. Some boiler fittings and an iron Boor were carried two- miles, and books and documents sixty miles. The facade of a stone building beside hko traak was ripped away, leaving a gambling ball and paraphernalia exposed to view. A largo draper’s shop was yrtiliseil as a morgue. The bodies wore laid On the shelves.

Corpses were without shoes an'd clothing. ~ Even the hate was rfcorn away from others. The largest hotel was 'transformed into a hospital. A fresh tornado occur red a few miles oast ward, and killed twenty people.;