TORNADO IN TEXAS.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1919, Page 6

TORNADO IN TEXAS.

SIXTY-SEVEN‘ KILLED_ EXTENSIVE DAMA GE. DONE. The Worst equinoctial storin for many years swept. over" North Texas and Southern 01-zlaloma recentfy, leaving in its wake 67 deaths, hundrede of injured persons, and property ‘damage, Which‘ will amount to many thousands of dollars. ' t The storm came up from the Rio Grande Valley. with a high wind and heavy rain, gaining force, until it tore through the Northern Texas, counties, with the destruetiveness of a tornado. ‘ V ' ’ “" H“ " Tlle course of the storm was erratic At times it leaped a mile 01' more, skipping one farm house unharmed, only tovdemolish the next one. No cities of any sizes were in its path. Most. -ofqthosc killed were caught. under their falling homes and buried. The heavy rainfall at once extinguish~ ed the fires that started when houses were overturned. ' . The little town of Canaan was completely wiped out. Its cotton gin, church, school, and cotton warehouse containing much of last year’s crop of the nearby farmers, afd its 16 houses were all sw<.pt. to the ground. ‘ At Mineola, the .torm struck with extreme severity. Three White Women and eight l‘legl‘oCs were killed and Niall-Y other received serious injuries. Much damage was done to the prospective fruit crops in niany sections.