Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 1

THE. AUS 1 TO. S'lWl ESMAM COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE (TEN PAGES) VOL 50-NO. 338. fyEaTAxH AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922 (HOME EDITION) PRICE FIVE CENTS TW A "H) AA TTWHITO liilWisliW If SMlilflfiiJi THE DEATH-DEALING CLOUD A SUALTIES TOTM JFTY-SEVEH If KNOWN DEAD; Vi HURT TORNADO LEAVES TRAIL OF RUIN IN DEAD.

JOHN THOMSON. 26 years old, Oak Hill. -MRS. ALTA THOMPSON, wife of John Thompson, 21 years old, Oak Hill MRS. JOE THOMPSON, mother of John Thomson, Oak HilL TORM ITS PATH; CENTERS IN SOUTH AND EAST AUSTIN MISS ADA lSAKGSLEY, 46 years old, uaK niu.

MRS. JOHN BRAGSLEY, 89 years old, Oak HilL BEN ROBERTS, negro, Penn Field. ANDREW F. McGRADY, St Edward's student DORIS GAIL PADGETT, 18 months old, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

J. It Padgett Penn Field. S. S. SCALES, negro, Manchaca.

LAURA RUSSELL, Negress, Manchaca. MARIA KINCHION, 70 years old, Oak HilL DAN ROBERTS, negro, Penn Field. HARPER girl, negress 10 years old, Oak HilL THE INJURED SETON INFIRMARY. F. WERNER, Laredo; student at St Edward's College, bruised and cut.

CHARLES HARTMAN, Gainesville; St Edward's student, bruised; injuries not serious. FRANCIS CORNEJO, Acambara, Mexico; St Edward's student; bruised. F. S. FRITTER, Brackettville; St Edward's student; bruises.

D. C. PAINE, Penn Field; bruises. OSMOND CAPLES, El Paso; St. Edward's student; bruises.

ILL. THOMPSON, Penn Field; bruises. Mrs. W. F.

WOODMAN, Penn Field; splinter driven through head and in serious condition. Luella Harper, negress; Iruise. LUCILLE HARPER, negress; bruises. SARAH BUNTON, negress; probable fracture of skulL semiconscious. AT CITY HOSPITAL.

HENRY HOLTON, negro; bruises. W. S. CALHOUN, Penn Field; bruises. EDDIE ERYKUS.

bruises. EDNA PADGETT, bruises. J. R. PADGETT, bruises.

LEONA GAULT, Penn Field; slightly bruised and shaken, discharged from hospital. children. Evert, Howard, aged 4, 6 and 9 ears, sons of Mrs. Edna Adcock, slightly bruised, released from Occupants of Woodman home Have Thrilling Escape From Death Thirteen 44 injured, and property idamage estimated at $725,000, was the toll of the tornado which struck Austin late Thursday afternoon and left a trail of wlteckage in its path. The heaviest loss of life was at Oak Hill where six were killed.

Three are dead as a result of injuries sustained at Penn Field, two more were killed at Manchaca, while the death toll at St. Edward's College and St. Elmo was one each. At local hospitals' there are several patients who may possibly be fatally injured and fear was expressed that the death toll will see an increase. There were in reality two tornadoes which covered parallel courses, the one twisting a course through East Austin, Travis Heights, St.

Edward's College grounds, Penn Field, St. Elmo and Manchaca, while the other whirled its destructive way over the State School for Negro Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Deep Eddy and Oak Hill. Fred Morris, University weather observer, stated Friday morning that data gathered by him on the wind currents revealed the fact that the tornado formation was almost perfect and peculiar in the point that it was "a double twister." Friday morning, members of the American Legion post aided firemen and police in the work of patrolling the St. Edward's College campus and Penn Field to avoid a congestion of spectators that would interfere in the preliminary work of salvaging what the storm left. Thousands of automobiles made their way to the various scenes of storm damage only to be told to move along, For the relief of the storm sufferers, clothing and bedding was being collected at the Chamber of Commerce building by workers of the American Red Cross.

The first cash donation for the relief work was a purse of $100 donated by the Austin chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The money was delivered to the Texas Bank and Trust Company of which Sam Sparks, one of the principal stockholders in the Woodward Manufacturing Company, is president. With the money came the message that it be used in any way deemed fit for the benefit of the storm victims. From Mr. Sparks came the call for donations of all kinds to be used for the benefit of the storm sufferers.

Officials of the company are doing all in their power to give aid, he stated, but with the company itself practically wrecked as a result of the storm little immediate cash is available for relief work. Many Austin business men promised their financial support to aid in every way toward the relief of the immediate needs of the storm victims. Havoc at Woodward Plant. 1 graduated from the Austin High School last year and had just returned about one week ago from Pleasant Hill where she taught school (luring the pant year. Daisy Woodman, also lying on the ground in front of the demolished buildings, received a gash in her left Hhoulder when a flying timber wan driven Into the- injured member for a depth of two inches.

The Injured girl was suffering this morning from a slight fever, but otherwise wag uninjured and leeting easily. There are seven children in ths Woodman family Vernon, aged 19; Helen, aged 18; Otis, 16; Daisy, Jlorothy, Mary, and William, 2. All escaped injury with the exception of Helen and Daisy. Seeing the storm coming, Mr. Woodman gathered Dorothy and) Daisy under his arms nnd lay flat on the RroH4 whils Vernon also shielded several of till smaller children in a similar manner.

Helen Woodman was Injured while protecting a younger sister, who escaped unhurt Following the receipt of news of Iho cyclone, C. I Patrick rushed by automobile from San' Antonio to Austin, arriving here early this morning to inquire for the safety of his family. All wire communication from San Antonio was out, he said, and attempts made by his family to reach him by telegraph failed. Mr. Patrick visited Set on Infirmary on his arrival to inquire as to the condition of his sister-in-law, Mrs.

Woodman. He brought back the report at at 9 o'clock this morning that she was resting easy; that she was conscious and could talk to rchUires and friends Unless complications set in, physicians stated she would recover. She is Be riously injured a the result of the ugly wound she received in her throat and jaw. NIGHT OF EXCITEMENT ON CONGRESS AVENUE Austin people generally were In a state of intense anxiety Thmrfday night following the storm, and Congress avenue was crowded with groups of citizens dircussing thn effects of the destructive tornado that had hit the city only few hours before. A report that the Ku Klux Klan were to parade the streets Thursday night swelled the crowds.

About o'clock several hundred University students staged a "shirttail" parade down Congress avenue and other streets in the and for a pvrlod" reiieveu inp anxiety of citizens over the storm situation. The student, following the parade, entered every largo moving picture theater in the city, and after giving their college yells, passed out again as fniickly a went in. Enst Texas: Tonight und partly cloudy. West Texas: Tonitht and Saturday, generally fair. rv i rhoto by Jorilan Austin RELIEF HEADQUARTERS OPENED; RED CROSS IN CHARGE OF WORK Supplies Will Be Distributed From Chamber of Commerce; Donations Needed.

Relief headquarters for thos in diBtreis as the result of Thursday's storm have been opened at the Chamber of Commerce with the Austin Red Cross in charge of the work. Mrs. Eugene B. Haynie, field secretary of the Red Cross fer Travis county, is personally supervising the relief work. An appeal has been made by the Red Cross to all citizens of Austin and Travis county to donate substantial clothing, shoes and bed clothing for those who lost their personal goods in the storm.

Bedsteads, trunks and wardrobe are also wanted. Austin citizens are requested by the Red Cross to leave all cash donations, clothing and furniture for the storm victims at the Chamber of Commerce. Clothing will be assorted here and distributed to those actually needing it. These articles will be collected by a corps of motorcycle carriers. Hardly had the Red Cross issued its appeal this morning when members of the Chamber of Commerce responded to the call.

A. J. Eilers, of McKean-Eilers wholesale dry goods concern, was among the first to volunteer assistance In providing relief for the storm victim. He has donated large supply of clothing and made substantial cash donations and urged Austin people to assist the distressed people of Oak Hill and Manchaca, who lost heavily in the storm. TORNADO SKIRTS EAST AUSTIN; CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE THERE "The east tornado first hit the northeast corner of tho State cemetery," declared Dan Crider, who resides at 913 East Ninth street.

"My wife and I watched the formation of the tornado cloud and traced its destructive path over the cemetery, through the Tenth ward and Travis Heights, thence through the Woodward manufacturing plant area. We were in the attic at our home when the storm passed within two and a half blocks of our home. "The storm first descended on the northeast corner of the cemetery somewhere betwten the 2.00 and 1 300 block on Fast Ninth street, uprooted a large tree and sent tranches arid limbs flying in all directors ft th-n passed the Tenth Ward Fire Hall, where It blew over the light towe-and hurled it against the hall. The wind then blew the roof off the store building of Felix Cherico nd also unroofed the Culf Refining filling station on Fast Sixth street. "We distinctly saw the big tower at Penn Fild at first sway and then fall to the ground when the wind struck If Mr.

Crider stated-- that no cue was injured in Fast Austin In the storm area, so far os he had leame-l at noon today. V' hospital. DURWARD CHILDRESS, broken hand and bruises. MRS. EDNA ADCOCK, bruises.

H. V. KYLEY, bruises. LIZZIE HAYWOOD, negress; bruises. M.

M. DODD, broken leg, bruises. JAMES HOLT, slightly bruised; released from hospitaL SUSIE ROE, negress; slightly bruised; released from hospitaL MRS. HARDY JOHNSON, bruises. W.

D. DODD, bruises. EMMA HARPER, negress; severely cut on head. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS HOSPITAL. JACK MUSSETT, fractured skull MR.

EGGLING, bruised and cut MISS NONA JOHNSON, bruises. MRS. W. H. GRIZZARD, bruises; released from hospital.

Mrs. B. Gault bruises. MR. JONES, cuts and bruises.

GRADY ASHLEY, bruises on hip and head. MRS. DODD. St Elmo; cut and bruised. MR.

BURLESON, bruised. WILLIAM KREIGER, bruised. F. 0. LITTON, broken shoulder and VIVIAN CHILDRESS, 14 years old, foot hurt not seriously.

"The I-ord answered my prayers, and I feel that it was an act of Divine Providence that the only room in which I and my two children were during the cyclone was the only ono left intact," declared Mrs. C. I Patrick of San Antonio, who was visiting her Bister, -Mrs. W. F.

Woodman, at the Woodward Manufacturing Company's plant at the time. "When the wind came up I was sil ting in the dining room with my chil dren. Mrs. Woodman and others. A gToup of others were out in the yard, and with the approach of the wind hastened to a frravel pit for shelter.

Mrs. Woodman at first hesitated, then fled for safety to the gravel pit. Shortly after passing out the door, the picked? her up and rolled her for about 100 yard3 when she was hit by flying timbers. One of the timbers struck her in the jaw and passed down her throat some three of four inches. "I insisted that my sister stay with me in the dining room, since I figured that the heavier timbers In the two-story building would support the structure and at the most would create a debris and bury us.

I gathered my two little children, Josephine, 3. and Richard, aged 4. under my arms and hid under a table in the room. The wind blew in the upper story of the building, tore away thf? kitchen and other rooms adjoining the dining room, but left the room in which I was intact. It was a miiacle that we were not Injured.

As it was, we escaped un-scratched." Mrs. Patrick then told of injuries received by Helen Woodman, aged 1, and Jaisy Woodman, aged 9. Helen Woodman was laying prone on the ground, and when the wind passed flying splinters hit her clothing and then were deposited In her body. Aside from that she was uninjured. JTelen GRABS TRUNK OF TREE; TREE UPROOTED; BUT CONNOLLY ESCAPES HURT Mike Connolly, bricklayer, had an exciting experience when the tornado struck Travis Heights.

Mr. Connolly was on top of a new house building a chimney when he saw the storm coming. Having been in and knowing their dcFtmctive effect, he got off the roof and proceeded to anchor his Ford car standing in the yard of the home. The storm beat him to the car, however, a.id teeing that he could not ruch the Ford, he lay on the ground and threw his arms around the trunk tit a big tree. The tree was uprooted and swung around several times and when it finally landed on the earth Connolly found himself on top' uninjured.

The twister whirled his Ford ari'im? several times and then set it hack on the ground undamaged except for several broken ribs in the top and a broken windshield. Thirty Millions for Roads. WA I'KK'IAN. May 5 Governor Small today announced completion of his 1922 hard road program calling for 1050 'miles of new paving at an approximate cost of $30,000,000. PICKED UP; SPUN ABOUT IN MR; ESCAPES INJURY "I was sitting in a tent across the street from my house when the twister blew up," said J.

L. Tullos of 1605 Travis Heights Boulevard. The wind picked me up from my sitting position and after whirlina me about several times placed me back on th ground, unhurt. However, haven't been able to locate I a black grip that I had with me In the tent. The wind carried It off and sent it scurrying in the path of the tornado." Wreckage of Woodward Office Building The greatest damage wrought by the Hit tornado was at the plant of the Wood- wu.u ivLuiuuicturlng Company, where practically everything was destroyed, two persons were killed, and twenty- thre tnen Probably fatally.

Those killed Were H-n erts, negro workman, and Ix.ris Gail ladgett aged eighteen months, the child of Mr. and Mrs. J. It. Padgett 7hoe most seriously injured, whoee hurts may prove fatul, ate Mrs.

W. Woodman, matron of the hotel at the h08 faee wM punctured by a flying timber and who sustained pos-sibte Internal injuries; Jack Mussett, Wh "utal" a fractured skull and a ragged hole in his side when a flying timber struck him" J. superintendent of the DatnT who sustained a broken arm and injured back and has been pialvzed since his injury; and F. LaS (Continued on Tags Three.) Photo by Jordan Austin Ruins of St Edward's Dormitory -'3 f.r'iTWir i-1- 4 tO. III'" V.

Mi -W Sf' Ji i 1 'v -f Photo by Jordan Austin.