The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 1

A Affli Amsiili Tie ericai Number 330 AUSTIN, TEXAS, MAY 5, 1922. full Associated Press Leased Wire Service. I'olume 8. p7 LtZ3 lIZZ3 ps pr 1 sr jr ft F1 Ljl tJi I I lam i Mir Least III Vir '-u" 9 vy Nby J. ases Fenn Field Building Rums St.

Edward's Ddrmitory ax i Tornado Casualty List Early Friday moroing reports from Austin" hospitals i and undertaking establishments show 10 d-sad and 50 in-' jured. The most of the injuries are slight," and a few are serious. I Included in the list of dead are: Doris Gail Padgett, City Hospital, fractured skull Mrs. John Bargsley, Oak Hill. Miss Ada Bargsley, Oak Hill.

mm Mrs. J. S. Thompson, Oak Hill. Mrs.

J. S. Thompson, Oak Hill. ma I I II 7 -al II. --is 'II II- A 1 rt -I -I j.

-a John Thompson, Oak Hill. Aunt Maria Kincheon (colored), Oak HilL S. S. Scales (colored), Manchaca Road. Laura Russell (colored), Manchaca Road.

Ben Roberta (colored), Penn Field. Mrs. John Bargsley, and Miss Ada Bargsley will be buried at Longview cemetery this afternoon at 4 o'clock, while the three Thompsons will be buried at Oakwood cemetery this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The wounded who received medical attention at the City Hospital are: Mrs. -J.

R. Padgett, seriously Dons Gail Padgett, dead; W. S. Calhcun sustains slight injuries Miss Leona Gauit, slight bruises Eddie Erzkus, slight injuries; Edna Padgett, slight injuries; Mrs. Ed Ad-cock, Everett Adcock, Mose Adcock and Howland Adcock all received slight bruises; H.

V. Iviley, minor wounds; V. M. Dodd, leg broken; Dewey Childress, slight; Mrs. Thompson, dead; Lizzie Haywood (colored) slightly injured; Dan Roberts (colored), egsand arms broken, W.

bruised J. R. Padgett, sligKfe bruises; Jarrhes HolU -slight injuries Mrs. Hardy Johnson, Deep Eddy, slight bruises Ncff Offers Aid 1 Sf. Edwards College Heartbroken Over His Injured Men, Sparks Cannot Talk Losses Governor Neff Thursday tendered any possible aid to Sam Sparks of the Woodward plant, in calling out ranger or troops or in the use of any state material.

DEEP EDDY IS DAMAGED WHEN TWISTER HITS Partly Demolished; Escapes Are Marvel Dan Roberts, dead; Henry Holton (colored), bruised; Emma Harper (colored), bad cut on head. No deaths were reported from the S. hospital, and Jack Mussett, who was first Reported fatally injured, was resting well. The following were included in the, wounded. Mrs.

W. B. Dodd of St. Elmo Vtore near Penn Field, gener-ally bruised; Callum Burleson, Mr. Jones, deep scalp gash, finger broken, and hurt about shoulders; Mr.

Krueger; O. Lytton; Mr. Eggling; Mrs. Grizzard, leg injured; Mrs. B.

M. Gault, slight scalp wound and sprained ankle; Miss Nona Johnson, stenographer, hips shoulders bruised; Jack Mussett, severely injured; J. S. Mussett, at home in South Austin, scalp gash and side injury. Those receiving attention at the Seton Infirmary were: Mrs.

F. Woodman, 'seriously wounded by flying timber; F. Werner, St. Edward's College. Laredo, slight bruises; Charles Hartman, St.

Edward's College, Gainesville, lacerated arm; D. C. Paine, Manchaca; Francis Corneyo, St. Edward's College, Acambaro, Mexico, cut on head; Osmond Caples, St. Edward's College, El Paso F.

S. Fritter, St. Ed- it i pi from Tiitis injury nf thf A lb? wind iriuthpd nii hung ti Light Funnel-Shaped Storm Over West Austin Tears Into River Area; Many Camp Houses Destroyed. rtifmbi-rn and tituiiriH; nit DUioinR, ine iys si Kt)wrt'ii a'Avt. Ut only tiw on inn ermirw na aug- ihmt dfiisoti rwolvJnu U'( inSw thf turf to kwp from rtT th" (tofiiiluirv.

wy. Tho air within radtuu i.iwrr huw aniJ ityiiinuoiuni hul'of half a ntl! wa filkd with fly -i-rn bv thf fury of (he'ilnR uiiiIhts and pan of Irces. hy thf fury "Oh. I have been so busy trying to see who was hurt and how badly hurt they are that I have not had time nor interesH to think of the loss that has been sustained by the Woodward Manufacturing said Sam Sparks, vice president of the company, Thursday evening, when asked about the financial losaes of the organization. "My heart has been filled with the suffering ot those men, women and children that I have not even called 4o mind that D.

J. Wood rvi )n wi Inn radina $60,000 worth of machinery, and we have snot been able to ascertain Just how much of that Is a dead loss. It is so demolished and hidden that no estimate has been made. I50.CO0 Worth of Material "On the grounds yesterday afternoon there was about $50,000 worth of material including the bodies that were completed and ready for shipment and those partially completed. '1 do not know that wc shall suffer a complete loss along that line, as I saw some fairly good-looking bodies while I was searching among the debris for injured bodies.

Loss Nearly Complete "However, I should say that the loss is practioilly a complete one. lnnrtr of th wloiic' many un-I Bo vi Ruih Outid, Hurnd From Pool. As Father SScNamara cit the lt l-y fram the gynjrmslum poot, the huge rock mrurfur yielded to the fury if thp oli'mcnt and was ptao ihey have lost everything, and soma of them their lives, and 1 feel very thankful that more of them were not lost when I see the complete destruction that prevails. Former Army Site The Woodward Manufactuing company-was-chiefly the work of Mr. Sparks, who saw an opportnnity of saving tho government buildings from being wrecked after the war and organized the company that finally purchased them for the organization of a Ford body manufacturing company.

Preferred stock to the amount of $100,000 had been sold, mostly in Austin, and the remainder was held by the officers, with a slight amount unsold. Active operation began the early part of last fall and there has been a continual growth since that tinia until the trade territory has been enlarged so as to include the sections from St. Louis to Mexico City and Tennessee to Texas. The brick buildings were used for production, finishing and storage and ihe lumber buildings were used for residences except part of one that was used for office rooms. waras college, Krackettsville, slight cut on head: H.

1 MnJ -ra'trl I'm tdp jtti'rv ttjp.ti'iiUy with bis tuHiSlng to a'tonf huHfid doxpn of feot in the Thompson. Manchaca, Sarah Bunton (colored), Penn Field ZlTZ: The evclone dlpiwd dfjwn iwp IMdy junt ruet of the driveway leading' to the pool, cutting a awath throuRtt the claslers of ramping house to the river and injuring two peraonn. Mr. Artie Johnson arrioualy, and her husband slightly. Ali of the camping houses in the path of the eyclone were wmplete-iy demolished, a huge pile of debris helng nwept before the twister to the of the water and there piled high.

Considerable household brttK dormitory lutit t'llnlr. 'runiiilil ing me the financial statement of the company when I was called and unuij- vui arm a coiorea cnua wnose name could not bi ascertained, reported with cut and bruised bodv. ini p.iw.lf-rrd morlur. m.my if thor The power houo wltft l( 100-4 nv hntl hfMi In tho iitrueturo. fnot nnkpiar wan a massi nf told that there was a.

storm in The patients at the Seton were reported as resting well iitldlnB of tho col- wrwKasre. The metal BtarK had not hi -mi- diin't rH-n iDi titcu In the late afternoon, crfiit' Parts of lhe power house wa South Austin. Had No Insurance "The plant had no tornado insurance and the -whole loss is a dead rro grvnii almnt in the ith cf the twlstrr, Two Mr. Woodward, the president of the fluftK uminl the liuiln building, i Itranrh anaicneo rnoi unci company, is me naraesi nil intu liamaglnic th rorf, lireakln win li-ftii the nx'ky hill 6ne. The.

assets, according to the vidually and I am the next one If they i goods and ruin of the demolished, I uainps were swept into the river, but the grrater part of tho ruin was iad i meredt twtttn. lied trt an air. line lnO were ear-fect. lesv- statement that was who will have the greatest loss, showing me. amounted to $370 000.

i "In all, there were about 150 Of that amount there was about persons living on the place and Hurfi furrttiL'li anil ilptinNltf.il tt 1 1 iKt at the northeaat 'rner of Jim dormlioiy. aiier mianigni, ana iurs. Woodman who was at first reported seriously injured, was doing nicely. Whipping through Austin from north to southa twisting cyclone late Thursday afternoon reached its climax by wiping out an entire family group of five near Oak Hill, eight miles southwest of Austin. Hospitals were jammed with more than forty injured persons from town and country, while patient after patient was -frenetically rushed to operating rooms, with more than a score of doctors pressed into service.

Heavy Prnoertv Fi-ls. d'w and denmlmhlnir atcol fire- Like giant tentinel, embl-matio of tho divine miracle teribed solution for the lack of fatalitiea, the great tower of the main building with croee at it apex withttood the tornado. 'Thank God, none of the hoya la killed' deflated Dr. Matthew Hhu- Artist Outlines Wind Paths Quick Action Save. gaii-k prmnpt response ind the slow rmigreen of the awirl-ng air monater waved the atudenta.

Marin waa aounded by men from left pild up at the water edge, Where the cyclone lifted Fleeing Saves Many That more porsoim were not injured in the devastated aertlon of Deep Eddy was due to the fart that moBt of the camper heard the roar of the approaching twister and fled to safety. Mm. Johnson was In her eamp and was swept with the ruin In the edne, where she waa learned by members of the fire department and police. She was badly ft ireRtdent to the janitor, flaw id Jut ondtd for the day, Htudent err ruahed Into the open ranipna. (Continued on Page 2.) eT-3oMV.

I i 1 The property loss is estimated at 000, with the death total reaching ten at an earlv hour Friday morning. The Woodward Manufaetnrino- rWmns.v. Photo of Cone Twistes1 Injured. Johnson waa outside the ramp and was slightly hurt as a result nf being Htruck by flying timber. Police Search Debris nn at Perm Field waa demolished, with at least on dWng from injuries and the list of injured persons at Penn Field approximately 25., Four buildings were demolished, while polleetnen and member of the fire department who worked several hours digging into the pllo of k'ninti rn tha hank nf thf.

rivpr in iu uiuna weie oaaiy wrecKeu. ar' make sure that no bodies were bur- i St. Edwarrla Tlif 19 r- Ofe Nt UUHlttKT. LJti i iwsfcwt I MP led there, said that trunks, dressers, The dormitory and gymnasium at St F.Warrl'c bed elothlng and every conceivable i.aSJUni 81 Ot. iiaV ara College kind of household goods was tangled) "ic uie mnasium oeing practically wrecked it.

the mass of debris, some float- The roof fif the dormitory "Was" torn off lpivino- th eKli ing in ihe river and others aeattercd nf ihei woli. cfni, A- iea 5 the Shell win un, me Sneil dot it; standing. While i tu fciiu4jix. vvjii nnrpfia at mnhiH huririrWk nF mnrhu 1 4111 i-l ill' 1 1 nir 3 I oma0 Skating Rink milling about, large sections of the dormitory walk skating rink was badly dam- continued to fall. aUS I ft The 4 aeed.

the i yclone tipping one side and ripping i ff the roof. Trees were i uprooted and scarred in the wake nnwwf flTf3 St the neffro doaf' dumb and blind institute northwest of town was arorox matelv S40 nrrv tecowo V4WICH SrgocK then: lit 'VICtTCt lRtT CYCUONfi WHICW V'V of the storm. 7 ci trie negroes were in rn i hStitute aCCUntin for the WW of onI' several at the Ranker Company TOWfiU WOOD BAITRACICS Guards at Penn I 337 Ul FT. (Continued on Page 2) PA IK i Den. TNN FIELD tt 300TH Ao4T)N HElHVV on AinriN ''''st-Sl uosr y5 iCKATINC pect Ceptain Frank Hamer' company of Texes ranger was do-tailed Thursday evening to guard the Woodward Manufacturing Co.

plant at Penn field, following the cyclone disaster. A large number of member of Travis post, American legion, left police headquarter Thursday night to aid in the protection of property at' the Woodward plant. Large number of automobile are standing in the demolished buildings. Police Sergeant R. Nitschke early Thursday night detailed a squid of policemen) in charge of 'Officer Maddox, to guard the St, Edward's college dormitory and gymnasium, wr'ked In the cyclone.

Property Damage Estimates Negro deaf, dumb and blind $40,000 Deep Eddy district 10,000 Tenth ward district. 10,000 Wocdward Manufacturing Co. (Penn Field) 300,000 St. Edward's College 200,000 Travis Heights 9,000 Outside points (meager data) 15,000 Total ItOB CAJfl eV 1 i.