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AUSTIN -AMERICAN, At STIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1922. one Struct Before Cycl hciory Looke As Big Austin One Known Dead and 25 Injured When Woodware Mfg. Co. is Razed to Ground; Hurried Estimates Place Property Damage at $250.0 Panoramic view of the Woodward Manufacturing Company's plant at Penn Field, Aviation Camp during the War, which has been converted into Austin's, first large-scale production factory. EASTERN WIND ST.

EDWARD'S (Continued from Tag 1, Col. Battered Ford With Unconscious Bab Is First Messenger of Disaster to To Police Station; Wail For Doct! Police and Fire Departments Rally to Emergency and Serve DOES GREATEST Valiantly In Devastated Area (Continued From Page 1.) AUSTIN DAMAGE The entire force of the Ausiln fire and police departments were 'Wind Disrupts called out to render aid to the dev niacher, president of St. Edward's, when the cHsck of pupils had been hurriedly made. Scattered around the open prairie campus, the boys were mustered and a hurried check made when the storm passed. Some were mlas-irg.

Searches weie hurriedly made for these. On lad was found pinioned under scantlings, but. only slightly Injured. Several with scalp wound were rushed to Heton infirmary because extent of their Injuries were then In doubt Boon aU were accounted far. Six Killed at Oak HilL Not content wun wrwtiung approximately one-half million dollars worth of damage in Austin, the death twister raced on down eight miles southwest of Austin in the Oak Hill community, erasing the Bargsley family group of five astated sections of the city.

The ing ever face and should th oeeupant of the ear dated, half -stupef id, realising their position. PLEADS FOR DOCTORS Grlasard leaped from the with mite of a baby in strong arms, calling to a rounding orowdi "SomoW get a doctor I think this is dead." Policemen gsthe; ahout aa the baby, said to Black, Zig-Zag Cyclone Hits In Tenth Ward St. Edward's, Penn Field, and at Travis Heights Losses Are Great. Council Meet; Officials Watch and their negro servant. Not a trace was left of the Bargs- police were first called Deep Eddy, the call coming while they stood at windows and outside the station and watched the twister gradually swoop around in the direction of the dam.

The call from Deep Eddy said that several houses were destroyed," several persons Radiator shoved in, muddy Ford ear leaded with bedraggled, bloody Penn field victim, wis th first bring new of the Weodwerd plant tragedy to pellee headquarter at th city Cedl Oh, Cod!" from th ear mid obbing, wailing, whil W. H. Griiird, mit of baby in Ms arms, called the gathering crowd to get a doctor immediately. "This baby her is dsad, I think," said th driver. Another victim ef th eyglon brought out of th ear and trtehd ut on th wet sidewalk, while frntio ffort wr mad te secure doctor.

Dirty and bedraggled, blood stream th Padgitt baby, and th ot. lek homestead, where ten children were reared, and this cyclone killed almost half of the family, the first death in the family. Two negroes were killed near Manchaca. Twenty in Austin Hospitals. Th cyclone which wrought do The cyclone broke up a special Within twenty minutes after the, atructlon in Travis Height nd at Victims, wv office of Commissioner Ey and Chief of Po-ice Griffm.f dead and scores injured.

A corp meeting of the city council Thurs- storm, the students were doing drill of policemen were rushed out to day afternoon at the city hall, when work in the main building Penn field wm Tint (Uncovered to the east. It iwooped down overipeep Eddy. i City Clerk Joe Hornsby was called) Watehed Zigtag Course. The patients were later ta ta the varioua hospitals, Approximately twenty Oak Hill injured persons were in Austin hospitals Thursday after the death-dealing dis second Can Comes. 'home because of alarm.

Membeis' "Th fact that It li recreation iravn eigm, niuvmg diuwij, ui- cled through the Height, itriklngj Within a few minutes the second of the council watched the funnel- time probably accounts for no one heaviest at the boulevard leading aster. said j-ather m. uuin- th Padgitt baby, first belie dead, wa later reported to been knocked uncontoioua, living. could see the black tor. mi.M7sidde3r-" ca came frora the negro shaped twister northwest of Austin, lln killed." with iu TrtfluwVt ttaVo Deaf and Dumb institute, where the speculated on its cause.

"Well. land. "We llS.lr t. announced that several build- I've read of them, but this th. nado coming and scurried for sofe- from th northeast.

Pn in Austin watched the I were demolished and numerous nrsi one i ve ever seen, joinuy xy. Diwim of tht two twUters one person, killed and injured. There- said Auditor Milton Morris and "Jt tar to east and the 'other 'o the maining policemen, with the except Commissioner Harry Haynes. Ke- across th west from upper Itory windows in of a few reserves were rushed to Ports were that the twister st.uck Penn tiel west, irom upper story mnuuws rwn cs snrf came Deep iuaaf and that several nouses dormitory, headed on to THREE INJUR Id with a counter-eddy or thin rnll and within a few mere cross-current mat swooped In the Storm Toll One Near Rockdale; Damage Is High TATLOIt. Tela.

May 4 James Hamilton was killed an Wednesday downtown buildings. Spectators saw th hurricane to the east descend In Travis Heights, uproot monster trees and fling them high in the air, hurl debris and roofs of houses up and race across the liver to Penn field. minute the Penn field call came, were wrecked. Not for half an hour tear of the main, building and raxed After dispatching the remaining the news of the Penn field dis-, th power house and men. Chief Sam D.

Griffin began aster heard at the city hall. Debri Mark Path, sending citiiens to Penn field. Ie- City Attorney J. Bouldin Rector's' Splinters, branches, tree and spite the difficulty experienced in kf aw the cyclone strike in brk-k marked a tralht path from securing telephone service as a Travis Helfihts, right In the silt the college to Penn field. A lowly result of the flood of calls coming view between the Uttlefield and ford car wa amashed against the AT DEAF HOB DAMAGE HEA Right by Wv wire during the Tears Across Colorado.

into the station, the police chief aue- Scarbrough buildings. Later the id of the power house and pieces; Cyclones Follow Curves. The storm which plowed through the southernmost end of Austin, apparently did not follow a straight line. Reports indicate that it approached Austin from the east, following closely the course of the river, doing slight damage in east Austin near the river; but that when almost directly at the foot of Congress avenue, the course was deflected and the cyclone went south until it had passed St. Edward's college and Penn field, where most local damage was done.

A separate branch of the storm appears to have also followed the river from the northwest, having caused damage to the deaf, dumb and blind school for colored, then to have ripped up many cottages along the river at Deep Eddy. According to observers, the swirling current, moving at high velocity across Penn field, and then circled between Manchaca, on the I G. N. railway south of the city, and Oak further west. The cyclone seems to have spent its force in this area, and reports from all towns surrounding Austin show that the high wind was localized in that area, though the hail which accompanied the high wind at Austin fell generally over a large area.

Towns North Feel It. A the hurricane crossed the river jceeded in notifying a large number councilnien and employes gatheiedf hose and miscellaneous articles wind turm In Rockdale. The new gin and two farm houses at Hare were dstftroyvd and the church badly damaged by th highest wind the community ha seen for years. A cloudburst at Byrviii washed up a number of bodies In Ih Cemetery. High wind and a heavy According to the attending siclan who went the U.

Of business houses ana Otner pr- iuor arm wmcneci iw.wi irjn wnry wnnre toe Ian- sons to load cars and send them to hoavy cloud lose its triangle point trees and biushes aeross th col-Penn field "catver in thin rlouda In theJege hill sit looked as if some R.ittn rm.roencv Dripping Springs. reaper had swung his blade. Policemen "were also' stoned at', tJ a column of water more than fifty feet high wa thrown Into the air, according to spectators. An immense tree was uprooted torn the river bank, and carried nearly a hundred feet In the air. It was re ported that the city dumping ground) there were a man and woman ly Injured, and a boy with a tured rib was later retwrted, pd laundry building totally (J Ished.

the rpff ft one of gone, and another par rainfall were reported at Thrall. the north end of the Congress avenue bridge to direct all cars that would go to the manufacturing BETWEEN TWO HOMES that It was In oes of lUO.OOO with! no Insurance. Gymnasium, dormi CRISSOM'S NEW HOME BEYOND DEEP EDDY ftfl. i to the east of the ciy was lined by the hurricane and piled into the river. Most of the pedestrians along Congress avenue weie watching the twisting clouds to the west and were unmindful of the second one sweeping through the eastern Dart i Inmala fVt Vniirfl tu 1 plant.

As a result of these efforts, a stream of cars poured Jn -each direction along the Post i owl xo the demolished plant, those returning bringing loads of injured workmen to the hOKpitals. tory and power house will have to rebuilt from the ground up. Lad Show Courage, Admiration wa expressed for th metal of th boy and the way the persoirtel behaved in the tm- SWEPT AWAY BY WIND and Wind institute wet. -r un.m. hinhtof l.Yt ftlitht H.

thf? fjormltwry, 4 fhe building on the Ham bouM-! only eligh Ir dama tliei I of the city. A heavy hall, with gtnry. The high wind near Taylor was evidently from a dif- badly out of fix, It Looting was kept at a minmum) by the vigil of the police. It was! reported that one of the Injured workmen at the Woodward plant, had been robbed while In a state of! night by Senator 11 a i. a i- tt 'uiunirs Jiiiii as Din as nen eggs, av- ferent storm center entirely, as Hutto, Round Rock and; tracted the attention of persons Pflueerville.

towns near Tavlor. and nartiallv hpfwPf.n!lon.the downtown streets, while leacner or furniture and clothing In the tent chemistry, shlver.ng from coM, ln fmli living while witfi a raJncoat draoed uv-rr his coo Barkers noma, about a mil ifrom ith Bargsley hom, lay Afiht In Jth path of the death-dealing cyclone. Two houses upon the Barker place were about 100 yards apart, with a chicken house between th two homes. Neither hom wa touched by th twister, although th chicken house was demolished. Nothing can seen ef th Bargsley home, for year th 'home of the Bargsley family, except a few stove part and scattered rags ef clothe.

Th bodies of th five dead parson at th Bargsley hom war all horribly mngld by th terrific cyclone. told of clawing the ni.m iaf nieht cUititman nt th" txrl of coj but siiiipllea for tnnis were t4 and supper was prcpaicd, the Inmates. Worst to the Mind tutl tute wa. Senator CoiH fnumtot ground to keep from blowing away sported the loan of ItiO, which hlth was in a hlark card caae in some ot filled th black air. Boys all u.iMnB hln around him hugged the rarth.

i- the Hurricanes were sweeping through opposite portions of the city. A heavy downpour of rain accompanied the hail, wjiich lasted but a few minutes. House Ar Demolished. The'tall electric light tower near the Tenth ward fire hall was blown down by the twister and thrown across the fire hall. No one was hurt at the station, however.

Four houses along Travis Heights Taylor and Austin, felt no wind at all. Storm Area Is Limited. Lockhart escaped storm damage it was found last night when repair men for the telephone company renewed connections through to that point. Round Rock and Hutto, north of Austin, reported they have escaped from effects of the storm, but had experienced considerable rain during the afternoon. The telephone company late last nieht renewed its con See Two Water Spouts.

the ttTtttt er Hlalied f.tr I and induslrial buls i Two separate water spouts, ap-i town when the storm appeared, and 1 Jt miraculous, parently directly over river. were on the ttet in front of J- u- Martlrr fir unconsciousness following injuries received In th hurricane. Officers were searching down all leports of looting and were keeping close watch at all of the damaged places. Firemen Ar Detailed. The different companies of firemen were apportioned among the different damaged localities.

They led the work of rescuing the injured from the masses of debris and in loading them into cars and ambulances. Chief Clarence Woodward, at the head of his men, wotked continuously until it was assured that all the injured had wt re seen from Ht. Kdward'a col-' mW when th- nt according to Itev. 4oph and th 'h' w-re not hurt i thin Ktfirm utruck hr It im.mt ipmrmrfln v. woo tuma tnese cyclones Wer living In crnh together, and continue am one.

Urissom said they itre all grouped iloi nection with Manchaca, and it was learned the town had! building, which wa not damaa itepnli will gin today of! kitchen and dormitory of lh! gro InetHute, and It Is txpct The rfjof was lifted frnm a Mm- IUND OF FATE SAVES oouievara were struck by the hurricane, two demolished and two badly damaged. The residences of C. E. Eklund and Ollie Estill wete prac Woodward Man Holding to Tree Escapes Injury SMALL BOY, WHO RUNS house by the wind. Father Helserl Kaid.

Hnd carried several hundred 1 Inlchl tha t.Mll.tino. mM t.A In 4 tically aemoiished. while the resi been rescued. Miraculously, no fires INTO PLANT BUILDING'" "re of th-i8o inmates dence of Jeff Simmons and Ewellj broke out In any of the damaged Nalle It structures. Ml yards and dropped on lh campus the college.

A great tre wan I uprooted and drsgsed up th hill to the school grounds, Mr. Helser said. i The wind barely struck the corner were unroofed and slightly damaged otherwise. Mr. Nalle's ga.

rage was destroyed. Several chimney were blows off. Chief Is Thankful. "I wish to thank all those who responded so liberally to our call TELEPHONE COMPANY The hand of rat moves In a mysterious manner, as was demonstrated In th case of a 12-year-old boy who ran Into the building us-d fur upholstering while the walls came In from each side. Windows' were blown galley-west around over the building and the whole structure became a mas RUSHES CREW TO PU Fl-mnmm Arm, OIIUB VOICI urilllO S81Q not sustained any damage.

Reports last night indicate the storm area was limited to Austin and Oak Hill, with a touch of high wind at Taylor. Manor had a light hail and rain, but no high wind was experienced. Elgin felt no effect of the storm. Hail at Many Places. Pflugerville, directly in line between Austin and Taylor, had a slight hail and rain, but experienced no high wind.

Reports received there indicated the hail damage had been heavier further north, but gave no indication of storm damage. Persons coming into Austin from San Marcos, Kyle Morris Hall was In the Woodward plant a moment before the cyclone struck and felt Impending danger. He dashed out of the door and ran to the water tower, grtsping the base. He felt that the tower would be dangerous and ran to a neighboring tree, grasping the tree tightly with both arms. oi tne main building, he said, and was dfflected, but toi up the stone gymnasium, lifting the building stone more than 100 fet.

As inother Tijt nt th. I Thursday night. "1 called upon death were reported in the section car" their aid and nf tvi. Ma(ht i i'n I tefused. all re- FALLEN WIRING Bi The cyclone crosxed tho H.

C. railroad line five mile s.jIr( east of Austin, and tore dowt of th- telephone wires alongi road, breaking la separate telcpl lines, according to Manager .1 Risrlle of the local Houthwe; blanch. A crew of mn wait' Eklund home were Mrs. Eklund, ber mediately I also wish mother and two children, all of t0 thank lhe 'heir quick of wreckage. i A the noise of falling brick died down and searching parties wer busy In finding the Injured, the boy bobbed up unhurt and none th worse for the experience except that responses to our calls.

We dis wnom escaped injury, Members of the other families were in the bomes at the time, but all escaped unln ana tfuaa declared the first evidence of the storm Bn he wa budly frightened. a. uhun mi, to iotK at in- building today, it juj ESTILL FaMILY MISSES DEATH BY CLOSE MARGIN A. C. Kt Ill's family miraculously escaped Injury when the cyclone hurled Itself through Travis befghts.

Kstill's wife, little daughter Jane and Mrs. Estill's mother, Mrs. Hen. edict, happened to be In the onlv room of the newly completed bom that did not cave In. The family had Just gone Into the room when a moment later the cyclone totally demolished the home.

patched more than 25 doctor and all went Immediately to the places designated. "The people as a whole responded quickly and all possible aid was rendered. I am sure the victims are appreciative, and on their part and on the part of the police department, I wish to extend thanks to them." al St fie an? wind andUrttsrs ssss ram storm missed that section along the Post road. erected, on the boulevard by Fred seems impossible that life was stringing SOMEBODY'S ELSE ROOF SAILS THROUGH WALL OF THIS MAN'S GOOD HOUSE Hailing from some unknown point part of a roof plowed into the home of P. Williams, 120S Kast Third street, breaking a window and tearing down part of one wall of the home.

No other homes In the block were damBged. so far as Mr, Williams knew. This was two block from the East Tenth street fire station, where the wind blew down a light tower. Trees were torn up Penick was blown down, the lum- saved among the ruins while utiumKiu, structhm and death were just out-' "ompany wa getting Hide, sitgus through, it was reported Jber being A Ford car leiepnone connections to the south were severed in south Austin and not restored last night. Reports brought in by bus line drivers on the San Antonio road indicated no storm damage had been discovered at any point along the Post road.

ant Neff Offers Aid To Homeless In otner rooms entirely caving in, with i tt BLunuing in me neignoornooa was demolished. Numerous trees were uprooted in the vicinity. Rases Hartkoff Dairy. Haitkoffs dairy. Just south of the Woodward Manufacturing company plant, was razed to the ground.

in- emmney plilng up on top. Ks-till Is a telegraph operator for tho Associated Press. In two places near the Williams home and scattered debris whs Wake of Storm Were Yon Prepared? plant for hundreds of fee't, while trees were stripped of leaves and branches. Penn field was a scene of destruction, of a pulsing' plant of produe- ound In the entire section. none of the employes or mem-jbers of the family was injured.

Two cows and a horse were killed and How Twister Traveled. The funnel-shaped twister formed north of Hyde 1'ark, seemingly ln two divisions. The swirling dark cone veered to the northwest and commenced Its death track at the nt'Kro Xmt, Dumb and Blind Insti-tuie, coming aouih to Peep Eddy. The second or black zigzag tornado hit In the Tnth ward, demolishing tion 'severat omers injured, jne uesuoyea in drtmv roof of the' stora; ciUed fCnCC8 nn ea jute i "i me, A ti ftn.riu)m frim. TORNADO cars.

tildlng In the edge of Penn field bly build SET0N LENDS NURSES TO OTHER HOSPITALS Tho true spirit of humanity wa shown in the manner In which the Scion infirmary assisted some of the other hospitals in caring for th- wounded yesterday. The Heton, with its large corps of nurses, saw thtit It could asslNt some of the other hospitals that were crowded to their capacity and immediately sent nurse who worked throughout the rushed hours of dressing the wounds. Governor N'eff, early Thursday night, Inquired whether any assistance was needed by the city in caring for its Injured, or in sheltering those rendered homeless K. B. Walthall, prlavte secretary to the governor, came to The American office to bring the tender of state assistance, on behalf of Governor Neff, to the city.

A message was "given, the governor that from reports then in, no outside aid would he required, to take tare of the situation. swath through Heights, leapJround, iiig In a beellne to St. Kdward-s Timber. Hurled About. was reported.

RED CROSS STEPS IN Following; in the wake of the st'rin came the Austin Ked C'rosM with offers of assistance. The nurses were organized for service and offered their assistance to the hospitals, Immediately upon her return from Penn field Mr. Ktig-ne Maynle, executive secretary, called on all tho hospitals and offeed to assist the patients or th- hospitals In any way the organization might be of service. Should any of the storm sufferer need nssiatance, Mrs. Haynle request that they call 2fi4.

Miss Jans Duffey of the university K-d Cms organization stujtl In-r-ndiness to be called uponJ college and 1'enn fii-ld, and men cut- CEf SURAN IN InH TriTi TimtHr' Platring and he neiehlw" Ur all kinds of debris were ottered Mwarw. t. fw hundreds of yards from the fm MU'1, Woodward plant. A level field just enoriai south resembled a foreKt nf un were being made to find any pos- even splinters, a wide section being ting off across through the hills to the southwest, with the fuxint-l-sliaped destruction growing larger and blacker. The life destruction tiJtermath came when the cyclone raced through Oak Hill and Manchaca communities.

Sunlight Follows Storm. After appearing In the northwest, the twister was accompanied Goro Mndll, eounaei for the Stat Traveler' Protective association, left Thursday noon for Houston, where he will attend the state meeting of th association. He will return home Hunday. sinie victims buried under the mans of debris of the various buildings One woman told a tale" of being slammed up against the wall of a falling building and suffering severe bruises. Arnunrl ih.

11 coveied with broken timber sticking up in the grounl and strewn over the field. Several aitfomoblles from the Woodward plant were hurled across the I 'out road into the field on the west side. ii by a heavy hailstotm accompanied The Cost Is Sniali Unlimited Facilities Insurance Against ANYTHING, wre numbers of work with rain, which Continued Uddiiiona men, only a little while before busily working, and thenta little later looking around, wet and. i Storm Clews On iage 8 CURIOSITY TO WITNESS CYCLONIC PHENOMENON DERUPTS BALL GAME Curious to see the cyclones which played around Austin on Thursday afternoon, students witnessing the Texas-Austin college baseball game crowded on the field, making it necessary to call the game before half the first inning had been played. After the students had gone back to the stands the hall and rain ub'iut twenty minutes until the storm had passed penn field.

Later in the afternoon, with death in its wake, the eky partially cleared off, and warm eunlieht filtered over Austin as the sun set. Five Brick Buildings Fall, Hundreds of curious persons rushed to Penn field immediately after the catastrophe, soon blocking traffic for mote than a mile so that Jt was Impossible to reach the dis-aster-strickcn site. Numbers of ambulance, sirens screaming, rusht-d back and forth with their loads of injured, adding ta the gen-rful commotion. amwst railing to realize tha significance of the disaster, Entire Plant Ruined. A parallel row of four buildings.

Including the storage, crating, trimming and paint departments, were masses of ruin. The large central brick building, with Its JOO-foot an. nex, was leveled to the giound. The wooden barracks were visible only in the littered landscape. At the honpltals the Penn field 1 Tornado, Cyclone, Windstorm Covering all direct losses.

Frame Dwellings. I'ountry. SSc. per 1100,00 per year. Frame Dwellings.

Country. 3fic per $100.00 per year. Buildings (frame) In course of construction, 80c per $100.00 per year. Frame Htore Buildings, 30c per fltfO.00 per year. Frame 8tor Hulldlngs (contents), 40c per $100.00 per year.

Rstes on Other Class of Construction en Rqut. PAUL 0. SIMMS COMPANY, i i feci prevented the continuation of the wmi draggled and drenched to the skin, many of them and unui snoes on Old COata haattlv Five brick buildings. Including the tig and aastmbly building nem, witn blood oos Arthur L. Skelley 523-525 Littlefield Building Phone 6940-6800 mill i ing over tneir faces and bodies.

at penn field, 3u feet long ana tie -M were leveled to tne or mem were moaning, oth er were and deKpoedent. ric. Girls! Clear Your Skin With Cuticura INSURANCE game. Morehurt of Austin college was the first man at bat and flew out to Dunaway; Lain struck out, and HoIUs was at bat when the crowds began to surge upon the field. Lelasner was pitching for Texas, while Morgan, who lost Wednesday, to 1, to Southwestern, whs to be on the mound fur Austin.

Tho ganie was postponed for the rent of the season. 121 West 7th St, Phon 6019 ANYWHBBK" WK WltL INSL'RK ANYTHING, iourul, steel framework and buck i op in twiftcd fashion, while bundra.ls of )' tator tramped trjiw to see something new. Tn9 huge lower at tha field wa I i u. the ground. Timbers were the manufacturing in honor of the newly elected members of Chancellors, honoiary law society of the university, a banquet was heV Thursday night at the Driiikiil hotel.

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