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A Texas Cyclone

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Houston, Tex., June 5. - Spanish Camp, in Wharton county, 20 miles from the railroad, was struck by a terrible cyclone Friday night Numbers of houses were unroofed and destroyed. In the village Josh Wilkins' house was blown down and two of nis chüdren killed. For 3 miles square ererything is wrecked. Three miles from town Mrs. Simmous was killed and Wash Jenkins, a colored man over 100 years old, was caught beneath the ruins in his cabin and crushed to death. All the residences and outhouses on the Montgomery plantation were blown away and several persons hurt, but none killed.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register