Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number  (Missing)
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 1902
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GOLIAD STORM.
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(Missing) Hundred Lives Reported Lost
And Many Wounded.
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A Story of Destruction and Disaster
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       Goliad, Texas, May 18 -- This little city was almost blownaway this afternoon by a tornado.  Nearly one hundred lives were blown out, over an hundred lie torn and bleeding, some of them in the ruins of their wrecked homes and over five hundred, peole (sic) are rendered homeless.  Death hangs as a pall over the town.  The dead and dying fill the people here with an appalling gloom and white those who were uninjured are doing everything possible the task is too much.
       In the confusion here it is impossible to get all the details of the awful catastrophe(y).  But, in the track of the storm nothing was left intact.  More than one hundred houses were destroyed and many others were injured. (Th)e list of killed and injured can not be procured until morning.
(Missing) new victims are (missing) hourly.  It is believed (missing) that the number of (missing) will not go above seventy-(f)ive.

OTHER DISTRUCTION.

       Gause, a small station on the (I.) & G.N. railway between Hearne and Austin was visited by a cyclone and a number of people are reported killed.
       A similar report comes from Ben Hur but nothing reliable could be obtained.

DAMAGES AT MARLIN.

       (Dur)ing the wind storm Sun(day), Robert Dupree was quite painfully hurt as was Frank Greer.  The boys were out with a number of companions in a pasture northwest of town and when the wind came on they took refuge in the side room of an old house.  The wind blew (t)he shed and chimney down and (c)aught Frank and Bob both un(d)er it.
Bob was injured in the (--)ck and in the ankle and Frank (receiv)ed a wound in the side and on the head.  The other boys escaped with slight bruises.
       The school house sitting nearest the I & G.N. tracks was blown off the blocks and damaged somewhat.

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(Title Missing)
The Death List is a Long One
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The Storm Lasted About Five Minutes and in
that Brief Space of Time Great
Damage was Done.
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       Goliad, Tex., May 20, -- This place was struck by one of the most fearful cyclones ever known in the state.  It began about 3:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon and lasted five minutes, but during that time fully ninety souls were ushered into eternity.
       It came from the southeast without warning, completely demolishing a strip about two blocks wide through the whole western part of the town, about a mile long.
       Among the many houses demolished are the Baptist church and parsonage, just built, Methodist church, and a colored church.
       It is impossible to estimate the number of houses destroyed, but it is thought the number will reach 100.  Forty-two negroes are dead and fifty-three injured.
       Damage done cannot be approximated, but it is very great.
       About all of the dead and wounded have been taken care of.
       The path of destruction is left strewn with all kinds of debris and dead and wounded animals.
       The pitiful cry and groans of the many wounded was heard everywhere and at times was heartrending.
       A special train bearing O'Connor Guards, six physicians, nurses and many volunteers came from Victoria, and also a special from Cuero, bringing physicians, nurses, druggists and volunteers.  Although everything is done for the relief of the wounded, cries for physicians and medical attention are everywhere heard.

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