Kunkle, Ohio Tornado
May
18, 1894
THE OHIO CYCLONE
Further Details of the Terrible Cyclone in Ohio.
KUNKLE, O., May 19. --- Four persons were
killed and two others fatally injured in a great
cyclone which passed through the farming
district a short distance from here yesterday
afternoon. The dead are
DANIEL BARNETT and wife,
MARTHA DASHO and
GEORGE OXINGER, CHARLES COLE and wife
will both die.
For a distance of six miles a strip a quarter
of a mile wide is laid in waste. Houses, fence
lands trees are all destroyed. There is not even
a trace left of the
BARNETT house. The body of
MRS. BARNETT
was carried almost half a mile, being
terribly managled [sic].
At Alliance the storm was the worst
experienced in years. The wind blew over sixty
miles an hour. Much minor damage is reported. At
Cleveland, thousands of windows were broken by
hail and many runaways were caused. The damage
amounts to several thousand dollars.
The revised count of dead and injured by the
Kunkle tornado shows four dead and three fatally
injured. The fatally injured are:
MARTHA DAZE,
skull fractured;
CHARLES MOORE, aged 25 both hips
dislocated, several ribs broken and internally
injured; MRS. ELLA
MOORE, his wife, serious bodily
injuries.
These are all expected to die. Besides these
casualties, MRS. ELLA
EVANS, who lives a mile east of the
track of the tornado, is missing. She started
from Kunkle for home an hour before the tornado
struck and has not yet been heard of.
One of the most gruesome incidents was the
finding of a gory human heart lying in the
cemetery between two overturned tombstones. It
belonged to MRS.
BARRETT, whose body was torn to
pieces and distributed over three 40 acre
fields.
The tornado passed through only the southern
edge of the village, levelling [sic] everything
south of the tracks of the Detroit division of
the Wabash, which passes through the place. Much
small damage was done to houses in the main part
of the village, however. Had the storm gone 200
yards further north it would have utterly wiped
out Kunkle and killed the greater portion of the
people.
Aspen Weekly Times Colorado 1894-05-26
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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