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Wausau Pilot
Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin
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A devastating tornado swept over areas west of Mount Pleasant, Texas, on Monday afternoon, annihilating towns of Birthright and Ridgeway, destroying homes in Deport and Halesboro, and causing scores of deaths and crop devastation.
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Big Texas Windstorm Carries Death and Destruction.
Scores of lives were lost, crops were devastated, and at least two towns were wiped out by a terrific tornado that swept over the country west of Mount Pleasant, Texas, Monday afternoon. Details were difficult to obtain on account of the prostration of telegraph and telephone wires, but sufficient information was obtained to make it certain that the disaster is one of the most deadly that ever has visited the State.
The towns of Birthright and Ridgeway, forty miles west, are practically annihilated. At Deport the Baptist parsonage and half a dozen homes were destroyed. Several buildings torn to splinters and two deaths are reported from Halesboro, and great loss of life is believed to have occurred at Caney, a negro settlement.
Birthright, a town of 800 people, is literally wiped out. Ridgeway suffered almost as severely, scarcely a stick of timber being left standing. It is known that many were injured in Ridgeway, but it is thought there were fewer fatalities than at other points.
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West Of Mount Pleasant, Texas
Event Date
Monday Afternoon
Outcome
scores of lives lost; crops devastated; birthright (800 people) and ridgeway practically annihilated; baptist parsonage and half a dozen homes destroyed in deport; several buildings destroyed and two deaths in halesboro; great loss of life believed at caney; many injured in ridgeway with fewer fatalities than other points.
Event Details
A terrific tornado swept over the country west of Mount Pleasant, Texas, wiping out towns of Birthright and Ridgeway forty miles west; destroyed Baptist parsonage and homes in Deport; tore buildings to splinters in Halesboro; believed great loss at Caney negro settlement; details hard to obtain due to downed telegraph and telephone wires; considered one of the most deadly disasters in the state.