Red Cut, TX Tornado, Apr 1919

NEGRO WOMAN KILLED WEST OF TEXARKANA.

Special to the News.
Texarkana, Texas, April 9.. – A cyclone of terrific force dipped down suddenly this morning at 8 o’clock in the Red Cut settlement, just west of town, and, sweeping north, wrecked everything in its path for a distance of about three miles, when it lifted as suddenly as it had descended. Its path was not quite a mile wide. It is estimated that between thirty and forty farmhouses and barns were wrecked and much damage to fencing and telegraph and telephone lines is reported. The property loss will aggregate many thousand dollars.
So far as can be learned, EDA RICHARDSON, a negro woman, was the only fatality. She was bending over the cradle of her baby when the cyclone struck the house and blew it into splinters. He husband and three children were painfully but not seriously hurt.
The home of Alex Champion took fire and was destroyed, but all the family escaped with only slight injuries. From twenty to thirty other persons were hurt, but only four of them seriously.
The local Red Cross rushed several relief automobiles to the scene and brought several of the injured to the local canteen, where they were properly cared for. Nearly all the wounded are negroes and Mexicans. It is thought there was also a heavy loss of cows and other stock.
The cyclone is reported to have come to earth again at Ogden, fourteen miles another on the Kansas City Southern Railroad, where a negro woman was killed, two churches were blown down and the railway station and freighthouse (sic) partly wrecked.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 10 Apr 1919

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LIST OF THOSE REPORTED KILLED BY STORM WEDNESDAY.

Following is a list of the identified dead:
At Texarkana:
ED A. RICHARDSON.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 10 Apr 1919
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Transcribed by Jenni Lanham. Thank you, Jenni!