WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
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PUBLISHED THOR8DAY OP EACH WEEK AT
McCROBY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Office at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1908.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES,
jne Year, in advance.
11.00
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
By virtue of the power in me vested as May
or the town of McCrory, in the county of
Woodruff and state of Arkansas, I hereby give
notice and make proclamation that an election
will be held in said town on Tnesday, the 6th
day of April, 1909 for the purpose of electing
the following town officers towlt:
One Mayor, one recorder, and five aldermen.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand
as such Mayor’ on the 23rd day of February,
1909.
R B. Crossbtt, Matob'
Brinkley Blown Away
Monday Evening
riore Than 30 Dead in Town Which
Is Leveled to the Ground by a
Terrific Cyclone about 7:15
Editor of the News Goes Immediately to the See tt v. .
the Disastrous Cyclone Where It Blew Down
Every Building Save about Eight. Scores
Are Injured. Relief Work Is Started.
THE KNOWN WHITE DEAD
P. B. Foote,
J. L. Starrett,
Henry Stovall,
Mrs. Ethel Phillips,
Mrs. Belle Darden,
Charles Freni;,
A. M. Hood,
Isaac Reed and wife,
Russell Reed,
Raymond Reed.
THE KNOWN NEGRO DEAD
Laura Burgess,
Flora Wells,
Ed Wells,
John Simpton, and wife,
Georgie Simpson and 2 year old
child.
Lucy Wells.
Callie Washington.
Mariak Pope.
Emma Wadkins.
Sammie Ella Cannon.
Emma Bowden.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Mrs. E. H. Mason, arm fractur
ed, two ribs broken and internal
injuries; condition serious.
Reece Bunch, contusion on head.
Ed Livingston, contusion on
head and back.
Mrs. John Smith, side hurt.
J. E. Stewart, back sprained.
Miss Clara E. Rose, injured in
ternally and badly bruised; prob
ably fatal.
Harry Hood, collar bone broken
and injured internally.
Jim Hood, badly injured about
head.
Arthur Rose, severely bruised
and several bones broken.
Miss Clara Rose, leg broken and
bruised about chest.
About 50 negroes are seriously
injured.
Several of the more seriously
injured were sent to Little Rock
tonight and volunteer nurses art
caring for the others in the emer
gency hospital or in the homes
which were the least seriously
damaged by the tornado.
Brinkley, Ark., March 9. The
cyclone has passed. The devasta
tion and ruin that stares the citi
zens of Brinkley in the face is ap
palling, but the work of relief has
been started in a wholehearted
manner.
After the first moments of pa
ralysis from the awful calamity,
the citizens rallied and all eyes
were turned to the future. Al
ready $550. has been raised in auc
| about the city for the needs of tbs
1 present. McCrory sent in $100
I and others are doing likewise,
j A mass meeting of the citizens
I was held this evening for the pur
I pose of devising means for relief
I Gov. Donaghev and a large par
ty from Little Rock arrived during
the middle of the afternoon and
the presence of the governor had
much to do with brightening anc
encouraging the people who have
throughout the morning felt as
though the blow was more thar
Courteous Treatment
New Horses and Riggs.
H D. 5WAYZEE
THE LIVERYMAN
Commercial Trade Especially Solicited. ’Phone 48
they could bear.
Gov. Donaghey, immediately
upon his arrival, declared the
town under martial law under the
authority of Sheriff Frank Milwee.
An informal meeting of the citi
zens, among whom was the News
man, was held in the wrecked Mon
roe County Bank building, and the
governor iuformed the people that
he would do all in his power to
help them in their distress.
He stated that the militia would
reach the city shortly after 6
o’clock. He also stated that he
would send a special message to
the legislature asking for an ap
propriation.
TORNADOES
ARE
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And you should profit
by others experiences,
by protecting your
home with a policy in
Good Old Line Com
panies.
See us NOW.
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Office: Bank of McCrory
Gov. Donaghey appointed a fire
marshal and no one is allowed to
start a fire of any kind in a house
till the chimneys have been inspec
ed.
Many are already applying for
transportation to leave the city.
Both the Rock Island and the Cot
ton Belt railroads have offered free
transportation and many are leav
ing.
However, no definate plans have
been made as to what will be done
with the women and children, as
there is no place to sleep or places
on which to cook food. Not even a
stove can be found that will per
mit of service.
It is expected, however, that
hundreds will be taken to the near
est towns for succor, McCrory,
Helena, Clarendon, Forrest City,
Cotton Plant and others having
made urgent offers of open homes.
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NOTICE
NOTICE
We want your Eggs,
Chickens,, Ducks, Geese
Butter, Hides and Tal
low. In fact we will buy
anything that the Farmer
has to sell. We will pay
ONE CENT
note for your Produce
than any one else.
See before you sell.
McFadden&Co
McCRORY. ARK.
Brinkley is wiped out. That
proud and prosperous little city of
4,000 people last week, is today a
tangled mass of wreckage. Not a
building in the business section of
the city has been left intact, not a
residence but that has suffered in a
fearful cyclone which swept the
place Monday night, leaving death
and desolation in its wake.
More than 50 people are known to
have perished in the storm. Work
ing with determination, relief com
mittees have already recovered the
bodies of over half a score white
people, and many more may be be
neath the debris. With the people
in their present frame of mind, it
is impossible to account for every
I one, and it is entirely probablejthe
death list may yet grow.
DAMAGE ENORMOS.
The property damage is enor
mous. Conservative business men
gazing upon the desolation Tuesday
| morning, estimated the damage at
more than $1,000,000. More than
1,000 houses were wrecked, or par- j
tially wrecked, by the great wind. J
Every business house is in ruins,
every church save one was destroy
ed and there is hardly a home that
has not suffered the loss of roof or
wing.
Face to face with the greatest
catastrophe of their lives, the citi
zens of Brinkley fought, a decisive
battle with despair this morning,
then set bravely to work to live
down the blow to their hopes and
ambitions.
PEOPLE HOPEFUL.
While the coming of another
day brought oulj a greater real
ization of the terrible havoc
wrought by the tornado Monday
night and added to the distress
of the homeless and destitute,
there was more of a spirit of hope
fulness manifested by the citizens,
who for the first time began to
turn thoughts towards the rebuild
of the city. Amid the ruins of
their homes and business houses
the people began to plan for the
future, and the first result of this
new determination was the issuing
by the mayor of an appeal for con
tributions of building materials to
be used in erecting new homes and
business houses.
RAILROADS GENEROUS.
The Rock Island and Cotton
Belt railroads have both offered to
transport free of charge all con
tributions of this or any other
nature, and it is the sentiment of
the leading citizens of the town
that after the immediate needs of
the people have been met those
contributions which will enable
the wage earners and others who
lost their all in this catastrophe to
rebuild their homes and begin
life anew will be the most useful
and the most appreciated.
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CASES OP DESTITUTION.
Many cases of complete desti
tution were discovered this morn
ing when a committee of ladies
began making a canvass of the
city to find just where help was
most badly needed. This canvass
was made at the suggestion of
Sheriff B. L. Roberts of Pulaski
county, who was left in charge of
the entire situation last night
when Sheriff Prank Milwee was
called to Helena.
CLOTHING NEEDED.
Before the committee had com
pleted a canvass of one-fourth of
the city it had found at least 30
families which were entirely or
practically destitute. Several
persons were found who did not
have sufficient clothing to attend
the funerals of relatives killed
during the storm nor to come to
the commissary to secure provis
ions. When these extreme cases
were reported Sheriff Roberts pur
chased the clothing necessary to
meet the temporary demands. This
clothing necessary to meet the
temporary demands. This cloth
ing, together with a large quantity
of provisions, was loaded into a
wagon and taken by the various
women who had made the canvass
to the homes which had been
found to be most greatly in ueed
of help.
The same course was pursued in
other sections of the city as rapid
ly as the canvass could be made,
and in this manner the needs of
the people were discovered and the
relief in cases of complete desti
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E. L. HAMILTON
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FURNITURE AND STOVES
,u nATTINOS, RUGS AND WINDOW SHADES.
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F. P. WRIOHT, Pr«». W. E. POLLBTT, V. Pres. A. J. PORTER, Sec. end Trees
Purchasing Agency
CAPITAL $25,000.00.
INCORPORATED
General Merchandise.
FRESH GOODS COMPLETE STOCK
tution and actual suffering.
LUNCH COUNTERS DOING BUSINESS.
A temporary lunch counter was
erected in the midst of the ruins
and here food was furnished to all
who were without provisions and
had no money to buy them. There
was no reason for anyone actually
suffering from hunger, for the pro
visions which had been rushed in
from neighboring cities were
ample to meet the demands of the !
moment.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
The escape of a number of guests
and employees of the Arlington
Hotel were so miraculous as to be
almost beyond belief. Almost the
entire second story of this bnilding
was demobs hed had five men who
were in rooms at the rear of this
building escaped death by a hair’s
breadth. Four men were seated in
a room in the rear of the building
on the second floor when the roof
fell in upon the men in this room.
A table aud several chairs in the
room acted as props which caught
the roof aud prevented it from
crushing the lives out of the men
in the room. The table and chairs
held the roof about two feet from
the floor, and through this space
the men crawled out and jumped
to the ground, the rear wall hav
ing beeu torn down aud leaving a
means of egress. In the adjoining
room Adolph Goldberg lay sick in
bed. The walls of this room start
ed to fall, but were held off the
bed in which the sick man lay by a
door frame which acted as a sup
port. Goldberg was taken from
his bed and lowered to the ground
unhurt.
The kitchen, a one-story brick
addition at the rear of the hotel,
was completely demolished, but in
one corner of this room, in a space
not more than three feet in width
or length, nine men were penned,
and not one of the nine was injur
ed. When the tornado struck the
building and the structure began
to crash down upon their heads,
Hartford Donnelly, a local real
estate man, who was in the dining
aooin of the hotel, aud eight ne
groes employed in the hotel, rush
ed through the kitchen in an effort
to escape through a rear door. As
they reached the rear wall the
building crashed down upon their
heads. They were all huddled be
hind the kitchen range, which act
ed as a support for the falling de
bris, aud left an open space which
seemed hardly large enough to
hold three men, but in which the
entire nine men were crouched,
rhe building through which they
had run was a mass of ruins, but
they all escaped.
EIGHTY GUESTS IN HOUSE.
“The escape of these men was al
most toomiaculous to be believed”
declared Gus Rusher, proprietor of
the hotel, todav. “dust how they
escaped they themselves do not
know, and no one will ever be able
to explain. We had about 80 guests
in the house on Monday night,
and only the fact that the storm
came so early in the evening saved
them from death.”
The escape of a number of
guests in the Southern hotel was
almost as miraculous, as R. A.
Bruce and several guests were
standing in the doorway between
the office and the dining room when
the storm came and the building
began to crash down on their heads.
They rushed into the dining room
aDd escaped injury. The entire sec
ond story of the building, as well
as well as part of the first story,
was demolished, aud the mass of
debris crashed through the ceiling
into the office. Dan Cummings was
in a corner of the room on the sec
ond floor, and he was beneath a
mass of ruins. He was takeu from
the ruins alive, but received such
serious injuries that he is not ex
pected to live. No one else was on
the second floor at the time of the
storm.
FIVE PERSONS CAUGHT
In the brick building occupied
by Andrew Flora, a general mer
chant, at the time the storm struck
the city there were five persons,
they weie Mr. Flora, Ben Flora,
sou of the proprietor, John West
by, Pearson Ellege and Allen Pip
kin. The building was completely
wrecked by the wind, which left
nothing but a heap of brick aud
timber. A tall iron bed standing in
the rear of the building saved the
lives of four of the men in the
store. The men were standing in
the rear of the rear of the store
when the crash came. They were
knocked down, and as the building
crashed down on their beads the
debris fell on the iron bed, which
held the ruins off the floor and
saved the occupants of the building
from being crushed to death. The
side of the building was torn com
pletely away, and through this op
ening the men crawled to safty.
Maj. L. P. Berry of the Arkan
sas National Guard is in charge of
the three companies of soldiers,
the first one of which to reach the
scene was Company “G” of Mc
Crory, who are policing the city
and preserving order.
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