t3,200 Injured, 46 Towns Wrecked and
2,500 Buildings Razed by Whirl
winds—Dead Mainly Negroes.
Atlanta, Ga.—News from isolated
^points in Mississippi late Sunday night
add 15 more deaths to the list of vic
tims of the storms which swept four
Southern states Friday and Saturday,
•while three of the injured in the hos
pitals at Albertville, Ala., died Sun
day, making the total death list 368.
Unconfirmed reports run the number
up to 400.
Another severe electrical storm
.struck Georgia Sunday, but so far as
is known there were no fatalities and
property damage was slight.
The death list in Georgia stands
at approximately 30, with a heavy loss
in farming districts to property. The
crop damage is small.
With probably 1,200 persons injur
ed, half a hundred towns damaged
and 2,500 buildings razed, the story of
ruin is told. The communities which
suffered most were wooden-built vil
lages, the majority of them with a
■comparatively small number of in
habitants. Wind caused the greatest
havoc and negro residents form the
larger proportion of dead and injured.
The totals of death and misery and
ruin caused in four Southern states
by Friday's tornadoes came to hand
Sunday in approximately correct form,
ilriefly stated, they are:
Killed, about 368.
Injured painfully or seriously, 1,200.
Homeless, several thousand.
Towns reporting serious wreckage,
•46.
Habitations and business houses
practically complete ruins in these
•owns, about 2,500.
The above figures do not include
Jhe wreckage on plantations and
farms, scores of which were struck
and damaged. The number of dead
will never be known accurately for
the reason that about 300 of them
were negroes and they were buried
in many communities without careful
records of their numbers. While some
of the first reports giving apparently
reliable death lists have since proved
untrue, remote places which were late
an reporting their dead have served
to increase the death list. The man
ner in which this death list has grown
for the past two days, in spite of con
tinual subtractions from early reports,
has been a melancholy index of the
scope of the disaster.
By following the wreckage of towns,
the general direction of the tornadoes
can be traced closely. Apparently
the storm struck in three separate
currents, each describing the arc of
a circle and traveling toward the
northeast.
The first of these struck through
northern Louisiana, Mississippi and in
to Tennessee before daylight Friday
morning. The second appeared furth
er south about breakfast lime in cen
■ ral Louisiana and Mississippi. This
■apparently was the portion of the
storm which swept on through Ala
bama and Georgia on Friday night and
Saturday morning. The third tornado
appeared Friday afternoon, further
-south than either of its predecessors.
This was the storm which demolished
Amite, La., and Purvis. Miss., the two
towns in which the wreckage was
worst.
Following is a list by states of the
^1G towns reporting more or less dam
rage, most of which are small:
Louisiana—Lucerne, Kenmore, La
mourie, Richland. Amite, Essie. Pine,
Angie, Franklington, Sheridan, Avard,
Eunice. Total, 12.
Mississippi.—Giles’ Bend, Purvis,
■Churchill, Lorman, Tillman, Melton,
©axterville, Braxton, Sunflower, Waha
iak. Wingate, Columbus, Walls, Fair
child's Creek, Quitman’s Landing. Mc
iLaurin, McCallum, Winchester, Pine
Ridge. Total, 19.
Georgia.—Columbus, Chipley, La
' Drang* Harris, Griffin, McDonough,
Ixtcust, Grove, Cleveland, Cedartown,
Cave Springs. Total, 9.
Alabama.—Albertville, High Mound,
Hatton, Lessburg, Settlement, Blounts
ville. Total, 6.
The four members of the Rayburn
family reported killed at Baxterville,
Miss., were not killed, but were in
jured, two of them, Robert Rayburn
and wife, seriously.
34 Of Gladiator’s Crew Missing.
London.—The total number of dead
and missing of the Gladiator’s crew as
a result of the collision between the
American liner St. Paul and the Brit
ish cruiser off the Isle of Wight is
28. The admiralty late Sunday is
sued a revised list of the names of
the Gladiator’s victims, which include
an additional death in the hospital,
bringing the total deaths known up
to five. Twenty-three men are miss
ing, according to the list, and six are
suffering from severe injuries. The
bodies of three sailors have been re
-covered.
$500,000 Mail Theft Reported.
London.—The London postal author
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mail from this city, containing securi
ties and other valuables worth $500,
4)00, were stolen in New York the lat
ter part of last month. According to
the reports received here, one of the
bags was destined for St. Louis, and
was shipped by the Majestic, which
arrived in New York March 26. The
other was destined for Brooklyn, and
was sh'pped by the steamer Philadel
phia. which arrived in New Y’ork
March 29.
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Cox and Cook Before Grand Jury.
Two of the best-known men In the
alleged boodling scandal In Arkansas
were before the Pulaski county Grand
Jury Saturday. They were T. L. Cox
and M. D. L. Cook. There has not
been a trial in Pulaski county, rela
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of 1905, in which these men have not
appeared as witnesses. In the trial
of Butt and Covington they gave dam
aging testimony, which was as much
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the defendants.
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asked to explain his vote on the bill
that provided for an appropriation for
the new state capitol. He explained
that he voted for the bill because he
thought the capitol should be com
pleted speedily and bcause he had
learned the needs of the building from
one of the commissioners, who was
a personal friend of his.
Wanted On Murder Charge.
Sheriff C. M. Philpot, of Pine Bluff,
has returned from Tulsa, Okla., where
he was called several days ago by
the chief of police, who stated that
he had Noah Owens, a negro, under
arrest there, and that the negro stated
that he was wanted in Jefferson coun
ty for the murder of his wife. Owens
went under the name of William An
derson and he is said to have con
fessed to killing his wife in Chicot
county in March, 1902. Sheriff Phil
pot, after his arrival at Tulsa, learned
that the negro was not wanted in
Jefferson county, but in Chicot coun
ty. He wired Sheriff C. N. Matthews
at Lake Village and he wired Sheriff
Philpot to bring the negro home with
him, which he did.
Arrest Negro For Assault.
Joe Mullen, a negro stealing a ride,
was arrested at Fort Smith on the ar
rival of the Frisco passenger Monday
morning. Officers had been notified
to be on the lookout for the man. A
later message came from Hugo to
hold the man, as he was wanted for
assault.
The negro explained his presence
on the top of the train by saying he
had been at work at a tie camp and
the foreman lost his pass book, so
gave him a half dollar and told him
to tell the conductor to bring him to
Fort Smith. The negro says he gave
the message and the coin to the con
ductor, who replied: “I can't carry you
inside for this; get on top.”
Son’s Death May Kill Her.
H. C. Collins, 45 years old, a resident
of Van Buren, dropped dead from his
chair at the breakfast table Friday
morning fust after eating a hearty
meal. He was apparently in good
health just prior to his death. Col
lins was unmarried and made his home
with his aged mother. A month ago
she was stricken with paralysis, and
was just beginning to recover slowly.
The shock caused by the death of her
son caused her to have a second at
tack. and she is now in a critical con
dition, and her death is expected at
any hour.
Jail For D. E. Jackson.
D. E. Jackson, who shot and killed
Dick Richardson on a street at Ilardy,
April 13, has had his preliminary ex
amination before Justice of the Peace
Davis, and has been committed to
jail without bail. His attorney wired
for Judge Meeks who went there and
heard their petition for a writ of ha
beas corpus and an order for bail. Fri
day afternoon was spent by him hear
ing the testimony and arguments of
counsel when the defendant was by
him again ordered to jail without bail.
Union Holds Much Cotton.
O. E. Collum, county secretary of
the Crawford County Farmers’ Union,
says there are more than 1,500 bales of
cotton in the warehouses at Van Bu
ren, Mulberry and Alma.
The cotton acreage will be greatly
reduced this year.
Robber Runs Dog's Tongue Out.
After following the trail of a robber
for 72 hours, a bloodhound which was
taken to Austin immediately after the
attempted safe-blowing at the store of
T. J. Young, fell, utterly exhausted,
and all efforts to get the dog to con
tinue further trailing were unsuccess
ful.
The owner of the dog declares that
he has handled bloodhounds since the
Civil war and that this is the longest
and hardest chase he has ever engaged
in.
Killed Large Rattlesnake.
D. B. Bolden, a negro mail carrier
on Rural Route No. 1, out of Pine
Bluff, killed a large rattlesnake on
the Sulphur Springs road Thursday
afternoon while returning to that city
from Sulphur Springs. The reptile
had seven rattles and a button, indi
cating that it was eight years old.
Bolden was riding in a mail cart and
had passed over the snake before he
saw it. He jumped out of his cart,
and, with his whip in hand, fought the
snake from one side of the road to
the other, finally whipping it to death.
Marked Tree Needs Money.
Marked Tree's new mayor, Dr. J. A.
Forgus, and her new Board of Aider
men created two new ordinances, the
first being a privilege tax on forms of
business from tamale vendors to large
stores, something never before done in
the history of the town. More than
$500 x>f revenue will be derived. The
second ordinance is a tax on dogs,
of $1 each, which, if every dog is
paid for by its owner, would net $500
or $000.
The town at present has little mon
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