$1,000,000 DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
BY STORM THROUGH STATE
FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
FIFTY-NINE PERSONS KILLED
Hot Springs Race Track and Buildings
At Oaklawn Swept by High Wind
—Death and Damage Also Re
ported From Washington.
Fifty-nine prsons are knowr
to be dead, scores are injured, and
property to the extent of more than
$1,000,000 damaged in the wake of a
torimdo which passed through Ar
kansas from the Southwest.
The storm struck Hot Springs at
about 5 p. m. Four persons were
killed and 12 injured in that city. The
electric light plant was put out of
commission, one church was destroy
ed, many dwellings demolished, Oak
lawn Park severely damaged, and Ma
jestic Park laid waste.
Sweeping on to the northwest, the
tornado missed Little Rick*, but
swooped down upon Kensett and Jud
sonia, in White county. There from
five to 15 were killed, scores were in
jured, and property damage was
heavy.
A section crew of the Iron Mountain
Railway, composed of a foreman and
10 men, sought refuge in a section
house near Kensett. The building was
demolished and all of the men were
injured. The foreman, named Jones,
probably will die.
The Riggs Hotel at Judsonia was
demolished, but it is not known how
many were killed or injured where the
building collapsed. Other Wildings in
Judsonia were wrecked.
It is reported that the storm passed
north of Bald Knob and that practi
cally all residents of Bald Knob have
gone to Kensett and Judosnia to ren
der what assistance they can. They
drove in autos, wagons, buggies and
other conveyances.
Special Trains Run.
J. M. Dean «f Little Rock, general
superintendent of the Iron Mountain,
was in Memphis when news of the
storm came in over crippled telegraph
wires. He learned that suffering is
intense in the vicinity of Kensett and
Judsonia.
Mr. Dean, accompanied by W. C.
Morse, superintendent of the Mem
- division; D. W. Cunningham,
*er mechanic, and O. F. Ellington,
claim agent, departed by special train
for Judsonia and Kensett.
On the way the special picked up
many Iron Mountain surgeons and
took them to the scene of the disas
ter. Mr. Dean also ordered out a spe
cial train from Little Rock, with phy
sicians and nurses.
Practically all telephone and tele
graph wires leading to the interior of
Arkansas were out early in the even
ing. No railroad telegraph wires
were working west of Brinkley, New
port, Clarendon and other cities on a
north and south line.
The Western Union and Postal com
panies lost their wires early, as did
the telephons companies. Only one
wire was working to the west with
any degree of certainty—the Associat
ed Press wire—and that worked inter
mittently. 9
Greater Losses Feared.
Mr. Dean learned that trees and
houses were blown across the Iron
Mountain tracks at several points in
Arkansas, but special crews were or
dered out from nearby points to re
pair the damage. Before Mr. Dean
departed he learned that at least one
of the Iron Mountain’s double tracks
had been opened to traffic.
Although the main path of the
| storm was evidently from the south
west corner of the state, toward the
northeast, another storm or side
sweep of its maijj track caused one
dead, many injured and heavy prop
erty loss in Wasington county, near
Fayetteville, almost in the northwest
corner of the state.
Greater losses are feared in this sec
' tion, which has been cut off from wire
1 communication since early in the
night.
Coming on the heels of the torna
do, the ominous looking storm clouds
which came from the west caused
general alarm in Memphis.
The clouds brought on a wicked
wind, but which inflicted only minor
damage in the city. A plate glass win
dow in J. Goldsmith & Sons’ store
was blown in, and the broken glass
showered from the fifth floor to the
Main street pavement. No one was in
the <v”-’ig glass, however.
DEATH LIST GROWS.
Fifty-nine persons have been re
ported dead and more than 100 injured
in a tornado that swept Arkansas.
All means of communication are
crippled and it is feared the list of
dead and injured will be greatly in
creased by later reports.
The dead thus far reported are as
follows:
Judsonfa, White County, 25 known
dead and 50 injured.
Heber Springs, 18 dead.
De Lark, Dallas County, four dead.
Cabot, White County, five dead.
Hot Springs, four dead.
Morrilton, one dead.
Greenland, Washington County, two
dead.
North Arkansas appears to have
suffered most severely, although the
storm was general throughout the
state. .
At Judsonia one-third of the town
was swept away. The tornado swept
clean an area four blocks wide and
12 blocks long. Twenty-five bodies
and 50 injured already have been
taken from the ruins.
FOUR DIE AT HOT SPRINGS.
Hot Springs.—Reports filtered into
the city of the death out in the coun
try of T. Lee Parker, Dock Parker,
his invalid son; James H. Jordan,
woodchopper, and Jim Brown, negro,
and the probable serious injury of
others out in the country, as the result
of a storm which swept across this
county, injuring probably 200 homes
on the fringe of Hot Springs, render
ing out of commission the electrio
light and power plant, damaging to
many thousands of dollars the Oak
lawn racing plant, demolishing entire
ly the grandstand and fences of the
Boston American ball park training
grounds, damaging two Methodist
churches in the outskirts and com
pletely demolishing 30 homes in the
city. The storm broke about 3 o’clock
over the southeast portion of the city,
following closely the path of the storm
or last rnanKsgivmg auernoon.
cept for the fact that the former
storm resulted in 11 lives lost and
about 20 seriously Injured, the storm
was much more damaging. There
were many reports of damage out in
the country, but it is not believed that
the casualty list will be added to. The
damaging of the power plant and the
fact that the electric car service and
lighting plant of the city is out of com*
mission leaves the city in darkness.
CYCLONE’S SWEEP WIDE.
Fayetteville.—Mrs. Ed Wilson is
dead and 15 persons are injured, some
probably seriously, as a result of a
1 cyclone that swept a half mile area
one and a half miles east ot Green
View of a portion of the wreckage at Judsonia showing where
four negroes in one home were killed outright and four other mem
bers of the same family seriously injured, among whom are the
father, Davie Pool and his wife who are not expected to live.
land. Greenland is located six miles
south of Fayetteville, In Washington
County. Mrs. Wilson was in her resi
dence when the cyclone struck the
building, utterly demolishing It. HCr
husoand, two sons and another boj%
Will Gahhart, who has made his home
with the Wilsons for the past several
years, was also in the house when It.
was destroyed. Their escape from
death is. miraculous, since the build
ing was a total wreck after the cy
clone hit it. Mr. Wilson and the boys
are bauly hurt, hut it is believed that
they wul recover. Mrs. Wilson’s limbs
were broken in several places, her
body was bruised all over and she was
internally injured.
Details from the stricken area are
lacking. But it is known that four or
five members of the Cordrew family
living on the Riggs plantation were
badly hurt and that several members
of a family named Lewis in the sahie
vicinity were injured. Five dwelling
houses on the C. W. Riggs hog ranch
were demolished by the cyclone and
also a barn on the Lottie Stone farm
and barn on the Ike Combs place.
A severe electrical and rainstorm,
accompanied by a high wind, passed
over Pine Bluff, causing considerable
alarm, but no damage.
Cutting a swath one-quarter mile
wide and three miles long, a tornado
traveling northwest dangerously hurt
one person and demolished three
farmhouses near Ozark. Charles Wel
cher, 18 years old, son of C. C. Wel
cher, was the only reported victim.
Lack of telephone service to the
stricken district prevented getting
more details of the storm.
Five are reported killed and prop
erty damaged about $15,000 by a
storm six miles southeast of Cabot.
All telephone lines in the stricken dis
trict are down, and no particulars fcan
be obtained.
One negro was killed and several
are believed to have been injured
and nine or ten small dwelling were
destroyed by a tornado at Blackville,
between Atkins and Morrilton, accord’
ing to reports received here.
One of the most severe rain and
wind storms in years visited Beebe.
Several buildings were damaged and
much timber blown down, but so far
as can be learned no one was injured.
At Heber Springs.
The following is the list of
dead at Heber Springs as the re
sult of the cyclone that hit that
town Monday evening.
J. W. Morgan, 60, gin opera
tor.
Anna Crosby, 16, daughter of
John Crosby.
Irene Crosby, 14, daughter of
John Crosby.
Infant son of Perry Ligon.
Bertie Garrison, 8.
Louis Teames, 35, Farmer.
Louis Teames, Jr., 8.
Marie Teames, 6.
I Mrs. Noah Phillips, 65.
j Elsie Dickson, 8, daughter of
0. C. Dickson, poultry dealer.
| Carrie Barnett, 10.
Mrs. Laura Mize, 65.
Mrs. Cecil Spanhorst, 25.
Mrs. Mack Phillips, 24.
Ollie Blackburn, 73, retired
farmer.
Mrs. Mollie Eden, 40, died on
operating table at courthouse.
NEAR HEBER SPRINGS.
| Albert Reed, 45, farmer, near
Banner, 15 miles northeast of
1 Heber Springs, and three sons.
Tom Walders, 30, farmer.
Ralph Tackett, 38, farmer,
near Rosebud, 14 miles south o
Heber Springs.
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