Scene showing where the tornado struck at Heber Springs.
The storm came sweeping over the mountain, which is dimly seen
in the background, passed over the valley and struck with full
force on the hillside, shown in the foreground. The house shown
in the middle of the picture was lifted up, carried over the trees
and deposited in its present location. In the immediate foreground
is shown a pile of boards that once was a home. It was one of the
first in the storm’s path.
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northeast of there. He was
Clarence Presswook, 13 years
old. The lad was crushed to
death in the debris of his fath
er^ home.
Of the eight negroes killed at
Judsonia, five were children of
Dave Pool, a preacher and farm-1
er. The other four melfcbdrs of
the Pool family were taken to
Little Rock Tuesday afternoon on
Iron Mountain train No. 223, and
were placed in St. Vincent's in
firmary.
Those of the Pool family dead
are Eskew, 19; Dale, 11; Bud, 9;
Pearlie, 5, and Doyle, 3 years
old. Those taken to Little Rock
are Davie Pool, the father, the
mother, who is not expected to
live; Leona, 18, and Cologne, 12
years old.
The other negroes who lost
their lives are Sarah Brewer,
Lulla Canada, 5 years old, and
her father, Henry Canada, who
died at St. Vincent’s infirmary
Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock,
two hours after he was taken to
Little Rock.
The body of Doyle Pool, the in
fant, was not located until Tues
day morning, when it was dis
covered by a searching party,
lodged in a tree, about a quarter
mile from the wrecked home.
JUDSONIA NEGRO DISTRICT
WRECKED.
The negro section of Judsonia,
consisting of about a dozen
shacks just east of the Iron
Mountain railway tracks and op
posite the depot, was wiped out.,
A picture showing - an aged
negress at Judsonia and what is
left of her home. Only the floor
remains, but a bed, just back of
her was undisturbed. As the
walls of the house were carried
away she was knocked to the
floor beside her bed which pro
tected her from being killed by
falling debris.
The storm first struck the home
of Mrs. Giles, a white woman,
and then veering slightly to the
north, swept away the negro
homes, crossing the railroad
tracks and on toward Bald Knob.
Nothing was left unmoved in
the path of the tornado, which
was about 50 feet wide. The
negro shanties were wrecked and
the debris scattered over several
acres of ground. Bed clothing
clung in the tops of trees which
escaped, while fences served to
drift up piles of timbers, house
hold effects and numerous and
sundry other articles.
TWO DEAD NEAR CABOT
Five miles south of Cabot,
where the tornado met dozens of
homes in its path, John W. Low
ery, 60 years old, a farmer,
whose wife resides at 421 East
Seventeenth street, Little Rock,
and conducts a small grocery
store, was killed when his home
was wrecked and blown away.
His son’s wife, Mrs. Nina
Lowery, who was also in the
home, was killed. Funeral ser
vices and burial for Mrs. Lowery
were held at Cabot. Mrfc Lowery’s
body was taken to Little Rock
for burial.
The list of injured, containing
now abo,ut 100 names, reported
from there and Cabot, continues
to grow as the rural districts are
heard from.
JUDSONIA GIRL BADLY HURT.
Miss Lizzie Giles of Judsonia,
18 years old. who was carried
about 50 yards from her home
here by the tornado and left un
conscious in a pile of debris, is
believed to be injured internally
and may not recover. Her moth
er escaped serious injury by run
ning from the home into the
yard and clinging to a bush dur
ing the storm.
E. E. Jones, Iron Mountain
section foreman there, sustained
lacerations about the head and
face and numerous other injuries
of a serious nature when the
tool house in which he and five
negro laborers had taken refuge
from the storm, was blown into
splinters.
SEVEN INJURED IN ONE HOME.
Will Robertson, residing in the
same neighborhood, his wife and
five neighbors, who were in the
home, were injured. The Nor
ris family, consisting of three
boys and three girls, narrowly
escaped death when their home
was completely wrecked.
FLOOR SAILS AWAY.
Turner Johnson, who was a
member of the party assisting
the stricken people of Judsonia
related how he and his wife were
saved from serious injury and
possible death. They live north
east of Judsonia.
“We were standing six feet
from the door of our home,” he
said, “and saw the pecular
shaped cloud coming our way
It was but a few seconds when
it struck our house, lifting the
walls from the floor. In some
way a table in the room was
hurled against myself and wife,
knocking us through the door as
the walls were being swept away.
We were slightly stunned by the
blow, but soon recovered. We
looked around in time to see the
floor on which he had been
standing, sail off across the yard
about 60 feet away.”
Aus Lewis stated to the editor
in Little Rock Thursday that he
barely escaped being caught in
the storm. Aus was a breakman
on a train which had just left
Germantown near Little Rock a
few minutes before the cyclone
struck that town.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. T.
W. Brewer six miles from Cabot
was completely demolished as
was also their barn and other
property. Mrs. Brewer is a sis
ter of Dr. J. R. Piercey of Mc
Crory. In a letter to him yester
day she stated they lost every
thing they possessed.
J. P. Raymond is not sure but
what he lost a house at Heber
Springs as he has not heard all
of the particulars. He was per
sonally acquainted with a num
ber of the people who lost their
lives there.
Negro schoolhouse at Judsonia. One desk and the flo°r re
mains and this was moved from its foundation on the left,