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Four Were Killed

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Little Rock, Oct. 4.- The Io9ses of the storm wlll aggregate uoarly $1,000,XX). Tho damago at tlio state insane nimn is 6000,000. Dr. Ingate, asslstant superintendent, was killed b.meath a talling wal!. Thrse attendants and two patients are also Missing. It is bclioved ihttt they woro buried under the walls. Phe stato penitentlary austatned a loss of 813,000. A conyJct named GriiTm was killed and severa! othera injured. Jackson Boyd and i 8-year-old ohlld were cruahed to death in their home by a fallinr; wiill. Vh,-:i taken from the ruins tln child was daspod i: its i'ather's arcns. Bjt'.i were ioaJ. . Complete List of Dead and Injured. Four dead is sad onough, but thecitizons heaved a sigh of reliof whon it was found that they numbered only that many; for it had beon feared that tho piles of debris held a large nuiuber of victima. The Hst of wounded st rings out, howe ver, tothirtythreo, of whom one is fatally hurt. Tho dead are: Dr. J. T. Ingate, Jackson Boyd, son of Jackson Boy:l, J. T. Grifiln. Folio wing isthorollof injured: Thomas Mitchell, convict, probably fatally; C. T. Monroe, John Eaton, Jerry Donahuo, Sam C. Smlth, Will Ward, John Brown, Fritz Reis, Mrs. L. Colmer, Mrs. J. Janks, Mrs. Lulu Pevritt, Joe Hollaway, Joe Swift, John Fontanross, W. D. Trotter, Miss Lueille West, W. A. Langford, John Fallón Toni Forbes, Housor, George B. Cross, Calvin Prather, J.. M. Ryan, J. C. Blggs, J. D. Bowlin, Dr. Lakeiand, A. Henry; Will Harvey, Gilbert Baker, Jjee Hinson, and Will Siiigleton, conviets; J. J. Smlth, guftrd; John Witt, guard. They Kleit TlirougU the Storm. The disastrous effects of the cyolone were not fully reallzed untll the morning brokt. Brom tho moment that it struck untll daybroak the city was enveloped in darkness. Tho stroets were filled with bricks, mortar and debris of lulnéd buildings and au Inextricable masa of tel egraph, telephone, electrlo and trolley wires, making pedestrlanlsm dlfficult if not dangerous. The most of the 40,000 lnhabitanta slept peacefully in their beds, totally unconsclous of the derastation in the business portion of tho city. The path of the cyclono lay along the Arkansas river, sometimos touchlng it, but for more than six blocks south of its south bank and never crossing it to the north. Took Ueligrht in Smashing Old Probs." The office of the weather bureau lay in the storm's path and its instrumonts, with the exception of its thermometer, were swept away, so that no history of the origln of the storm could be obtained at this source, nor its course after Utavingthe city, alth.ou.gh marks of its destrnction have been rejiorted from Tjonoke, twenty-eight miles east of horc, on the Littlo Rook and MemphU railroad. lts coui"se was almost dircctïy pust, t!ie flrst disastrous effects so far as rcport.rd here being at the insane asylum, jituated on a hill top threc miles west of the city, and where its destmetiveness was appalllng, killing Dr J. T. Ingate, second as9istant physician, and inj uring eleven inmates. Putting Things in Shape. Tlience in a directlon almost due east the funnel-shaped cloud, in a slightly zigzag course, wound its way with fearful velocity, now risingand again descending, ploughed its way through two miles of residences and the business portion of the city, a distance of nearly four miles beforo emerging from tho city limits. During yesterday a great chango was made in the appearance of the city. Hundreds of workmen were busily engaged in romoving the debris from tho streets and sidewalks, repairing the damage to buildings and stringing telegrapli, telephono and elootric wires for service. Liist night electi-io cars and electric lights wero rosñmed. So quickly did the work progress that oxcepï in a few localities no one would have realized the extent of damage except by a close inspection of buildings and stocks of goods.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News