Laid Waste By Wind

Por) SmíiIi. Ark., .lai'ii.iry 12.- Two seore of human Uves and upward of $1,000,000 worth of property we.re desiroyed by ;i terrible tornado whk'h bvrrst upon this city a few minutes after 11 o'eloek last night. The storm struck near the National eeinetery jn.i tore its way tlirougli the envite eity, leaving its path marked by deatii and desolation. Men, woeien aori ohlkiren, peacefully asleep ni their Iki.h , were without a momeiifs wariiing awakcniHi to mect a horrible death :n rln (earful storm, while otliors niomentarily moro fortúnate, and whó osrajied the fury of the wiud. níet a far worse t'.-no a few inomenís later in the lia iiics whu-l; soon saigulfed uiany of the wivcki .1 buildings. i'ort SniiiH lies at Hie conlluence of the IMtou and 'Arkansas rivers, whieh wash its sonth and. west sides, and to the north and east are liills wiiieh form a banier about that gfection oí the town. The stor-n sii'iiek city in the southiwestern se;tion, rigbt .at a point where the two i-ivers eouie together and near the old fort. Froui ttiere it spi'ead out ov-r the whode erty, dipping down and seattering destruetion here and there. There is a rise iin the ?itj' toward the easi to meet the hills ou that side and mosi oí' rhe damage to property and loss of Ufe was through that section. Hundreds oL persons have been injured, same fatally, rnd othera aol so badly. The lYMows yh did [lot close Up witli Mark Haima before ilie T.'id niau w;is signed will probably appreciate the farce of ili.-n good, old tnjuuctlon, "Ooiih" early and aroid the rush." Mr. Haim.i's politics are eondueted upan business principies and T: votes an-swered bis purpose quite as wei] as a hundred.