The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-03
WRECKED BY CYCLONE.
Fearful Work of the Wind and
Rain 8. Little Rock.
SEVERAL KILLED AND INJURED.
The Main Portion OF the Business SEQ
tion of the City Practically In Ruins.
Buildings Unroofed and Stocks Greatly
Damaged by Water.

LITTLE Rock, Oct. "A terrible cyclone
struck this city at 1880 o'clock last even
ing, and almost devastated the business
portion of the city. Several people are
known to have been killed and injured,
while IL Is feared scores of others have met
che same fate. The main portion of the
business center is practically in ruins, and
the amount of damage is inca alculuble.
Tho total property loss will probably APP
proximate $590,000 The cyclone was ac-
oompanied by a terrific rain storm, and
the stocks of goods in the business houses
which were unroofed, though not other
wise wrecked, were destroyed by water.
The storm struck the state penitentiary,
which stands on a hill in the western part
of the city, with fearful force, destroying
the dining room, tearing down the sta
BILE and shops, unroofing the main cell
building and demolishing the warden's
sffice. Several of the convicts were seri-
ously injured, one of whom died an hour
afterwards.
Down town the lightning strnck the
Martin block, wrecking the third floor
A man named Eaton was fatally injured
there. The TILES building was unroofed,
and part of the fourth floor Of Gleasons
hotel was blown away. AT Main and Sec.
ond streets the tops of several adjacent
buildings were piled up in an indescriba-
BILE heap
The worst damage, however, was done
TO property on Markham and Commerce
streets. Nearly every building in that
district was unroofed, aud many are to-
tally wrecked. The large three story
building at Market and Cumberland oc-
uupied by the T. II. Mccarthy company,
IL total wreck, AS is also the two story
building on the opposite corner, occupied
by Max Elkans as a saloon The third
story Of the old Deming House was blown
of, and the several stores under il were
hooded by water and filled with debris
The large cotton warehouse, situated
at Second and Scott, owned by J. H. Ba-
cum, was wrecked. 1t fell on the West
srn Union Telegraph Office next door,
and wrecked 1t, thus cutting off all tele-
graphic communication with outside
points. The city was left in the densest
darkness, and the streets are yertable
streams of mud.
The streets are filled with tin roofs,
hectric wires and other wreckage, and it
will be several days before the extent of
ihe damage is known accurately. Rescu-
Ing parties are busy searching for the
nceu anu Wounueu, Dut a ilSJ OF casual
ties is utterly unobtainable.
Among those known to have been Beri-
ously and probably fatally wounded are
g. P. Monroe, member Of the Arkansas
legislature, and John Eaton and Sam
smith, a prominent cotton buyer, is also
badly injured.
All kinds of rumors are afoat, one to
the effect that the insane asylum. in
which about 800 patients are confined, has
been blown down and many patients in
cured, but the asylum is situated dis
tance from the city, and the rumor cannot
be confirmed. A number of escaped lu-
hatics have been captured near the Union
depot, and this fact gives color to the
rumor.