The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-09
4 DISASTROUS TORNADO.
DESTROYS A MILLION DOLLARS
WORTH OF PROPERTY.

WORTH OF PROPERTY.
Business Houses and Residences Ruined
in Little Rock, Ark.--Seven People Re-
ported Killed.
LITTLE Rock, Ark. Oct. "a ter
rible cyclone struck this city at 7;3O
o'clock last evening, and almost devas-
tated the business portion of the city.
Several people r known to have been
killed and injured. The main portion
OF the business centre is in ruins and
the amount of damage is incalculable.
The total properly loss will probably
approximate half a million dollars.
The storm struck the penitentiary
and came near destroying it. Many
convicts were injured and one killed.
Nearly every house on Markham and
Commerce streets was wrecked. The
Western Union telegraph Office is
wrecked and communication is thereby
cut off. It is impossible to calculate
the damage or to list the casualties.
9. P. Monroe, of the State legislature,
and many others are known to be
killed. A number of patients of the
insane asylum were killed and the
building demolished. Every building
IN the city is more Or less damaged.
LATER
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-The first reports
of the terrible damage by a tornado at
Little Rock, Arkansas, have been con.
firmed.
The State Insane Asylum was wreck
ed. DR.. Wingate, formerly of Mobile,
and two patients were killed outright
and four others were probably fatally
injured.
The destruction in the residence part
of the town, near the asylum. is i'm
mense. The loss there is ove fifty
thousand dollars.
heavy. It was almost destroyed. The
st. Charles hotel was damaged. In all
seven persons were killed and about a
dozen seriously injured.
The loss on the asylum is one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
the total loss will reach a million
dollars
There was a heavy rain with the
storm. The velocity of the tornado
was terrible.
WHAT AN EYEWITNESS SAW. :
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct 3-Charles
was in Little Rock last night during
the cyclone.
I was standing on the corner Of
Main and Third streets, said he, about
7:30 o'clock, when I heard an awful
noise and roaring. It was unlike any
| ordinary sound. In a moment there
was a burst Of wind, and l ran across
the street into a stairway, Like light
ming the storm burst in all its fury
The real of the building in which I
stood was torn away. Across the street
[ saw a telegraph pole torn to pieces.
A horse and buggy stood near the side
walk. They were blown ros the
pavement and slammed against the
side of a wall.
Main street from Third to Markham
was torn to pieces and filled with de-
bris. On Markham street, opposite the
State building, several houses were un
rooted.
DAMAGE IN MARKHAM STREET
Down Markham street east the
wind tore off roofs of houses and tore
down many others as far as Rock
street, a distance of half a mile. This
is the heart Of the business portion of
Little Rock. Between Markham and
the river, from the State building as
far east as the Little Rock and Fort
Smith depot, great damage was done,
anumber of buildings being torn down.
Out Third street, west from Main, the
wind did great damage, unrooing many
resid ences and tearing down others.
After two minutes the wind ceased
and rain fell in torrents. I walked out
and moved up towards Markham
street. All of the electric light wires
were down and the city was in dark
ness. Around the Western Union
telegraph Office every building was
wrecked. Markham street, from the
Allis Block to Rock street, was filed
with torn timbers, fallen walls, broken
glass and other material. The whole
city was in confusion, and every one
O'clock crossed the river into Argenta,
and the residents of that town knew
nothing of the cyclone. When l left
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