The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-04
little ROCKS BIG BLOW.
H2lf a Dozen Persons Killed and a
Score Injured.

--.--ible Havoc Wrought at the State
r,sane Asylum and Penitentiary.
Tha Total Loss in the City Esti-
ted at 100000 With Only
90 300 Insurance-Graphic Story of
a, Eve witness of the Passing of
the Storm.
title Rock, Ark, Oct. 3-News from
- arkansas state asylum at an early
r,rr this morning, confirmed the first re-
o-,s concerning the damage done that
institution by the tornado, which caused
aevastation and death in this city last
sreninr all the male department was
cd To the ground four floors falling
n mass. DR.. Ingate, formerly of Mo
Nile Ala, and two patients were instantly
l,rled and four other patients were seri-
onslv and perhaps fatally injured.
The destruction in the residence part Of
the city in the vicinity of the penitentiary
sale y,t Senator Vests daughter who
Nd in that neighborhood, was injured by
falling roof Her house was blown
down and everything destroyed. The
Stber occupants escaped serious injury
,one neighborhood was unroofed :;
Thomas Warmers house was demolished
md a two-story tenement on West Third
,treet near the penitentiary, and Peter
English S two-story house, were wrecked.
The Dibrell house, one of the oldest
buildings in the city, located at Mark
ham street and Broadway, was demol-
ished.
At etr nd
Broadway was blown down, but no one
there was injured.
4 Presbyterian church at Fourth and
State streets was unroofed.
Abraham Olleneimer's residence was
wrecked.
The damage to residence property in
the west end will exceed $4,000.
THE KILLED AND INJURED.
The name of the convict killed at the
nsnitentiary is Griffin. Two guards
smith and Witt, were badly injured and
seven trusty prisoners were seriously
hurt The property loss to the state
there is S2OOOO:
The list of killed, as far as can be
learned, is as follows:
Dr. J. T. Ingale, Mobile, Ala.
Two insane asylum patients
The convict, Griffin.
Jack Boyd and baby, colored, killed in
the Wahrefritz building.
Joseph Holloway, colored, killed in the
Little Rock bakery.
The injured are
State representative Elect c. 7. Mon
roe, probably fatally.
John Eaton, an employe at the Martin
block, fatally hurt.
Capt S. O. Smith, hurt on the head.
Mrs Janko, fatally injured.
Fritz REESE seriously injured
John FOuterowez, fatally injured.
James Swift, injured in the head.
Guards Smith and With, badly injured
Many others were injured whose names
were not learned.
Several children were covered with
debris in the ruins of the st. Charles
hotel, but they have all been accounted
for
The bell over the Torrent engine house,
weighing over 700 pounds, fell into the
street, and demolished the engine house
The worst effects of the storm are to be
seen at the insane asylum, which is three
miles west of the business center of the
city The entire south half of the main
building was demolished. The tower fell
through Supt. Robertson's rooms, bury
ING Dr.. lngale in the ruins. Mrs. Robert
son escaped with slight injuries
All but twenty of the inmates
have been discovered Many were
found down town and placed in Jail. and
some, 1t IS feared, are buried in the ruins
Dr lngles body was buried under a
neayy mass OF mortar and timbers.
The storm came from the southwest
and swept nearly everything in its path.
PEDESTRIANS and transfers hastily sought
places Of safety, but the velocity of the
WIND was terrible, and the list of the in
.ured will be very large. Roofs signs and
trees were tossed about like paper. The
4 PAIN OF the tornado was not more than
5Vyards wide, and its course was zigzag.
ItS duration was not over three minutes,
tnough rain continued to pour afterward
Tor more than an hour. The damage
q caused by the tornado will undoubtedly
Iedch the first estimate of 81 ,0O0. 900.
INGATE's CORPSE FOUND.
Little Rock, Ark, Oct 3, 6p. m.-The
N remains Of DR.. Ingate were dug out of the
asylum ruins this morning and taken to
an Qndertaker's. The asylum Is damaged
10 the extent of Sl5O,O00
most miraculous thing occurred at
Iourth and Martin streets. A carpenter
named Clark, with his wife and baby,
we're occupying room in the house when
& sne storm struck it, blowing the roof
ron over their heads and tearing away
Sle walls around them, leaving the in
mdtes untouched and unframed in the
n NOLCer OF Ine floor
Inc Instruments of the weather fore
'aSSer mere blown were away.
., Iue insane asylum authorities report
Tue IoLoWlng inmates missing: Percy
VINES Dennis Callahan, James McEhters,
" W,"iIam Miller, William Surratt, Joseph
IN, Johnson and George w. Alderman
saIgyusands OF people have gone out to the
roS.ln where a large force is al work re-
moving the debris.
,,Iaue destruction on East Markham
W. 1bS,eeI covering four blocks. along which
r uo wholesalers are located, is even
Il vaVer than at first reported. The fol-
ming are the latest estimates of losses:
CH samson $50 Hardware Company, $4,000;
~ wnas, r Pencil Company, 50 900 damage
a for D,ock, caused by the collapse of the
tIb, time hrm' new building; Baum block,
T tTniee stories, $1,000 on building; Max
ne A@n, and the old Robinson hotel, IS, 600 /;
sTO, LEX Leaf hotel and several adjoining
loss Ss buildings were badly wrecked
q r ys9 bSs,VOO; l.. Volner & Co.'S. loss will
VERY LIGHT INSURANCE.
oI Little Rock, Ark, Sept. 80 NJ
n tbe Wi Total loss Of 100000 or more,
smonIy insurance held blythe sufferers
sniot n'S 10 about 81, 500. OF that amount
n y6r.t glass insurance company of New
q TIN holds policies amounting to 81, 500
cycio1aln tanning 500 was against losses by