St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-03
LITTLE ROCK IN RUINS
Cyclone Literally Demolishes
the Business Part Of
the City.
MANY PEOPLE KILLED.
Track Of the Storm a Horrible
and Indeseribable Scene
OF Wreck.
DAMAGE ,OvER s5oo,ooo.
Rumor OF the Destruction Of
the Insane Asylum and
Injury to Patients.

LITTLE Rock, Ark. Oct. "A terri
bic cyclone struck this city at 7:30
O'clock this evening and almost dew
astated the business portion of the
city. Several people are known to have
been killed and injured. while it is
feared scores of others have met the
same horrible fate The main portion
of the business center, bounded on the
south by Third street, on the north by
river front, on the west by Center
street and on the east by Commerce
street, is practically in ruins, and the
amount of damage is incaiculable. The
total property loss Will probably ap-
proxmate s50O,00O. The cyclone was
accompanied by terrible storm. and
the stocks of goods in those business
houses which were unroofed, though
not otherwise wrecked, were destroyed
by water. The storm struck the state
penitentiary. which stands Oh hill in
the western part of the city, with
fearful force. destroying the dining
room, tearing down the staple and
shops, unrooiing the main cell building
and demUlishing the Warden's office.
Several convicts were seriously injured,
one of whom died an hour afterwards.
Down town the lightning struck the
Martin block, corner of Spring and
Second streets, totally wrecking the
third floor. \ man by the name of Eaton
was fatally injured there. The TILES
building, corner Center aud Markham
streets was unroofed and part of the
fourth floor of Gleason's hotel was
blown away. At Main and Second
streets the tops of several adjacent
buildings lie piled up in an indescrib-
able heap. The worse damage, how
ever, was done to property on Mark
ham and Commerce streets. Nearly every
building i'll that district is unroofed and
many are totally wrecked. The large
three story building at Market and
Cumberland, occupied by the B. Ii. Nc
Carthy Co., is total wreck, as is also
the story building on the opposite corner,
occupied by Max Elkans as saloon.
The third story OF the Deming house
was blown off and the several stores
under it were flooded by waller and flied
with debris.
The streets are filed with tin roofs,
electric wires and other wreckage, and
it will be several days before the extent
of the damage can be accurately known.
The large cotton warehouse situated
at Second and Scott, owned by }.
ID. Bacum, was wrecked. 1t fell on
the Western Union telegraph office,
next door, and wrecked it, thus
cutting off al! telegraphic commuuica-
ton with outside points. The city is in
the densest darkness, and the streets
are veritable stream of mud. Rescu-
ing parties are busy searching for the
wounded, but a list of the casualties is
utterly unobtainable.
Among those known to have been
seriously and probably fatally injured
are I. Z. Monroe, member of the Ar
kansas legislature, and Hon. Sam Smi. n,
prominent cotton buyer, is also badly
wounded. Others are known to have
been more or less injured, but the names
are not obtainable. Ali kinds of ru-
mOrs are afloat, one to the effect
that the insane asylum, in which some
500 patients are conGned, has been
blown down and many patients injured,
but the asylum is situated mile from
the city, ana the rumor cannot be con-
tirmed. a number of escaped lunatics
have been captured near the union
depot. and this fact gives color to the
rumor.