The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-06
ARKANSAS STORM.
Further Reports from Devastated
Little Rock.
WRECKED And RUINED BUILDINGS
Render the Streets Impassabie-The
Scene Of Desolation as Witnessed by
Daylight-Wreeks of the Insane
Asylum and Penitentiary.

LITTLE hoCK, Ark, Oct. 4.-Never In
b history Of Little Rock was there
such a scene of wrecked and ruined
buildings as was presented on the
streets Of this city yesterday morning.
The streets were almost impossible
and great yawning chasms in brick
fronts told of the fury of the storm.
The damage will aggregate about ST..
100000. The only insurance held BY
h sufferers amounts to 81, 500. Al
most every building between Main and
Markham and Third and Main streets
was ~unroofed and in numerous III
stances entire fronts were levslled to
the ground. On East Markham street
the destruction toproperty was greater
than elsewhere. Several large build
lngs were leveled. and not one escaped
injury. Windows and doors were
blown out, tin roofs carried away, tele-
phone and electric light wires blown
to the ground and poles twisted off at
the curbing.
1t was at the insane asylum where
the most complete wreck was to be
seen. The buildings, built by the
state at a cost of $500, 900, are located
on a prominence three miles west of
the business portion of the city, and
offered a splendid tarket for the fury
of the storm.
Thousands of people in buggies and
on horseback thronged the road to the
ruins. The ruin was not complete,
but the damage is estimated at from
$50 to 500. 600. There was n
death here, DIR. j. T. Ingate, second
assistant physician. He and DR.. Rob
inson, the superintendent, were stand
ing in the hall talking just before the
storm struck, and as they started to
go to their rooms the two towers
browning the main Office portion
crashed through the three stories,
burying him under the debris of one
of them.
DR.. Robinson had a narrow escape,
but by pressing up against the wall
while bricks and heavy timbers were
flying about his head in the dark-the
lights having been at once extin-
guished-he succeeded in getting out
without injury. A heavy force of men
worked all night and yesterday fore
noon in removing the debris to find the
body Of the unfortunate physician, but
his remains were not recovered until
IL o'clock. He was found under q mass
Of brick and timbers in the vestibule
Of the main building. lying on his face.
and mangled beyond recognition. His
remains were forwarded to his parents
at Mobile, Ala, last night.
i.esides the destruction wrought in
the main building. the east wall Of the
male ward was completely torn away.
Wards 1. 3, 5 and Z are a total wreck.
The roof is blown of and debris has
been found half a mile east.
P.andemonium reigned after the fury
of the storm had been spent. About
fifteen inmates escaped, but all except
seven were recaptured up TO noon yes
terday.
The following are still missing and
it is not known whether they were
killed or are at large:
Quincy Jones
Dennis Callahan.
James McPeters-
William NJ. Miller.
William Surratt.
Joseph w. johnson.
George w. Alderman.
The storm did great damage at the
state penitentiary. estimated to aggre-
gate $4,000. The south half of the
cell house was completely torn away
and carried outside the walls. The
windows were all broken out, but very
little damage was done to the interior.
Many of the convicts were in their
cells at the time and were not hurt.
The new workhouse, chapel and
kitche en- were badly wrecked. The
third story and the east wall of the
second story were blown down, and
are lying between it and the house,
vast mass of brick and mortar. The
west wall was cracked at the floor and
inclined to the east about As degrees.
It was in this building that the only
death occurred. ]. F. Griffith, a white
man, sent up from Clay county for in
cest, was descending the stairway from
the third story when the wall caved
in and buried him under the debris.
His remains. badly mangle, were re-
moved from the ruins this morning.
He was a native of Montgomery coun-
ty, KY, and has a son named Eugene
Griffith in Chicago. The hospital
building was uninjured except for the
wrecking of several chimneys and a
portion OF the roof. The two-story
stable. blacksmith shop and woodshed.
that stood in the center of the yard.
was badly wrecked. being torn down
below the second story. Several head
of stock were killed.
The Heaviest Losers:
Insane asylum, $3.50, 600: penitentiary,
$50. zoo. property of the state: Dickin-
son Hardware Co.. 81, 800: Nudley E.
JONES' Co.. $1,000: III. II. Rottaaen. S15,-
900: q. f. Eaucum. $4,000: J. P. Nc
Carthy, $1,000: Louis Volmer. $1,000:
Ralph Goodrich. 5000; A. Lotion,
5000: Mrs. c.. P. Redmond, S10.-
OO0: Capitol hotel. $1,000; Arkan-
sas stables, s2,O09; Bell Tele-
phone Co.. s., 900; Sam Rudolph & Co.,
5000: E. Ellenbogen, $1,000; Arkansas
Carpet and Furniture Co.. $50, 900; Lit
tie Rock Tent and Awning Co, $1,000;
Wilson & Webb Stationery Co., 81, 800:
w. P. Holman, $1,000; j.. w. Bidelman,
1880. Several hundred others sus-
tanned losses ranging from $500 to
S1,20O.