The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-10-03

CYCLONES WORK
Insane Asylum Overturned
by the Big Storm.
Many Killed and Wounded and Wide
Spread Destruction Of Property.
BIZ The Associated Press.


LITTLE Rock, Oct. 3.-News from the
Arkansas State Insane Asylum confirms
reports In regard to the damage at
that institution by the cyclone. All
the male department and annex was
rszed to the ground, four floors
falling in mass OF ruins. DIR.
Ingate, formerly OF Mobile, Ala, and two
patients were instantly killed, while four
other patients were seriously, and perhaps
fatally injured. The destruction in the
residence portion in the vi
cinity OF the penitentiary Is
very great. State Senator Vests
daughter, who lived in that vicinity, was
injured by falling roof. The house was
blown down and everything destroyed.
The other occupants escaped without
serious injury. Engineer Eggeston's
house in the same neig hborhood was un-
rooted.
Pete English's two-story house was de-
molished. The old Dibrell House, one of
the oldest buildings in the city, located
on Markham and Broadway, was totally
demolished. Young's grocery was
unroofed, boarding house at
Second and Broadway, blown down; no
one injured. The Presbyterian Church at
Fourth and State streets was unroofed.
Abe Ollenheimer's residence was demol-
ished. The damage to residence property
in the West End will exceed $4,000. The
convict killed i'm the penitentiary was
named Griffin. Guards Smith and Witt
were badly injured and seven
trusty prisoners seriously hurt. The
property loss to the State Penitentiary
is $4,000. The list of casualties, SO far as
can be learned, is as follows:
Killed and Wounded.
JACK BOYD and baby, colored, killed in
Wahrefritz Building.
MRS. j. j. ANKo, fatally injured.
FRITZ REFS, seriously injured.
JOE HOLLOWAY, colored, killed in Little
Rock bakery; scantling ran through his
side, horribly mangling him.
JOHN FoUERoUwEz, fatally injured.
jim SWIFT, hit on the head with a
brick.
DIR. j. T. INGATE, Mobile, Ala, killed.
CONVICT GRIFFIN, killed.
GUARDS SMITH and WITT, badly in
jured.
REPREsENTATIvE-ELE c. II. MONROE,
badly cut on the head and body by falling
timbers probably fatally.
JOHN EATON, an employee at the Martin
block, the home of Governor Fishback;
internal injuries, from which he will die.
CAPT. SAM O. SMITH, struck on the head
and back, will recover.
JOHN EDWARDS, w ith his infant paby in
his arms. was found dead on the street by
the police.
An aged negro couple were found dead
In room OF a roofiess cabin in the same
locality.
The damage done to property in the city
will probably reach 81 ,0O0,0 900. The worst
effects of the storm are to be seen
ct the insane asylum. DIR. Jacob Ingant
is in the ruins. All but twenty of the
inmates have been discovered. Many
have been found down town and placed
in Jail, and some are buried in the ruins,
1t is feared.
The loss to the asylum will reach
Sl5O,OOO.
The storm came from the southwest and
swept nearly everything inIits path. Luck
less pedestrians and teamsters hastily
sought havens of safety, but the velocity
of the wind was terrific. Roofs,
signs and trees were tossed about
like paper. Some of the most
substantial brick buildings in the city
were either demolshe or badly damaged.
The path of the cyclone was not n ore
than 200 yards wide and its course was OF
q zigzag nature. The duration OF
the cyclone was not over three minutes,
though the rain continued to pour for an
hour and was followed by brilliant cleo
trical display, accompanied by loud peals
of thunder, which was continued for over
IN hour.