The record-union., 1894-03-21
One of the Worst WindstormS in
Years at Helena, Ark.
HOUSES UNROOFBD AND MUCH
OTHER DAMAGE DONE.
Traffic at a Standstill on Ac-
count of High Water About Little
Rock-Blizzard Prevailing Through
Nebraska and Colorado-Cyclone
Weather Continues In the South.
Special to the REcoRD-UNToN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNroS.
HELENA (Ark.), March 20.-Helena
was visited yesterday with the heaviest
windstorm in many year. At that time
the sky became overcast with black
clouds. The people became alarmed,
many of them leaving their houses,
thinking a cyclone was concealed in the
clouds. At o'clock the full force of the
storm was upon the city, uprooting
trees. unroofing houses, blowing down
fences and splintering telephone poles
and doing other damage. The tin roofs
were blown off two handsome stores on
Cherry street. occupied by Tanner u Co.
and Cook Bros. A row OF negro shanties
located on the levee near the Mississippi
Valley depot were demolished 1t is be-
lieved the country few miles south OF
Helena must have been greatly damaged
as the storm seemed to have been most
furious down the river.
STREAMS ON RAMPAGE.
LITTLE Rock (Ark.), March 20.-The
sun shone for few minutes this morn
ing for the first time since Sunday, after
raining continuously for nearly seventy
hours. The Arkansas River has risen
eight feet and threatens to pass the dan
ger line. No trains have arrived or de-
parted for twenty hours.
n dispatch from Hot Springs says that
city is practically shut of from the outer
world for the time being. There has been
no travel over the Hot Springs Railroad
since yesterday. The rain which has pre-
vailed for the past four days has put every
mountain stream on big rampage.
STORM IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, March 20.-Specials to the Bee
from Chadron, McCook and other West
ern Nebraska points report the hardest
snowstorm of the season in progress. To-
night. it was from six TO ten feet deep,
and is drifting badly.
SNOW IN COLORADO.
DENVER, March 20.-The storm which
ragged all day in Wyoming. reached DEN
yer at 10 o'clock tonight. 1t is showing
hard tonight and there is quite high
wind.
GLENwooD SPRINGS, March 20.-A
heavy snowstorm, accompanied by heavy
winds, began here this evening.
BLIZZARD THROUGHOUT WYOMING.
CHEYENNE (Wyo.), March 2O.-A bliz-
zard has prevailed throughout Wyoming
for the past fifteen hours. 1t began
showing here at o'clock this morning
and kept up until 8 O'Clock this evening.
A heavy wind accompanied the snow,
causing it to drift badly. The Signal
Service reports fourteen inches of snow
at Lander at noon. Tonight the temper
ature is falling rapidly, but the indica-
tions are that the worst is now over.
A BLOW IN MISSISSIPPI.
PURvIs (Miss.), March 20.--At O'Clock
this morning destructive storm passed
through this section, and although a
great deal of timber was blown down
and the roads obstructed by fallen trees,
only few houses were wrecked. and no
deaths have been reported.
SEVERAL BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED.
MONROE 0a.), March 20.-A strong
wind coming from the northwest blew
down three dwelling houses, gin house,
table and fencing of A. II. Griffith.
seven miles west OF this city, last even
ing; also in the neighborhood, the dwell
ing of Thomas Roberts was destroyed,
but all the inmates escaped serious in
jury.