Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-10-12
A CYCLONES WORK
Business Portion of Little Rock
in Ruins.
MANY VICTIMS WILL BE FOUND
The Cyclone Accompanied by Terrific
Rain Storm and Much Lamage
Was Doue BY Water.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. "A ter
rible cyclone struck this city at 7:3O
this evening and almost devastated the
| people are known to have been killed
and many injured. The main portion
! of the business center, bounded on the
south by Third street, on the north by
the river front, on the west by Front
street and on the east by Commercial
street, is practically ia ruins, and the
amount Of damage Is incalculable. The
total property loss will probably ap-
proximate half u million dollars.
The cyclone was accompanied by a
terrific rain storm and stocks of goods
la those business houses which were
unroofed though not otherwise
wrecked. are destroyed by water.
struck tho Psnitsntiary.
The storm struck the state penitenti-
AIRY with fearful force, destroying the
dining room, tearing down the stable
| and shops, unroofing the main cell
building and demolishlng the ward
ems Office. Several convicts were seri-
ously injured, one of whom died an
hour afterwards.
The lightning struck the Martin
| OlOChs CoIucl Vi opEIuS anu DeCOu0
streets, totally wreckiug the Third
floor. A man by the name of Eaton
was fatally injured there. The Tunes
building, at the corner of Centre and
Oak streets, was unroofed, and part of
the third floor OF Geason's hotel was
blown away. At Main and Second
streets the tops of several adjacen t
buildings lie piled up In an indescrib-
able heap.
Series of Buildings Wrecked.
Most of the damage. however, was
done to property on Markham and
Commercial streets. Nearly every
building in that district is unroofed
and many are totally wrecked. A
three.story building at Markham ard
Culbert streets. occupied by the Is. II.
Mccartney Company, is a total wreck
as is also the two-story building on
the opposite corner, occupied by Max
Elkins as a saloon. The third story OF
the old Demng house was blown off,
and several stores under it were
flooded by water and filled with debris.
The streets are filled with tin roofs,
electric wires and other wreckage and
it will be several days before the eX-
tent of the damage can be accurately
known. The large cotton warehouse
| situated al second ana scott, owned
by by j. Fl. Bachum, was wrecked. II
fell on the Western Union telegraph,
office next door and wrecked it, thus
cutting off all Geographic communica.
ton with outside points. The city Is
| In darkness.
Casualties Not Fully Known.
Rescuing parties are busy searching
for wounded, but the list of casualties
Is unobtainable. Among those known
to have been seriously and probably
fatally injured are: &. II. Monroe, a
member OF the Arkansas legislature,
and a man named Eaton. Sam Smith,
prominent cotton buyer, is ais.
badly wounded. Others are known
to be more or less injured. but theiI
names are not obtainabe.
All kinds of rumors are atloat, one to
the effect that the asylum for the in
sane. in which 600 patients IRE con
fined, has been bio wn down and many
patients injured, but the asylum Is sit
uated a mile from the city and the
rumor can not be confirmed. A mum
Der of escaped lunatics have been cap
tured near the union depot and thi!
fact gives color 10 the rumor.
Carried on by a Cyclone.
PAwNEE, Neb., Oct. "A cyclone
struck the house of John Nelson, sever
night. The family OF seven person.
were blown into an adjoining field.
girl years old had stick driver
through her skull, and can not live
Five others were severely injured.