The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-10
TIE TERRIBLE TEMPEST.
LOSS OF tiFe AND PROPER ~ IN Lit
TIE ROCK CYCLONE.

LOSS OF tiFs AND PROPERTY IN Lit
TILE ROCK CYCLONE.
The Asylum and the P.ntteDJ'.rv B>dl,
Wrecked and several Iamat-s Kn1ed
La.so of $1,000 600 Wi n $500 Iusur
arc.
LITTLE Rock, Oct. 3.-NeGs from
the Arkansas State insane asylnm al
Al: early hour this morning confirmed
li;sJ reports concerning the Gamagr
done to that institution by the tornado
which caused devastation and death IN
this city, last evening. All the male
department ald annex was raZed tc
the ground, four floors falling in mass.
DR.. I1gale, formerly of Mobile, Ala.
and Two patients were instantly killed.
and four oth-r patients seriously and
perhaps fatally Injured. Destruction
in the residence part OF the city IN th6
| vicinity of the peDit@nttary is very
! great. State Senator Vests daughter,
who lived In that ne,ghborhood. was
| injGred by q falling roof. State E1gl
| neer Esglcstou'S house in tba same
neignborhOod WAS uGrcofed. Thomas
Warmers house was demolished and
a two stosy tenement on West Third
street, rear the penitentiary, and Peter
Engiisa's two story house weEs
wrecked. TIE DeBnlI house, one OF
the oldest bnlliings IN tha CITY, located
at Markhaol street aod Broad way was
demolished. Young's grcce;y was un'
rooted and boarding house at Sec
ond st, eet was blown down, but 10 one
was injured. The Presbyterian Church
at FoIltn aud State streets, was ul-
roofed. Abraham O!!enhtme1's resi-
depca was wrecked. DlcIsga ~ rs>i
0ence property II Wes5 E..;I viii ex-
| ceed $4,000. The uane CT >ha convict
killed at the periteutiaTy IS Gcitlil
Two guards. Smith ard Witt, were
badly lrjared aad seven tcusFV pTi5-
oners We're seriously bnr:. Property
loss to tbs State is $50 0o0.
The storm came from the Southeast
and sweet nearly everything 10 its
path. Pedestrians and teams.sr5 has.
tily sought places OF safety but the
velocity af the wind was terrible and
the list OF irjured will be very large,
Roofs, signs aud trees were tossed
about Ike paper. The path OF the tor
nado was not more than 200 yards wide
and its course was Zizzag. LIS dura.
tion was not over three minutes,
though rain continued TO pour in tor.
rents afterward for an hour. The
damage caused by the tornado will un.
doubtedly reach 100000.
A most miraculous thing occurred at
Fourth spd Martin streets. A carpen-
ter named Clark, with his wife and
baby, were occupying a room in the
house when the storm struck 1t, oloW-
ing the roof from off their heads, and
tearing away the walls around them,
leavidg the inmates untouched and un-
harmed in the center Of the floor.
Th5 instruments OF the weather fore
caster here were blown away. The in
sane asylum authorities report the fol-
owing patients missing: Percy J Jones,
Dennis Callahan, James McPaters,
William NJ. Miller, William Surratt,
Joseph w. Johnson, and George w.
Ackerman. Thousands Of people have
gone to the asylum, where large force
Of men is at work, removing the de-
bTis.
The destruction on East Markham
street covering four blocks, along which
the wholesalers are located, Is even
greater than first reported.
Out of total loss of million dol
lars or more the only insurance held
by the sufferers amounts to about
S2 coo. OF that amount a plate glass
insurance company of New York holds
policies smounsing to $500. The re-
naming $500 was against losses by cy-
clone
1t was at the ilsane asylum WEere
the most complete wreck was to be
seen. The buildings quilt By the State
at a cost of 100000 are located GA a
prominence three miles west OF the
business portion of the city and offer.
ed splendid target for the fury OF
the storm. BESIDES the destruction
wrought in tbs main building the east
wall of the male WARD was completely
torn away. Wards l, 3, 3 and are a
total wreck. Tae roof is blown off and
debris has been found hal a mile east.
Pandemonium reisned after the fury OF
the storm had been spent. The cells IN
the south wing were occupied by In
mates at the time. About fifteen eS.
capped, but all but seven were recap
tufed.
The third story and the east wall Of
the second story OF the penlLentlaTy
were blown down and are lying be.
tween 1t and the house, a vast mass of
brick and mortar. The west Wall was
cracked at the hoor and Inclined to the
east about torty-fVe degrees. 1t was
IN this building where the only death
occurred. J. +. Griffith, white man
seat up from Clay county for incest.
was descending the stairway from the
third story when the wall caved in and
buried him under the debris. His re-
! mains, badly mangled, were removed
from the ruins this morning.
The heaviest losers by the storm are;
STATE insane asylum, 100000; peniten-
t,ary, $4,000. property OF the S1ate;
Dickinson hardware Co., $500; Dudley
E. Jones 6 Co., $1,000; h. Il. Rottakep,
! Sl5. 900; e. F. Baucuun, Sc. .0OO; J. Il.
Mccarthy. 1000; Louis Volmer, S., 900;
Ralpn Goodrlcn, 5000; a. Lotion,
50 Geo; Mrs. c. 2. Redmond, $4,000;
Capitol Hotel, $1,000: SAN Radolpn &
Co., $4,000; Arkansas Stable, S2,V0O;
Bel Telephone Co., $1,000; E!ienbergeD.
$4,000; Arkansas Carpet aud Furniture
| Co., $50 900; Little Rock Ten5snd AWE
| ing Go. $1,000; Wilson 81 Weob, sta
| tionery company, $1,000; W. H: do,
| mann, $1,000; J. ". B:ddnso. 81 800.
Several Others sustained losses rang
ing trom $500 to $1,000. Fally 2OJ cl5-
zsns escaped death 10 most miracu-
lous manner. kilograms from all Sec
tlons OF the country Offering assistance
were received by Mayor Hall TODAY.
All the injured, with few exceptions
are doing nicely.
EROM AN EYE WITNESS.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 3.-Charles Joseph, q
| railroad man Of Memphis, WAS II Little
| Rock lest nIyht during the cgCl0Qe.