The record-union., 1894-10-04
Special to the REcoRp.uNrox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
| LITTLE Rock (Ark.), Oct. 8. = Las
evenings cyclone grows in Destructive
ness as the details are gathered. Dark,
ominous clouds had been gathering from
the west and southwest, yet the city was
unprepared for the dire visitation that
! followed in their wake. The first inti-
nation Of the impending catastrophe was
/ when the cyclone struck. All the cleo
| trio lights were extingushed and the
| darkened streets were filled with flying
roofs, walls and debris Of all kinds. The
/ cyclone swept up from the southwest,
| striking the city near the insane asylum,
/ the male ward of which was demolished.
| There DIR. Ingate was killed and several
/ inmates seriously injured. 1t then passed
on to the penitentiary. doing slight DAM
age at intermediate points. The second
and third stories of the shop building
wero blown off, the cell building was
unroofed, the Office destroyed and an old
| building scattered broadcast. One con-
! Wet was killed and several guards in
! jUred. Toward the main part Of the city
] the path OF the storm was strewn with
! the debris of wrecked buildings, tangled
:
| WltnStOOd the tenn pests of many decades.
/ Many residences were damaged, roofs
| blown away and walls partly demolished.
| The next marked damage was when
/ the storm struck the Martin building,
! large three-stOry brick office and build
| ing and apartment house occupied by the
| i TtdIJSctS Methodist and several lawyers
offices. Governor Fishback and General
ArUuistead, who had rooms In this build
/ ing, escaped injury. The colored porter
! was seriously injured.
/ From shat point east the scene that met
| the view Of the vast throngS which
! tlOcked d thither this morning was beyond
/ description. Some Of the most substan-
/ tial brick structures in the district lying
/ along Main and Markham streets south
/ to Fourth and Filth were raZeG.
/ gIThe wind was followed by a drenching
| rain that lasted nearly one hour and kept
every one within doors, so the real eX-
! tent Of the damage could not be ascer-
/ tained at the time. The telephone
! wires in the business portion of the city
were blown down, and death and de-
! struction were rife.
| As soon as the rain had abated some-
what. the streets were filled with the ex-
cited populace. Pedestrianism was at
! tended with extreme difficulty and dan
ger, as there were no lights, and the
! tangled wires, heaps of brick, twisted tin
| root and great plate-glass windows filled
I
| the stories of narrow escapes and most
! sad tie Deaths 1t is matter of COM
mon wonder that hundreds were not
| killed.
The police were on the scene promptly,
and everything was done TO restrain the
disorderly element from creating dis
! turbance. The saloons that were not en-
! tirely destroyed were ordered closed at
midnight by Chief Mcmahon. Patrol
wagons were pressed into service and
many of the injured taken to headQuar-
/ ters, where their wounds were attended
! to. The storm proper did not last more
! than three minutes.
The body of DR.. Ingate was recovered
/ from the ruins OF the asylum at noon, but
! so mangled as to be almost Unrecogniz-
able. Several inmates are missing. The
/ conservative estimate OF the financial loss
! on the State institutions is S225, 900; on
! business property, 5000, 900; on dwellings,
! $500, 600.
! -Four human lives are known to have
! been lost, and forty people were injured,
some probably fatally.
The killed are: DR.. j. T. Ingate, Jack
son Boyd, son of Jackson Boyd, J. l..
| Griffin.
The injured are: c. T. Monroe, John
| Eaton. Jerry Donohue, Sam .. Smith,
| viii Ward, John Brown. Fritz Refs, Mrs.
| l.. Colmer, Mrs. j. j. Jenks Mrs. Lulu
Perwitt, George Holloway, George Swift,
| Lucille West, w. a. Langford, John Bal
lou, Tom Forbes, -. Houser George B.
/ Cross, Calvin Prather, j. NJ. Ryan. j. G.
Biggs, j. ID. Bowling, DR.. Lakeland, y.
Henry, A. Wiilharvey, convict. Tom
Mitchell, convict, probably fatally; Gill
bert Baker, Lee Hinson, VIII Singleton,
convicts, j. J. Smith, John Witten,
/ guards.
From the moment it struck until day
break the city was enveloped in dark
| ness. The streets were filled with bricks,
mortar and debris of ruined buildings,
making pedestrianism difficult if not
| dangerous. The most of the 40, 600 inhab-
/ itants slept peacefully during the night,
totally unconscious of the devastation
that was going on about them.
The path of the cyclone lay along the
! Arkansas River, sometimes touching it,
/ but for more than six blocks south OF its
| southern bank and never crossing it to
the north. The marks OF its destruction
have been reported from Lone Oak,
twenty eight miles east OF here. Its
course was almost directly east, the first
! disastrous effects so far reported here
being at the insane asylum, situated on
hill top, three miles west of the city.
! The edestructlyeness was appalling. DR..
! 1ngate, second assistant physician, was
| killed, and eleven inmates injured.
Then in direction almost due east the
funnel-shaped cloud, in a slightly Zigzag
course, wound its way with furious
| violence, now rising and again descend
| ing, ploughed its way through two miles
OF residences and the best portion of the
city, distance of nearly four miles, be-
fore emerging from the city.
Thousands Of people visited the insane
asylum and penitentiary during the day.
a large force of men engaged since the
storm in removing the debris undeK
| which the body of DIR. Ingate was buried
finally came upon the DOCTORS remains.
The dollhouse was completely torn away
and carried outside the walls, and the
chapel and kitchen were badly wrecked.
The east wall of the third story was
blown down, and is now lying at the side
of the building. The convicts confined
in the wards demolished by the cyclone
were removed Immediately after the
walls fell and taken to- the chapel hall.
Eleven of them were hurt, and seven
others are unaccounted for.
The main building, the south half OF
! which was destroyed, was erected twelve
years ago at cost of $500, 900, and is one
of the most beautiful structures to be
found in the United States.
PASSED NEAR HOT SPRINGS.
Hor SPRINGS (Ark.). Oct 3.-The cy-
clone which did SO much damage to Little
Rock last evening passed north OF this
city few miles. Reports from that sec
ton to-day say considerable damage was
done to farm property, but no fatalities
are reported.
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