The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-03
WRECKED by CYCLONE.
Fearful Work of the Wind and
Rain at Little Rock.
SEVERAL KILLED AND INJURED,

The Main Portion Of the business seU-
tlon of the city Practically in Ruins.
Buildings Unroofed and stocks Grsntly
Damaged by Water.
LITTLE Rock, Oct IA terrible cyclone
struck this city at 7.3O o'clock last even
ing, and almost devastated the business
portion of the city. Several people are
known to have been killed and injured,
while it is feared scores of others have met
the same fate The main portion Of the
business center is practically in ruins, and
the amount of damage is incalculable
The total property loss will probably ap-
proximate 100000. The cyclone was ac-
compauied by n terrific rain storm and
the stocks of goods in the business houses
which were unroofed, though not other
wise wrecked, were destroyed by water.
The storm struck the state penitentiary,
which stands on hill in the western part
OF the city, with fearful force, destroying
| the dining room, tearing down the sta
BILE and shops, unroofng the main cell
building aud demolishing the warden's
| office. Several of the convicts were seri-
ously injured, one of whom died an hour
| afterwards
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Martin block wrecking the third floor.
A man named Eaton was fatally injured
| there. The Titles building was unroofed,
and part of the fourth floor of Gleason's g
hotel was blown away. AT Main and Sec
ond streets the tops of several adjacent
buildings were piled up in an indescriba-
BILE heap.
The worst damage, however, was done
1 e. to p, Nal hor apd Com ,ar ~
streets. Nearly every building in that
district was unroofed, and many are to-
tally wrecked The large three story
building at Market and Cumberland, oc-
cupied by the f. II. Mccarthy company,
is total wreck, as is also the two story
building on the opposite corner, occupied
by Max Elkans as a saloon. The third
story of the old Deming House was blown
off, and the. several stores under it were
flooded by water and filled with debris.
The large cotton warehouse, situated
at Second and Scott, owned by j. H. Ba
cum, was wrecked. 1t fell on the West
ern Union Telegraph Office next door
and wrecked it, thus cutting off all tele
graphic communication with outsid,
points. The city was left in the denses
darkness, and the streets are veritabl'
streams of mud.
The streets are filled with tin roofs
= eectric wires and other wreckage, and il
wll be several days before the extent O
the@amage is known accurately. Rescu
ing larties are busy searching for thu
dead AID wounded, but list of casual
Ties Is Utterly unobtainable,
Amongthose known to have been seri
r ously and lrobably fatally wounded ar,
Z. Il. Monroe member of the Arkansai
: legislature, and - Eaton and San
= Smith, prominent cotton buyer, is alst
5 badly injured.
All kinds of runors are afioat, one tt
, the effect that the insane asylum, il
which about 500 patients are confined, ha
, been blown down and many patients in
lance from the city, and the rumor canno
be confirmed. A number of escaped lu
natics have been captured near the Uniol
depot and this fact gives color to tn
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