Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-10-06
IA CYCLONES WORK
Business Portion of Little Rock
in Ruins.
MANY VICTIMS WILL BE FOUND
I he Cyclone Accompanied BY a Terrific
Rain Storm ana Much famaee
Was Doue BY Water.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oci. "A ter
rible cyclone struck this city at 7:3(
this evening and almost devastated the
business portion of the city. Severa
people are known 10 have been killed
and many injured. The main portion
of the business center, bounded OH the
south by Third street, on the north by
the river front, on the west by Front
street and on the east by Com melciaI
street, is practically ia ruins, and the
, amount # damage is incalculab!e. The
total property loss will probably ap-
| proximate half million dollars.
The cyclone was accompanied by a
terrific rain storm and stocks Of goods
iu those business houses which were
unroofed though not otherwise
/ wrecked. are destroyed by water.
Struck the Penitentiary.
The storm struck the state peuiienti-
ary with fearful force, destroying the
dining room, tearing down the stable
and shops, unrooting the main cell
building and dem olishlug tile ward
ems office. Several conyicts were serj-
hour afterwards.
The lightning struck the Martin
block, corner of Spring and Second
streets, totally wrecklng the Third
floor. A man by the name of Eaton
was fatally injured there. The Times
building; at the corner of Centre and
Oak streets, was unroofed, sad part of
the third floor OF GIeason's hotel was
blown away. AT Main and Second
streets the tops OF several adjacent
buildings lie piled up in an indescrb-
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 uuroofed
aud many are totally wrecked. A
three-story building at Markham ard
Culbert streets, occupied by the Is. H.
Mccartney Company, is a total wreck,
as is also the two-story building On
the opposite corner, occupied by Max
E!kins as saloon. The third story of
the old Dsming 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 accnra tely
known. The large cotton warehouse
situated at Second aud Scstt, owned
by by j. H. Bachum, was wrecked. It
fell on the Western Union telegraph,
office next door and wrecked it, thus
cutting off all ,elegraphic 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 unohtainable. Among those known
to have been seriously and probably
fatally injured are: G. II. Monroe. a
member of the Arkansas legislature,
and man named Eaton Sam Smith,
prominent cotton buyer, Is ast
badly wounded. Others are known
to te more or less injured, but their
names are not obtainable.
All kinds Of runners are aiioat, one to
the effect that the asylum for the it-
sane. in which eco patients are con-
fined. has been bio Hn down and many
patients Injured, but the asylum is sit
uated nl!le from tie city and the
rnmor can not be confirmed. A num-
Der Of escaped iunaties have been cap
tured near tho union depot and this
fact gives color 10 the rumor.
Carried OF by Cyclone.
PAWNEE, Neb.. Oct. "a cyclone
struck the house of John Nelson, seven
miles south of here. OF 8 o'clock last
night. The family Il seven persons
were blown into an adjoining field. A
sir years old had u stick driven
through her skull, and can not live.
Five others were severely injured.