The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-10-04
Turns Out a Genuine Ar
kansas Traveller.
UPsETs MOST OF LITTLE ROCK
And Does Immense Damage to Both
Life and PrOperty--The Japs
Still Advancing.
Little Rock Cyclone.

LITTLE Rock, Oct. 3.-Last evenings 8
cyclone grows IN destructiveness as the
details are gathered. Dark ominous
clouds gathered from the west and south
west, yet the city was unprepared for the
dire visitation that followed in their
wake. The first intimation of the i'm
pending catastrophe was when the
cyclone struck. All the electric lights
were extinguished, and the darkened
streets were filed with flying roofs,
walls and debrls 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 damage at intermediate points.
The second and third stories of the shop
building were blown off, the cell build
ing unroofed, the Office destroyed and
the old building scattered broadcast.
One convict was killed, and several
guards injured. Toward the main part
of the city the path of the storm was
strewn with the debris of wrecked build
ings, tangled telegraph and telephone
wires and fallen trees that had withstood
the tempests of many decades. Many
residences were damaged, the roofs
blown away and walls partly demolished.
The next marked damage was when the
storm struck the Martin building, a
large brick building and apartment
house. occupied by the Arkansas Meth
odist church, and several offices. Gov
ornor Fishback and General Armstead,
who had rooms in this building, escaped
injury. The colored porter was seriously
injured. From that point east the scene
that met the view of the vast throngs
who f1ocked thither this morning was
beyond description. Some of the most
substantial brick structures in the dis
trict lying along Main and Markham
streets, south to Fourth and Fifth, were
razed. The wind was followed by a
drenching rain, that lasted nearly an
hour and kept every one within doors,
SO the real extent of the damage could
not be ascertained at the time.
Telephone wires in the business por-
tion were blown down. Wild rumors of
death and destruction were rife. AS
soon as the rain had abated the streets
were filed by an excited populace. Pc
destrianism was attended with extreme
difficulty, and danger, as there were no
lights, and tangled wires, heaps of brick,
twisted tin roofs, and great plate glass
windows filed the streets and sidewalks.
Many were the stories of narrow escape
and most sad the deaths. It is matter
of common wonder hundreds were not
killed. The police were on the scene
promptly, and everything was done to
restrain the disorderly element from
creating disturbance. Saloons that
we're not entirely destroyed were ordered
closed at midnight by Chief McMahon.
Patrol wagons were pressed into service,
and many of the. injured were taken to
the headquarters, where their wounds
were attended to. The storm proper did
not last more than three minutes.
The body of DIR. Ingle was recovered
from the ruins of the asylum at noon,
but SO mangled an to be almost unrecog-
nizable. Several inmates are missing.
) Conservative estimate of the financial
loss on state institutions is 1925 900. On
business property, 100000. On dwell
ings, $500, 600.
HoT sPRIkes, Oct. s.-The cyclone
which did SO much damage to Little
Rock last evening, passed north of this
city few miles. Reports from that
section today say considerable damage
was done to farm property, but no fatal
tiles are reported.
Looks Like War Preparations.
LONDON, Oct. S.-The secretary Of
state for foreign affairs, the Earl of Kim.
berly, has been in communication with