The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-04
THE GREAT CYCLONE
Results in Half a Dozen Deaths
and Much Property Damage.
LOSS NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS.
Destructive Work Of the storm at the
State Insane Asylum and the Peniten-
tiary-Many miraculous Esoapes-Tho
Death Of Dr. Ingate.

Dehth ol bIt Aubhtos
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 4.-The dis
astrous effects OF the cyclone that visited
this city Tuesday night were not fully
realized until morning. From the mo-
ment that it struck until daybreak the
city was euveloped in darkness. The
streets were filled with bricks, mortar
and debris Of ruined buildings and an in
extricable mass of telegraph, telephone,
electric light and trolley wires, making
pedes trianism difficult.
The Office of the weather bureau lay in
the storms path, and its Instruments
were swept away, so that no record Of the
storm could be obtained, although marks
of its destruction have been reported
from Lonoke, twenty-eight miles east of
here. Its course was almost directly east,
the first disastrous effects being at the in
sane asylum, situated on hilltop three
miles west of the city, and where its de
structiveness was appalling, killing DR..
j. L. lngate, second assistant physician,
and injuring eleven inmates.
Dr. Ingate's body was found at Ills a.
M, in the vestibule Of the front entrance
to the main building, where he fell under
the debris Of the front tower. He was in
a kueeliug position facing the front door.
The supposition is that he had started to
the front of the building when the crash
from above alarmed him, and before he
could return to the Office the mass of
brick and timber fell, bringing him with
it. Two patients were also killed
From the asylum, in a direction almost
due north, the funnel shaped cloud
ploughed its way through two miles Of
the resident portion and the business part
of the city, distance of nearly four
miles, before emerging from the city linn
its, entailing loss in proportion which
will reach 81 900, 900, the loss of four hui
man lives and the injury of nearly forty
people, some probable fatally.
All day yesterday Main, Markham and
Second streets were filled with thousands
of pcople-men, women and children
viewing the ruin wrought by the cyclone
where hundreds of workmen were busily
engaged in removing the debris from the
streets and sidewalks, repairing the dam
age TO buildings and clearing telegraph,
telephone and electric wires for service
By dark the streets were passable and the
electric car and electric light service was
resumed
Buck Neely, an attache of the asylum,
went out into the hall on the third floor
to extiuquish the lights just as the wind
and electric current struck the rear tower.
The mass crashed through the upper
floors, carrying away the floor within six
feet OF him. and left him standing in the
dark terrified, uncertain which way to
move.
Just before the storm reached its
height Mrs. Robertson, wife of the super
intendent, was in the room of her mother.
Mrs. Reed, Just adjoining when the roof
over her apartments fell in, cleaning away
the upper floors, including the floor of
her own rooms, filling the first floor with
bricks, timber and mortar. Miss Fitzpat-
rick, a nurse, was in her own room on the
second floor, above Mrs. Robertsons.
When she felt the walls giving way and
the floors moving under her she made a
leap for the hall door and fell across the
doorway as the floor went down beneath
her. She then climbed into the hall
The patients confined in the wards de
molished by the cyclone We're removed
Immediately after the walls fell and taken
to the chapel Contrary to the general
idea of their condition in such an exciting
state of affairs, the attendants had NJ
trouble in escorting them to safe quarters.
The main building, the south half of
which was destroyed, was erected twelve
years ago at a cost to the state of $500, 600,
and is one of the most beautiful structures
of the kind in the United States Eleven
patients were hurt in the crush of the
asylum Several other patients are still
unaccounted for
The storm did great damage at the
state penitentiary. The loss is estimated
to aggregate 1000. The cell building
was completely torn away and carried
outside the walls. The windows were all
broken out. But little damage was done
to the interior. Many of the convicts
were in their cells at the time and were
not hurt The new workhouse, chapel
and kite hen are badly wrecked In was
/ IN this building the only death occurred.
Z j. +. Griffith, a white man. sent up from
/ Clay county for incest was descending
/ the stairway from the third story when
/ the wall caved in and buried him a the
! debris.
/ Jackson Boyd, colored, and his 3-year-
! old child, living in a small cottage on
/ East Second street, We're eating supper
when the storm came. Boyd rushed to