St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-04
is DEADLY TRAIL.
Cyclones Havoc at Little
Rock Amounts to Fully
100000.
FOUR DEAD, FORTY INJURED.
insane Asylum and Its In
mates the Worst
Sufferers.
200 BUILDINGS UNROOFED.
Senator Davis and Attorney
Kellogg Have Experience
With the Storm.
ECO BUILDINGS UNR00FED.
The KILLED.

The KILLED.
DR. T. j INGATE.
JACKSON BOYD.
SON OF JACKSON BOYD.
J. 7. GRIFFIN.
The Injured.
c. T. Monroe, John Eaton, Jerry Donahue.
Sam o. Smith, Willard Ward, John Brown,
Fritz Refs, Mrs. L. Colmer. Mrs. j. Janka.
Mrs. Lulu Perwitt Joe Holaway, Joe Swift
John Foutenross, W. Troter. Miss Lucille
West, ". A. Langford. John Ballou, Tom
Forbes, - Houser. George B. Cross. Gal
win Prather, j. M Ryan, J. c. Biggs, j. D.
Bowling, Or. Lakelahd, A. Henry. VIII Har-
vey, convict; Tom Mitchell, convict. proba-
bly, fatally; Gilbert Baker convict; Lee Hin
Son, convict: Will Singleton. convict; j.
J. Smith, guard; John Witt. guard.
LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 3.-The disastrous
effects of the cyclone that visited this
city last night were not fully realized
until this morning. From the moment
that it struck until daybreak the city
was enveloped in darkness. The
streets were filed with bricks, mortar
and debris of ruined buildings and an
ineXtricable mass Of telegraph, tele-
phone, electric and trolley wires, max
ing pedestrianism dfficulr, if not dan
gerous. The most of the 10000 inhabi-
tants slept peacefully in their beds
totally unconscious of the devastation
In the business portion of the city.
The Path of the Cyclone
lay along the Arkansas river. some
times touching it, but generally more
than SIX blocks south of its south bank,
and never CROSSING it to the north. The
office of the weather bureau lay in the
storms path and its instru-
ments, with the exception of the
thermometer, were swept away, so that
no history of the origin of the storm
could be obtained at this source, nor its
course after leaving the city, although
marks of its destruction have been re-
ported from Lonoke. twenty -eight miles
east of here on the Little Rock u Mem
phis railroad. Its course was almost
directly east, the first disastrous effects
SO far as reported here being at the In
sane asylum, situated on hill top, three
miles west of the city, and where its
destructiveness was appalling, killing
DR.. j. I. 1ngate, second assistant phySi-
clan, and injuring eleven inmates.
Thence in direction almost due east
the funuel-shaped cloud in a slightly
ZigZag course wound its way with fear
ful velocity, now rising and again
descending, ploughed its way through
two miles of residences and the bust.
ress portion of the city, distance of
nearly four miles, before emerging
from the city limits, entaillng loss in
property which will reach million dol
lars, the loss of four human lives and
the
Injury of Forty People,
some probably fatally. The Western
Union telegraph office was wrecked,
and not until about 1880 could news of
the disaster be sent to the outside
world, an Iron Mountain railroad wire
being the only wire available for that
purpose.
During the entire day Main, Mark
ham and Second streets had been filled
with thousands of people. men, women
and children, viewing the ruin wrought
by the cyclone, while hundreds of
workmen are busily engaged ir remov-
Ing the debris from the streets and
sidewalks, repairing the damage to
buildings and stringing telegraph, tele-
phone and electric wires for serv-
Ice. Tonight electric cars and elec-
trio light service were resumed. So
quickly did the work progress that ex-
cept in few localities no one would
have realized the extent of the damage
except by close inspection of build
ings and stocks of goods. Beyond the
uDrooting OF about 200 buildings, the
damage to buildings is confined to the
insane asylum, state penitentiary. the
Martin block, opposite the custom
house, the large wholesale grocery
house of G. F. Baucum. while scarcely
mercantile establishment in the storm
area is not sufferer by water, many
stocks being almost total losses from
the deluge. The calamity has fallen
very heavily on Little Rock, as but one
tornado has ever been reported in this
vicinity, and that very small one.
the damage not exceeding 5000. But
five tornado policies up to the hour
of the cyclone were in force ir
the city. it being supposed the city was
exempt from such visitations. So great
is the demand for labor In repairing
damage that the local supply of timers
rOofers and bricklayers especially Is
sorely inadequate, and st. Louis and
Memphis have been telegraphed to fol
artisans. In the meantime stocks are
being removed to unoccupied available
stores until the repairs can be completed
or new structures put up. Street cars
and electric light service will not bl
permitted during the day until linemer
have restored the various lines to theil
normal condition. They will be allowed
to run only at night, thus removing tht
danger to human life by possible con
tact with live wires.
Thousands of people in buggies an(
on horseback visited the insane asylum
and penitentiary during the day.
DIR. Ingate's Body Recovered.
A large force of men has been en-
kaged since the storm in removing th'
four floors under which the body of DR.
Ingatg was supposed to be buried. Dr.
Ingate's body was found at 11:15 a. m.
in the vestibule of the front entrance t.
the main building, where he fell unde
the debris of the front tower. He wa
found IL fkneeing posture, facing the
front door. The suppositi0n is that b,