The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-04
THE GREAT CYCLONE
Results in Half a Dozen Deaths
and Much Property Damage.
LOSS NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS.

Destructive Work of tho Storm at the
State Insane Asylum and the Peniten-
tiary--Many Miraculous Esoapes-The
Death of DIR. InKate.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 4.-The dis
nstrous 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 enveloped 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 tranism 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. It's 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. I. Ingate, second assistant physician,
and injuring eleven inmates.
DR.. Ingate's body was found at 11:15 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
kneeling 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 II 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, a distance of nearly four
miles, before emerging from the city linn
its, entailing a loss in proportion which
will reach Sl,OO0,000, 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 peopie-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 tlooi
to extinquish the lights just as the wind
and electric current struck the rear tower
The mass crashed through the uppeI
floors, carrying away the floor within SIX
feet of him, and left him standing in TIA,
dark terrified. uncertain which way tt
move.
Just before the storm reached its
height Mrs Robertson, wife of the super
tntendent, was in the room of her mother
Mrs. Reed, just adjoining, when the ROOT
over her apartments fell in, cleaning away
the upper floors, including the floor %
her own rooms, filling the first floor witt
bricks, timber and mortar. Miss FitZpat
rick a nurse was in her own room on thu
second floor, above Mrs Robertson's 3
When she felt the walls giving way aut
the floors moving under her she made ,
leap for the hall door and fell across tn,
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 were removed
immediately after the walls fell and takei
~ the chapel. Contrary to the genera
idea of their condition in such an exciting
state of affairs, the attendants had III
trouble in escorting them to safe quarters
The main building, the south half 0
which was destroyed, was erected twely
gears ago at a cost to the state of S3O0.OUU
and is one of the most beautiful structure
Di the kind in the United States. Elevel
patients were hurt in the crush of III
asylum. Several other patients are still
nnaccounted for.
The storm did great damage at tn
state penitentiary. The loss is estimate,
to aggregate S96, 600. The cell building
was completely torn away and carrie,
outside the walls. The windows We're al
bsoken out. But little damage was don
To the interior. Many of the convict
were in their cells at the time, and wer
not hurt. The new workhouse, chape
aud kitchen are badly wrecked. In wa
La this building the only death occurred
j. f. Griffith, white man, sent up from
Clay county for incest, was descendi nj
the stairway from the third story whe
She wall caved In and buried him ia tn
debris.
Jackson Boyd, colored, and his 3 yeal
old child, living in small cottage O.
East Second street, were eating suppe
the front of the house to close the dooi
The child screamed and he ran back an
book it in his arms. 1t was the last ac
Of his life, for at that moment the built
ing fell In on them. When taken fror
the ruins tho child was clasped in it
fathers arms. Both were dead
Blk persons are known to have bee
killed and others are missing, probabl
buried in the debris.
The property losses from the storm wi
aggregate nearly l,00O,000
The calamity has fallen very heavily o
Little Rock, as but one tornado insuranc
policy has been reported, and that on
dwelling, the loss to which does not Q,
coed $500. But five tornado policies, up {
hour of cyclone, were in force in the cit
1t being supposed that this city was es
smpt from such yisitations, it being th
Eirst in the memory of the Oldest inhab
sants.
So great Is the demand for labor in r,
pairing damage that ST. Louis and Men
phis have been telegraphed to for assis
nnce. In the meantime stocks are bein
removed to unoccupied available store
until repairs can be completed or ne
structures put up. Street car and electr
light service will not be permitted durin
the day until llnemen have restored tt
various lines to their normal condition
being allowed to run only at night, thr
removing the danger to human life /
contact with live wires.
Beyond the unroofng of about q
buildings, the damage to buildings
confined to the insane asylum, state pen
tsntinrS the Martin block, opposite IL
custom house, and the large wholesa
grocery house of C. F. Baucum, whi
scarcely mercantile establishment in IL
storm area is not sufferer by waite
many stocks being almost total lo
from the deluge.
The German warships which have a
sembled at Yokohama, Japan, have bes
ordered to proceed to ports In North Chin
Advices received at Berlin confirm IL