The morning call., 1894-10-04
A CITY SLEPT.
While It's Doom Came
Swiftly.
OUT OF A CLEAR SKY.
There Was No Sign of a
Storm
UNTIL THE TWISTER STRUCK.
Bringing With 1t Death, and
Destruction.
ZIGZAG PATH OF THE CYCLONE.
1t Kept Close to the Arkansas River
but Without Touching the
Stream.
UNTIL THE TWISTER STRUCK.
Bringing With 1t Death and
Destruction.
ZIGZAG PATH OF THE CYCLONE.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 3.-The disas-
trous effects of the cyclone that visited
this city last night was not fully realized
until this morning. The property loss
will reach $1,000, 600. -Four human lives
were lost and forty people were injured,
some probably fatally. The killed:
DIR. j. T. Ingate.
jackson Boyd.
A son of Jackson Boyd.
j. L. Griffin.
The injured: c. T. Monroe, John
Eaton, Jerry Donohue. Sam o. Smith,
viii Ward, John Brown. Fritz Refs, Mrs.
L, Colmer. Mrs. j. j. Janks, Mrs.
Lulu Perwitt, Joe Holloway, Joe
Swift, John Fontenross, w. d. Trot-
ter, Miss Lucille West. W. A. Langford,
John Ballou. Thomas Forbes, Houser,
George b. Cross, Calvin Prather, j. NJ.
Ryan, ]. C. Biggs. j. D. Bowlin. DIR. Lake
land. A. Henry. William Harvey, convict,
Thomas Mitchell. convict. probably IA
tally Gilbert Baker. convict, Lee Rinson.
convict. William Singleton, convict, J. j.
Smith, guard, John Witten, guard.
From the moment the cyclone struck
until daybreak the city was enveloped in
darkness. The streets were filed with
bricks, mortar and the debris of ruined
buildings and an ineXtricable mass CT
telegraph, telephone, electric and trolley
wires, making pedestrianism difficult if
not dangerous. The most of the 10000
inhabitants slept peacefully during the
night, totally unconscious of the devasta-
tion that was going on about them.
The path of the cyclone lay along the
Art fon
but for more than six blocks south of its
south bank, and never crossing it to the
north. The 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 so
far as reported here being at the insane
asylum. situate on a hilltop, three miles
west of the city. There its destructive
ness was appalling. DIR. Ingate, second
assistant physician. was killed and eleven
inmates injured.
Thence in a direction almost due east
the funnel-shaped cloud, in slightly zig
gag course, wound its way with furious
violence. now rising and again descending,
plowed its way through two miles of resi-
dences and the best portion of the city,
distance of nearly four miles before
emerging from the city limits. During
the entire day the business streets have
been filled with thousands of people, men,
women and children, viewing the ruin
wrought by the cyclone, and hundreds
of worknen were busly engaged in re-
moving the debris from the streets and
sidewalks, repairing the damage to build
ings and gradually restoring order.
Thousands of people visited the insane
asylum and pentent tiary during the day.
A large force of men, engaged since the
storm in removing the four floors under
which the body of DIR. Ingate was buried.
finally came upon the doctors remains
The storm did great damage to the peni-
Tertiary. The cellhouse was completely
torn away aud carried outside the walls
and the chapel and kitchen were badly
wrecked. The third story and the east
wall of the second story were blown down
and are lying at the side of the building
a vast mass of brick and mortar.
Governor Fishback sent twenty-five con-
victs to the asylum this morning to assist
in removing the fallen walls. The cou-
victs confined in the wards demolished by
the cyclone were removed Immediately
after the walls fell and taken to the chapel
and dance hall of the institution. Eleven
of them were hurt and seven others ara
unaccounted for. The main building, the
south half of which was destroyed, was
erected twelve years ago at cost of
$780, 900. and is one of the most beautiful
structures of the kind in the United
States.
Beyond the unroofng of about 200 build
ings the damage to buildings is confined to
the insane asylum, State peniten tiary
and the Martin block and the large whole
sale grocery-house Of G. F. Baucum, while
scarcely mercantile esta blishment in the
storm area is not sufferer by water.
Many stocks are almost total losses from
the deluge. Among the largest losers are:
j. Nj. Parker, Office building, $4,000; Rot
takin's building. $4,000; Baucum's build
ing, S25, COO; building occupied by the Vol
mer dry-goods firm, $4,000.