The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-06
A CYCLONES WORK
Business Portion of Little Rock
in Ruins.
MANY VICTIMS WILL Be FOUND
The Cyclone Accompanied BY q Terrific
Rain Storm aud Much LaInsge
Was Doue BY Water.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. "A ter.
flole cyclone struck this city at 7:SO
this evening and almost devastated the
business portion of the city. Several
people are known 10 have been killed
and many injured. The main portion
OF the business CENTER. bounded on the
south by Third street, on the north by
the river front, on the west by Front
street and on the east by Com mercial
street, is practically in ruins, and the
amount Of damage is incalculable. The
total properly loss will probably ap-
proximate half q million dollars.
Ihe CYCLONE was accompanied by q
terrinc rain storm and stocks of goods
III those business houses which were
unroofed though not otherwise
wrecked. are destroyed by water.
Struck the Pcnitentfary.
The storm struck the state penitenti.
airy with fearful force, destroying the
dining room, tearing down the stable
and shops, unroofing tho main cell
building and dcmolishlng the ward
ems Office. Several convicts were seri-
ousIy injured. one of whom died an
hour afterwards.
The lightning struck the Martin
block, corner of Spring and Second
streets, totally wrecking the Third
hoor. a man by the name of Eaton
was fatally injured there. The Times
building: at the corner of Centre and
Oak streets, was unroofed, and part Of
the third floor Of Gleason's hotel was
blown away. At Main and Second
streets the tops Of several adjacent
buildings lie piled up in an indescrib.
able heap.
series OF Buildings Wrecked.
Most OF thu damage, however, was
done to property on Mark ham and
Commercial streets. Nearly every
building in that district is unroofed
and many are totally wrecked. A
three-story building at Markham AID
Culbert streets. occupied by the B. H.
Mccartney Company, is total wreck,
a. Is also the two.story building on
the opposite corner, occupied by Max
ElkiCs as saloon. The third story Of
the old Dsming house was blown of,
and several stores under 1t were
flooded by water and filled with debris.
The streets are filled with, tin roofs.
electric wires and other wreckage and
twill be several days before the ex-
tent Of the damage can be accnratei
known. The large cotton warehouse
situated at Second and. Scott, owned
by by J. H. Bachum, was wrecked. 1t
fell on the Western Union telegraph.
office next door and wrecked il, thus
cutting oil all telegraphic colnmunica.
ton with outside points. The city is
In darkness
Casualties Not Fully Known.
Rescuing PARTIES are busy searching
for wounded, but the list of casualties
Is unobtainable. Among those known
to have been seriously and probably
fatally Injured are: &. III. Monroe, .
Of the Arkansas legislature,
and a man named Eaton. Sam Smith,
a prominent cotton buyer, is also
badly wounded. Others are known
10 be more or less Injured, but their
names are not obtainable.
All kinds Of rumors are af1oat, one to
The effect that the asylum for the In
zane. in which 900 patients are con-
lined, has been bio wn down and many
patients injured, but the asylum Is sit
lated mile from the city and the
runor can not be confirmed. A num-
Der Of escaped lunatics have been cap
:ured near the union depot and this
act gives color TO the run,or.
Carried or by = Cyclone.
PAwNEE, Neb., Dot. "A cyclone
truck the house of John Nelson, seven
niles south of hero, At 8 o'clock last
hight The family OF seven persona
we're blown into an adjoining field. A
.irl years old had stick driven
Trough her skull, and can not live.
five others were severely injured.