The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-03
CYCLONE SWEPT.
Little Rock, Ark, Deso1ated
by a Storm of Wind
and Rain.
INSANE PATIENTS INJURED
The Penitentiary Wrecked-Houses
UnroOfed and Telegraph
Lines Destroyed.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Oct. 8. 1so4-K
terrific cyclone swept over the business
portion of this city at 7:3O o'clock last
night leaving death and destruction in
its wake. The wind was terrific in the
extreme Trees. telegraph, telephone,
electric light poles were uprooted and
carried a distance of geo yards The roofs
of about thirty of the largest buildings
in the city were torn from the houses
and hurled against buildings on the op-
posite side of the street, lea wing the oc-
cupants and the property within to the
mercy of the descending rain which be-
gan to fall in torrents shortly afterward
When the cyclone had ceased it was
discovered that the residence portion OF
the city had entirely escaped, but the
buildings on Main street to Third Mark
ham street from Centre to Cumberland,
and Second from Cumberland were all
most totally wrecked
This territory covers the principal busi-
ness portion of the town. The Western
Union Telegraph Office is located in the
centre of this district. The building was
wrecked beyond recognition. The oper-
ators, who were at work at their keys,
had narrow escapes
THE INSANE SUFFER
At IL O'Clock last night a message was
received from the Insane Asylum, situ-
ated two miles from the city, and from
the State Penitentiary, just west of the
Union Depot, calling for corps of
physicians and other assistance 1t is re
HaDly StaIeQ tnat q NUMBER OF patients
in the asylum are seriously injured and
great damage was done to the buildings
Reports from the Penitentiary state that
six convicts were badly injured by fal-
ling timbers, two of whom will die
Mayor Hall, as soon as possible, called
out the entire Fire and Police Depart
ments, and sent ten hack loads. of ply
sieians and citizens to the asylum and
Fenitentiary.
The loss to property alone will amount
i'm cr cd in hR rf
less damaged by wind and water. The
damage to the insane asylum will reach
and the Capital and Richelieu Hotels
were badly damaged The business
houses on East Markham and Main
streets from Markham to Third are
damaged to a great extent and stocks OF
goods entirely ruined
THE INJURED.
Among the injured are
epresentative-eleet c. T. Moore, who
was badly cut on the head and body by
falling ttmberss and who. the physicians
say. will probably die; and John Eaton,
of Gov. Fishback, who received internal
injuries, from the effects of which he
will die before morning.
Capt Sam o. Smith a prominent citi-
zen and resident agent of the firm of E.
Atgrier & Co, cotton factors had four
fingers of his right hand broken and was
John Edwards, with his infant baby in
his arms, was found dead at Second and
Rock streets by the police.
An aged negro couple were also found
dead in a room of a roofiess cabin in
the same locality.
Six electric street car motors are pin-
ioned on the track on Main street with
heavy rafters and poles. These motors
are a total loss.
PENITENTIARY DAMAGED.
Gov. Fishbacks headquarters in the
Martin block are a mass of ruins. The
office of the main buildings at the Peni-
tentiary was torn away and lodged among
several frame cottages in the neighbour
hood, completely demolshiT,s them. Al
stampede took place among the conVictSs
but Superintendent Mcconnell and his as
sistants soon succeedede in quieting them
down. Fortunately, only about 125 con-
victs are inside the walls The other 450
We're taken to Sunnyside plantation some
days ago
At the Insane Asylum was found the
greatest wreck. The roofs of the main
buildings We're completely demohshed
and several wards caved in, completely
male ward is a total wreck. Several in
sane patients made their escape. bur
We're recaptured. Two men, violently in
sane, were captured near the Union
Depot shortly after midnight 1t IS not
known how many inmates Were killed
and injured, as many are supposed to
be buried in the ruins DR.. Jacob T.
Ingate, who came here several months
| ago from Mobile, Ala, to accept a posi-
ton in the asylum, was killed
struck Memphis, Too.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Oct. s. 1S94.-The taft
of the cyclone that struck Little Rock
passed over Memphis at 10 o'clock last
night, but there was no damage Thers
are, as yet, no reports of damage from
the surrounding country, although the
force of the wind was unprecedented
In Eastern Arkansas it is probable that
more or less damage resulted, as the
telegraph lines are still down between
this city and Little Rock, showing that
the gale was of destructive nature
throughout the eastern part of the State.