The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-02
WORSE THAN FLOOD
STARR CITY IN ARKANSAS VS.
TIED BY A CYCLONIO
STORM.
NEWS IS VERY INDEFINITE.
Loss OF LIFE AND PROPERTY RE.
PORTED IN THE SURROUND
ING COUNTRY.
Danger Not Entirely Over. Ru+ III.
River Seems to Have Done
It's Worst.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April IA
special from Starr City. Lincoln conn
ty, says: About 1 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon the people of Starr CITY were
aroused by the terrific roaring Of a
tull-t1edged cyclone. In less time than
II takes to tell it. a terrible and de-
structive wind was dealing devastation
TO everything in it's path, which was
from one-quarter to one-haIf mile in
Width. 1t passed south Of Starr City
about half a mile.
A correspondent who started ont on
horseback to get details of the work OF
the cyclone found the roads so strewn
with timber and trees that he had TO
abandon the horse and pick his way on
loot. The storm seems to have made
a complete circle around this town.
nearly every house within a small ra-
dlus in every direction being totally
demolished. The country roads in every
direction are impossible, being block
AIDED with debris of every kind.
Couriers from all directions are be-
ginning to come in with information of
destruction Of life and property. t. J.
McFalls, who lived about a mile east
of Starr City, was killed. and his dwell
ing entirely destroyed, but his family
escaped. The next point heard from
was on Bayou Bartholomew, on John
G. Hendricks large plantation. Three
persons are known to have been killed
outright and a large number are re-
ported seriously, some fatally wounded.
Their little town is hemmed in from
oil 6fr0nfinyao ia l.,
several days before vehicles Of any
kind can travel the roads where the
cyclone passed. Never in the history Of
this part Of the state has such wind
storm been known.
1t Is impossible to give at this writ
ing anything like definite account Of
the damage done. News has just reach
ed here of the destruction of several
large plantations along Bayou Bar
tholomew. The loss is very heavy in
that section.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 1.-The flood
situation in the Mississippi delta above
Greenville Is decidedly better tonight,
as to the probable loss Of life and fur
Their destruction Of levees. The half
dozen crevasses on the Arkansas and
Mississippi shores between Helena and
Greenville have drawn an immense
volume of water out Of the main
channel which is spreading itself over
the lowlands, but not with that de-
gree Of rapidity that cuts off escape to
the inhabitants of the low countries.
The river shows a decline from a
point below Helena to the Wayside
crevasse. The decline above Green
vile In many places is as great as
ten inches. Helena, however, is not
out of danger, for the waters from
the st. Francis basin in Arkansas are
still swelling the channel of the main
river, from the mouth of the st. Fran
CTS to point south Of Helena, for no
break occurs until WestOver is reached.
ten miles below that city. The worst
at Helena will be over by Sunday.
The damage to the farming country
in the delta cannot be exaggerated
Five counties will be for the most part
under water for thirty days, and the
main line and branch lines Of the va
zoo g. Mississippi Valley road will
have more than 100 miles Of track in
undated.
Probably twenty railroad stations
and small towns are flooded tonight.
among them being Gunnison, Rosedale.
Perthshire, Terrence, Phalia, Riverton,
Dahomey, Storm, Benoit, Beulah, Way
side, Longwood, Fefugee, Swift Water.
Deeson and Australia. But the shift
Is now to the south Of Greenville. and
the levees from Wayside to the mouth
of the river must begin to feel the
pressure Of the movement Of water
back into the channel from the delta.
Another rise Of one-tenth of a foot
IN the river at Memphis is shown by
the official bulletin from the office of
the weather bureau. At Cairo an en-
courag1ng fall in the river is shown
while Paducah reports a fall Of seven
tenths of foot. At Vicksburg the big
river Is stationary. Shreveport and
other points below Viclzsburg report a
continual rise. The local relief com
mtttee this afternoon sent steamboat
to the st. Francis river country TO
bring out water bound people ana car
ry supplies Of food to men and beasts
1t Is said that the restitution in tho
territory to be covered Is fearful. but
the news Of 1t did not reach Memphis
until today.