The Monticellonian., 1901-03-15
IHE WORK OF 4 CYCLONE.
Portions of Arkansas and Texas Suffer Great Damage From
 the Storm.
FIVE DEAD AT WILLS POINT, TEXAS.
Entire Business Portion of Now Boston Wiped Out.-Fife cen Buildings Unroofed at Conway.-Grsst Damage in Little River County.

evening of the 9th.
 Total number of dead reported in Arkansas is sixteen.
 h Texas the greatest damage was done at Wills Point and New Bos- ton. At the former place five people were killed and large number in. jured. The dead are: Maggie Clouse, infant of Rev J. H. Clause; Leon, 3-year-old son of J. W. Williams; child of John White and Chas. Pow CTS.
 At New Boston hardly building escaped damage, and many were com pletely demolished. A MT. Petit was fatally injured, and many had limbs broken.
 The following buildings were de- molished: Tipp Trimble drug store; J. Brown. shoe store; W. Jones, blacksmith shop; Jack Green, wood shop; Methodist church, colored; Odd Fellows hall, Woodman hall. J. A. Fuller & O., warehouse; G. W. Ruff. warehouse; J. N. Walker. resi- dence; W. c. Mitchell large barn; c. A. Berkshire. store.
 Other stores were greatly damaged and unroofed and were as follows: H. M. Davidson general merchandise, R. l. Fullbright, merchandise; o. R. Perot, merchandise; NJ B. Merchant, grocer; First National bank. o. P. Mess & Co.,, general merchandise; ". NJ. Bloxham, general merchandise; T. A. Fuller < Go. general merchandise, G E. Perot & Co.,. general merehan- disc o. J. Daniels, saloon; Herald office, c. NJ. Cox, groceries; A. J. De loney, saloon; H. A Burrows, store.
 The extent of damage in the coun- try and loss of life is not known. but must have been great.
 In Arkansas the greatest damage is reported in Little River county.
 At Pine Prairie son of MT. Fur her was killed.
 In the country many houses were wrecked and fences swept away.
 In Texarkana several small build. ings were blown down. and on Col lege Hill, suburb, the stores of J. J. Peayy, Will Combs and Jim Bur. roughs were leveled to the ground.
 At Van Buren lightning struck the residence of James Morrell. Mrs. Morrel, who was on the stairway at the time was rendered insensible by the shock, and did not regain con sciousness for an hour. Fortunately the house did not take fire. as Mrs. Morrell was alone at the time. A 12- year-old boy named Geo. Hankins was knocked down on the street. and man named Leonard Dyer, who was standing near him, was badly shocked by flash.
 At Pine Bluf but little damage was done by the wind, but the downpour of rain and hall was perilous to life. Dr. John Waters. a prominent physi- elan, who was returning to the city from a visit to patient in the coun- ty was painfully injured by his horse taking fright at a flash of lightning, the buggy turning over and rolling down an embankment.
 Fifteen buildings were unroofed at Conway and three houses were blown down. The electric light plant and telephone system were badly crippled.
 The damage at Little Rock was con fined to telegraph and telephone wires and shrubbery.
 Several persons were killed and many injured in St. Francis county. In one neighborhood sixteen houses were blown down. and miles of fences were destroyed. About eight miles from Forrest City the home of J. A. Mooley was lifted from its founda- tion and shattered to fragments, kill | ing Wooley and seriously injuring his wife and stepson, Bob Allen, and John Latimer. In the Wooley house was S200 in a trunk of which only one s bill and $1 bill were found hanging on bushes three-cuarters of a mile dis l tant from the dwelling. Wooleys body was found some fifty yards dis tant from his house site and across a rayine. Mrs. Wooley was pinned by 1 logs of the house and was rescued by neighbors some three-quarters of an hour later
 l At Rock Hill three miles west of Paragould, Mrs. Mollie Davis. widow, was killed by logs of the resi- 1 dence falling in and crushing her. A 1 13-year-old boy named Osmer Rob erts. who was stopping at the house over night. was also killed, his limbs being broken In the same neighbor- hood a boy 2 years old was crushed l seriously beneath a falling residence. l At the Jackson commissary, twelve miles west of Paragould, all the I houses except two were blown down l and demolished. Charles Bowling. a