Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-09
Terrific Storm In White and
CIeburne Counties Causes
Loss of Lives
NINE CASUALTIES REPORTED
Great Damage to Property in the Path
of the storm-lt is Feared the Loss
Of Life Will be Greater When All
of the Storm District is Heard
From.

from several towns in White and Gle
burne counties Ark, tell Of cyclone
which swept thru that section Tuesday
night, leaving death and destruction in
its wake. The major portion of the
country thru which the storm ploughed,
its way Is remote from railroads, tele-
graph or telephone lines. A special
correspondence of the Arkansas Ga
zette wired from Searcy, Ark, last
night that he had gone over portion
of the track of the storm and that trees
were twisted from their trunks and
houses demolished.
Thus far 1t has been impossible TO as
certain where the storm began, but II
lis known that 1t ragged in these two
counties and the list of casualties Will
from indications, mount much higher
than 1t Is now, nine dead. three dying.
and thirteen others badly injured. The
towns Of Little Red, Albion, Bradford,
and Pangburn have been heard from
thus far.
The dead:
Jim Leggett, Little Red.
Joe Leggett, Little Red.
Tom King and wife, Little Red.
Three King children.
Young lady school teacher, who was
boarding at the Kings.
A. C. Williams, near Heber.
The injured:
Infant child of Tom King.
Mrs. A. C. Williams: not expected to
live.
Buck Medley, Searcey.
Albert, Killer, Ebert Derile, Walker
Pollard, all OF Little Red.
Two of the Pollard family near AL
bion.
Mrs. Hoverton and children. Pang-
burn: not expected to live.
| Miss Barkhousen. Little Red; leg
broken and skull fractured.
Walter Muller, Pangburn; leg bro
ken.
Mrs. Henry Wells, injured internally,
fatally.
Unknown woman, Pangburn; both
legs broken.
| Tom Houston, near Heber; both
arms broken.
| Unknown man at Bradford.
/ Bradford, which is on the Iron Noun :
tain road, was the first point heard
from. Several houses were blown
down there and one badly injured. The
tornado came from the west and spent
| its force by the time 1t reached Brad
ford.
It is feared the little town of Hiram
with population of 100 has been wiped
off the map. It Is near Heber and was
| in the storms track. Nothing has been
| thus far heard from it. 1t will probably
be several days before the names Of all
who were killed by the tornado are
| known.
A special to the Gazette from Heber
says:
In the tornado which swept across
| this section Tuesday night, A. g. Will
| Jams, living ten miles south of Heber,
was killed. He was 20 years old and
lived with his wife on one OF the moun-
/ tains south of this town. His house
was caught up by the wind and thrown
/ down the, mountain side, he being
killed while his wife was badly injured
| and is not expected to recover. A white
/ man named Houston, living near Will
iams was badly hurt. Both arms were
| broken.
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blown down, and flock of sheep and
number OF cattle. hogs and horses
were killed.
1 A large church near Pangburn was
blown half mile.
| At Little Red Postoffice Albert Killer,
Gilbert Derile. Walker Pollard. and
Tom King and Mrs. Pollord lost alltheir
horses, barns and other buildings.
Forty three residences and sixteen
barns were destroyed and other wreck
age is the record of the damage report
| ed up to s o'clock last night.
1 The tornado swept everything in
path mile wide.
AT Pangburn Mrs. Hoverton and one
child were badly hurt and are not ex-
pected to live. Two of the Pollards
near Albion were badly hurt. A num-
Der of others were hurt but not SER
iously.