The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-09
OF H0PEWELL
STRUCK BY A CYCLONE
Ten Persons Instantly Killed and Several Fatal
y Injured in Alabama Village.
Arkansas Also Visited by Twser With Heavy Loss of Life and
Destruction Of Property

Little Rock. Ark. April S-Speclals TO
tne Gazette from several towns Boz White
and Clehurne counties Arkansas, tell of
O. tornado which swept through that Sec
uon Tuesday night leaving death and de-
slfucilon lu IT'S path the major portion
of the country through which the storm
plOWed its way is remote from railroads.
Telegraph or telephone lines. A CORE
spOudeut wires from Searcy. Ark. to-
night that De had gone over portion OF
The track or the storm and that trees
were twisted from their trunks and
houses demolished. Thus far 30 has been
impossible 90 ascertain where the storm
began but it Is known that 10 ragged ia
The latest reports are that nine per-
sons are dead, three dying and three
Albion, Bradford. Heber and PangDurn
have been heard from thus far.
The Dead.
Jim Legg5tJ Little Red.
Joe LeEEett. Little Rcd.
Tom King and wife, Little Red.
Three King children.
Nouug lady school teacher who was
. boarding at King s..
A. e.. Williams. near HeDer.
The Injured.
Intent child of King family; Mrs. VIII
liams. not expected 20 live, Buck Neatly,
seriously. Albert Killer; Albert khe, Lit
I
of Pollard family. near Albion, Mrs.
H0yerton and children. Paugbun, not
expected 90 live, Miss Barkgnhousen. Lit
ne Red. leg broken and skull fractured;
3 Walter Fuller. Paugburu, leg broken;
] Mrs Henry Wells, injured internally,
/ fatal. unknown woman. PangbuTu. both
/ legs broken, Tom Houston, near Heber,
] both arms broken unknown man al
/ Bradford.
Bradford. which is on the Iron Noun
I tain railroad was the first point heard
| from Several houses were blown down
/ there and one man was seriously injured.
/ The tornado came from the west and had
. spent its force by the time it reached
/ Bradford To is feared che little town oil
] Hiram. with population of l5J has been
] wiped Off the map. To IS near Heber, and
] iu the storm track. Nothing has thus
far been heard from it. 10 probably viii
4 be several days before the names of all
/ who were killed by the tornado airs
known. A special to the Gazette from
] Eleber says:
In the tornado which swept across mi.
I section last night a. e.. Williams. living
] ten miles south of Heber was killed. Hl
! was 20 years old and lived with his VII,
I on one Of the mountains soulh OF tnl'
2 town. His house was caught up by tht
. wind and thrown down the mountain
side he being killed. His wife was badly
injured and ls not expected 20 i've
white man named Houston living neal
I Williams, had both arms broken
Az Pdugburn six residences were bloWl
down and a flock of sheep and a numbe
of cattle hogs and horses were killed,
Buck Neatly OF SearCy was in the storm
and was caught under "a small tree which
was blown down, He IS not seriousl
hurt
Church Blown Half a Mile.
A large church near Pangburn wa.
blown half a mile. AT Little Red p0stof
flce Albert Killer. Albert Deriie. Wake
Pollard, Mrs Pollard and Tom King los
their houses. barns and other buildings
I FOrty-three residences and siNteel
barns destroyed and other Wreckage d
The record of the damage reported up q
s o'clock tonight. The tornado swept CIV
/ ervthing iu a path "a mile wide.
Al Paugburn Mrs HOveTtOn and on
. child were badly hurt and are not eN
urcted 90 live. Two of the POllards. uea
Albion. were badly hurt. A number o
others were hurt but not seriously.