The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-04-13
HEAPS OF C0RPSES MARK
SWATH CUT BY CYCLONE
THR0' STATES OF SOUTH

Little Rock Ark, April S.-Specials to
The Arkansas Gazette from several
towns in White and CIeburne counties.
Arkansas. tell of a cyclone which swept
through that section Tuesday night leav-
ing death and destruction in its wake.
The major portion of the country through
which the storm plowed its way is re
mote from railroads, telegraph or tele-
phone lines special correspondent of
The Gazette wires from Searcy, Ark, to-
night that he had passed over a portion
of the track Of the storm and that the
trees were twisted from their trunks and
houses demolished.
Thus far it has been impossible to as
certain where the storm began, but it is
known that it ragged in those two counties
and the list of casualties will, from ind-
cations, mount much higher than it now
is, with nine dead three dying and thir-
teen others badly injured. The towns of
Little Red, Albion. Bradford, Heber and
Pangbmn have been heard from thus far.
The dead arc:
JIM LEGGETT, Little Red
JOE LEGGETT, Little Red.
TOM KING and WIFE. Little Red.
THREE KING CHILDREN.
YOUNG LADY, school teacher, VINO
was boarding at Kings.
A. c. WILLIAMS, near Heber.
The injured are:
Infant child of the King family.
Mrs. A. {. Williams, near Heber; not
expected to live.
Buck Neelcy Searcy.
Albert Killer. Ebert Dcrrile and Walker
Pollard, Little Red.
TWO of the Pollard family near Albion.
Mrs FToverton and child, Pangburn;
not expected to live.
Miss BarkhOusen, Little Red; leg bro
ken and skull fractured.
Walter Muller, Pangburn; leg broken.
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 We're blown down there
and one man badly injured. The tornado
ca me from the west and had spent its
force by The time it reached Bradford.
1t is feared the little town of Hiram,
VITA population NJ 80. has been wiped
off the map 1t 1t near Heber and in the
storms track. Nothing has been thus
far heard from it. 1t will probably be
several days before the names OF all VINO
were killed by the tornado are KNOWN
Two Deaths Added to the List.
Hancevile Ala, April 9.-Two more
deaths resulted today from the cyclone
which swept the country west of here
Wednesday morning about o clock.
They are Isabelle Mccoy. aged 6, ana
Effie Mccoy, who was not considered
one of the seriously injured. The former
died early this morning and the latter
about noon The funerals were conduct
ed from the Hopewell church and the
family members were all buried in the
same grave. TWO other members OF the
same family are also expected to die
The funeral services over the remains
of the Odens was also conducted TINS
morning one of the Oden children, II IS
thought will also die. peng injured in
ternally.
Reports of the damage of the storm
across the river reached here today The
storm jumped to Summit, Ala. which Is
in the northern corner of Blount county,
where several persons were severely IN
tured and a dozen houses and barns de-
StrONpQ.