The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-09
Live stock Killed, Trees Twisted
from Their Trunks and Fences
Scattered About.
TOP OF A MOUNTAIN STRUCK
AND AN AGED COUPLE AND THEIR
HOME BLOWN AWAY.
Nine Persons Dead and Twenty-Six In
jured I'm Arkansas-Ten Dead and
Twenty-six Hurt in Alabama

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April S.-Dis-
patches from several towns in White and
CleburEe counties, Arkansas, tell of tor
nado which swept through that section
Tuesday night. leaving death and destruc-
ton In its wake. The major portion of the
country through which the storm plowed
It's way Is remote from railroads, telegraph
or telephone lines. A correspondent wired
from Searcy, Ark, tonight that he had
gone over a portion of the track Of the
storm and that trees were twisted from
their trunks and houses demolished. Thus
far il has been impossible to ascertain
where the storm began. but Ii is known
that II ragged In those two counties. and
the list OF casualties will. from indications.
mount much higher than 1t now is. with
nine dead, three dying and twenty-three
others badly injured.
The dead: Jim Leggett. Little Red; Joe
Leggett, Little Red; Tom King and wife.
Little Red; three King children; young
woman school teacher who was boarding
The injured: Infant child OF the King
family: Mrs A. c. Williams. not expected
To live; Buck Neeley. Searcy; Albert Killer.
Ebert Derile, Walker Pollard, Little Red;
two Of the Pollard family, near Albion;
Mrs Hoverton and child, Pangburn, not
expected to live: Miss Barkhousen. Little
Muller. Pangburn. leg broken; Mrs. Henry
Wells. injuries internal. fatally; unknown
woman. Pangburn, both legs broken; Tom
Houston. near Heber. both arms broken:
unknown man at Bradford.
Bradford. which is on the Iron Mountain
road. was the first point heard from. Sew
eral houses were blown down there and one
man badly injured. The tornado came
from the west and had spent it's force by
the time II reached Bradford. 1t is feared
the little town OF Hiram. with a population
of $50. has been wiped of the map. 1t is
near Heber and In the storms track. Moth
ing has been thus far heard from ii. 1t
probably will be several days before the
names of all who were killed by the tor
nado are known.
A dispatch from Heber tonight says:
I'm the tornado which swept across this
section last night A. c. Williams, living ten
miles south of Heber. was killed. He was
seventy years old and lived with his wife
on top of one of the mountains south of
this town. His house was caught up by
the wind and thrown down the mountain
side. he being killed. His wife was badly
injured and Is not expected to live. A white
man named Houston. living near Williams,
had both arms broken. At Pangburn six
residences were blown down and a flock of
sheep and number OF cattle, hogs and
horses were Killed. Buck Neely, OF Searcy
was in the storm and was caught under a
small tree. which was blown down. He is
not seriously hurt. A large church near
Pangburn was blown half mile. At Little
Red Postoffice Albert Killer, Ebert Derile
Walker Pollard. Mrs. Pollard and Tom King
lost all their houses. barns and other build
ipgs. Forty residences and sixteen barns
were destroyed and other wreckage Is the
record or the damage reported up to 8
o'clock tonight. The tornado swept every
thing In path a mile wide At Pangburn
Mrs. Hoverton and one child were badly
hurt and are not expected TO live. Two OF
the PolIards near Albion were badly hurt
A number OF others were hurt. but not Sc
riously."