Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-31
PINE BLUFF STILL ON MAP
,llen Burnett's Destructive Cyclone
Failed 60 Connect
OF Conversation Is The Change in Chief Ellen
of Police

Ellen Burnetts cyclone failed to
make connection and Pine Bluff is
still on the map. There was hard
downpcur CT rain Friday night, ac-
ccmpanied by an electrical display
which caused a few people to get ne.-
vous, but there has been many a
harder rain storm to visit Pine Bluff
that the one which came Friday
night The streets were flooded, and
for while Pine Bluff had a Venetian
appearance, but that happens every
time it rains real hard.
GREW DARKER and it began to rain
lightly, which caused some uneasi-
ness en- the part of few. At 6 p.
m., the hour when the awful calam-
ity was to put in its appearance, ac-
cording to the Burnett woman, the
clouds had broken away consider
ably, and the sky was much bright
IT, which relieved the mental and
ne yous tension of those who
inclined to be alarmed. I">wever,
by 9 D. m. it was dark, cloudy again
and raining in good old Arkansas
style.
The negroes are gradually return.
ing to the city, and in few days
the greatest negro scare in the his
tory of the city will be entirely over.
! This piece of foolishness has cost
lie city thousands of dollars, has
paralyZed business and has been a
great lesson to the negroes.
In surveying the field it appears
that some whites have been large.
, ly to blame. They have, in many
ways, sought to ridicule the negro
in his scare and superstition, which
to become more afraid. Many of the
blacks have thought all along that
the whites believed that a disastrous
storm would come, and that they
were secretly preparing to leave the
city and let the negro remain without
any thought or preparation for his
safety.
n Notwithstanding the many things
at have happened to increase the
negroes fears. Many whites sought
day and night to satisfy the colored
neople that there was no danger, and
that thew were acting unwisely by
giving heed to the Burnett woman's
| rcnsense.
All day Friday and until a late
hour Friday night the press agents
and dolly papers throughout the
country kept the wires hot asking
about the weather conditions at Pine
Bluff.
The Burnett woman has been re-
'oased from the Pulaski county jail
by order Of Sheriff Gould, and she
talked with Little Rock reporter
after her release. The following is
AIKEN from the Gazette of Saturday
morning
An under-sized, stockily-built young
negress carrying a cheap telescope
valise and wearing checked ging-
ham wa.st. a gray woolen skirt ard
white apron. marched sturdly
along West Markham street yester
day afternoon about o'clock. Few
OF the thousands in Little Rock who
had looked up at the sky during yess
terday and wondered out loud what
the weather was at Pine Bluff knew
that this was the negress who awoke
one morning recently to find herself
ferrous. 1t was Ellen Burnett JEFF
f"reen. who prophesied that the city
IF Dine. Bluff would be wiped out OF
"visten"e yesterday afternoon be-
tween 3 and o'clock.
Size was bound for the union stat
tion. where she waited for train
going to Pine Bluff. She left last
night shortly after 8 o'clock for the
"ity which she had predicted would
re ec"++ared to the four winds.
Ge-ot+o representative talked to
'ho naasoes lust before sh was re-
lc""o' fror" the Pulaski county Jail.
f'7'''@t ohcut this prediction" was
- f. question put. "How is it
- piro Bluff is still on the map"
"EVell.' answered the negress,
there is plenty Of time yet. You
'11ow the Lord did not say the de-
struction of the city was to be until