The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-09
STORM IN ARKANSAS.
So Far as Heard from Mine are Dead
 and Three are Dying.

Little Rock Ark, April S.-Specials to The Arkansas Gazette from several towns in White and Cleburne counties, Arkan- sas, tell of a cyclone which swept through that section Tuesday night. leaving death and destruction in it's wake. The maj ajor portion of the country through which the storm ploughed It's way Is remote from railways and telegraph lines. A special correspondent of The Gazette wires from Searcy. Ark, tonight that he had passed over a portion of the track of the storm and that trees were twisted from their trunks and houses demolished.
 Thus far it has been impossible to as- certain where the storm began, but 1t Is known that 1t ragged in those two counties and the list of casualties will, from indi- cations, mount much higher than 1t now Is, with nine dead. three dying and thir- teen others badly injured. The towns of Little Red Albion, Bradford. Heber 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 Kings: A. c. Williams, near Heber. The injured-Infant child of the King family, Mrs. A. c. Williams. near Heber; not expected to live: Buck Medley, Searcy;
 
 lock, Little Red.
 Two of the Pollard family near Albion, Mrs. Hoverton and child, Pangburn, not expected to live; Miss Barkhousen, Lit tie Red, leg broken and skull fractured; Walter Muller. Pangburn, leg broken; Mrs. Henry We'll. injured internally, fla tally; unknown woman, Pangburn. both legs broken; Tom Houston, near Heber, both arms broken: unknown man at Brad ford.
 Bradford. which Is on the Iron Noun tain road. was the first point heard from. Several 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 1t reached Bradford. It is feared the little town of Hiram, with a population of 15O has been wiped off the map. It Is near Heber and in the storm S track. Nothing has been thus far heard from 1t. It will probably be several days before the names of all who were killed by the tornado are known. A special to The Gazette from Helper says:
 In the tornado which swept across this section last night A. c. Williams, living | ten miles south of Heber, was killed. He was 70 years of age and lived with his wife on top of one of the mountains south of this town. His house was caught uI by the wind and thrown down the noun | tain 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 a number | of cattle, hogs and horses were killed Buck Nicely 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 a mile. At Little Red post office. Albert Killer, Ebert Derile, Walter l Pollard, Mrs. Pollard and Tom King lost all their houses. barns and other build | ings.
 Forty-three residences and sixteen barns ! destroyed and other wreckage is the rec. l ord of the damage reported to o'clock tonight.
 The tornado swept everything in path a mile in width
 At Pangburn Mrs. Hoverton and one child were badly hurt and not expected to live. Two of the Pollards, near Al bion. were badly hurt. number of oth 1 CTS were hurt. but not seriously.