Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-18
AWFUL RESULTS OF
SOUTHERN CYCLONES
a Score Are Dead and Hudreds
Injured in Arkansas and
Alabama.
NINETEEN KNOWN DEAD
4 Hundred Others Are Severely In
jured and a Largo Number of.
Towns Are Yet I'm
. heard From.

Little Rock, Ark, April 10.-Specials
from several counties in White and
Cleburne counties, in Arkansas, tell of
4 cyclone which swept through that
section Tuesday night, leaving death
Ind destruction in it's wake. The ma
ior portion of the country through
which tho storm plowed its way is re-
mote from railroads, telegraph or tele-
phone line5.
A special correspondent of the Ar
kansas Gazette wired from Searcy,
Ark, last night that he has gone over
q portion of the track of the storm and
that trees were twisted from their
and .aouses demolished.
Thus far it has been impossible to
ascertain where the storm began, but
It is known that ii ragged in those two
counties, and the list or casualties Will,
from indications, go. much higher than
t is now-nine dead, three dying and
thirteen others badly injured.
The towns of Little Red, Albion,
Bradford, Heber and Pangburn have
Oeen heard from thus far.
The dead:
JAMES LIGGETT, Little Red.
JOE LIGGETT, Little Red.
TOM KING AND WIFE, Little Red.
THREE YOUNG CHILDREN.
YOUNG LADY SCHOOL TEACHER,
who was boarding at the Kings.
A. G. WILLIAMS, near Heber.
The injured:
Infant child Of Tom King.
Mrs. A. c. Williams, not expected to
i've.
Buck Medley, Searcy.
Alder Killer, Ebert Doyle, Walker
Pollard, all of Little Red.
Two of the Pollard family, near AL
bion.
Mrs. Hoverton and children, Pang-
burn, not expected to live.
Miss Barkhousen, Little Red, leg
broken and skull fractured.
Walter Muller, Pangburn, leg broken.
Mrs. Henry Wills, injured internally,
fatally.
Unknown woman, Pangburn, both
EGGS broken.
Tor Housen, near IIeber, both arms
broken.
Unknown man at Bradford.
Little Village Wiped Out.
Bradford, which is on the Iron Noun
lain road, was the first point heard
rom. Several houses were blown down
there and one man badly injured. The
tornado came from the west and spent
is force by the time it reached Brad
sord.
1t is feared the little town of Hiram,
With a population of $50. has been wiped
Iff the map. 1t is near Heber and in the
storms track. Nothing has been thus
Tar heard from 1t.
1t probably will be several days be-
lore the names of all who were killed
by the tornado are known.
A special to the Gazette from Heber
says:
'In the tornado which swept across
this. section Tuesday night A. c.. Will
dams, living ten miles south of Heber,
was killed. He was ~ years old and
lived with his wife on one OF the noun
tains south of this town. His house
was caught by the wind and thrown
Town the mountain side, he being
killed, while his wife was badly injured
and is not expected TO recover A White
nan named Houston. living near Will
Jams, was badly injured and is not ex-
pectcd to eCover. Both arms were
broken"
At Pangburn six residences were
blown down and a flock of sheep and a
number of cattle and hogs were killed.
A church near Pangburn was blown
half a mile.
At Little Red postoffice Alfred Killer,
Albert Doyle, Walker Pollard, Mrs. Pol
ard and Tom King lost their houses,
oarns and other buildings.
Forty-three residences and sixteen
oarns have been reported destroyed,
and other wreckage wrought up at 8
o'clock last night.
The tornado swept everything in a
path a mile wide.
AT Pangburn, Mrs. Hoverton and one
.hild were badly hurt and are not ex-
pected to live.
Two of the Pollards, near Albion,
we're badly hurt. A number OF others
we're hurt, but not seriously.