The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-17
AWFUL RESULTS OF
SOUTHERN CYCLONES
A Score Are Dead and Hudreds
Injured in Arkansas and
Alabama.
NINETEEN KNOWN DEAD
A Hundred Others Are Severely In
jured and a Large Number of
Towns Are Yet Un-
heard From.

from several counties in White anC
Cleburne counties, in Arkansas, tell OF
q cyclone which swept through that
section Tuesday night, leaving death
n destruction III its wake. The ma
jor portion of the country through
which the storm plowed it's way is re-
mote from railroads, telegraph or tele-
phone lines.
A special correspondent Of the Ar
kansas Gazette wired from Searcy.
Ark, last night thai he has gone over
a portion Of the IA Of the storm and
that trees We're twisted from their
trunks and houses demolished
Thus far it has been impossible to
ascertain where the storm began, but
1t is known that it ragged In those two
counties, and the list Of casualties will,
from Indications, so much higher than
it is now-nine dead, three dying and
thirteen others badly injured.
The towns of Little Red, Albion,
Bradford, Heber and Pangburn have
been 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. c. WILLIAMS, near Heber.
The injured:
Infant child Of Tom King.
Mrs. A. G. Williams, not expected to
live.
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
legs broken.
Ton Housen. near Heber, both arms
broken.
Unknown man at Bradford.
Little Village Wiped Out.
Bradford, which is on the Iron Noun
tain road, was the first point heard
from Severe houses were blown down
there and n man badly injured. The
tOrnado came from the west II spent
it's force by the time it reached Brad
ford.
1t is feared the little town of Hiram,
with a population Of $50, has been wiped
off the map. 1t is near Heber and in the
storms track. Nothing has been thus
far heard from it.
1t probably will be several days be-
fore the names Of all who were killed
by the tornado are known.
A special to the Gazette from Heber
says:
I'm the tornado which swept across
this section Tuesday night A. G. Will
]iams, living ten miles south of Heber,
was killed. He was 70 years old and
lived with his wife OF enc OF the noun
tains south of this town. His house
was caught by the wind and thrown
down the mountain side, he being
killed, while his wife was badly injured
n is not expected to recover. A white
man named Houston. living near Will
liams, was badly injured and is not ex-
pected to 0 V Both arms were
broken"
At Pangburn six residences We're
blown down and a fock Of sheep and q
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
lard and Tom King lost their houses,
barns and other buildings.
Forty-three residences n sixteen
barns 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
child We're badly hurt and are not ex-
pected to live.
Two Of the Pollards, near Albion,
were badly hurt. A number Of Others
were hurt, but not seriously.