The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-09
More Than Dozen Persons Are
 Killed end Many Hurt
HEAVY DAMAGE ID PROPERTY
Storm Ragged In Two Counties, and It Is Thought the List of Dead Will Increase as Remote Sections
 Are Heard From.

Little Rock, Ark, April s.-Specials to the Arkansas Gazette from several towns in White and cleburne counties. Arkan- sas, tell of cyclone which swept through that section Tuesday night, leaving death and destruction In it's wake.
 The major portion of the county through which the storm ploughed it's way Is remote from railroads, telegraph or telephone lines. A special correspond ent 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 1t has been impossible to as- certain where the storm began, but it Is known that 1t ragged in those two coun- ties and the list of casualties will. from indications, mount much higher than it now is with nine dead, three dying and thirteen others badly injured. The towns of Little Red, Albion. Bradford. Hehsr 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 schoolteacner, 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 Neely, searcy.
 Albert Killer. Ebert Derile, Walker Pol lard Little Red.
 Two of the Pollard family near Albion. Mrs. Hoverton and child Pangburn: not expected to live. Miss Parkhousen, Little Red; leg broken and skull fractured.
 Walter Mueller, Pangburn, leg broken. Mrs. Henry Wells, injured internally.
 Unknown woman, Pangburn, both legs broken.
 Tom Houston, near Heber, both arms broken.
 Unknown man at Bradford.
 Bradford, which Is the Iron Moun- 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 its force by the time it 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 storms path Nothing has been thus far heard from It. It will probably be several days before the names of all who were killed by the tornado are known
 Other Reports of Damage.
 A special to the Gazette from Heber says:
 In the tornado which swept across this section last night A. C. Williams, living ten miles south of Heber was killed. He was 10 years of age 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 moun- tain side, he being killed His wife was badly injured and is not expected to live white man named Houston living near Williams had both arms broken.
 At Pangburn six residences were blown down and 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 postoffice. Albert Killer, Ebert Derile, Walker Pollard, Mrs. Pol lard and Tom King lost their houses and barns. Forty-three residences and six teen barns were destroyed, and other wreckage is the record of the damage re- ported to o'clock tonight.
 The tornado swept everything in a path a mile In width. At Pangburn Mrs Hoverton and one child were badly hurt ald not expected to live. Two of the Pollards near Albion were badly hurt. A number of others were hurt. but not seriously.