The Forrest City times., 1904-03-25
he Storm.


over Forrest City Tuesday just before
noon, and quite great deal of damage
was wrought, the greatest single in
stance being the unroofng of L. ID.
llatcher's livery stable. The top of a
3-seated hack was also blown of, and
landed forty feet away in hotel park.
a part of the north wall of the old
Chrisco building on South Washington
street, occupied by Potts hotel, was
blown down causing about So 90
damages.
The ratings on the upstairs porch at
the Marion were demolished.
The fancy finishing on top of the
front wall of Ike MalIory's building,
occupied by j. w. Beck & Co., J. T.
Sanders, the Telephone Exchange, and
law Offices was completely demolished.
y portion of the new brick wall on
Mis-. Shades building was blown
down.
a large Mulberry tree in front OF the
Hotel st. Francis was blown down
from the roots up.
The Times Office and Newsstand was
slightly damaged by water.
The Red Gin suffered considerable
damage by having roof blown off.
smoke stack down, and seed house in.
~ large plate glass window in the
1 esser building on South Washington
street was broken.
Quite number of small out housed
were blown over, around town. and
considerable damage generally though
nothing serious to any individual.
The Lesser building, formerly occu-
pied by a Meyer & Co. had its roof
partially blown off, and the front con-
siderably damaged
The new house being erected by
Isaac Newton Thomas, just west of
Col. Y. b. lizard, was lifted from the
foundation, and set out in the yard.
without other damage
DR.. DuDayants sign, and J. r.
Brady's big wooden watch were blown
down, aud the latter demolished.
The force Of the wind broke several
windows around town.
The storm was the elimination OF
the unreasonable and unexpected
warm spell of Monday, when the tenn
perature reached a maximum Of So de.
gress from to p. NJ. 1t was warm
all night, and the morning started in
with high temperature. which began
o drop as the rain and wind began.
For half an hour the rainfall was tor
rental, blowing in great gusts, against
which no umbrella offered the slight
est protection. The people were forced
TO seek shelter and let the ST orm have
its own way as long as. it would. The
cutters were soon overlooking, and the
branch was flushed out of its confines
at several places 1t flooded the sur.
rounding locality on Front street. No
serious damage, however, has been re-
ported on account of the tlood
Quite a considerable fencing was
blown down IN different parts of town.
Tie old tower at the aterworks was
blown over en- the telephone wires
and caused cutie great deal of trouble
to the company.
The tower of the Episcopal church
was moved about three inches upon its
foundation, and the plastcring and
new paper, was cracked across the
front of the church.
Aunt Sue McMilans house was lifted
off of its foundation and considerably
damaged.
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a large section of the roof on the
Walton Knox box factory was blown
off, and the smoke stack down. They
also lost two tenant houses.
AT HH1TMORE
Several small houses in course of
erection were demolished.
a large tree was blown across the
lines between Madison
and Widener, and all lines borne down.
READ 1T THROUGH.