The Irish standard., 1904-03-26
TORNADO CAUSES
Damage IN south
SCHOOLHOUSE IN ARKANSAS Is
BLOWN DOWN AND ONE
OF PUPILS KILLED.
SERIOUS FLOOD CON-
DITlONS IN NORTH
Engineer Drowned in the Despla ines
River and Another Narrowly Es-
capes Same Fate-In Wisconsin,
Cloudburst in Ohio.

Little Rock, Ark, March ga lorna
do did great damage to property and
caused at least one death in central
Arkansas. At Fourche Dam, four miles
from Little Rock, negro schoolhouse
was blown down and one of the pupils,
Nellie Began, was killed. Several other
pupils were injured. At the confederate
soldiers home, five miles from Little
Rock, the chimneys were blown down,
the slate roof torn up and the interior
deluged with rain. None of the old SOL
diers were hurt. Frame houses, fences
and trees were levelled in many direc-
lions and the property damage is ex-
tensive. In the section 20 miles north
OF Little Rock, great destruction Of prop
erty is reported, but wires are down and
1t cannot be learned whether there was
any loss of life.
! Serious Flood Conditions.
Chicago, March 24.-Flood conditions,
the worst in years, continued undated
in Chicago and vicinity Wednesday,
James H. Scott, an engineer, was
drowned in the Desplaines river as a
result of the floods and second man
narrowly escaped death. They were
driving horse which was drowned.
! In the Desplaines valley the water
was higher than it had been for many
seasons. At Riverside, where an en-
ploye of the sanitary board is on watch,
the gauge read 21.5 feet early in the
morning. This is the highest level
reached by the waters of the Desplaines
river since the records of the commits
sion have been kept. A level of 21.3 feet
was reached in 1902, that being the pre-
vious record. A tremendous volume of
water was rushing over the dam at Riv-
erside, and people living in the valley
of the river below that point were great
ly alarmed. Toward noon, however, the
Hood began to fall, until it was about
one foot above the top of the dam.
Enormous Damage.
| GAINESVILLE, Wis, March 24.-Damage
to the extent of 100000 in Rock county
has resulted in the last "a hours from
Turtle creek overlooking it's banks.
Rock river is also on the rampage, and
In the low factory districts in this city
the damage has been extensive. The
heavy rain of Monday evening and the
continued thaw of the last few days
played havoc with railway tracks and
telegraph lines. Washouts between this
city and Beloit have resulted in the
Rockford, GAINESVILLE and Beloit inter-
urban line suspending business between
GAINESVILLE and Rockford, Ill.
Cloudburst in Ohio.
Cincinnati, o., March PA cloud
burst Of unusual magnitude deluged the
country in the vicinity of Mount Wash
ington and Forestville, villages south
, east of Cincinnati. The little stream,
Three-Mile creek, became roaring tor
rent, flooding fields and roads and in
volving houses on the low grounds. In
Cincinnati the storm was unusually vio-
lent, following temperature that
reached rs degrees. Lightning fired a
tenement house. Hailstorms ragged in
the vicinity of Fort Thomas on the Ken
lucky side of the Ohio river.
Windstorm in Kentucky.
Hopkinsville, KY, March 24.-Re-
ports received Wednesday show that
damage amounting to thousands of dol
lars was done in Christian county by the
wfndstorm. Many buildings were I'M
rooted and between 40 and so tobacco
barns were blown down. In North
Christian rains, amounting almost to a
waterspout, did great damage. A negro
at Elmo and a negress near Herndon
were fatally hurt by collapsing of to-
bacco barns.