The Mena weekly star., 1906-10-11

# Deaths Have Occurred-Path of storm # Only 90 Feet Wide.
 New Orleans, Oct. GA tornado Passing through five miles of the resi- Hence and factory section of New Orr
 leans Friday injured at least a Srcore of persons, and did fully $500,- |0O0 damage. Half an hour after the Tornado had left the city travelling Ill VI northerly direction, telegram from Hammond, La, 50 miles north of here, 'Xaid that four persons had been killed |In a tornado at Pontchatoula, near IN town. Great property damage at 3Pontchatoula was also reported.
 report was brought in from the |&eiehborhood of Lake Pontchartrain, |outside the city limits, that lives had @Seen lost there Later the death of
 v man named Howes was reported at
 <he lake but these reports lacked con |armation. Although several deaths Mere reported in New Orleans imme- 'diately after the storm, investigation |xhowed that probably not a life was
 Hst here Many of the injuries oc- |Eurred near Roberts street and the .flyer front where the Columbia Oil 1fnill and the Jefferson sawmill were
 badly damaged.
 "a A woman and child were injured
 IN the blowing down of house at &irst and Magnolia streets, and ne- |<ro in Douglas Parish was reported sb have been picked up bodily by the
 1ind and carried several feet, being Zhdly bruised.
 # The tornado entered the city near
 &uduDon park, having crossed the Mis- |Sissippi river from the farming coun- |fry opposite that point. The wind |Has accompanied by low hanging &loud and heavy rumble. It trav- |Slled northwest until 1t reached the
 Nne residence portion of the city at |6t. Charles and Napoleon avenues.
 Mere the damage was the lightest done |In any part of the tornado's course
 From St. Charles the wind proceeded 6traight ahead to Marriage and Caron- 5&elet streets where it veered sharply |xo the northward and in this direction passed out of the city.
 % The path of the tornado through
 lhe city was from 30 to 50 feet wide. Ths narrow zone was strewn with |bricks from demolished chimneys, de- <nched boards, uprooted trees, fallen
 Telegraph poles and an occasional foof. IL was the falling of these ob- 'jects which caused most of the in- |3uries.
 & A peculiar feature of the disturb |Ance in this city was the fact that New persons within half mile of the
 fornado's path knew there had been
 N storm and the local United States
 weather bureau received the first in
 timation Of a tornado from news |paper reporter. Forecaster I. M Cline |oaid the tornado was probably a local
 disturbance
 # Buildings unroofed included the St. Elizabeth convent on Napoleon ave-
 me, the New Orleans furniture com 2Dany at the foot of Belle Castle street,
 <he Jai Alai roller skating rink and |1he gas works at the corner of Pydras
 4nd Magnolia streets. At the gas
 Korks a stand pipe was blown down. VI Other buildings damaged included Me St. Stephens church (Roman Eathol'e), market house In the pro- Ness of construction at Toledano and
 Baratoga streets and the two mills
 Previously mentioned. About 25 small Houses and cabins were either render "a unsafe or blown down completely. A Transport Secured. M Washington, Oct -Quartermas- ler General Humphreys has just se- Enred the British steamer Marion. Aow at Philadelphia, capacity 10000 load tons and $50 troops as trans bort in place of the Missouri, which $he United States Steel corporation Eefused to lease as an army trans bort The Marion is ordered to re- bort immediately at Newport News, Va.