Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-24
TORNADO SWEEPS
WESTERN ARKANSAS (
Fatalities conservativeIy Esti-
mated at Thirty but They
May Reach Fifty.
PROPERTY LOSS VERY GREAT
Whole Forests of Trees Torn Up
BY Roots and Houses Car
ried Away Bodily.
Definite News is Lacking But Reports
show Destruction Of Life Large
And Devastation Widespread.

Little Rock. Ark, Nov. 24.--What tho
actual conditions are in western Ar
kansas where 1T is known there ais
many dead. several score injured and
many penniess victims of the two tor
nadoes which swept through that ror-
ton of the state late yesterday, Is yet
Il matter largely of conjecture. NJ
though large forces of men have
worked through last night endeavor-
ing to establish communication with
that section, their work this morning Us
still incomplete.
Early today reports. still indefinite,
continue to reach this city, but they
We're no more satisfactory than those
received last night. Later dlspatcheS
however, indicate no change as to the
number Of fatalities which have been
conserSatively estimated at 30 al
though reports from several sources
declare that the death list will aggrc-
gate so, with much of the storm-swepL
| territory yet to be heard from. .
a PATH OF DESOLATIoN.
No estimates ure made as 10 the
| property loss.
| Judging from all reports received thus
| far however, it will so into the hun
| dreds OF thousands Miles upon miles
I of land has been swept bare Forests,
| homes. business houses, churches and
| everything have been demolished alike
! in many communities. Several dis
| patches say that whole forests of trees
| were turu out by the roots and that.
| many buildings thai We're not demol-
ishad were lifted from their founda-
| tons and twisted around. That the
loss of life would not be enormous uil-
/ der such circumstances would be con-
| sidered remarkable.
Thus far reports differ as to the gem
eral direction of the tornadoes al the
| different points.
| Two reports from Berryville. where
many homes We're destroyed and three.
people Injured, We're to the effect THAI
the tornado that struck. that place
came from the north While another.
: report said it came from the west.
From all reports ti1ere appears to have
been two different torriadoes, one start
ing from tile south and the Other
from the north, both dipping to the
| earth ut intervals and apparently meet
ing in Che central western part OF tbs
state, where the most damage has been
reported.
The town of Piney, Il German settle
ment on the Iron Mountain railroad lo-s
Gated between Knoxville and London.
suffered the most, according to reports
received Reports from Russellsville
and Knoxville, the only near points
from which anything can be learned,
are to the effect that a number of peo-5
Pile are believed to have been killed.
The number of dead Is estimated at
from nine to 20, while one report stat
4 ed that all rumors We're exaggerated
and that only one person, n girl, had
been killed. Five business houses and
n number of homes we're destroyed. ac-
cordiug to reports
All the physicians of Knoxville have
left that place for Piney, travelling in
buggies and automobiles. but nothing
has been heard from them.
4 II was first reported that the town
of London had been destroyed, but up
on investigation 1t was found that
Piney was referred to instead of Lon
don.
KNOWN DEAD.
From the towns Of Berryville and
! Cravens the most definite reports are
received AT the former, three persons
We're injured and the property loss is
estimated at between $4,000 and $40 00o.
| AT Cravens, four persons are known to
be dead members of the family of
John Resin, a farmer, who We're caught
under the falling timbers of their home;
L. c. Holt and wife, an aged couple,
were seriously injued and may die.
Eight persons who took rerfuge In a
store Were caught in the crash OF the
building and all eight We're injured. and
the others are reported as missing.
AT Crnvens practically all the larger
buildings We're either demolished OF,
badly damaged. From Knoxville a dis
| patch received this morning partially
confirms the report that the village of
Barr four miles from that place, was
totally wrecked Section men who
went 10 the scene state that the entire
intermediate country has been laid
waste by the wind and hail which fol-
lowed. the hail in some places standing
to a depth OF six inches.
Physicians and hastily made-up relief
parties We're sent from Knoxville TO
both Barr and Piney,
In the vicinity of Mulberry, five per-
sons are reported killed and others in
jured AT Lod one woman was serious
~ injued and the Methodist church and
several other buildings We're DESTROYED.