The Mena weekly star., 1909-03-18
BRINkLEY LOSS
 OVER s2,OOO,OOO
Loss to Property in Stricken Town Will Exceed First Estimates 150 of the Injured Being
 Cared for.

juries of between l50 and IFS wounded are being dressed each day by the corps of physicians aud nurses in charge of Dr. E. D. Mcknight. A considera ole number are dressed at the emer. geucy hospital, at Main and Cy- press streets, and the others are visited at their homes by the phy. sicians. The city is divided into districts and each physician has been assigned a district. There are now six nurses, six white physicians assisting in the work. All ol the physicians from out of the city have returned home, the last of them going Saturday night. The negro physicians are proving valuable among the many negro injured.
 Church Services Held.
 Church services were held this morning in tbe school auditorium, participated ia by all the minis ters. In the afternoon services were held for the convicts work
 
 ing here. With the exception of the Catholic church, every church building in the city was demol- ished by the wind.
 Work ou clearing up aud pro- viding temporary shelters for the people until the town can be re- built continued today, although DO general work was done. So far little actual repairing has been done anywhere except to roofs of warehouses and business houses, the people having been kept busy providing temporary shelter for themselves and their goods and with cleaning out the debris.
 Martial law will probably be declared off tomorrow and the militia removed. A portion of the men were sent home Friday. The others will go tomorrow. The convicts will be kept here until Wednesday.
 Loss Greater Than Estimated. An estimate of g, 250,0 ,000 has been placed on the storm loss ID Brinkley after careful canvass by mum Der of business men whc | are in touch with local values. The actual property loss is close to $2, 900, ,000, they declare, and the loss to business and land val ues will run up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 The repair work on the ligh. plant has brought out the story of the breaking of the steam pipes there on the night of the tornado. The wind in crushing iu the building wrenched num- Der of the steam pipes in twain and the steam rushing from the boiler, which was carr, ing full load at the time, escaped with a noise that penetrated that of the tornado.
 aft sounded like 5,0c0 engines cxhausting at the same time, " said one man telling of the incl dent. ''I could not conceive what | it was at the time. Ii was an awful roaring. rushing sound, and seemed like another and greater tornado coming" Victims Did Not Hear Storm. Many victims of the tornado's wrath did not hear the storm above the ripping and crashing of their homes. Others do not even remember of hearing that much. One physician, whose home was practically destroyed, l while six monster trees were blown down in his yard, declares he heard nothing except slight ripping of boards and did not know his trees were down until after the storm. Another victim says he heard only the tinkle of falling glass as the storm passed
 Sightseeing Negroes Made to Work.
 A humorous story of two ne. groes who came to Brinkley with their girls to see the ruins and ended up by going to work, IS told and has been vouched Tor oJ Mayor Jackson. The couples drove over from Cotton Plant, and, marching up in fine style t. the mayor, asked for passes tor the day so they would not be mo- I tested while taking iu the sights I Jackson stopped to smile and then pointing out D)nuelly, director | of labor, sent them 10 him with I the assurance that they would o' H6xed m