Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-03-10
Tornado Leaves Death and 0esfruc.
ton in its Sixty Per.
sons Injured.
-FOUR HOTELS WERE DESTROYED
Every eusiness House in the Storm.
swept Arkansas Town is IN Ruins
and Hardly Residence That Was
Not Damaeed-Property Loss a
Million Dollars.

.By Associated Pressl
BRINkl.EI. ARK. March q
Thirty CT more lives Were snufed
cut sixty pc" SOL. wee injured ana
prOpC rty estimated 20 hr wCrtn one
million dol,.u, WI; de 50 yrd az a
result CT tornado Which Wrecked
this littlr city las n'%n,. or n"
kncwa d, I'd. "a a" white. as .ll-
lows:
Isaac Reed. Mr.. l.aac Red. Rag
Mnrd Rec. Porter Fo2tr. J. l.. STAR
+, Harry S,svall. Mrs. E.hel PM.
lips. Mas Relic Darden. two ci'ilireh
OF MIS-. Earden.. Charles Frame. A.
NJ. Hood. unidentified nan.
Among the more seri. usly injured
are O. X. Dowdle sides and ankle
crushed; Mrs. Emerson. arm broken
and seri-usly bruised: Daniel Cum
wings. injured about head: Robert
Alexander, badly bruised: Mrs
Claude Leaky. cut about body: ID. v.
Eonnelly wounded about head: John
F. Waddell OF Memphis. cut about
head; Miss Cara Rose. internally i'll
jured: Th-nis Rcge. badly injured:
Arthur Rose. crushed by climbers;
Mss DAISY Rec. seriously bruised:
Mrs J. E. Mcrelcck. bC.h limbs
: bI ckpn; Mis-. tn Smith. bruised
about head and ches,; Edward Living
90. hip anL back injured; J. A.
! S,cwart bruised and crushed.
Remainder Are Negroes.
The r, mainder OF the dead and
: seriously Injured are negroes
The tornado hcvered aba the city
| only few minutes but its work OF
destruction was complete.
/ The Roman Catholic church and
ing directly in the Iath Ct the st rm.
alone escaped damage or destruction
and stands tonight grim sentinel
on scene OF desOlati1n.
Man street anG Cypress avenue.
the ;wo principal thOrOughfires arc
imrascable aid piled high with wrech.
age fen end 20 end.
Every Nusinese house is in ruins,
and there is hardly home that has
ret at least suffered the bCss OF reef
{. wing.
Hotet Guests Escape.
The AIlir Gton Hotel was tally
dc. ;oyed Eighty guests 'we'c
reg s,red there. but all escaped I'M
injured
, The HrinkIey hotel. Southern hotel
and Kelly hotel We're all destroyed
withcut l.. - OF life.
Relic! squads have been at work
! all d,y ca. ing f-r the dead and in
jured.
The deal were sent to Helena rom
which roint interment will take
! place.
Governor DOnaghey arrived from
I Little Rock this afternoon in res
i: cn.se 10 call frcm the citizens
committee He has The situlton
well In hand. and says fo-d. clothing
ard shelter are the things most
needfuI
Hundreds Are Homeless.
Hundreds OF people are homeless
and are wandering about seeking
temporary abode.
Three special trains arrived from
neishbcrnig towns today bringing re-
lief " rkers. phy.iciIns and nurses
The Catholic church haS bcca CO..
vcTf~d into hospital and here IN"
dot rs and nurses are caring for
the injured
Tho ci:rzcnS = " hC1 have offered
The us.. of their. homes for the d':''i'
. ;utc
Mass meeting have been cail'd Tor
. tomorr-w in little Rock. Memphis
and other cities = rails" funds and
SUI pIie. f,r the storm victims.
SIX Other CssvaIt .es.
LITTLE. ROCK. ARK. March 3
Sly 4 ID and eight injured persona
vpTr " rrred TO-DAY aeaT Little Rock
as the !, az = The tornado Of Mon
day nizh' The dead Mrs. Elrod.
Benton ARK Mrs. sam k"sierson.
SaIcm. Child. al lTnoy Woods. near
Carlisle: Edgar. Roy and Lena. chill
drcn vi MIS- isabel Mason AZ Zion.
Mrs Mason and gix other Children
were seriously hnrt
The Mcthoiist church and school
house At Mount Carmel were dcmol
tshcd and eight horses at Hurricane
Creek wore Destroyed