The Carlisle independent., 1909-03-11
THREE KILLED
 AT BRINKLEY
TERRIFIC WIND AND RAIN STORM SWEEPS OVER ENTIRE STATE -SEVERAU PERSONS RE-
 PORTED KILLED.
PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS
Tornado Dips in Outskirts ote Little Rock, Killing One and lnjuring
 Five Near Fourche Dam.


 Little Rock.-That a storm carrying with it one or more tornadoes which dipped to the earth, bringing death and destruction, swept over Arkansas early Monday evening, is certain, but the extent of the damage, owing to the crippled wire service, cannot be ascertained.
 From most reliable reports the town of Brinkley in Eastern Arkansas suf- fered most and the reports from there are conflicting. The only wire to Memphis Monday night was Rock Island dispatcher's wire, and the Brinkley yardmaster reported as he was leaving the town that to his per sonal knowledge three had been kill ed and six injured. The debris which covered the streets and the former sites of residents and business houses soon caught fire and, driven by the high wind, the flames spread over the entire town. A communication from Cotton Plant, seven miles from Brinkley, states that the glare of the flames in burning Brinkley could De seen there. Forrest City, which is about 23 miles east of Brinkley, heard that the entire town was demolished and from eight to 10 killed The citi- zens made up a relief train on which were all the physicians in the town and hurried it out. The Rock Island sent wrecking train on which were c. H. Shoemaker, trainmaster; F. J. Easley, superintendent; c. H. Eggars, master carpenter, and several others. This should have reached Brinkley at about 3 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 That the storm was general is shown by a report to the effect that the windows were blown from train in the western part of the state, and by a brief message from Walnut Ridge that the rain there had been heavy, but that there was little wind. Nor rilton reported at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning that there was no damage there. but an exceptionally heavy rain.
 Probably never before has there been such complete paralysis of wrie service out of Little Rock At one Clllle lue Olly punt WLiSh SOuAu be obtained by telegraph or telephone was Fourche Dam over the new phone. And this wire went out for about 20 minutes between and : o'clock. Af' ter midnight the telegraph company and telephone company began to pick up nearby stations, but at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning not a dozen towns in the state could be reached
 A feature of the storm was the loss of Cotton Belt passenger train be- is supposed to be off the track or behind a wreck near Baucum, but there are rumors that it has been blown from the track and another that it had been struck by lightning It was due in Little Rock at 6:30 Mon day night
 A tornado struck near Fourche Dam, five miles east of Little Rock, late Monday afternoon, killed a negro boy, seriously and probably fatally injured five other negroes and caused heavy property loss The same tornado is reported to have gone on to Baucum and it is known it ripped through Kerr, in Lonoke county, where several homes were destroyed, but no one killed, although several people were hurt.
 When the tornado crossed the Ar kansas river near Fourche Dam it lifted a water spout 100 feet high.