The Forrest City times., 1912-03-01
CYCLONE WREAKS HAVOC
 SOUTH OF FORREST CITY
Three Dead and Eight or Ten Injured is Storm Kings Toll in St. Fran cis County Heavy Damages
 to Farm Property.

III the storms which swept tine country to the south of this section Sunday afternoon. As result of a storm of cyclonic proportions, which struck the neighborhood of Linden Island about o'clock that afternoon, three people one of them a twelve year old white girl, and two negro men are dead, and several are in- jured.
 There is no telephonic communica- tion with the storm swept section, which lies about eighteen or twenty miles south of this city, and the first news of the storm was brought by negroes who reached the city sun day night in search of doctors and aid for the injured
 Dr. L. H Merritt, Dr. l. ]. Beg. gan, Dr. J. A. Longest, and Mr Newman LaughinghouSe left for the scene at once, upon hearing of the catastrophe and further news had to be waited for until their return Monday morning Dr. Merritt was the first to return reaching here shortly before II o'clock. On the Linden place two houses were blown down and totally destroyed. On the McDougal place there was q total destruction of the homeplace and other farm property, among this property being two houses occupied by MT. Chas. Luallen and family. Mir. Luallen was blown high into the air and while aloft had his leg broken, sustaining a compound frac- ture. After falling he lay for over three hours in the heavy rainstorm which followed the wind, unconscious and unable to move to seek shelter, and was finally found by his wife, who also sustained serious injuries to the back of her head. This lady was holding baby in her arms at the time the storm struck, and the force of the wind tore the little one away, and it sustained painful and proba- ply fatal injuries through bruises on the back of the head, Two little sons of MT. and Mrs. Lewellen were blown from the scene and dropped at the extreme edge of the river, and ren- dered unconscious. The elder boy fell on top of the smaller one, and came to himself just in time to pre- vent the little fellow being swept into the river An eleven-year-old daughter of this family was killed, her remains being found entangled in wire fence.
 On the Myers Hughes place, ad- joining the Linden place, the home stead was completely destroyed, as well as practically all of the other farm buildings, and Mrs. Hughes sustained serious injuries, her back being badly burt.
 Dan Howard, a eolored tenant oil the McDougal place, had his house and farm buildings totally destroyed. There were five persons in the house at the time of the storm The house was lifted up bodily and blown away, but none of it's inmates, with the eX- ception of Towards motherin-laW, who had both legs broken and her back Wrenched, were hurt.
 On the New Bros. place there was an almost total destruction of prop erty. Out of a total of ten houses on this place, only two were left stand ing. Here Joe Pitts and his brother, both col0red, were killed. and their mother had both of her arms broken.
 The storm came up about five o'clock, and apparently was the same storm that devastated the section around Pine Bluff and Stuttgart. Ac- cording 10 those who visited the scene, the storm swept path about three-eighth of mile wide, and with in this strip it wrought awful havoc, the wind blowing with terrible force. On the placr mentioned above, hardly q tree was left standing.
 The storm clouds were noticed here, but as the day had been dark, rainy and gloomy, but with little, if any wind, not much attention was paid to it. The wind blew almost a gale though no serious damage were re- ported.
 Mir. NJ x. Gaines, who owns a place near the scene of the storms worst damage, was in the city Tues day and says, that just after the wind had subsided he noticed across the bayou from his house q light near where a house had been blown down. He supposed that probably the wreck age had caught fire, and with others started for the scene. Upon reaching the house, he found his sur mise to be correct. It seems that the wind had blown the house down flat on the ground. impriSOninp it's in.