Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-27
TORNADO LEFT
 MANY INJURED Victims of Sunday Storm al Hospital Doing Nicely But
 Two May Die. THE GRAPHIC'S EXTRA Seven Dead in Arkansas C0unty-MOrc hi iured Persons Cared For
 at Swan Lake.
THE GRAPHIC'S EXTR A

Relief parties sent intc neiehbor- ing plantations from Swan Lake, in this county, yesterday morning and afternoon, where a death dealing tor nado, which alSo did considerable damage to property in this section of the etate, failed to reveal any more dead bodies, although it is said, sev- fral occupants of small tenant hous as have not been seen since their homes we're completely blown away or so badly wrecked ast to make them unfit for occupancy.
 i Later reports from the Swan Lake country yesterday showed that fully twenty houses were blown away com phately by the storm. Three were destroyed on the Greenbacl1 place. five on the Smith place, four on tn e Hoffman plantation and a number of others back in the woods from the tt'he open country. Only one death that of the little Sincoe child, who was killed instantly, has been report ad, but it ia believed that others have parish9d and that their bodies will yet be found among the wreckage.
 In addition to ,he seven persons who were brought to this city early yesterday morning on the special re- lief train from Swan Lake, three white persons were injured on the Smith place, four on the Hoffman place and number of others in scattered neigh borhoods'. They were cared for yes terday bv physicians living at Swan Lake and Sweden, but none of them gre reported to be seriously hurt.
 The body of the little Sincoe boy was buried yesterday at English. His parents and one little sister are in the Davis Hospital here undergoing 1 treatment The mother may not re- cover
 The Ladies Hospital Association
 leld meeting yesterday morning in the Bank of Pine Bluff pa1lors and laid plans to aid the sufferers from Sundays tornado in this county. They are already caring for the seven more | seriously injured at the hospital. but will provide others, who lost their homes, with food and clothing i'm mediately. Mrs. $. c. Alexander, chair man of the executive committee of the Association, presided. It is stat ed tha' all of the sufferers are poor people and are badly in need of as- sistance. Mrs. J. w. Crawford or' Mrs. J. G. Taylor will receive dona-
 lions and they will be accepted at the Davis Hospital also.
 Engineer E. M. Van Cleave, of the Cotton Belt service, who was on his freight eneine at sMcNeill, Ark, ear ly yesterday morning, said that he
 was forced 10 hold his train there for some time on account of the heavy
 wind that prevailed in that section of the state. Roofs were blown from box cars and many small building that section were either damaged z
 blown down. Engineer D. Daniel, who was also in his engine on a through freight Iwain, was compelled to stop at MeNeill and wait until the wind storm had subsided.
 The first news from the stricken Swan Lake neighborhood was given to the people of this city and section
 early yesterday morning by the Gra- | phic, which sent out an early morn- | ing extra with all The details, names | of the dead and injured and nthec particulars. The Graphic Hoes not issue its regular edition Hn Monday morning, but it realized the import ance of the story and gave it's read CTS the news many hours in advance of that of other metropolitan jorr- nals. A Graphic representative went | to the scene of the storm on the 15- | lief train and upon his return at 2:10 A. M. had the story ready for the | lynotypes within thirty minutes. Ten minutes after the paper was put on the Graphic's new v'oss press four hundred copies had been purchased on downtown ctreefs from newsboys and by neon more than 1000 copies of the extras had been grabbed by anxl. ous readers from the hands of the