Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-21

Several smaller craft of the fleet
We're damaged.
Walnut Ridge is reported to have
been badly damaged and two negroes
killed and ten injured.
The country between HoXie, Black
Rock and Walnut Ridge, Ark, is
strewn with wrecfage of all kinds.
Bed quilts, sheets and clothing way
ed from tree tops. that We're left
standing and the ground was covered
with timber pieces of iron, and parts
of wagons and buggies.
At Hoxie hotel in the course of
construction was blown down, the rail
road station destroyed, an adjacent
building entirely tlattened, three brick
store buildings partly blown down
and the school building wrecked
According to the passengers and
train crew the storm swept a path
about half mile wide as far as
could be seen from Poplar Bluff to-
wards Little Rock. There was no
damage east of floXie.
Couriers from Poplar Bluff to HoXic
reported few farm houses were left
standing in that vicinity.
Fear is expressed that the death
list would be greater than at present
reported as the heaviest blow came
at the time when the people We're in
their homes.
The st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railroad station at Nintur-
ma, Ark, south Of Hoxie was blown
away. 1t cannot be learned how
much other damage resulted from the
storm in that section as the railroad
and commercial wires are down north
and east of Little Rock,
The building of the Bradley Mer-
camille company at Bradley. Ark, was
blown down and other damage done
in that vicinity.
ONE MAN KILLED
BY FALLING SMokEsTAck
Columbus. Ohio. March 21.-At Tif'
fin, Ohio, William Wick, %, was in,
stantly killed and six or eight others
ere believed to have been buried in
the debris of smoke stack of a
county nfrmary which was wrecked
by the high winds today. Three others
are known to be injured.
STUDENTS NARROWED
ON PIXIES PEAK
Colorado Springs, Colo. March 2l.-
Professor G. e. Martin of the engineer
ing department of Colorado College,
and nine students, who went up Pixies
Peak Wednesday to study the Colorado
SPRINGS water system, are said to be
marooned near Lake Moraine as the
result Of heavy SHOWS. They have a
complete camping outfit and supplies,
SC that no fears are entertained for
their comfort
TWO PERSONS KILLED
AND SEVERAL INJURED.
indianapolis, March 21.-Two per-
sons were killed and several probably
fatally injured today by the wind
storm which wrought havoc through
out the state causing thousands OF
dollars damage to property. Omer A..
Kite, cab driver at frankfort, was
killed when the roof of a building
struck him Henry Walters, work
ingman of Lafayette, was crushed to
death underneath falling sign.
Several churches and school houses
Wire service all over the state was de-
of the buildings of the Indiana Uniyer
sity at Bloomington was damaged
Wire servceal over the state was de-
moralized.
The wind, it was said, reached a ve-
locity of sixty miles an hour at a.
HI. The streets here are Uttered with
wrecked signs, parts of roofs, broken
windows bricks from chimneys and
branches of trees. The wire service
throughout the state was demoralized
some points being cut off completely.
Interurban lines also were hit hard
by the winds.
LOWER PEACH TREE
ALMOST WIPED OUT.
Mobile. Ala, March 21.--The town
of lower Peach Tree, Alabama, was
practically wiped out by a tornado
last night and at least Is persons
were killed according to word receiv-
ed from Pine Hill this afternoon. The
tornado passed directly through the
town and only few houses escaped
destruction. News of the disaster
was confirmed when an appeal reach
ed the mayor of Pine Hill, asking for
doctors and nurses A message ask
ing assistance was also sent to Gov.
O'Neal
THIRTY-FIVE FRAME
BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Louisville, KY, March 21.-At Som
erset, Kentucky, 80 frame buildings
were blown down. None of the occu-
pants was badly injured Other
points in the same section reported
damage
TERRIFIC WINDSTORM
SWEEPS CENTRAL OHIO.
Columbus, Ohio, March 21-A ter
rifle windstorm swept over central
Ohio today. causing one death, prob.
ably score of persons being injured,
numerous small fires and thousands
of dollars damage to property. The
gale reached velocity of fifty miles
an hour. Richard Plimmer, contrac-
tor. was killed and three other men
seriously injured when brick build I
ing collapsed
TWO BOATS MISSING
ON SANDUSkY BAY, I
Sandusky, Ohio, March 21--Two |
boats are missing, one is on the rocks
and another is in distress in the sew