The Dermott news., 1915-12-02
FIFTY TO 75 INJURED OUTSIDE OF HOT SPRINGS TORNADO
 DISTRICT.
MANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED
Damage and Loss of Life Greater in Hampstead, Lafayette and Neva. da Counties-$ 100000 Proper.
 ty Loss Reported.
Hot Springs

''''N' jured.
 These. with tho 10 dead and &5 in iured near Hot Springs brings the to- tal of dead up to 20 and the injured to l00 or more lt is feared that these totals may be increased as be lated reports como in Four or five of the injured are not expected to survive
 Southwest Arkansas appears 10 have suffered most in the tornado that p'owed it's way across the state. fhe damage and loss Of life were greatest iu Hempstead. Lafayette and Nevada counties That the storm was gen i eral throughout the state. however, r. shown hy the fact that one death oc cured m Fulton county. on the eX trcme northern edge of the state.
 Scores of residences We're literally swept from the earth and much stock. including cattle. hogs. horses Was killed More than $l0o000 prop. er'y loss has already been reported and rescuers and relief committees StN tI'H nave Hol Ntt tuH'lth lu' ground.
 Shortly before 2 o'clock. when many residents of that section were enjoy ing the holiday. heavy gust of wind passed over Stamps from the south east. Eight miles north of the town il gained velocity that swept every thing before it in district a half mile wide and h miles long.
 The farmhouse Of John Bailey. near Stamps, was one of the tirst hit The wind carried 1t 200 yards. tore 1t to splinters over rocks and gullies. John Bailey had just returned from pleas ure trip to Falcon He was bruised and cut when swept from his feet and set down in his pasture. W. NJ Bailey. 60. farmer. and father of Joha Bailey. was killed nstanly. Mrs Bailey was found several yards from the site of the house She is at the home of a neiEhbor, unconscious. rhy- sicians say she will not live. The eight month-old Bailey baby was blown many yards away and was Iouuu utAu III H'4u It' S'NtH- ycar-old son of Bailey was found a quarter of mile from the home site an hour after the storm He Was stall alive lie suffered only a dIslocated shoulder To his resCuors he told a pI,iiul story of mental agony Tb" 10 year-old daughter of Bailey suffered broken leg Other injuries are only slight she Is sure 10 recover. the physicians say
 Bailey Is d poor cotton farmer He had just sold his cotton crop the day before and had S2lo. every cent the family possessed Tn the world hidden in the house This k gone and can. not be found Furniture of the house wns found as far as mile distant
 Sweeping on up the pike the doath trap caught Lewis Armstrong. young farmer. and hls bride ot week Mr Armstrong was assisting his wife m cleaning up a little cottage prepara- tory to moving in The cottage IS a mass of sphutcrcd umhers Arm strong was crushed teHcath ,he wreck Ills htelcss body was taken out after midnight Mrs Armstrong k being cared for by neighhors She cannot recover from injuries, both In terual and external. She k delirious and asks for her husband Fortune favored Walter Mccoy. his w.fe and fCur small children. hving goo yards beyond the Armstrong cot. tagc. Their home was demolished. 1 but members of the family escaped a scratch Blown from the house they clung to trees and other objects uaul the worst was over Clothes we're taken from their odies They are ! left without n roof or clothing Nc,gA. bors are caring for them.
 In this territory are many fine peach orchards These were uprooted and the trees carried over the earth With such velocity that the bark was skinned from the trunks of scores ot them
 several bales of cotton were picked up at Sardis and carried from metr resting places Che was broken. and Dr Kelley. a reseu,r -ays parts ol thc hale were found a,l over the county
 \ ttay} falling timber pierced the roof of the cellar and striking che leg of Tom Hamilton. crushed il Ampu tatgn niH he necessary. The Ham ntons are weIlto-do farmers Not a living thue vas left on the planta ton Cattle, hogs, horses. were an killed.
 At A2or-, negro settlement. five negroes were huddlDd m oueroum cabin The wind lifted this cabin from it's foundation and carried II more than 100 yards Four of the five met instant death The hfth is re ported dying.