The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08
WORST STORM
 HITS ARKANSAS
Reports Up to Wednesday Morning show 76 Dead and 300 Hurt in Mondays Calamity-Property
 Loss d Million.
grom rhe Arlsansas Gazette

From The Arkansas Gazette
 SeVcnty-six dead. over 300 hurt, many seriously; four missing; a mil lion dollars property damage is the result of the storm which swept the state from end to end Monday after noon and night
 Every section of the state paid toll to the most severe storm in the history of Arkansas, but the great loss of life occurred in the north west section.
 The death list is expected to grow as reports from isolated communi- ties are received The prestratl0n of telegraph and telephone wires in many sections is believed Co have prevented many reports from com ing in.
 Heber Springs, June 6.-The larg- est funeral ever held in Cleburn county, the court house filled with injured some of them dying. and a hillside in the west end of Heber Springs covered with the debris of 20 homes were evidences today of the tornado which swept across the county yesterday afternoon.
 Twenty persons, many Of them children. were killed, and more than 100 persons were injured. at least eight of whom may die.
 Judsonia. June 6-Twisting it's zig-zag course in an almost direct line from southwest to northeast, the tornado which swept this section late Monday took it's toll of human lives -nine here and two at Cabot
 Homes were picked up by the fun- mel cloud of wind and scattered as chaff
 The property loss at Cabot is con- seryatively placed at S40000, while here and on north toward Bald Knob, the losses will total more than S50,000
 Heber Springs was the greatest sufferer with 22 killed and 5f in Ijured. Arkansas county was heavy sufferer. with eight killed, and the death list runs high in other towns and counties in the northern half of the state
 VI itit bDtdt utdl lI dtt HfHIOtct ! and of the injured about 20 per cent , are negroes
 1 Already the work of relieving the distress of the storm sufferers is under way
 Forty persons either killed or in- iured were reported to have been victims of the tornado that struck Cato in the extreme southeast cor part nf Eattllrnap anttfofu MnrTo.r nff ernoon
 Reports form Greenland Wash ington county are that four were probably fatally injured and four received minor injuries in the tor nado near there Monday, which caused the instant death of Mrs c. F.. Wilson.
 Five persons were killed instantly two were probably fatally in jured and others received minor in iuries in the tornado which struck Gravel Hill neighborhood eight miles north of Rector.
 A terrific rain and windstorm struck Randolph county Monday night about o'clock. Many farm houses. barns and fences were swept away Hardly 2 hiliiding was Jeff standing in the shiloh church" neighbGThOod
 Scores of buildings were wrecked and heavy damage was done to crops by the storm which swept Ashley county Saturday night. No lives were lost.
 Six persons were killed and i3 in- iured within a radius of i5 miles of JonesbOr0 by a tornado Monday. ac- cording to reports received here.
 Several persons were slightly in- jured. but none were killed. and sew eral thousand dollars damage was caused by terrific wind and rain at Atkins Monday afternoon.
 One death a1d 50 negroes injured are reported as the result of n ter rife storm which swept the county two miles north of Marion Monday night Houses and trees were blown down and telephone wires are out of commission.