The Pulaskian., 1916-12-29
TORNADO CUTS 4
 FOUR MILE PATH
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AS VET Is UNcERTAiN-TEN
 ARE KNOWN DEAD.
HOUSES ARE BLOWN AWAY
Considerable Alarm Is Felt Over Stu. ation at State Convict Farm at Tueker--Damase Greatest in Vi
 cinity of England and Carlisle.

cinity of England and Carlisle.
 Little Rock, Ark.-Several persons were killed in a tornado that struck south central Arkansas. Four are re- ported killed at Keo and several are reported killed at the state convict farm at Tucker
 The known dead are Albert L. Swarts. farmer living near England, and three negroes, one of whom lived two miles north of England, and two who lived two miles south The Swarts home was picked up and carried about 100 yards Mrs. Swarts was probably fatally injured and an 1S-year-old daughter was badly hurt.
 The storln is said to have swept a path about four miles wide and it is reported that several fires broke out in the wreckage Every physician in | the little town of England has been called to the country to care for the | injured.
 Considerable alarm is felt here over the situation at the state convict farm at Tucker. There are about BPS pris- oners at the farm and 1t is feared that if the place was struck that some of the convicts might have escaped. Capt. J. R. Burkett, warden of the state penitentiary, left here with re- endorsements for the guard at Tucker Communication with the farm was cut off
 Three were killed and five injured near Carlisle. 2S miles east of Little Rock. The dead are three little girls, | Choice Padgett, aged 10; Allalee Pad gett. aged ', and Frances Snow, aged 9. Mir and Mrs Padgett, parents Of the Padgett girls, were injured when their home was wrecked and q son also was injured Mrs. w. s. Snow and Mrs. Harold Snow are the others injured. Several houses were blown down Most of the dead are said 10 be negroes.
 Passengers arriving here on a Cot ton Belt train that passed through the storm district describe scenes of de- struction However, they had no au- thentic information on the number of ] lives lost
 We saw furniture in the tops of trees and many other evidences of destruction said one passenger. Wires were blown down, trees up- rooted and in some instances snapped off like straws, and the ground was covered with wreckage. Several times our train was forced to stop while | the men of the crew cleared the track. Near Haywood we saw a house on fire, it apparently having been struck | by lightning. There were terrific | flashes of lightning and all the time rain was falling in torrents.'
 Pine Bluff. Ark-A cyclone struck at several points in this and adjacent counties, according to reports receiv- ed here, but details are lacking be- cause virtually all wires are prostrat- ed to points north, east and west of here. The handsome farm home of J. H. Pilkington on the Dollarway Road, five miles from Pine Bluff, was razed, together with the silo and all outbuild- ings, entailing a loss to MT Pillxington of about s20,O00
 Mrs. Pilkington and her daughter, Miss Bessie Pilkington were in the sitting room when the cyclone struck the building. When the roof fell upon them it rested upon refrigerator, thus almost miraculously saving them | from injury
 Cliff Pilkington was badly bruised. Matilda Harper and Eliza Harper, ne gro cooks on the place, who were in the kitchen, were badly hurt and were brought to hospital here.
 Arthur Williams, negro, in the serv- ants house, also was hurt. The path of the cyclone when 1t reached the Pilkington place was about three fourths of a mile wide and was nov ing from the southwest. At McFad- den's Ferry a negro named Ward Marshall is said to have been killed | and a boy seriously hurt and it is also reported several other persons were killed and injured in that vi- I cinity.
 A house on the Bowden place is re- ported to have blown into the river with the loss of several lives, and there are reports, though unverifed. of the killing of one man and the in turing of several other persons on the. Hot Springs Road. Except for down. pour of rain and ominous clouds, there was no indications of storm in the city.