The log cabin Democrat., 1916-06-07
DEAD IN STORM
 NOW NUMBER 76 MORE THAN 300 HURT Mondays Storm Swept Through Four States, Total Loss of Life
 Reaching 119.

dead, over 300 hurt, many seriously four missing and million dollars property damage is the result of the storm which swept the state from enc to end Monday afternoon and night. 1 Every section of the state paid tol to the most severe storm in the his tory of Arkansas, but the great loss of life occurred in the northwest sec tion.
 The death list is expected to grow as reports from isolated communities are received. The prostration of tele- graph and telephone wires in many sections is believed to have prevented many reports from coming in.
 Heber Springs was the greatest sufferer, with P killed and 54 injured. Arkansas county was heavy suffer- CT, with eight killed, and the death list runs high in other towns and counties in the northern half of the state.
 Of the total dead 19 are negroes, and of the injured about 20 per cent are negroes.
 Already the work of relieving the distress of the storm sufferers is un- der way.
 The places from which loss of life have been reported are as follows:
 Rector-Five persons killed and two injured, probably fatally.
 Fayetteville-Four of those injured in Greenland, Washington county, are likely to die in addition to Mrs. C.. E. Wilson yesterday.
 Ozark-Charles Welcher, farmer, living 12 miles from town died from injuries received when his home was wrecked.
 Forrest City-Three white persons and negress were killed and about 40 injured near Haynes, Lee county, six miles south of Forrest City.
 Dalark-Five are dead, one missing and three injured in Dallas county.
 Arkansas City - Negro woman drowned when tornado wrecked dredge boat.
 Conway-The 2-year-old child of Columbus Garland, living northeast of Barney, was killed.
 Tuckerman-Four were killed and four injured, one seriously.
 Stuttgart-Eight killed and 20 in jured, one probably fatally, in Arkan- sas county.
 Judsonia Clarence Presswood white, 13, and eight negroes killed, five of them the children of David Pool, a negro preacher. Miss Lizzie Giles, aged Is, and Miss May Morris, white, probably fatally injured. It is es- timated that about 50 others, mostly negroes, were injured.
 Cabot-John w. Lowery, aged 60, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nina Lowery, were killed. Mrs. Sam Bailey and her son, Henry, aged 13, and Mrs. Maggie Burron, seriously injuried and may die.
 Jonesboro-Six persons were killed and 13 injured within a radius of 15 miles of Jonesboro. Four negroes were killed when a tree fell on a boarding house near Truman, Poin- sett county. A message from Decker vile says that two were killed there.
 Marion-One negro was killed and about 60 injured in the section about two miles north of Marion.
 Kansas City, Mo-, June 6.-Death lists in the storm-swept section of Ar kansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois grew hourly tonight as be- lated reports were received from com munities which suffered in series of tornadoes Monday night and early today. Late tonight the deaths of ll9 persons had been reported, sev- eral other persons were unaccounted for and believed dead and several hundred had been injured, of whom some will die. Accurate estimates of property damage were not available
 Incomplete tabulations show the following deaths:
 Arkansas as-Seventy-six.
 Missouri-Thirty, possibly more.
 Mississippi-Fifteen.
 Illinois-one.
 Tennessee-Four, with score missing in the overturning of the Mississippi river packet Eleonore.
 In Missouri the Popular Bluff sec tion was we'll nigh devastated. Me Cure reported the single death in Illinois.
 Mrs. G. l.. Banner and little son,