Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-27

graduating themselves and each
other, because two rooms of the
house were wrecked, one of them the
living room, where the family would
have been at that time of day.
| Yves Baldwin, deputy sheriff, re-
iceived a telephone me ssage, telling
him his father had been killed in the
storm, which, according to the mes
sage had struck the elder Baldwin's
home on the dolarway. Wess hurried
to town, sought Deput.! Sheriff J. l..
! McBurnett and the use of the latter'ss
car and hurried to his father house
to find the family awake and
soundly and peacefully sleeping.
/ A white man was driving a Ford
near Sheriff., with Two negro emf
| ployes riding with him. The storm s
said to have picked UP the machine
and set it down in field. The ne
groes apparently are running yet. The
white man drove the machine back
onto the road, and to his destination,
under its own power without delay o
difficulty.
Railroads Bring News.
Incoming trains early last night
on the branch railroads operating out
of Pine Bluff, brought meagre news
Of the extent of the storm damage.
Passengers on the Hot Springs &
Western said there IVES a storm in
Grant county, but they had no first
| hand information as to tho damage
done.
Conductor T. A. Lambert brought IL
the train on the Althelmer branch,
and said he had obtained only meagre
! news of thed effects of the storm. He
ear of no damage at Tucker, there
was only comparatively slight damage
reported at Sheriff.. where sever al
houses were said to have been I'M
rooted. and he had been informed at
England that a man near that place,
who operated a vineyard, had been
killed, as had also the mans wife.
! Mr. Lambert said he had seen tae
path cut by the wind through the
woods about a mile south of Keo,
trees and other stuff had been cut
clear over quite a width He had
seen also some signs of houses I'M
rooted at various points.
Passengers on the train reported
having seen several houses afire,
ljprobably caused by lightning, and
several stated they had seen furniture
and other wreckage IN the trees,
where it had been deposited by the
wind.
Repairing Wire Troubles.
All the telegraph companies, and
the telephone company. had linemen
J.. out early last night, repairing the
breaks in their lines, and it was eX-
pected service will be normal again
by noon today, if not earlier.
The Western Union sent three line
men here from Little Rock, to repair
the lines between that city and Pine
Bluff, while the local ;inemen of the
same company were busy making re-
pairs TO the lines along the Cotton
Belt route.
Children Are Injured.
The Holderness ambulance brought
groes, early this morning all from
the Dalton place, across the river:
Baby Hoover, both legs broken,
skull fractured. face mashed in. arm
broken and internal injuries; condi-
ton critical.
Matte Harris, skull fractured. in
terral injuries, ribs broken; condition
serious.
Ike Harris, arm broken.
Martha. Esther and Clara CraW-
ford, children, not serious.
Charley Bess, skull fractured, Ser
GUS.
Fred Niven. in charge of the ambu-
lance, stated It was NECESSARY to
move entire houses off the road. for
the ambulance to make passage
way.