The Pulaskian., 1916-06-09
CENTRAL ARKANSAS
 SWEPT BY TORNADO
sf ,o0o, 900 DAMAGE TO PROPERTY BY STORM THROUGH STATE
 FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
FIFTY-NINE PERSONS KILLED
Hot Springs Race Track and Buildings At oakIawn Swept by High Wind Death and Damage Also Re
 ported From Washington.
Little Rock

Little Rock
 Flfty-nine prsons are known to be dead, scores are injured, and property to the extent of more than s1.000,000 damaged in the wake of a tornado which passed through Ar kansas from the southwest.
 The storm struck Hot Springs at about D. n. Four persons were killed and F injured in that city. The electric light plant was put out oi commission, one church was destroy ed, many dwellings demolished, Oak lawn Park severely damaged, and Ma sestic Park laid waste.
 Sweeping on to the northwest, the tornado missed Little Rock, but swooped down upon Kensett and Jud- sonia. in White county There from five to 15 were killed, scores were in jured, and property damage was heavy.
 A section crew of the Iron Mountain Railway, composed of a foreman and 10 men. sought refuge in section house near Kensett. The building was demolished and all of the men were injured. The foreman. named Jones, probably will die.
 The Riggs Hotel at Judsonia was demolished, but it is not known how many were killed or injured where the building collapsed Other buildings in Judsonia were wrecked.
 It is reported that the storm passed north of Bald Knob and that practi- cally all residents of Bald Knob have gone to Kensett and Judosnia to rem der what assistance they can. They drove in autos, wagons, buggies and other conveyances.
 Special Trains Run.
 J. NJ. Dean of Little Rock, general superintendent of the Iron Mountain, was in Memphis when news of the storm came in over crippled telegraph wires. He learned that suffering is intense in the vicinity of Kensett and Judsonia.
 MT. Dean, accompanied by W. c, Morse, superintendent of the Mem phis division; D. ". Cunningham, master mechanic. and o. F. Ellington, claim agent, departed by special train for Judsonia and Kensett.
 On the way the special picked up many Iron Mountain surgeons and took them to the scene of the disas- ter Mir. Dean also ordered out a spe- cial train from Little Rock, with phy- sicians and nurses.
 Practically all telephone and tele graph wires leading to the interior of Arkansas were out early in the even ing. No railroad telegraph wires were working west of Brinkley. New port. Clarendon and other cities on a north and south line.
 The Western Union and Postal com panies lost their wires early, as did the teIephons companies. Only one wire was working to the west with any degree of certainty-the Associat- ed Press wire and that worked inter mittently.
 Greater Losses Feared
 MT. Dean learned that trees and houses were blown across the Iron Mountain tracks at several points in Arkansas, but special crews were or dered out from nearby points to re pair the damage. Before MT. Dean t1 f1o hot o& ct of the Iron Mountains double tracks had been opened to traffic.
 Although the main path of the storm was evidently from the south. west corner of the state, toward the northeast, another storm or side sweep of it's main track caused one dead. many injured and heavy prop erty loss in Washington county, near Fayetteville, almost in the northwest corner of the state.
 Greater losses are feared in this sec tion. which has been cut off from wire communication since early in the night.
 Coming on the heels of the torna- do, the ominous looking storm clouds which came from the west caused general alarm in Memphis.
 The clouds brought on a wicked wind, but which inflicted only minor damage in the city A plate glass win dow in J. Goldsmith & Sons store was blown in, and the broken glass showered from the fifth floor to the Main street pavement. No one was in, jured by the falling glass, however.
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