The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-12-29
STORMS DEALT DEATH
TRAILS LEFT IN SOUTH
BIG GALE THAT HITS DAKOTAS
MOVING TO THE EAST
Number People Reported Dead; Great
est Loss of Life Occurs in South
Central Portion of Arkansas; Iron
Range and South Dakota Are Hard
Hit BY Winds and Snow
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Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 27.-Ow-
ing to the badly demoralized condi-
ton of the telegraph wire service,
due to the tornado that swept a por-
ton of the state late yesterday, this
city has been unable to learn much
of the extent of the havoc that was
wrought. This morning the list of
dead as known here included four
whites and five negroes and about
score of persons are reported to have
been injured. Later reports may
greatly increase all of these lists.
storm of snow and sIeet is sweeping
the whole east from Jacksonville, Fla.
northward to the Canadian boundary
Railroad and street car service are
sadly demoraIized. The elevated
lines are having the worst trouble.
Little Rock, Ark, December a.
Ten known deaths, four white and
six negroes, at least a score of
seemingly weII-founded reports of
tragedies and the property damage
unknown because of lack of wire
communication, are the results of
the winter tornado which yesterday
swept Central Arkansas.
St. Paul, Dec 27.-At least twenty
five lives were reported lost in
storm that ragged through the West,
ranging from blizzard in the North
ern states to a tornado which struck
Arkansas.
The greatest loss of life reported
was in the tornado in South Central
Arkansas. Four persons at England.
Ark. were killed outright, seventeen:
were reported killed at Keo, three
others at Carlisle, just east of Little
Rock. Several were reported killed
at the state convict farm at Tucker,
Ark, in the path of the storm.
In Washington young hunter was
found frozen to death.
In Oregon three men are missing.
North Dakota BIizza.dy.
Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 27.-Central
North Dakota is in the grip of one of
the worst billiards. in the history of
the state. Whipped to great intensity
by a driving thirty-siX-mile-an
gale, the snow clouds are sweeping
eastward over this section, with a
zero wave in their wake, tying up rail-
road traffic and seriously hampering
wire communication.
Warnings to live stock shippers and
rural carriers were issued.
The fall of snow in the past twen-
ty-four hours was eleven inches, max
ing total depth seventeen inches.
This is a total precipitation of 27.1
inches for the month, which is a De-
cember record The velocity of the
wind increased twenty-one miles in
four hours.
The snow fall in the great blizzard
of twenty years ago, which lasted
from Nov "a to the 9th of the month,
is surpassed by six-tenths inch by the
fall of the past twenty-six hours.
Blizzard Hits Range.
Hibbing, Mimi, Dec. pa blizzard
RACES on the Mesaba range. high
wind driving snow and making outdoor
work an impossibility. The wind
played havoc with weak chimneys and
loose shutters and blew things about.
No work is going on at the open pit
mines and stripping operations are
suspended.
Record Storm in South Dakota.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 27.-The
worst storm in years is raging over
the western and central parts of the
state, according to reports here. A
heavy gale is drifting the snow and
railroad traffic is crippled