The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-12-29
Scores Reported Killed BY Tor
nado Which Sweeps Across
Southern and Central Arkansas
Leaving Disaster In Wake
WESTERN STATES ARE NOW
UNDER MANTLE OF SNOW
Fierce Gale RACES Along Atlantic
Seaboard Driving Shipping Into
Port and Sinking At Least One
Steamer and Three Schooners

w N'I"N, December
" H--.\ series OF storms rang
ing from fierce winters gale along
the Atlantic Coast to a tornado
which has claimed at least seven
teen victims III south and central
Arkausas, and may have taken
five times that number, mark the
close OF 1910 in the western sec
tons Of the United States. accord
ing TO reports received by the
weather bureau OF the government
last night.
The dispatches from Chicago,
Memphis, Little Rock, New Or
leans. II Paso and a score Of 9th
er cities all tel OF exceptionally
severe weather throughout the
country west OF the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers.
TORNADO KILLS MANY
Little Rock has the worst tale
to tell by far. \ tornado NOV
ing from the northwest. struck
through the southern and central
sections Of Arkansas yesterday
sweeping path, four miles wide,
clear as it moved, and leaving be-
hind it trail OF hundreds of de-
vastatcd homes, and it may be
scores of dead.
-Four persons are known to have
been killed instantly in the little
town of England, and seventeen
are reported dead in Keo, while
number of guards and prisoners
have been killed at the convict
farm of the State at Tucker.
WIRES ALL DOWN
Definite information is impossi-
BILE to obtain for the wires, both
telephone and telegraph are down.
Rescue parties are being organic
ed by the State authorities and
beng sent to the points where
most needed by special trains.
Chicago reports that at least twenty.
hve persons have been killed in bliz.
yards which have swept through the
northwestern States, where the cold il
more intense than at any time since the
record breaking blizzard of 1886. when
the records of the weather bureau in
the Dakotas were broken by the tum-
bling mercury.
Soldiers Suffering
From FL PasO come reports Of the
intense suffering of the troops along
the border, whore the weather has been
severe since before Christmas. The
days of bitter sleet, snow and heavy
winds along the border have caused
almost an entire cessation of military
activities. Drills have been suspended
Tor week because of the heavy down.
fall Tents have been blown down In
the camps, and many officers and en-.
listed men near FL Paso spent last
night in hotels.
Spokane reports that in Washington,
iorthern Idaho and Montana the win.
ter has set in with ferceness unpre.
cedented in recent years. At Havre.
Montana the temperature is said TO
have fallen 10 twenty-five degrees be-.
low zero and the mercury stands ut
hftern below at Butte. Heavy snow
and sleet storms are reported IN Mon.
tana and Utah, and Salt Lake CITY re.
nOrtS that the streets are covered with
snow and the street car service blocked
by the drifts
Fierce gales are also sweeping the
atlantic coast and shipping has been
driven for refuge to the ncurrst port.
The %hooners Roger Drmrv, Daniel
Mcleod and Ravola have been
wrecked and the steamer Maryland re-.
ported by wireless last Monday uight
that she was sinking of Nantucket
Shoals l.ightship. Al the time her last
signal was received by the hghtship
she Was sixty milcs to the southwest.
She left Philadelphia SATURDAY.. with
general cargo for London. Aid was i'm.
mediately sent TO her, but arrived too
late apparently for since Monday eve,
ming nothing has been heard If the