Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-27
terially as the night grew and first
hand reports were received.
Follows Familiar Path.

EOlIOWS EdIulllHf IdlHs
Old timers last night said the storm
followed about the same path, appar-
emily, as was followed by the memoir
able cyclones of 1888 and 1895, and
worked it's great damage along about
the same lines.
Persons who saw part of the storms
havoc last night, and who experienced
some of the terrors which accompa-
MED it, stated that it was moving
from the southwest, and that its path
was perhaps quarter of mile wide.
Where it came from, could not be fig
urcd out last night, but it moved in
a northeasterly direction along the
length of Jefferson county, crossing
into Lonoke county at a point some
what southwest of England, and pass
ing that town without known damage.
The substance of the most authentic
reports that were obtainable last
night, as to damage along the path
of the storm, was as follows:
Virtually no damage at Altheimer or
Tucker, which appear not to have
been touched.
Several houses are reported to have
been damaged at Sheriff., with only
comparatively slight loss. A little
white girl, name not obtainable. was
reported buried in the wreckage OF
one house. but only slightly hurt.
A farmer and his wife reported kill
ed at Brock, in Lonoke county.
The storm is said to have crossed
the Altheimer branch of the Cotton
Belt between Sheriff. and Haywood
and again about mile south of Keo
several telegraph poles being blown
down at both points.
There are reports of the death OF a
number of negroes near Keo. one re-
port saying II negroes had lost thell
lives.
Several houses were reported tx
have been seen ablaze, possibly hav'
ing been struck by lightning.
Pilkingt0n Place Raced.
The storm damage at the Pilking
| ton place. one of the handsomest and
best equipped farm homes and estab
lishments along the dollarwayl road
was complete. Of the big cypress silt
and it's contents, no trace whatever
could be found after the cyclone haE
! passed. There was absolutely nota
| ing to show where the store had stool
and the brick foundations of the Pix
ington home, even, had been blown
down by the forde of the wind.
Mrs. Pilkington and Miss Bessie
| Pilkington were in the sitting room
of the house, when the cyclone strucl
| the building. They were unable t
| tho hNIIEn col
lapsed, the roof falling in upon them
By miracle, the roof rested upon
refrigerator, thus keeping its weigh
! off the two women, who escaped VII
| tually without a scratch, and wer
soon extricated from their perilou
position.
Cleve Pilkington had just com
from the barn, and was runnln
Through the yard toward the house
| when the storm broke upon hin
painfully bruising him by thrown
him around, and he was struck ais
by flying debris.
I Linda Harper and Elizabet
Harper, who live at 2li Cedar stree
cooks at the Pilkington home, wer
at work in the kitchen, and both Wef
badly but not seriously hurt. Arthu
!! Williams, negro, was in the servants
house. and also was hurt. A negr
girl. who lives in Dattleville, wa
hurt also. back of the Pilklngto
house. The three negro wome
were brought to their homes in tn
Robinson ambulance, after redeivin
medical attention.
i Three mules and two horses on u
Pilkington place were killed. M
Pilkington estimates his loss at abot
i $4,000, and said yesterday that
carried no tornado insurance.
!, White Man Badly Hurt.
II T. j, Mcdonald. about 49,, a bach'
lor, residing on the Hot Springs roa
, about six miles from Pine Biuff, We
! hurled against a stove when his plas
was destroyed. Mr.. McDonalds SKI
was fractured. and he was bad
burned. Everything on his farm vi