The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-05-30
IS KNOWN DEAD
IN N. E. ARK.
Over 100 Killed and Hundreds Hurt
in IllinOis-StOrm in NaS..
Ind, Tenn, ky., and
Alabama.
Summary of three days storms:


iured near Andale-Friday.
Illinois, Saturday-More than 10t
killed and 500 injured. The dead. b!
towns: Nation, 81; Charleston So
Westervelt s. Modesto, l; severa
. killed in storms at Palmyra, GoOde
now, Monce Manhattan, Minoka ant
smaller places.
Indiana, Saturday-Seven killed ant
several hundred injured in vicinity O.
Valparaiso Towns of Hebron ant
Kountz wiped out.
! Arkansas, Sunday-Fifteen killed
and probably SO injured in Mississippi
county.
Tennessee. Sunday-At least two
dead and 20 injured at South Dyers-
burg.
Kentucky, Sunday-Three killed anG
II injured at Dublin, Graves county
Illinois, Sunday-Several reported
dead and many injured at Willisville
several killed near Murphysboro.
Alabama, Sunday-Several reported
killed and many injured at Sayre.
Blytheville, May 27.-Fifteen peo-
pie, all but three of them white, are
known to be dead and many are seri-
ously injured, as the result of de-
structive tornado which struck Mis-
sissippi county about four O'Clock this
afternoon, leaving a trail of deaths, in
juries and complete devastation of
property in it's wake and completely
dsrupting wire service over wide
area. Among the injured are several
whose wounds probably will prove
fatal, and it is expeced that the
death list will exceed 25
Rescurers at Work.
Tonight every physician in Blythe
Vile and other nearby towns, and
most of the able bodied men of this
section are engaged in relief work,
aiding the injured and trying to find
the dead or manned among the ruins
of their homes. Communication is
almost impossible in many directions
because of broken wires and high
water, and it is feared that the list
of the dead and injured will be much
increased when reports from all parts
of this section are available. Scores
of houses We're demolished, and the
total damage to property will reach
heavy sum. Men who have visited
the scene say late tonight that they
have little doubt that 20 have been
killed and at least so injured many
of them perhaps fatally.
Swept Into Lake.
The majority of the deaths and
injuries, and the heaviest property
damage, it is thought, occurred at
Cottonwood Point. on, Big Lake
about eight miles from here, where
seven are known to be dead and
many more are reported missing At
Cottonwood Point the storm swept
many houses on the banks of the lake
into the water killing several in the
wrecks of the buildings and drowning
others in the lake 1t is estimated
that 80 houses, most of them belong
ing to market hunters were swept in
to the water. 1t is impossible to learn
the exact number of deaths until
morning, when the water will be
searched for bodies The water from
Little River has made travel difficult,
and the roads in some directions are
impossible Physicians who visited
the scene had to go far out of their
way, through Manila, where they
curers At the latest report tonight
seven had died at Cottonwood Point.
NATION, H., May 27.-With a to-
tai of more than 100 dead and many
times that number injured by the
tornado which swept Central Illinois
and Northwestern Indiana Saturday,
the populace of the devastated section
tonight had established a systematic
method to relieve the sufferings of the
hurt and homeless.
Sunrise today revealed Mattoon
had lost "a known dead with score
of persons still missing, 500 injured,
some of whom may die, and suffered
the devastation of 140 blocks of
homes in the north part of the city.
The wind RACED 496 homes and part
ly destroyed 146 more, rendering g.
600 persons homeless These are be-
ing housed with friends, in public
buildings, Or in a tented refuge in
Peterson Park.
Charleston, 10 miles east, with s.
600 population, suffered larger loss
in proportion to it's size than Mat
toon, The known dead totaling 80
with scores of missing. Scores were
| injured in Charleston also and some
| building swere wrecked, including a
| hotel, two railroad stations, three