The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-04
TWELVE KILLFDBY
 ARKANSAS STORM
Twenty-three Known Injured Re- ported Early-TornadO Struck Earth Near Pine Bluf-PIayed
 Havoc Over Wide Area.

Little Rock, Dee. 27.-Reports at noon in Little Rock from storm areas gathered by roundabout com munication disclose that there are i2 known dead and g known in jured in the storm that swept over central Arkansas late Tuesday aft ernoon. Wires are down in all di- Tections where the storm struck and Il is only where couriers have reached telephone stations that ac- eurate information of the extent of damage can be gained.
 Seven negroes near Pine Bluff, suffered more or less serious in juries.
 A tremendous dOWnpouP of water and a high wind accompanied the storm and railroads Wednesday are Facing washouts, high water, torn up telegraph and telephone lines, making operations peTilOus. No irains arrived in this city from Pine Bluff, just south of the stricken area Wednesday.
 At Leola, Charles Stevens, butcher, was telephoning in the Parnell store when the line was struck by lightning Stevens was knocked unconscious and three of the Parnell children and Judith Carey, who were in the store, were stunned by the bolt.
 Property Damage Huge.
 For a hundred miles, from Grant county over portions of Pulaski, Lonoke, Jefferson and Prairie cOun- ties, the tornado took a toll of lives and stock. Estimates of the prop erty damage Wednesday were im- H possible. It is conservatiyely placed :. near S3,000,000, tho it is certain that complete reports will augment this t amount.
 The list of injured may reach 50, it is thought rere.
 X score of victims were taken to 4 Pine Bluff and placed in hospitals there The suffering of many left injured thru the night on the plan tations and farm houses between 6 the little country towns was acute. # Without medical attention, shelter, X fire and suffering from injuries, the 4 cold rain of the night added fur ther to their misery. The serious # condition of many of the victims Wednesday morning was assigned to the exposure of the night,
 Convict Farm Safe.
 Apprehension regarding the fate of the state convict farm at Tucker, southeast of here, where 325 state prisoners are stationed, was allayed by advices received Wednesday morning saying no one was injured lthere
 Passengers arriving here brought Further reports of the wiping out of a negro settlement at KeO, between here and Tucker, with a loss of 1T lives. Accurate information on the situation there, however, was lack ing early Wednesday.
 The tornado swept to earth a few miles north of Pine Bluff and cut ting a path four miles wide, as sumed northeasterly course, final ly wore out itself in the vicinity of Duvall Bluff and Des Are. Many homes were set afire by the light ming which attended the storm with great violence.
 Three little girls were killed and four persons injured when the tor nado hit the w. S. Snow plantation near Carlisle. These were the Pad gett and Snow children killed and Mr and Mrs. Snow and MT. and Mrs. Padgett injured All the injured are expected to recover.
 The Padgett home on the Snow plantation was demolished and the Snow home was damaged seriously. Frances Snow and the little Padgett girls were in the Padgett home when the tornado struck.