The Mena weekly star., 1921-11-24
G|R|N 2 R[APER AT
 fAh|LY REUNION
.f.-..er4 of Veems Family Has'eneu 4A~4 Ahead of the Storm, and on'y <,n> tae Father. Failed to Ar
 1ise. and Lived.
.s..-. KIM Victims Found.

& r&I 0< WxE&%7ts JuseieN -, nfo<n,ed Judxe Finger that Dr. hoi, I;,.z .rd o1htr uho had just returned f.<... tha Hr,ce home, reports Mrs. I~..c> ana three of the children in- ;nre<1 oa6 4 them is said to be in a sa.: :s.s. candiffon. The Bruce house =as destroyed by the storm and the family is destitute and without the of fife. Justice Cook ap- .ssIsd for aid and Judge Finger au- k1<i<<d lie Wickes official to care for l.a 1ruces until he could come down ss..,644 morning. The destruction of lh< Br16e home raises the total to shyer dtefr6yed by the tornado.
 < farnilz reunion at which the Grim 2<aper uas an unbidden guest, is one 8 the nepHst developments of the srrib1e tra3edy which snuffed out ;uhf l,un,an lives at Wickes Thursday lernoou. With only one member of {; n. .5 zzru,;ix E a ;;x suTviving the expected 0,necominu has turned out to be one f the cruelest acts of fate. Today .obert E. Weefns, head of the stricken amiiy, is not only widower, and hildrenless. but homeless, his mater A possessions being only the clothes pon his back and the bare spot of round where bis happy home once Weems bought little home in the soods near Wickes. It was mort aged, and IL clear the home of debt z came to Mena to work. His eldest 0n worked at Wickes. His widowed Auehfer went 10 DeQueen and found nploxment Three children were in . ch0ol at Wiekes
 r. Thursday WaS the day set for the : p5necor1iIe Continued wet weather nd made it Impossible for Weems to &|i0W hi2 procession of carpentering Mem and he boarded No. 8 Thurs XY A ftexIioQn to go home. Mrs. Mat V Eelt8, t1< widowed daughter, had Sc1xed q pi6ce st DeQueen and was to Tt work the Monday following. She Iae home on No. for the family tIierInx. Robert Weems, the son, ar mother whom the rains had pre- <1d fr01n working, and he, too, tQn14 14x the family gathering. <tl< 4t[(ool girls, Verda and Ker-
 1>1oz lIth their brother, War 1E7 1t daddy was coming X 3R1 <i1a and that sister was Gf [ from DeQueen. They, {. 114 0fnc when school was out f3 @ pEes&&I 4f the reunion.
 f, Storm c|c lowered over the vii lVll1I{X o cEes Friends and &C., 0 the Weems family {, . <i<1 Ilz eIts to wait until the j;o< School friends of the E4z 64e5 Invited them to stay
 Ie<e1 Hntlf the rain had ceased. elloW W3xk<x4 of Robert Weems ad- zed him tQ not hurry. But they all t4 the s4mk dea of haven, home,
 wos the home in the woods
 ' zfried, deaf to the pleas
 7xged them to delay.
 {! ' ms =sssss, the head of tire tire
 IT IXs reached Wickes on
 1e storm was raging.
 1ited until there was " the fury of the forces lII too, was anxious to .-1 lake his part in the
 7t fireside. but like a
 not consider it wise
 Q4e himself. He, like <!& 10 o<thed the low scudding uqs n4Q 1 Iaea that only a mile F2Fy tae naeet deadly tornado in the sHVfx nf 1z fpunty, was wreaking aff and 1estruction and had aiiH*a <H115ly reunion into a 92eW tllaI <1e Terrible affair is end an0 eI8a< Silent forms lie in the aXe{afd ickes, the friends and lkn3Q1s <He Wleems family are et to what might have pp<Ile4 not all the dead ones sn zQ ke<H 0x going home that fatal k]Q0II<I 4ake Fl. w. Finger, who <lle Hx1l N|IIcial called upon for
 'Ie11 17e tfect of the deadly tor x aF 1HEL4 Known, remained at ekes un<3 Iate Friday afternoon, " 4|* 1lnk within his power to " 7E1e zzIE&fiflg and alleviate the
 Dy the terrible happen t6,t 2z5 Krewsome task was in ||t[ bodies of the eight F; :1 storm laid to rest. n Hated upon his return 9r1e of the eight killed 'e "a been so badly mutt
 1odles could not be re-
 LII save those closely re- llz-1&4 to say, the features
 ITS were not marred.
 B undertakers, J. c. A Eaton, were called to
 lu the burial and they
 men and women of ,.m ns well as both men s's .. .- 1 DeQueen and Gill;
 Feems family were 4 z@ye, the arrangement such that Mrs. Felts N IIe end next to the re- | I've of her husband, |lt .E Mrs. Weems, was
 1<her end. Hawley
 Se at the side of his
 that of the wife.
 1Ene of the bodies were
 1nd the searchers in << ave their own cloth SS5 < dead. William Kirby s md in a pocket was
 k2fkot to remove and Jl was later removed Y 7 ]! .[ 1e missing. It is '; si 2 ey was lost in the 7 rE1 Ecm Grannis, Gill; {. @a De Queen came to < the work of search V )ne O. the searchers fP 4 farm wagon from