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Show DEATH RODE THE GALE. Terrible Storms in Alabama and Arkansas. Ar-kansas. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April ' S. The little hamlet of Hopewell, forty miles north of this city and one mile from Hanoeville, was swept away early this morning by a cyclone, which cut a path of desolation a mile wide and two miles long across a prosperous prosper-ous farming section of Blount county. Ten persons were instantly killed, three or four fatally injured and a score seriously injured. The Dead. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gnfiin. John Griffin. Henry McCoy. Fred McCoy. Miss Birdie McCoy. C. C. Oden. Miss Norma Oden. Lester Oden. ' Miss Thelma Oden. The Injured. ; Son and niece o): Nathan Grifl'-n, Mrs. Henry McCov und iwo children, Ji. J3. Quick, Dick yu.e:. family ef McCoy, Mc-Coy, seven persons; Mrs. Holcst?in Horton, Miss Ida, llorton, Richard Griffin. It is believed mat sv-oral of the injured in-jured 'will, die. The stvm came from the southwest and took its destructive? path in a northeasterly direction, tearing tear-ing everything away i:i .:ts way. Ti e section through whi.M it went is e;i a flat tableland of Blount county. Came Without Warning. There was .tot the slightvot indication indica-tion of its approach. One of the first houses destroyed was that of Nathan Griffin. The house was demolished and Mr. Griffin and his sm James w-.-iC k'lled. Mrs. Griffin was sb badly injured in-jured that she died at ait e.irly ho .r this morning. Anithr-s-on and a niece of Mr. Griffin made a; miraculous escape, running from the house befur-; the demolition was completed 'and saving sav-ing their lives. They v;re injured but will recover. The house of John McCcy was the next wrecked, but he v.v.A hivfamny escaped with severe oniis-.'. The home of Henry McCoy, son of John McCoy, received the worst impact of the storm. His wife vas severely injured, two of his chillren are still unconscious and may elie and he aul his baby and two other children are-dead. are-dead. He was still c'.ispmg bis ba'vy in his arms when his body wac fout.d, close to the house. The storm then took an easterly direction di-rection and struck the '.ui.He of C. C. Oden. The trees in the yard 'tre twisted into gnarled shapes an-1 ve.n the vegetables in the garden wei'2 torn from their roots. Mr.. Oden was ki'lud outright and so were his three daughters, daugh-ters, aged 8, 11 and 9 respoct:vely. Met. Oden received injuries from which the may not recover. The home of Mrs. Hem.y "Wharton was not so badly damaged. Then ca no the home of R. B. Quick. Tt went into smithereens and he and hu: two children chil-dren were injured. - Little Kock. Ark.. April S. Specials to the Gazette from several towns in White and Cleburne counties, Arkansas, tell of a tornado which swept through that section sec-tion Tuesday night, leaving death and destruction de-struction in its path. The mijor portion ef the country through which the storm plowed its way is remote from railroads, telegraph or "telephone lines. A correspondent corre-spondent wires from Searcy. Ark., to-nisdit to-nisdit that he had gone over a portion of the track of the storm and that trees were twisted from their trunks and houses demolished. Thus far it. has been impossible to ascertain where the storm began, but it is known that it raged in those two counties. The latest reports are that nine persons per-sons are dead, three dying and three badly injured. The towns of Little Red, Albion. Bradford. Heber and Pangburn have been heard from thus far. The Dead. Jim Lcsgttt, Little -Red. Jo,, Leg-gelt. Little Red. Tom Kins- and wire. Little Red. Three King children. Young laoy s hool teacher who was boarding at 'King's. A. C. Williams, near Heber. The Injured. Infant child of King family ; Mrs. "Williams, "Wil-liams, not fxnected to live; Buck Neatly, seriously; Albert Kiler: Albert Kile, Little Lit-tle Ke.l; Walker Pollard, Little-Red; two of Pollard family, near Albion; Mrs. Hoverton and children. Pangburn. not expected to live; ftliss Rurkehliousen. Little Lit-tle Red, leg broken and skull fractured; Walter Fuller. Pangburn,. leg broken; Mrs. Henry Wells, injured internally, fatal: unknown woman. Pangburn, both legs broken; Tom Houston, near Heber, both arias broken; unknown man at Bradford. Bradford, which is on the iron Mountain Moun-tain railroad, was the first point heard from. Several houses were blown down there and one man was seriously injured. The tornado came from the wrst and had spent its force by the time it reached Bradford. It is feared the little town of Hiram, with a population of ISO.' has been wiped off the map. It is near Heber, and in the . storm's track. Nothing has thus tar been heard from it. It probably will be several days betore the names of. all who were killed by the tornado are known. -A special to the Gazette from Heber says: In the tornado which swept across this section last nierht A. C. Williams, . living ten miles south of Heber. was killed. He was 70 years old and lived with his wife on one of the mountains south of this town. His house was caught up. by the. wind and thrown clown the mountain side, he being killed. His wife was badly injured and "is not expected to live. ; A white man named - Houston, living 'near Williams, had both arms brokem. A-t P? na-huxn. uix resiilnoces were blown down and a flock of sheep and a number of cattle, hogs and horses were killed. Buck Neally of Searcy was in the storm and was cauuht under a tmail tree which was blown down. He is nof seriously hurt. Church Blown Half a Mile. A large church r,ei.r Pantrburn was', blown half a mile. At Little Red postof-fice. postof-fice. Albert Kiler. Albert DeriK. Walker Pollard. Mrs. Pollard and Tom King l"st their houses, barns and other buildings. Forty-throe residences and sixteen barns destroyed and other wreckage is the record of t lie damage reported up to i o'clock tonight. The tornado swept everything ev-erything in a path a mile wide. At Pangburn Mrs. Hoverton and on-1 child were hndlv hurt and are not expected ex-pected to live. Two of the Pollards, near Albion, were bndly hurt. A number of others were hurt but not seriously. |