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Show TWISTER STRIKES ARKANSAS. Eight Dead and Scor.es Injured, While Property Loss is Heavy. Little Rock, Ark. Eight or more persons were killed, scores injured and an immense amount of property destroyed in a tornado which swept Arkansas late Monday. A St. Louis & Southwestern passenger train was blown from the tracks near Bauctim, it is said, while going at full speed. The entire town of Brinkley was destroyed, according to reports from the south, eight people being killed and others hurt. After many of the buildings in Brinkley had collapsed the wreckage took fire. The blaze soon got beyond control, and almost the entire town was destroyed. |