Show STRUCK TERROR TO THEIR HEARTS Awful Work of the Late Cyclone In Arkansas 0 NOTHING STOOD BEFORE IT HOUSES PECVCES STOCK AND FOIt lIsps OA1UUED AWAY A Log Taken From n HYmsc Blown Half n Mile and Finally Driven End First Into the Ground aDln lancc of Five Feet Other Ito luarUablc Stories Told LITTLE ROCK rk Oct 30 Reports Re-ports of a terrible cyclone which passed through the eastern part of Jefferson county last evening reached this city today A short time previous a heavy windstorm wind-storm passed over Ashley county delaying I de-laying trains near Portland Several houses laid over the track I is thought to have been only an earlier manifestation of the storm which struck with Intensified fury at 1145 oclock yesterday morning sweeping within 300 yards of Sherlll a small station on the Altheimer branch staton Alhelmer passing pass-ing from south to north Its path was 200 yards wide in some places and 500 in others Nothing stood before it Houses fences stock and forests were carried along in its terrible vor teL tesThe The maddening rush of the wind struck terror to the hearts of the unprepared un-prepared people Valuable cattle were killed on the Quattle Baum place Two occupants of the house were injured on the Smith place two houses were completely shattered until only one log was left upon another to show where they had been A colored child 3 years old was afterwards after-wards rescued from the debris with two ribs broken One large log house containing a fam ily of six was also scattered but the occupants who were in it at the time miraculously escaed death One of the logs in the house was blown half a mile and driven end first into the ground to a depth of five feet Fif teen or more persons most of them negroes were more or less injured |