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Show STORM SWEEPS ARKANSAS AID 1EJRE DEAD Wires in Four-mile Path of Tornado Destroyed; Big Wind Carries Home ICO Yards. RUMORS OF MANY FATALITIES HEARD Western States in Grip of Coldest Weather of Winter; Win-ter; 29 Below in Helena. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 26. Xine persons are known to have been .killed and fourteen are known to have been injured in-jured in a tornado which swept -a four-mile four-mile path over south-central Arkansas late today. Unconfirmed reports tell of many more deaths, which cannot be verified veri-fied until communication is restored and the complete story of the storm Is told. The death list Includes four white persons per-sons and five negroes. Three little girls were the victims of the storm at Carlisle. Near England, a planter. Albert L. Swarlz, was killed and his wife and daughter were seriously injured when their home was demolished when it was blown 100 yards by the wind. Two negroes ne-groes were killed near Pine Bluff, two were killed at Sherill and another was killed near England. Reports of Deaths. Reports persist that a negro colony near Keo was wiped out and that seventeen seven-teen were killed. Another report tells of the death of from fifteen to twenty convicts con-victs at the state farm at Tucker. All eiforts to reach Tucker by wire have failed. The plantation home of Joseph Pilking-ton, Pilking-ton, near Pine Bluff, was demolished and his wife and two children narrowly escaped. es-caped. Four negroes living on the place were injured ajid one of them probably will die. The property loss there is about $20,000. Blows Itself Out. According to reports, the storm first struck south of England, moved northeast north-east for a distance of about sixty miles and finally spent itself near IDesarc and Devall Bluff. The storm followed a period of unusually unusu-ally warm weather in this section. Thermometers Ther-mometers in this section registered as high as 56 degrees yesterday. The death of three persons and injury to five others is reported from Carlisle, twenty-eight miles east of Little Rock. The dead are three little girls. Choice Padgett, 10 years old; Allalee Padgett, 7 years old, and Frances Snow. 9 years old. The parents of the Padgett children ere severely injured when their home was wrecked by the tornado. A son also was hurt. Mrs. W. S. Snow and Mrs. Harold Snow were reported injured. Several Sev-eral houses were blown down. Scenes Described. Passengers arriving here tonight on a train that passed through the storm district dis-trict described the scenes of destruction. They had no authentic information on Uie number of lives lost. "We saw furniture in the tops of trees and many other evidences of violent storm action," said one passenger, ''wires were blown down, tre.es uprooted and in some Instances snapped off like straws a.nd the ground was covered with wreckage. Several Sev-eral times our train was forced to stop while the men of the crew cleared the track. "At one station a man brought some pine twigs aboard the train, which he said must have heen blown from a pine woods twelve miles away. "At Keo, we heard a report that a negro settlement near there had been wiped out and that seventeen negroes were killed. This could not be confirmed." The storm extended south to Pine Fluff. to casualties wero reported in that city. STORMS ARE RAGING THROUGH ENTIRE WESTERN COUNTRY CHICAGO. Dec CS. At least twenty-five twenty-five lives were reported lost in a storm that raged through the west today, ranging rang-ing from a blizzard in the northern states j to a tornndo which struck Arkansas during dur-ing the afternoon. Through the western valley states higher temperatures prevailed pre-vailed and the rain was heavy. Unusual; cold was reported from the mountains west to the Pacific coast. j In I.es Angeles there was snow for the sixth time in weather history. The greatest loss of life reported was In the tornado in pmith central Arkansas. Four persons at England. Ark., were killed out right, s event een were re-orted killed at Kt three others at Carlisle, just east of Little Kock. Several were i eporied killed at the state convict farm at Tuck- cr. Ark., in the path of the storm. In Washington a youne hunter was separated frm liis oonuaidor.s and found Inter frozen to death. In Oregon searching pa rues a re out a f ter at iC i st three men who have been missing since the storm beg.in. i Tiie blizzard tonight was at its wnt over eastern No--ih Dakota, where there had been a snowfall of more than seventeen seven-teen Inches in twenty-four hours, breaking the record of the great No ember .z-7,a .z-7,a rd or' twent y y? a rs Trams were imported snowbound and intense .-old ao-cotnpAnted ao-cotnpAnted the t hir: y-s ix - mile rale. .t H:.smaicii the thei-n-.nrneter stood at zero. Extreme co'.d prevailed in all the mountain states. At Denver ii wns 4 beiow; at Havre, Mont.. -2 heiow; He'ena. Ifi be- (Continued on Fage Two.) j ill LIVES LOST IN ARKANSAS STDRM (Continued From Pago Two.) low; Cheyenne, Wyo., 10 below, and in Yellowstone Park it was 14 below. On . the pacific coast unseasonable weather was reported. Spokane was 4 degrees below- zero; San Diego, Cal.. was 40 above; San Francisco and Los Angeles, 3S each, and Fresno, Cal., 34. Through the Ohio valley and gulf states thunderstorms took the place of the blizzard bliz-zard that raged in the north, while in Xew England fair weather was reported. The snow, however, was passing eastward east-ward and the United States weather bureau bu-reau predicted rain and snow through the lake region and Ohio valley to the Atlantic At-lantic coast before Thursday. Special , cold -wave warnings were ordered for the plains states, the Missouri valley and the interior of Texas, and storm warnings were displayed on the Atlantic At-lantic coast from F'ort Monroe to Jacksonville; Jack-sonville; on the gtilf coast from Rockwell to Bay St. Louis, and on the southern California Qpast. |