| Show LIST or DEAD TIVACITF14 t FlIt Fl-It r Report Ajho I Terror of that Awful hcrno Fort Smith Ark Jan 12At 12 m It looks as though fifty persons hnv been killed and the death list Is I growIng grow-Ing hourly Hundreds of persons have been Injured Home fatally andothem not so badly Many fine rem dences were rod to the ground The tornado after passing through the residence district did Its worst work In that portion of the buslnc districts In which the older buildings Are located and the total of damage rT not mount up very rapidly ali al-i mil many buildings were partly or NhollY ruined For this reason It la I probable that 100000 will cover the loss l of buildings arid contents Including the new 150000 High school building which wa directly In the path of the storm and was badly wrecked The debris of many of the buildings In the lodging house district caught nrt and those unfortunates who wr not at i once extricated alive perished role ably by being burned or smothered to death Many people In the outside districts were killed In the crash of the falling residences All nurses nd doctor that Can be premiled Into service ore be Inu utilized and there are scores of temporary hospitals through the city In I addition to the regular hospitals wit C to the Injured are being taken The morgue in I taxed to Its I utmost ca Pacify and additional bodies am being Jrught In every few mInute Altogether Alto-gether the scene at the piece Is I sick Vlljilg dad 1 9rrlblp ir IM IdLt bl 1i WIK6AMrliF A heavy rnln followed the terrible tornado and It was probably twenty minutes before all the city awoke tithe ti-the fact that It had been visited by a i calamity The fire department Wall called out and In less than thirty mln utes front the arrival ot the tornado the streets were crowded with People and willing hands xNere ready to ran der nil the aid that the emergency required re-quired Mn and women Clod In their night clothes from the neighboring houses were seeking shelter and call Ing for absent members of the family or friends who failed to escape from the I wreck of the buildings In which thy land bee A living Men women nnd children sought refuge In O Keefe s aloon and were afforded shelter In < the lack part of the saloon a number of Injured were stretched on the floor with only their night clothes to protect air pro-tect them from the chilly mldnlght Miss Wood one of the nurses of the hi John hosptal did all that could be done to relieve the Immediate wants of the Injured In Mr O Keefe s saloon Th drug stores Nacre Crowded and the clerks were kept busy filling Premeripthins and othewle doing their share towards relieving the sut filets Th4 telephone wires were nearly all down and It was Impossible to communicate with anv distant point In tin outskirts nf the city Th street were so filled with the debris that It was difficult for carriages to gt around AN APPALLING PCnNB The scene Is I one of the most ape paling and destructive vcr wit livesed In the history of the city and Is I the without Southwest 0 parallel In this section of The following In partial list of the dead and Injured D3dnurg Carter ldwnnl Par tell Irene Farrell Roy 1nrrlFrnl < lllclnrdson George Loveli Mur dock unknown woman Mrs Shelnn baby J J Illlcy John fhhane known man unknown woman littler Louis Engel John Dolt two Unknown Degrees Airs Burgeon Mr Will Lawson InjuredMrs Braden nrm broken D L Orlme collar bone broken MnrtlnTchln0fraclmvd sufe Martin thin fractured and able vlll Uivvson bark Injured Hell Bur din chest mashed Tony Ubeihardt his bruised r N Hubbell back hurt H I Crownholder back Injured A I Stafford bock Injured Ash worth chest crushed Dr Catc t both armi broken Sirs Gate badly mashed Mrs Cato mother biliously crushed Minnie Ilur tej8 spine Injured Mrs Bd Periell Injured about chest Mrs Hugh Hogcis badly bruised about body Mr and Mrs Hitter caught un der falling walls I Mrs F 1 Brown body rohd MIlngJ L Clay land and wit Miss Lawson |
