Show TOWN IS SWEPT BY TORNADO BrinKley ArK Arif With Population in Path of Cyclone NINETY PER CENT OF HOMES ARE DESTROYED Business Section Is Demo Demol Demolished and Many P People ople Killed Hilled or Injured H I H I MEMPHIS IE Tenn Tena March farch 0 O. I. A A dispatch to the tIlO News News- r 4 4 Scimitar from Brinkley Ark 4 4 at 1 0 o'clock clock today says fifteen 4 4 white whito people and aud morn more than 4 4 twenty negroes wore were ra killed in 4 I 4 last nights night's tornado and it is 4 4 variously estimated that there thero 4 41 o 1 are arc between fifty and one bun bun- 4 4 persons injured As tho the 4 4 day lay progressed relief parties 4 4 found the dead bodies bodie of man many 4 1 negroes under the debris debri 4 I H I H H ST. ST LOUIS March 9 A A special t to the Post-Dispatch Post from Brinkley Ark Arki says thirty persona wore cro killed fifteen to forty were injured and more mora than in property loss caused by bya byl byla a tornado which swept that city of or population population last night The Tho city is a a total loss Tho tornado passed over last night at 7 o'clock and whon when daylight day t light revealed its work this morning it was found that tho business section was in ruins and nino nine out of ten of ot the tho residences had been destroyed MEMPHIS Tenn March tarch 9 a. Advices Ad- Ad vices front from rom Brinkl Brinkley Ark received here today show that ten white persons and four negroes were vere killed in last nights night's tornado Fifteen or twenty people peo peo- plo pie were ere injured A revised list of the tho dead dena follows PORTER FOOTE MRS IRS BELLE DARDE DARDEN J J. J L. L STERRETT STEnnETT a traveling sales mann man I HENRY STaY STOVALL JR MRS PHILLIPS CHARLES FIU MISS CLARA RA ROSE nOSE MR MIt HOOD MRS IRS HOOD Unidentified man Four ne negroes Governor Is Coming A mass meeting of citizens was held hellI I nt at Brinkley to today ay an and a telegram was sent to Governor Go Donaghey at Rock urging him to go to Brinkley and aud tako take charge charo of the situation Tho The governor replied that ho lie would leave for or the tho scene at once Because of wire wiro demoralization a Cotton Belt Delt pa passenger er train could not be located last n night cht and a report was wa sent out that it had hind been blown from front tho the tracks near Baucum The officials of tho the railroad in Memphis stated today to to- to-i to day that tho the train was as safe 1 I REFUGEES FROM PROM STRICKEN I IARE CITY ARE AT WHEATLEY WHEATLEY Ark March D. D Resi a. Resi Residents lents dents of Brinkley Ark which was wal devastated b by a torna tornado o last night are arr arriving arrin in here Relief trains have havo arrived ar ar- ar rived at Brinkley but all aU wiro wire communication com con is is interrupted Reports from southern and southeastern south south- en eastern Arkansas sa say a honey heavy windstorm windstorm wind wind- storm passed over o those sections of t time the 9 state last night doing considerable damage to small buildings but no loss of life is report reported d. d I L. L M. M Kimmell a 3 railroad operator at Brinkley one of tho the first to reach rench a point o of ol communication to summon aid nId for tho the devastated dc town graphically I Continued on page pazo 4 TOWN IS SWEPT Continued from Page Pace 1 describes the scenes immediately Cot fol following following fol- fol lowing the pa passing of the storm With Wib several companions Kimmell Kmmel was in the Rock Island Iland depot when hen the storm stor struck As A if it i were a tov toy the substantial structure was o-as twisted and broken the occupants being caught among the falling fall fall- fal ing ins timbers timbers bris bruised but otherwise nfl nn- hurt burU burt Extricating themselves after half balf balfan an hours hour's efforts they found the town in darkness the thO th streets fie filled with wih a terror stricken thone their shrieks mingling with the tho moans of the tlC injured Intermittent flashes of lightning revealed re rc wreckage everywhere c As Kimmell Kimmel and his bis companions made ado their was w-av through the tho streets they identified two of the dead ded and stumbled over others who were wound wound- ed Huddled about the ruins ruins of their homes families were standing in in in groups clinging together in terror while hero bore I and ana there a searcher was wag groping about bout boutin in quest of a missing member of the I household I 1 As the party started to leave BrinkI Brinkley Brink Brink- I le Icy ley to walk to the nearest to n town tb the added horror of fire ap ap- ap When two miles from I Icy 10 Kimmell Kimmel and party were forced to retrace their steps b because of the gale cle The fire fro gained headway eada but hut the prompt work of f citizens Il suppressed it i. i Bordin Boarding a n locomotive Kimmell Kimmel with ri several ceral veral companions made a quick run rUD hero an and appealed for aid nid |