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Show DEATH-DEALING TORNADO DEVASTATES TOWN OF BRINKLEY, ARK. Fifteen White People and Twenty Negroes Are Killed and From Fifty to One Hundred Persons Are Injured Entire City of Three Thousand People Is Razed and Suffering of Homeless Victims Is Intense ( with several companions made a quick i j tun hero and appealed for aid. St. liouis. March 9. A special to rhe Post Dispatch from Brinkley, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, says thirty persons were killed, kill-ed, fifteen to forty were Injured and more than $1,000,000 in property loss caused by a tornado which swept this city of 3.000 population last night. The city is a total loss. The tornado passed over last night at 7 o'clock and when daylight revealed its work this t morning, it was found that the business busi-ness section was in ruins and nine out of ten of the residences had been destroyed. Tho tornado came upon the town n-Ithout a moment's notice. Its path ivas the widttt of tho city. There is not a business houso but that will show sixty per cent loss. About six residences remaiu standing stand-ing and these are damaged. The neighboring neigh-boring towns are lending .old.' Soon after daylight relief trains began to irrive. One camo from Helena and mother from Little Rock. The dead iro being taken to Helena. Memphis, March 9. Advices from Brinkley, Ark., received here today, I show that fifteen white persons and I twenty, negroes were killed In last ' night's tornado. Fifty to one hundred people were injured. A revised list of the dead follows: Porter Footo. Mrs. Belle Darden. , J. L. Sterrett, a traveling salesman. Henry Stovall, Jr. Mrs. Phillips. Charles Frenze. . ' Miss Clara Rose1 Mr. Hood. Mrs. Hood. Unidentified man. ' Four negroes. i Two children of Mrs. Belle Darden. Mrs. John Reed. Miss Roed. Among tho injured whites are: Mrs. E. H. Mason. Mrs. Claude Ixjaky. T). V. Connelly. Robert Alexander. j 4 Daniel Cummings. John E. Waddell, of Memphis. A mass meeting of citizens was hold it Brinkley today, and a telegram was ent to Governor Donaghy at Little Rock, urging him to go to Brinkley j md take charge of the situation. The governor replied that he would leave for the scene at once Because of wire demoralization, a Cotton Belt passenger train could not be located last night, and a report wns sent out that it had been blown from the tracks near Baucum. The officials ; if the railroad at Memphis stated to-3ay to-3ay that the train was safe. Wheatley, Ark., March 9. Residents f Brinkley, Ark., which was devastated devastat-ed by a tornado last night, are arriv-tog arriv-tog here. Six white people are known !o be dead and probably fifteen were Injured. The dead: Porter Foote. ' J. L. Sterrett. Henry Hovall, Jr. Mrs. Phillips. Two unidentified men. Brinkley is a town of over 3,000 inhabitants in-habitants and tho refugees say that 1 the entire business section was demolished de-molished by the storm, and probably SO per cent of the residences were rated or rendered uninhabitable. Relet Re-let trains have arrived at the scene, but all wire communication Is inter-raped. inter-raped. Reports from southern and south- eastern Arkansas say a heavy wln.l-Uonn wln.l-Uonn passed over tfaopo sections of '.he state last night, doing consider-lble consider-lble damage to small buildings, but j ao los oi.llfc is reported. L. M. Kimmell, a railroad operator it Brinkley, one of tho first to reach i point of communication to summon Ud for the devastated town, graphically graphical-ly describes tho scenes Immediately 'ollowing the passage of the storm. Together with several companions,. Simmell wag in the Rock Island depot de-pot when the storm struck. As if it n-ore a toy, tho substantial structure tfas twisted and broken, the' occupants being caught among the falling timbers, tim-bers, bruised, but otherwise unhurt. Extricating themselves after half an hour's effort, they found the town in larkness, the streets filled with a tcr-nor-stricken throng, their shrieks mingling with the moans ot the injur-?d. injur-?d. Intermittent flashes of lightning Tjvcaled wreckage everywhere. As lmmcl and his companions made ncir way through the streets, they dentifled two of the dead, and stum-lcd stum-lcd over others who were wounded. Huddled about the ruins of their lomea, families were standing In I rroup dinging together in terror, I vhilc here and there, a srarcher was Poping about lu quest of a missing : Member of tho.. household. ! Ar the party started to leave Brlnk-ry, Brlnk-ry, intending' to walk to tho nearest owu, iho added horror of fire appear-'-!." When two miles from Brinkley. SImraell and party were forced to re-race re-race their Pteps because of the gale. , The Arc gained headway, but the rcmpt work of citizens suppre-seoi it. Boarding a locomotive, . Kimmell X. |