Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Cyclone in Arkansas. [ARTICLE]

Cyclone in Arkansas.

A cyclone visited Armstro. g Academy Indian Territory, and Fort Washita and Green, Arkansas, Saturday morning, causing great destruction of property and loss of life. Half the houses in Washita were rujned and the damage was very heavy at Green. Seventeen houses and a etore were carried away bodily. The damage to stock was very great. So far as reported, eight persons were killed and many others injured. The cyclone, as is usual, approached as a heavy black fnnnel-Bhaped cloud, aad traveled at the rate of a mile a minute.