Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-31
BY A FURIOUS CYCLONE.
Rlrs In Several Places Adds Horror
10 The Situation.
THE INHABITANTS DEAD on DYING.
Principal Business Houses and neSI-
dencss Wrecked and the Streets
Filled with Debris.

GUTHRIE, Okla, March 8l.-A re
port is received here that twenty lives
were lost last evening In a cyclone
ihst swept over Chandler, n town OF
1900 inhabitants, fifty miles east Of
here. 1t Is reported that only two
buildings vera left standing tho
Mitchell street hotel and the Grand
Island grocery store.
In addition to the twenty persons
reported killed, runner has 1t that
July $50 were badly injured.
AT l O'Clock this morning twenty.
one dead bodies have boon taken from
the ruins at Chandler. Seveniy.fivs to
bundled persons are badly injured,
ana dozen or more Of these are re.
ported dying.
In addition 10 taose dead, injured and
dying. 1t 10 believed that vt least a
score or moro deaf are buried beneath
the wrecked buildings. Several Of the
wrecked buildings have taken fire snd
the debris 10 burning Iiercely. Many OF
the injured have been burned to death
one building it Is reported five injured
people were burned to Death anu at
another place tho moderated bodies
Of three unknown children have been
taken out.
All the physicians Of the town, save
one, met death in the storm. Nearly
oil tho physicians OF GuthTis have
gone to tue scnne OF the disaster.
AN AWFUL SCENE OF DESTRUCTION.
$3.50 a.m.--Chandler sends for more
help and rescue parties are going from
all surrounding towne. The entire
business portion was burned alter
being wrecked. II Is now thought
there are twenty-five or thirty more
dead bodies in the burned ruins.
James Woodward and wife OF e.
dorado, KAN, visiting there, were
instantly Killed, their little daughter
fatally crushed ami eon badly hurt.
John Dawson OF Lincoln, Neb., was
burned to death.
The scene 10 awful and several Of the
injured are rsving crazy. The main
street OF the town IL "a mass OF deaf
and injured people and teams, wagons,
buggies, trees AID dobris from the
buildings. Chief Justico Dale, who
was holding court, ran with bis wife
to u hollow ana held her behind large
bowlder ANU both were unhurt.
Every building but one on the main
street was wrecked and burned, IN
GLIDING the court house, post Office, the
News and Democfalic offices, Lincoln
county bank, New York store and
several hotels.
Daylight, 1t lie believed, will reveal
the damage to be much worse than Ia
now believed,
FoRTY-FivE PERSONS KILLED.
The latest details from Chandler
states % persons were killed and 200
bndly nurt by thek cyclone when
struck that place last evening.
The cyclone struck at B this even.
ing. The ouurt house, in which Chief
Justice Dale was holding court, was
taken of lite foundation. AL com.
munication with Chandler is now cut
OF. The telephone effice was der
troyed, and The Only Information re.
ceived here was from telephone oon.
nectiou made q mile and half out OF
Chandler. That las since been loeI.
ANOTHER REPORT.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, M arch sO.-A
epscial 10 tho Journal from Guthrie,
Okla, SAYS:
At6 O'Clock this evening terrific
tornado, followed by hail aud fioou,
swept through the town OF Chandler,
forty mica east OF mere, completely
devastating the town. Three fourthB
of the residences ana business houses
OF the town were totally wrecked or
badly damaged, saores OF people In.
jured and many killej.
Darkness at once came on, and the
work OF rescue 10 carried ON under
difficulties.
The telephone office was carried
away, and at 10 tonight telephone
was cUnnec.eu with the wire Two miles
this way ana q message sent here for
assistance.
Chandler 10 o town OF / 800 people.
1t il built on o hill in thick timber,
and the mass OF torn trees and wreck
I'll houRes makes II impossible to reach
nearly all OF the people In the dark.
ness. On every side can be heard
groans and cries for help, and the
lcene 10 inaescribnble.
A large number OF physicians and
ether citizens have lett here for the
scene with surgical Instruments, drngs
and other supplien.
A later msssage states that q large
number OF people who are known 10
have been In business buildings are
missing. Tho true state Of sffaire can.
not be learned until daylight.
THE SCENE OF THE DESTRUCTION.
GUTHRIE, o. T., March 8l.--Chaos
rs'gns In Chandler. Last nights ter
nble cyolohe turned a peaceful town
OF 200 inhabitants into q veritabie
morsue. The principal business build.
inss and residences lie wrecked, grim
rsmindois OF the storms work. Tho
asaih Lat IL varianslv estimated from