The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-05-25
STORM WAS
VERY DISASTROUS
Fiercest Ever Known in the
Territory.
LOSS OF PROPERTY
WAS VERY GREAT
Cl0udburst at Enid Rendered Hun
dreds Homeless.
TRAINS WERE DERAILED
AND BRIDGES GONE.
At FOss in Western Oklahoma Three
Persons in One Family We're the
Victims of the Wind and
Chickasha Suffered.

Oklahoma city. Okla. May 25.-On
Saturday night and Sunday morning
this city and immediate vicinity were
visited by the greatest rainfall and Sc
verest electrical storm known in the
territory's history. Sunday and sun
day night half of the city vas under
water. being three feet deep in some
houses, and ten feet deep in the base
ments of wholesale establishments.
The Alton Dawson Grocery company
s~ustains a damage to their stock estI-
mated at $1,000. The damage to the Al
exander Drug company's stock is esti-
mated at SO. 600, the Oklahoma city
Min and Elevator company lost 5000
bushels of wheat and sustained a heavy
damage to its building. Sample cases
belonging to travelling men stored IN
the basement Of the Hotel Lee were
damaged to the extent Of several thou
sand dollars.
Il is estimated the total loss will
reach 800. 600. Traffic on the electric
railway is suspended on account Of the
power house being under water. All
trains into this city, with the exception
OF the Santa F., are w~aterbound, and
many washouts are reported on the
ChoCtaw-
Lightning struck the baths OF The
Oklahoma Ice and cold Storage COM
pany and destroyed them, together with
several Santa Fe boxCars. e~utaillng a
loss of several thousand dollars.
People along the Canadian river had
TO hurriedIy vaCate.
At Enid property loss is fully $500, 600,
and hundreds Of people are homeless.
1t came at Il O'Clock Saturday night.
and in a few minutes houses were sub
merged.
A bank Of water three feet high and
200 feet wide swept down through the
bottoms carrying houses and every
thing before it. Many hea~rtrending
scenes were witnessed.
A tornado struck F0ss. a town OF 200
Inhabitants. on the ChoCtaw, oklahoma
and Gulf railroad. in western Oklaho-
ma, completely destroying thirteen
buildings. F NJ. SlageI. wife and
daughter were killed and d aumber -
persons were injured.
The cloudburst reported at Yukon.
eighteen miles west OF Oklahoma city.
inundated the Canadian valley. causing
great damage to crops and stock, but
no lives are reported lost.
Rock Island passenger train No. 80.
southbound. left the track at the bridge
over the Canadian river and the engine
and baggage car went into the river.
No lives were lost. The entire train
was derailed. The weight Of the cars
caused the track to slide from under Il
down the a~mbankmeut The South
Canadian river is way out of it's banks.
and the approaches to the bridge were
swept away by the current.
At Hobart the haIlstones measured
seven inches In circumference. The
Maugum line passenger train reached
ChiCkasha with all the windows broken
out of one side Of the cars and water
standing six inches deep on the floors.
The Frisco has two big washouts be
tween ChiCkasha and Oklahoma city.
and the Washita river Is a raging tor
rent. All trains from the north on the
Rock Island and Frisco were aban-
doned.
A tornado wrecked several houses at
Anadarko. Okla.
In the South Canadian valley around
Norman. Okla. people had TO flee to high
ground.