The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-05
HOBART HEARS
STORM ECHOES
Three Residences at Snyder
Were Demolished.
SEVEN PERSONS INJURED
Several Casualties Reported
from Mountain Park.

Hobart. o. T., March 4.-Reports con-
tinue to come in of damage done by the
prairie fires and windstorm in the Kiowa
and Comanche country. Three residences
at Snyder, a small town near here, were
demolished and seven persons were in
jured, none, it is believed, fatally. At
Mountain Park, several houses were de-
nolished and half dozen persons were
injured, none seriously; a strip g miles
wide and nine miles long burned twenty
miles south of Hobart. The loss in the
Kiowa country will exceed $4,000.
TWO DEATHS.
Lawton, O. r.. March $50 far only
two deaths from the prairie fires that
swept the Kiowa and COmanche country
have been verified, those of Dr. Harmon
and an unknown boy, near here. although
runlors of deaths at numerous isolated
points have been reported. Twelve per-
sons were. burned. three perhaps fatally.
Those most seriously burned are John
Harmon, brother of Dr. Harmon, Mrs.
John Hcderson, widow, living near
Lawton and l. c. Strickland, section of
| that one thousand persons have been
made homeless and arc penniless. Suffer
ing among the destitute is intense and
the citizens of this and adjoining towns
are doing all in their power to bring
relief. The aggregate property loss is
estimate at 10000.
HALF MILLION.
Oklahoma City. 0. T.. March "A spe-
cial from Walter states that W. r. Moy-
er, who resided near there, was victim
of the prairie fire Wednesday night. He
was overcome while fighting the flames.
This is the third death reported Further
reports of property losses by both fires
and wind indicate that the first estimate
was too low. The damage by wind ex-
tends over seven counties in the south
west and the total losses can as yet only
be estimated; but it IS the general opin-
ion that they will reach half a million
Hastings Olustee. Leger, Walter, Gram
ite, Elk City. Cache. Temple. Snyder,
Willow. Bloomington. Sayre and Noun
tain Park. all report damage both in
town and surrounding country by wind.
Injuries by burns and broken links
reach into the scores. At Elk City three
members Of the family of NJ. Swatts
We're seriously injured by the demolish-
ing of their home in the hurricane. The
area from which reports of damage by
wind are coming in covers a hundred
miles square and means of communication
over the district are meager. This diff
/ ficulty is increased by the fact that poles
! are burned and wires blown down. The
| losses already reported total a quarter of
a million, and the indications are that
twice this amount will be exceeded.
p A dispatch from Leger says the little
town of Francis west of Mangum, was
destroyed by fire but no particulars are
given.
Guthrie. o. T., March A special to
the State Capital from Lawton says:
Today's report OF prairie fires shows
that larger. area was covered and much
| greater loss of property and injury to
people were sustained than first state
ments.
The fire extended from Hobart, sixty
south. No one has dared to make an es-
innate of the damage done. Telephone
messages from all points in Comanche
county tell Of great destruction to farm
property. Specials from the Indian terri
| tory tell Of fierce storms and numerous
fires on the same night that the Lawton
disaster was reported.
Property loss Immediately surrounding
/ Lawton of over $4,000 by fire is reported