The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-19
OKLAHOMA STORM
KILLS HUNDREDS
Town Of Snyder Suffers an Aw-
fu! Disaster by Tor
nado.
X TOWN is ALSO HIT
Reported Every Building in Place but
One Was Destroyed. and That
Thirty People We're KILLED
Tornado in Illinois.


Tornado in Illinois.
Guthrie, Okla. May l3~.-Thelutcst of
siCial reports from the tornado stricken
town of Snyder. Okla, place the list
OF dead at ninety-fve. Other rulnors
advance this figure to 100. 1t is highly
probable mat the death list, whe ac-
curately tabulatedi, viii reach 1870. OF
those injured there are various reports
reaching from 100 To $50.
The storm formed near the Texas
line, and its path extends in a north
easterly direction for over forty miles,
causing carnage at Altus, Olustee ard
other small towns. and in the country
as we'll ms ut Snyder.
Reports Indicate that the casualties
outside Of Snyder Will aggregate twen-
ty-tive. and ma go higher.
Hobart, Okla, May ia train
reached here al 1880 O'Clock from Sny-
der. Seventy-tive dead had been found.
and twenty-five We're known to be
fatally injured.
Fire broke out following the storm
and consumed one business block. Fifty
freight cars We're reduced to kindlilg
wood. The railroad tracks We're torn
up for blociis. Hundreds of people are
pouring into Snyder to aid the suffer-
erS.
Kansas City. May ia special to
the star from oklahoma City states
that every house in Snyder. With the
exception of tWo, was destroyed. 1t is
estimated 200 persons We're killed and
500 injured.
Fort Worth, Ten, May ia tornado
which passed over the southern part of
Greer and Comanche countless. Okla
honia, last night, did frightful dam
age. At Olustee one house remains
standing. 1t is reported thirty persons
are dead.
oklahoma City. May IA special
from 0lustee this afternoon decalres
nobody was killed there.
Strcator. H.. May l1.-A tornado
struck here shortly after 10 o'clock this
morning, tearing down trees and barns.
No one was injured.
oklahoma City. okla. May 1l.-Ten
Undertaseys who We're attending the
funeral directors convention left here
This morning with a carload of caskets
for snyder.
N'IlIl!It. o1Nlt, NAY l0.-l.tDOItS To
celved here Indicate that between eco
and io0 lives have been lost in the par
tial destruction of the town of snyder.
I<iowa county, okla, by u tornado. Re-
lief trains have been sent to the scene
from n~eiShhoring towns. Details of the
disaster cannot be learned until these
trains return, as all te!egiaphic and tel
@phone communication With the strick-
en- town is Interrupted. Snyder has
about 200 inhabitants.
First Relief Trains.
The first relief sent from Hobart
reached Snyder just before daylight.
On every hand the rescuers found the
demolished houses. The dead and dy-
ing lay about the streets, in yards and
mixed up With the wracka2e, while
those who had escaped ran hither and
thithor i'm excited attempts 10 bring
order out OF the terrible chaos.
No Other Towns Wrecked.
Whi.e the tornado seems to have
been Widespread. rumors tina other
towns in the southwestern part of Ok
lahoma had beer! destroyed were de
clared by the telephone exchanges to
be Incorrect. However. there is no CUES.
ton that much damage to property and
loss of life occurred in outlying dis
railway several houses We're destroyed.
Mrs. o.. W. COX and two sons were
killed.
Makes list of Dead Smaller.
ST. Louis. May l3.-Fo!!owinG is y
message received from a Frisco train
der. Okla. by he general Offices
here:
~ tornado struck Snyder at s:4f
o'clock last night. Twelve business
houses and forty residences We're de-
stroyed. seventy-ive people are dead,
City Snri1nslN jniIlrnJ md tft., ,,a
slightly hurt"
Reports rs Dead, $50 Injured.
~ special from Agent Hennessy, of
the Frisco railway at C~hickasaw, SAYS
a message has just arrived from the
operator at Snyder. saying tha there
are seventy-flve dead bodies and 352
injured. The entire business portion of
the town was destroyed, but the resi-
dence portion of the town was not
badly damaged.
People Were in Their Beds.
The tornado struck Snyder from the
southwest, travelling north until within
about 100 yards from the tracks of the
Oklahoma City II Western railway.
There it took a no~rtheasterly course
through the business portion Of the
town. Coming as il did While most
OF the inhabitants of the town were
asleep. but few had warning of their
danger.
1t is believed a large number of the
injured will die.
In a umbe of cases entire Families
We're killed. and in almost every fam
lily in the town some member was in
jured. The business portion is reported
entirely destroyed.
Up to 1890 o'clock the only names of
dead obtainable were those OF j. Il.
Banston and his son. Elmer. Mayor
Guthrie. of Oklahoma City, and some
other Oklahoma towns have issued calls
for mass meetings to formulate a syS-
TEN of relief for the injured.
STORY OF EYE WITNESSES.