The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-05-13
RAIN FILLED
OPEN GRAVES
Which Must be BaHed
Out Before Inter
nsentS Can by
Made.
RELIEF COMMITTEE HAS ISSUED
CALL FOR AID-sEllEvED THAT
TWENTY-FIVE OF THE INJURED
WILL DIE-PARTiAL LIST OF
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY IN THE
TOWN.
BY Associated Press.

Snyder. Okla, May I2-One hundred
and twenty lives were lost in the tor
nado which wrecked the town OF
Snyder Wednesday night, according to
the best information at hand. Reports
from the surrounding country, which
had been cut of from wire communi-
cation for two days, say that twenty
! five were killed outside OF Snyder
I The dead counted here to-day num-
bered So while s. are sun missing
and il is believed that 25 of the injured
will die.
( Snyder tonight is still cloudy. Early
to-day cloud of cyclonic nues pass
ed over the devastated village, follow
ing the course of the former one We'd
neSday. The cloud threw the stricken
people into panic, but nothing exeep.
a deluge accompanied the passing of
the cloud.
The relief comRittse@E.<S gOns--1n
work in earnest and tonight issued
d call for aid TO the people of the
! United States. The committee has
/ thoroughly investigated the needs OF
every family and know conditions full
ly. The hospital service here is very
poor with only the crudest convel.
fences but it is the best that can
: be had.
Graves dug yesterday and last night
for interment OF the victims were
filed with water today. This waite.
is being bailed out before the bodies
can be buried. Interment of bodies il
one of the most pressing needs of the
hour. ]. R. Alternately, the famous
wolf hunter, who accompanied Presi
dent Roosevelt on his wolf hunt. is
here and gave out the statement thai
he saw the tornado forming. He dc
scribed the cloud and its work of de
struction.
The list of dead now reaches a tota
OF one hundred and twenty.
Damage to Property.
4 partial list of the losses follows
5 B. c. Burnet, cotton gin, loss $40,
, 000: carried tornado insurance 70
, $1,000
Tom Wagner, Cotton gin, $4,000.
Twenty-Five dwellings on the nortl
side of the Frisco track, and west o
z street, of an average value of 500
each, either damaged or demolished
Among the number were some In
! residences which were worth mora
The value given is taken TO be a tai
one.
: Pritchard building, $500.
StUbblefield building, $1,000.
Restaurant name of owner no
known $500; loss on stock $500.
= Davidson Grocery Company, loss Of
building $500.
Stofer Bros, hardware store, los
on building and stock 81 500; on ware
e house $500.
!. One-story building owned by T. T
! Davis, loss $500; occupied by Mile
e p. z. Griffin, loss on store building
: $500; loss on stock, $500.
J. H. P. Street & Co, Oklahoma CitJ
II furniture, loss or. building and stool
n $1,000.
FL Cornelia building damage, $3.50.
Il Bank of Snyder, $4,000.
III Grocery store of Joyce, $500.
h Judge LOgan's office, $500
4 Miley grocery store, $500.
!. Williams furniture store, s2,09e.
oi Odd Fellows nall, $1,000.
Shaw building. dana ged $500 occl
Ipied by Freeman & MenIenhad, VIII
> sustained a loss of stocks of $500.
Cotton weighers Office. s25G.
Williams hardware building, S1,00
Frisco livery barn, $4,000.
Cotton compress, total loss, value
D at $4,000, and owned by R. K. Vote
of Chickasha, l. T.
The damage 10 other buildings ar
residences is estimated to aggregai
fully 100000 Estimates given aoo'
y ~ are the best obtainable. All agr'
= that they are very conservative
= Many of those VINO had been travt
o. ing all day long reached Snyder
IL 80 last night In numerous inssa
ces they found that those whom th'
came 10 aid had persisted.
The Frisco railroad from the dep
IS to the limits of the corporation
w each direction is strewn with timber
4 niles of brick and stone and 9th
/. things cast there by the storm II J
5: ouired considerable work to get q
track clear.