Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-12
VICTIMS EXCEED 100
Further Details of Dreadful
Oklahoma Tornado.
SEARCH rs CONTINUED
PROPERTY LOSS EXPECTED TX
FOOT UP HALF A MILLION.
Pitiable Scenes of Want and Suffering
at Snyder-Serious Phases
of Situation.

Ninety-fve bodies of victims of
Wednesday nights tornado had been
found up to noon today. At that
time IS persons were still missing
and the list OF seriously injured num-
bered rs, of whom Is were believed
to be fatally hurt. twenty-five or
thirty others were slightly hurt.
The financial loss today is esti-
mated at a half million dollars.
SNYDER, Okla, May 12.-It is estimated
that the total loss of life caused by the
tornado of Wednesday night will be some
what in excess of 100 persons. Those who
have investigated still maintain that the
| property loss will not be less than half
| million dollars. partial list of property
losses is as follows:
B. c. Burnett cotton gin, loss $4,000;
carried tornado insurance for IS. 900.
Thomas Wagner, cotton gin, $4,000.
twenty-five dwellings, on the north side
of the Frisco tracks and west of Z
street. of an average value of $500 each,
either damaged or demolished. Among the
number were some fine residences which
were worth much more.
iiSldiu Sl,otU,
building, 81 900; restaurant name of owner
not known, 500; Davidson grocery, s70O;
Frank Cuppy, saloon, $500: Stofer Bros,
hardware store, $1,000; one-story stone
building. owned by T. B. Davis. loss $500,
occupied by Miller Bailey & Co., dry
goods, loss $500; P. E. Griffin. $500; H. p.
Street & Co., Oklahoma City. furniture,
81, 400; Cornella building, damaged $50;
Bank of Snyder. $1,000; grocery store of
Joyce, $500; Judge Logan's office, $500;
Miley grocery store, $500; Williams furni-
ture store, 50, ,OOO Odd Fellows Hall, 81 600;
Shaw building, damaged $500, occupied by
Freeman & Mendenhall who sustained
loss to stock of $500; cotton weighers Of
livery barns, $1,000; cotton compress, total
loss, valued at $4,000 and owned by r. *.
Wooten of Chickasha, l. 7.
The damage to other buildings and resi-
dences is estimated at 100000.
The estimates given are conservative.
The Frisco railroad, from the depot TO
the limitation of the corporation, In eacn
direction is strewn with timbers, pieces or
there by the storm. 1t required consider
able work to clear the tracks.
Pitiable Scenes.
Pitiable scenes of want and suffering were
seen here today on all sides. Much confu-
sion still existed despite the efforts of hum
dreds of outsiders to aid the victims OF
Wednesday nights tornado. Last night
many who had lost everything they possess
ed went hungry and practically unprotected
from the cold
Many bodies lying in temporary morgues
remained unidentified, while among the IN
1ured, dozens who suffered from ugly
wounds or broken limbs were without prop
e. medical attention. Others still were miss
ing and an exact list of the casualties was
not to be had.
With the break of day two-score parties
of rescuers continued their search in the
wreckage for victims. Gov. Fergusons re-
quest to the people of Oklahoma to render
immediate aid to the destitute people began
to show early results. Early today car
loads of provisions, clothing, tents bedding
and medicines began to arrive, and with
them came added numbers of persons from
all directions to aid in attending to the i'm
mediate wants of the citizens.
Serious Phase of Situation.
The most serious phase of the situation
presented today was the necessity for the
Immediate housing of the homeless and the
providing of sufficient medical care for the
injured. While physicians and surgeons
had arrived every hour since Thursday
morning they worked at distinct dis
advantage because of lack of house room
and insufficient facilities. Among the first
things accomplished today was the sorting
Of medicines, clothing and provisions, which
were hurried to separate depots as fast as
received. From each of these places sep
arate committees began a systematic dis
tribution of this material.
All night two dozen men worked inces-
sanity, preparing the bodies of the victims
for burial, and today dozens of funerals
were held. Plenty of coffins had been sent
in, but wagons and drays had to be used
in carting the remains to the cemeteries
All day long crude hearses pass through
the wreck-littered streets.
Poorly clad men, women and children,
most of whom had lost some member of
their family and had suffered from wounds
exposure and munger, wandered here and
there trying to find some missing loved one
or went from morgue to morgue in an en-
deavor to identify them among the dead