Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-12
MANY ARE STILL Unidentified
Some Are Missing aud an Exact List
or Casualties Has Not Yet
Been Had.
DEATHS NOW EXCEED A HUNDRED
People Go From Moreue TO MorCue
Trying to ldentlJ Loved Ones
Among the Dead.

snyder, ok, May 49, .Ninoty.nyo
bodies OF victims OF Wednesday nights
tornado have been found up to noon to-.
day AZ that time 30 persons were etlll
missing, and the list Of seriously M
iured number no, Of whom 90 woro
believed TO be fatally hurt twenty
ave or 30 others were slightly hurt,
Tho financial loss today Is estimated
nj 100000,
Reports brought IN today from tn
country which has been shut of since
Wednesday night by lack Of telegraph
facilities, indicate that 90 persons woro
Killed outside Of snyder making u pos-
slbc total dead Of 100, Vorlncation Of
the loss OF life IN the country win nat.
urally be slow,
snyder OKLA May Equitable scenes
Of want and suffering were seen lrt0
today on an Sides Much confusion still
existed, despite the efforts OF hundrodA
Of outsiders TO aid the victims &C
Wednesday nights tornado, Last night
many who had lost everything thoy
possessed went hungry ana practically
unprotected from tho cold,
Many bodies lying In temporary
morgues remained unidentified, while
AMONG the injured dozens who suffered
from ugly wounds and broken limbs
were without proper medical attention
other, still were missing and an exact
liz, OF the casualties was no, to be had
with The break OF day two score pa.
tloS OF rcscusrs continued their searcn
IN the wreokogc for Victims. Gov, Fer.
sneons request to tho people Of okla.
homa TO render immediate aid TO tho
des,ltlto people began 10 show oarIy
results, Early today carloads OF pro.
Visions clothing, tents, bedding and
medicines began TO arrive, and with Il
came added numbers OF persons from
oil directions 10 aid In Attending to the
Immediate wants Of tho citizens.
Tho most serious phase OF tho sItua.
ton presented today was tho necessity
for the immediate housing Of the homo.
less and tho providing of sufficient
medical care for the injured While
physicians and surgeons had arrived
every hour since Thursday morning,
lhey worked at u distinct DISADVANTAGE
pecahse OF lack OF house room and In.
sufficient facilities, Among the first
things ACCOMPLISHED today WAS tho
torllng OF medicines, clothing and pro-
VISIONS, which were hurried TO separate
dopots ~ fast ns received, From oac(
OF lhcsc places separate committees be.
gan systematic distribution Of TIM
material
All night two dozen mon worked IN.
cessanlly preparing the bodies of tho
victims, ana today dozens of funerals
were he ID, Plenty OF colllns had bcon
tent IN, but wagons ana drays had To be
useq IN curtlng the remains 20 the Gem.
etorlee All day long crude honrpos
pubsed through the wrcok-lIttorod
Poorly clad men, women and children,
most ~ whom had lost some mombor
OF their family ana had suffered from
WOUNDS, exposure and hunger, wan.
dereq mere and there trying to find eomo
missing loved one, or went from morgnc
molguo In an endonyor 10 identity
mem among the dead.
uil " estimated that tho total loss OF
nle WIN be somewhat IN excess of 100
PERSONS, Those who have investigated
wv maintain tina, the property loss win
nol De less than half million dollars
q partial llsl or property losses IN as
5000 '' ''''''"''V I'VE
rom wagner, cotton GIN $4,000.
twenty-five dwellings on the north
zoe OF the. Frisco trnok and west of
~ street or an average value OF $500
Vaon either damaged or demolished
an9nx tho number were some ilno
,uHluehoos which were worth much
fair average W. Wv
prlehard building, $1,000, STUMBLE.
n.ld building, 1900 Restaurant. nnmo
VA owner not known $780, loss on stock,
Davidson Grocer company, losa an
building, 1900; loss on stock, $500, Frank
,uppy, saloon, loss ON building, 5000,
Vss on stock, 5000, stofer hardware
mS0te, loss on building and stock, ST.
WV, on warehouse, $500
~ vne,slory stone building owned by
Ia, N Wv 'vhHl suuV occupied by Mll=
W. haley Co, dry goods, loss, 5000
", uriilln, loss on stone building,
fVVi lohp on stock, $500 II, p, street
Von or Oklahoma city, furniture,
nW on building. and stock, 81 1900, COR
sia building, damage, $3.50 Bank of
vbSSuof,, $1,000, Grocery store OF Joyce,
sovo, Judge l.ogans office, $500, Miloy
stoVery STORE 5000 Williams furniture
s,ore, 10000 Odd Tcllows' hall, ssOo0.
Snnw building, damaged $500, occupied
,n freeman " Mcndonhall who AUS.
wInvl loss 10 stock OF $500, Cotton
hmvbInors on $3.50, Adams, hardware,
tShnOnlns' sloOo, Frisco livery bnrn'
MyOo', Cotton compress, total loss
y"'ueo q! about $4,000 and owned Inv
,er,, w. Woolton, Of Chlcknsha, Indian
,oss,nNo donate to other buildings and
fully 100000. '' w "se'us''u
me estimates given above arc tho
as optainable, All agree that thoy
"'e very conservative, wy
vo,,n"y or those who have been trn.
,non,nH oll day long, reached snyder nj
sov es, nleht In numerous IN.
ala SNe es ' no, found those they came TO
IN Nv Frisco railroad from tho depot
d,rsaa"l units OF the corporation In ench
"'''''n Is strewn with timbcrs, pieces