The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-12

cement was scattered over two nhiies' Another boxcar loaded with brof V straw that was standing by the S r of cement was overturned but ie broomstraw was not disturbed The wind.
 The two cotton gins of thf own were completely demolish.l. se of the boilers standing had all steam fittings blown off and the sA door to this boiler was found Sp miles to the northeast. As an ance or the suction force of the ga sub stantial stone building iy A.he south western portion of the pf S just east of where the cyclone fl struck the town had its entire C 1t literally pulled out This building is fully twenty yards from the path of the tornado. It was a gambling hall and all the paraphenalia is in plain view today.
 Craxed From Experience.
 An unknown old man today found the hand of a man near the edge of the storms path. This man had his left hand cut off at the wrist by a piece of whirling lumber. He had an idea that the member he found was his own. He was crazed from the ex- perience and 1t was only when he was snown his right hand and that the member he had found was also right
  is now in the hospital too crazed to talk coherently. No one knows him.
 Twenty people were rescued from storm cellar this morning, having been imprisoned by light debris. None of them was injured. Less than forty yards away in another storm cellar three people were found dead, The roof had been carried away and wreckage was sent crashing into the hole Every telephone pole in town except one was blown away.
 Electrician Russell of the Vernon exchange went to Snyder today and finding enough wire he r.gged up a telephone. The telephone instrument now in use was found about 100 yards from the path of the tornado and as yet it is not known from where 1t was blown. It is uninjured.
 A pitiful case came to light today. A little two year old flaxen haired boy was located in a pile of wreckage by his cries. He continually calls for Daddy" but no one in Snyder knows the child nor can it be learned wheth- CT or not his parents were killed.
 One woman was brought to the morgue today who had an immense wooden silver driver through her left breast. The end of the silver was pro- truding just above the abdomen. Her left ear was severed clean from the head. In her right arm she was hold ing g dead babe.
 A peculiar thing that has been ob- served is that every corpse thus far found has been without shoes. In many instances all the hair was stripp .d from the head. All the bodies found are black and blue and appear as If they were pummeled by the wind. Several are So disfgured that 1t is im- possible to identify them.
 Forwarding Supplies.
 A carload of supplies Is being for warded from this place to Snyder. Right now the greatest need exists for clothing All the coffins in Vernon have been forwarded. Interment of the dead has become a pressing necessity.
 Snyder was first opened for settle n1ent in December, 1902. The place was located in a valley formed by two chains of the Wichita mountains that have a northessterly and southwestern Iy formation. The tornado came through a gap In these chains. that is, southwest of the town. The course or the cyclone was true to the formation of the mountain chain. it keeping en- tirely in the valley as long as 1t could be observed The Frisco road is doing everything possible to the stricken place Just prior to the cyclone and immediately after the cessation of the heavy rain there was drop in the temperature estimated to be at least thirty degrees.
 A former dry goods store has been turned into morgue. This building was literally gutted of the contents and the front of the building and the roof is gone. The bodies of babies are put on the top shelf of this store. bodies of children between five and ten years are placed on the second shelf from the top; bodies of children of a larger growth are placed on the third shelf from the top and those of adults placed on the bottom shelves. When tagged.