Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-05-15
TElEGRAPHIC NEWS,

TORNADO DESTROYS TOWN OF
SNYDER, OKLA. BUSINESS
SECTION BURNS AFTER BLOW.
ING DoWN-NEARLY 100 PEo.
PILE KILLED AND MANY MORE
| INJURED RELIEF TRAIN
FOUND DEAD AND DYING LY.
ING ON GROUND DRENcHEo BY
RAIN.
| HOBART. okla, May ia cy-
clone dipped and struck Snyder, Okla
at . O'Clock last night. and sixty are
dead and sixty injured. according to
the best advices obtalnable here tinis
morning. Relief has been sent from
here, Mangum, Lawton and Vernon.
1t is said the northwest part of the
town is totally destroyed. Property
loss is 5000 900. Victims OF the disas-
ter are terribly mutilated-heads
crushed and arms and legs torn of.
| and in many instances timbers were
driven through the bodies. Five re
| lief crews are at work.
OKLAHOMA CITY, May ia re-
| port reacnes here to the effect that
! every house in Snyder. with the ex-
, ception of Ways hardware store and
the Frisco roundhouse, were destroy
ed by cyclone last night. 1t Is es.
| timated that 250 are killed and 500
injured Communication has not yet
been established with the stricken
| district and details are hard to OBJ
tain. A relief train is expected to ar
! rive from Snyder at IL o'clock today.
| GUTHRIE, Okla, May lit was
learned from Chickasha this after
noon that rs were killed and 1852 in
jured in a cyclone which destroyed all
or part of Snyder last night. All eff
| forts to get direct communication
with the stricken district have fail.
| ed so far. 1t is said the business por-
| ton of the town is entirely destroyed.
' Relief trains have been sent from
Elena and Enid with nurses and ply
! sicians.
| LAWTON, Okla. May 1,-At 4
| o'clock this morning communication
with Snyder mad not been establish
ed A report on the streets says the
greater part Of the town was destroy
ed and several hundred inhabitants
killed or injured. The town has
population of $500. 1t is a division
point of the Frisco line.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, May IL
Communication has been secured
with Snyder and according TO infor'
/ nation fire broke out following the
l nd aA htta I'M !
section OF the town, including the
Bank of Snyder, the Hilton hotel
two large buildings just completed
the Davis G. Griffin block, the Snyder
hotel. three department stores nllet
with dry goods and a half dozen gro
cery houses.
The scraps of information received
here up To 1 o'clock do not give tht
names OF the dead or injured. nor the
number. The havoc wrought. how
ever. is most complete. In mum
her of cases entire families were
killed. Every house in the town ex
cept six are reported wrecked or de
molished, and many OF them art
blown completely away. The dead
and injured are variously estimated
But 1t is known eignty persons were
killed outright, but some say the deac
will run as nigh as 400 with 400 in
I jured 1t is now known, however
that many of the injured will die.
y SNYDER, Via Hobart, Okla, Ma.
.I1l.-The hustling town OF Snyder wa
wiped of the map at S:15 last night
/ and over 100 people lost their live'
, outright or died later. There is no
la building left standing. The storm
was a regular cyclone of the twiste
; variety. 1t struck the unsuspectini
1 town shortly after dark on the nortl
5 side of track and west OF the post
office and nothing was left standing
t The Frisco roundhouse, two gins, tn
y compress and three hotels are anon
r the buildings destroyed. The first re
j. lief train came from Hobart with
!. number OF physicians and scores n
e ceived attention at their hands. Re-
I lief trains arrived also from Wunar
/, ah.
~ SNYDER, Okla, May 11.-3 .. m