The Washington times., 1905-05-12
SNYDER TAXES ON
HOPE AFTER STORM
Traekmen Are Busy Clear
ing Away Debris.
DEAD PREPARED FOR BURIAL
Relief Committee Formed to Handle
Supplies Now Rapidly Reaching
Stricken Town.
DEAD PREPARED FOR BURIAL

SNYDER. o. T., May 12.-Order is be-
ing wrought out of chaos in this town
by gangs OF Frisco trackmen sent here
Ga special trains The work is system
attic. The streets gradually are being
cleared OF wreckage. which is piled In
heaps All the dead have been placed in
new caskets and arrangements are un-
der way for funeral services. The in
Jured. exeeptip~ those able to care for
themselves. have been removed to Law
ton and Oklahoma City.
The citizens are beginning to take
heart and the determination is general
TO rebuild. The relief committee met
this morning TO make plans for handling
supplies and cash contributions
Great crowds of sightseers and persons
having relatives here have come in and
are suffering considerable discomfort.
The territorial engineer corps arrived to-
day with large number of tents.
100 Dead; $50 Injured.
GUTHRIE. Okla. May 12-Although
the number Of dead IN the tornado
swept town OF Snyder is not as big as
was supposed. the later reports indi-
cate that more than 100 persons were
killed and fully $50 others injured in the
fierce sweep of wind which wrecked the
town.
Ninety-two bodies have been picked
up By The searching parties ard now
are lying in the temporary naergue
which has been buift for their recep-
ton. OF the injured about hfty are
hurt seriously, while the rest are slight
~ cut and bruised from being tossed
about by the wind
Dawn broke yesterday ovts the hills
among which Snyder stood. and in place
OF thriving town of 1.e06 inhabitants
1t found a long stretch OF broken
houses. masses of timber and iron
strewn in all directions and a mass of
human beings searching the wreekage
Tor loved ones.
A Serrowful Spectacle.
There was none of the strident hustle
of the typical frontier town. but instead
everywhere could be seen the gloom of
the stricken inha bitants, overturning
piles OF timber, ehopping away debris
and prodding with inproyised grapples
for bodies of relatives and friends For
fifteen miles along the plains the mass
OF wreekase extended, with here and
there solitary body to mark. the
progress OF the tornado.
from all neighboTing towns relief was
lace OF the great calamity. Mountain
fark, the neighboring town. forgot the
feud which had existed between the in
nabitants OF the two places almost since
slesfae f,tr,f11
was shed on both sides only eight
months ago. and turned out in fun
force 10 render what assistance IL could
Money, food, blankets, and household
utensils We're sent by the inhabitants of
the rival town, and fully one-fourth of
the inhabitants still are out helping the
unfortunate ones of the neighbering
Tossed About in Beds.
It was about o'clock Wednesday
night when the tornado struck the
town. Most of the inhabitants had
gone to bed in their small frame strue-
lures, never dreaming Of The devastation
which was close at hand. Clouds had
hung low over the town in the evening.
but il was supposed they augured moth
Ing worse than a severe rainstorrn.
About $50 o'clock the rain was swept
in broad sheets through the town, while
Herce wind shook the houses
With only the shrill howl of a fierce
wind To mark its advance the tornado
suddenly struck the town in all its fury.