The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-14
fELEVEN OF ONE
= FAMILY KILLED
Latest Accounts of the Tornado in
Oklahoma.
INJURED ARE SUFFERING
DAILY RAINS MAKING MATTERS
WORSE.

CNYDER, Okla, May f3.-AH the
- bodies recovered of victims Of
Wednesday nights tornado have
been buried, shipped. away or shipment
provided for; the homeless persons
nave found shelter and the wouded are
belng capefuIly attended. Eleven mem
oers Of the Fessenden family were
Killed Their bodies viii be sent to
GTidley, Kas-. for burial
trained nurses from Oklahoma City,
LaWton and Hobart are leaving moth
ing undone to relieve the suffering
OF the wounded. However. the hospital
facilities are far from being good
! mere are dozen Of the seriously
wounded in one building on beds side
Dy side in two rows, with an aisle be
tween UnavOida bic noise and con-
fusion Is distressing TO the sufferers
Inc daily rains are making matters
much worse A perfect flood visited
the town yesterday and another one
thls morning All the roofs We're dam
aged by the tornado and the water en-
tered the hospital in a perfect torrent.
The patients were protected as well as
possible by the use of tarpaUlins- But
Tot all that, the temporary hospital
could scarcely be kept dry.
Homeless and Hungry.
The homeless people are still quar-
tered in the fragments of houses not
rendered wholly Uuinhabit bic by the
storm They are badly crowded and
are denied the comforts of life that
more shelter would afford.
The Town IS well policed. a patrol of
forty men being kept on duty all the
time dozen of the engineer corps
OF the Oklahoma national guard from
IawtOH. under Captain Flynn are on
duty and are rendering valuable ser
vices In consequence of the strict
watch kept over the town no acts of
lawlessness Of any kind has been re-
ported It is necessary that the guards
be maintained owing TO the fact that
all the windows and many of the fronts
Of the buildings were demolished
Relief Pouring In.
The towns of the territory have re-
spOnded nObly to the call of the pros
trate city Relief has come from every
quarter Of the territory and from cities |
outside
In checking up the dead it was hard !
To distinguish a body from the heaps
Of rubbish. The bodies when found
We're covered with rubbish and some Of |
them manned beyond recognition. The |
hand of a child. apparently two years |
old, was picked up. but up to the pres |
ent time no owner has been found |
There are several persons missing. and |
into ShTeds and scattered TO the winds /
and viii never be found.
Not a Splinter Remains.
There is no trace Of any rubbish IN 1
the path of the main storm. There /
were fifty buildings. and not even a !
splinter can be seen of one Of them. (
The big ten-stall stone rOUndhOUse is |
gone. and the ground where 1t stood Is /
swept as clean as a floor. not a stone ]
being left to tell where it stood. It is |
reasonable to believe that body /
caught in the storms path viii never |
be found Reports from fifty miles I'm ]
the course OF the storm say debris Is |
stTeWn all over the prairie.
Another Bad Storm.
OIustee. a small town on the Frisco. |
twenty miles west of Snyder. was
struck this morning by q tornado and |
almost wholly destroyed No deaths /
are reported, but several were painfully |
bruised Houses were demolished and /
many Of the inhabitants OF the little
village. are homeless and are left with |
out shelter. The cloud moved in a !
nOrtheasterly direction, and it is be /
lieved much damage has been done in 4
the country