The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-13
ANOTHER SCARE.
Cloud of CyeIOnic Hue Frightens Sny-
 des People.

Cloud of CyeIOnic Hue Frightens Sny-
 des People.
 Snyder, Okla, May 12.-Snyder to- night is still paralyzed Early this morning a cloud of cyclonic hue passed over the devastated village. following the course of the former one of We'd nesday. This cloud threw the stricken people into a panic but. nothing except a deluge accompanied the passing of the cloud.
 Snyder is located in a basin formed by the foothills of the Wichita Noun tains. The drainage is exceedingly poor and water is standing in large pools all over the town. Excessive rains have made the country roads al- most impossible, and as consequence the relief parties sent to the country districts have not yet fully reported the results of their investigation.
 The relief committee is thoroughly organized and is working under an ad- mirable system. The population of Snyder, prior to the tornado is esti- mated to have been something over 1000 people. The condition of every family stricken is known personally to the members of the relief committee. The hospital arrangements arc fearful, but they are the best that can be done. A ratker high wind prevailed just prior to the heavy precipitation today. Dur ing this wind storm it was feared that one of the buildings being used as a hospital would be blown down and the attendants started to move the twen- ty patients confined Tn the building. While some of those injured were being conveyed on stretchers to various places where a cot could be squeezed in. the rain began falling furiously, and as result the wounded people, many dan gerously, were drenched with the rain.
 Cries AgOnizinE.
 The wind subsided ana the injured were returned to the building from which they were taken. This building had a portion of the roof blown away, and all sorts of devices. including por- tions of tin roofs, comforts and the like, were placed over the injured to keep the water that leaked through the roof off them. The cries. groans and moans of the eight or ten seriously injured inmates were agonizing.
 All the graves dug yesterday after noon and last night for the interment of the victims of the tornado are filled with water. and this water is being baled out before the bodies can be buried The interment of the bodies is one of the most pressing needs of the hour.
 hunter of Frederick, who accompanied President Roosevelt on his wolf hunt, is here assisting in the relief work. Abernathy first saw the tornado when it first formed.
 At first there were three tunnels" :" says Abernathy, and they first licked down to the earth about thirty miles southwest of Snyder. They travelled in a northeasterly direction from the first at slow speed, but the whirling noise fthe cyclonic movement could be heard where 1t then was. about seven miles away. l was then on high promontory of the Wichita Mountains. and saw these tunnels until they neared Snyder. The three tunnels swept ev- erything clean. The Ralston home stead was the only one in their path. Several orchards were destroyed. not a tree remaining The center funnel did the heaviest damage. The funnel south center funnel as the north fork of the Red was crossed.
 "As soon as these two tunnels merged the two tunnels remaining ap- peared to gain velocity and moved in due northeasteerly direction at q rapid rate. About three or four miles due northwest of Vernon the two re- maining tunnels joined and as soon as the one big funnel had the field to itself. 1t fairly shot forward and 1t was this funnel that passed over Shy der. When there were three tunnels the forward movement was exceedingly slow I have ridden over the path of the storm. I counted ffty-eight head of stock that was killed by wind I did not see a single dead coyote or dog but dead birds are scattered all along the path of the storm"
 Funeral Directors Aid.
 The Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association was in session at Oklaho- ma City at the time of the disaster. It adjourned immediately and eighteen members of the association came here to assist in burying the dead Early tonight twenty-eight bodies were in the morgue, waiting to be inferred. Just as rapidly as the prepared graves can be emptied of water a burial is observed
 A relief committee has been formed and the following appeal for outside aid has been issued and handed to the Associated Press representative with a request that it be given publicity:
 ITO the people of the United States; This place was almost totally obliter- ated by cyclone on the evening or May 10th. The people are dividing their all but have not enough to re- iieve their pressing necessity. Neigh