Arizona republican., 1905-05-14
The GhaStIieSt Feature of
 Snyder Disaster
THE CARE OF THE LIVING
Generous Response Comes from All Quarters to the Appeal for Aid. The Death List Was Further In- creased by Seven Yesterday.

A'iiShCAs V. 1y way IO--All lDe DOQ- ies recovered of the victims of We'd nesday nights tornado have been buried, shipped away, or shipment provided for, homeless persons have found shelterr and the wounded are being carefully attended. Eleven members of the Fessenden family were killed. Their bodies will be sent to Gridley, Kansas, for burial
 Trained nurses from Oklahoma City, LawtOn and Hobart are leaving to re- lieve the suffering of the wounded. However, the hospital facilities are far from being good. There are a dozen of the seriously wounded in one building on beds side by side in two rows with an aisle between. The un- avoidable noise and confusion is dis dressing to the sufferers Daily rains are making matters much worse. A perfect flood visited the town yester- day and another one this morning. All the roofs were damaged by the tor nado and the water entered the hes pital in a perfect torrent.
 The patients were protected as well as possible, by the use of tarpaulins But for all that the temporary hos pital could scarcely be kept dry. The homeless people are still quartered in fragments of houses not rendered wholly uninhabitable by 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. A dozen of the engineer corps of the Oklahoma National guard from Lawton, under Capt. F. E. King, are on duty and are rendering valuable ser vices. In consequence of the strict watch kept in the town no acts of Iawlessness of any kind have been re- ! ported. It is necessary that guards ! be maintained owing to the fact that ] all the windows and many of the i fronts of the buildings were demol- l ished.
 The towns of the territory have re- ] spOnded nobly to the call for aid for the prostrate city. Relief has come from every quarter of the territory and from cities outside. In seeking ! for the dead it was hard to distin- guish body from heaps of rubbish. ! The bodies when found were covered with mud and some of them maimed l beyond recognition. The hand of a l child apparently two years old was ! picked up, but up to the present time, | no owner has been found. There are several persons missing, and no doubt i the bodies were literally torn into 1 shreds and scattered to the winds | and will never be found.
 1 There is no trace of any rubbish in 1 the Dath of the main storm. There were fifty buildings, and not even q l splinter can be seen of one Of them. | The big ten stall stone round house l is gone and the ground where it stood 1 it swept as clean as a floor, not even a stone being left to tell where it i once stood. It is reasonable to believe 1 that bodies caught in the storms path will never be found. Reports from fifty miles in the course of tha storm
 say that debris is strewn all over the prairie
 The number of the known dead as ! a result of the tornado was today in- ! creased by eight. Definite information : has been received to the effect that the family of R. R. Hughes. a farmer, who i lived south of Olustee, consisting of 1 Hughes, his wife and son, were killed. Eight miles south of Altus the 1 home of J. E. Ralston was destroyed,
 killing Ralston. his son and daughter. Jessie J. Windsor, one of the injured,
 died today at Lawton hospital and his
 body was here today.
 The injured, who have not already been taken to hospitals at other points
 
 exception Of those whose deaths are 1 expected hourly. Among the latter is ! Mamie Mize, whose body was pene-
 trated by a beam. Her recovery is
 considered remarkable.
 All' the bodies remaining unclaimed
 in the morgue have been buried or
 shipped away, seventy-four having
 been inferred here to date. An incl
 dent of the day which serves to illus i trate the many heartrending scenes l witnessed, occurred when s5x bodies
 of the Hubbard family were being low
 cred into their graves. A little boy
 aged ten years, the only surviving
 member of the family stood by the | graves and wept bitterly, while tears ! flowed down the cheeks of hundreds of men.
 i Heavy rains continue to consider | ably retard the work of relief. | Various reports have reached here of ] sevre storms in this section last night and today, but no definite information has been received. Rumors. how | ever serve to excite the people here, many of whom are already on the verge of a collapse.
 To add to the distress hardly a dry room can be found iH town and there is grave fear that sickness may fol- | low the continued exposure. | WORLDS RAILWAY CONGRESS.