The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-12
OKLAHOMA CYCLONES
 HARVEST OF DEATH
LIST OF THOSE THAT ,PERIsHED REACHES NINETY
 FIVE.

The Injured Total Nearly 75o-rwo
 Hundred Houses westroyed and Many
 Substantial Business Structures and | Factories of Stone Razed-Law Books and Papers Blown Sixty MiIes-Gov- ernor Issues nm Appeal for Aid for
 Survivors. Guthrie,- Okla, May u.-Latest re-
 ports of the tornado that ruined sny-
 der Okla, say that the list of dead is
 now ninety-flve and may reach to
 more than 100. The injured total near
 ly 15o. Some 200 houses were destroyed
 and many substantial business houses
 and factories or stone were razed. The
 debris was in some cases carried many miles. Other towns suffered losses Re- ports indicate that the casualties out-
 side of Snyder will aggregate 25 or
 more. The financial loss is $s50,o00. Governor T. B. Ferguson to-day is-
 sued request on the mayors of vari-
 ous Oklahoma towns. the heads Of
 charitable organizations and the pas tors of churches to collect funds for the assistance of the survivors, there
 being no statutory means for the ap- propriation of money for calamities similar to the one at Snyder. A num- | Der of cities have responded Cover
 nor Ferguson has ordered the signal
 corps os the National Guard to pro-
 ceed to Snyder from Lawton to aid in the rescue work
 Q. B Regal. lawyer, says when the storm struck he opened the door of his office in a business block. When l he came to. he was scrambling in the wreckage of a house two hundred yards away.
 Paul Crump. 8 boy whose head and arms were cut off. was making pur- chases in a store. Miss Mary Mize was waiting on him when the tornado struck the building. Miss Mize gath cred the boy in her arms and started out of the front door, and almost at 1 the same instant a sharp timber struck the boy, cutting off his head and arms and brlising Miss MIze about the face, but not otherwise injuring her. Fort Cobb, Okla, May 11.-Many law
 books. letters, photographs, bank books 1 and papers were picked up here to- day, having been blown from Snyder, a
 distance of sixty miles. The storm did little damage here.
 About seventy five head of horses and
 cattle were killed at Snyder A conn mittee this morning began to move car-
 cases.
 The mayor of Snyder is having much trouble arranging for the burial Of the dead. The confusion is great, owing to 1 the fact that thereare a number of u1i-S identified bodies at the morgues. There is much suffering owing to the lack of provisions and places to stay. What houses remain in the town are in bad
 condition and are unsafe for habita-
 ton. Besides there is not room enough to care for the homeless. Bedding and wearing apparel are both lacking. and despite the effort to succor the unfor- tunates they are still in a pitiabIe con-. dition. Many of the wounded could ! not be cared for or given medical aid:
 until g o'clock this morning, and by
 that time their wounds were aggravat- ed. Dr. York, of Hobart, who was ac- I tive in relieving the suffering, says that tWenty-two per cent of the wound ed will dice
 Nearly all of the homes in Snyder had storm cellars and during the heavy l doWnpour of rain preceding the tornado many sought shelter in these cellars 1 Then there was let up of perhaps ten
 minutes, during which many, thinking 1 the storm had broken, left their places of refuge.
 l Twenty persons were rescued unin- l jured fro ma storm cellar this morn 1 ing, having been imprisoned by debris Forty yards away in another storm cel- lar three persons were found dead un-'
 der Wreckage.
 A two year old, fiaxen-haired boy was l found today In pile of wreckage. He continually called for Daddy" but nc one in Snyder knows the child, nor can it be learned whether his parents were killed.
 l Every corpse thus far found has been l without shoes. In several instances all l the hair was stripped from the head. All the bodies found are black and blue,
 as though they had been fairly pumel- ed by the wind.
 A small frame hotel that stood two
 blocks west of the Frisco tracks was folded up like an opera hat. This ;ho- tel originally stood tihirty-five feet high, now it is no more than eight feet high. At the fmprovised morgue the bodies of babies are put on the top shelf of 1 the stores, bodies of small children are placed on the second shelf from the I top, bodies of children of a larger
 growth are placed on the third shelf
 fom the top and those of adults placed
 on the bottom shelves When the
 bodies are identified they are tagged. Snyder, Okla., May 11.--The property I loss is $350,000. Two hundred homes were demolished. and about half the 1 business buildings are a total loss. The remainder are damaged. The Hilton, the largest hotel in town, remains in tact, and a portion of the building was l used for an emergency hospital. Carnegie Gives s75,0O0 to Radcliffe. Cambridge, Mass, May t1.-It was an- | 7,n1innad to-day that Andrew Ctarnenrie