Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-12
EIGHT DIE
IN NTORNADO
SCORES ARE INJURED BY
WINDST0RMS
PROPERTY SUFFERS GREATLY IN
WIDE AREA
One Entire Town Destroyed-Thirty
Persons Have Broken Limbs In
One Villsge-ThriIIing Ina
cidents Related
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WOODWARD, Okla, May 11.-At
least eight persons were killed and
scores of others injured in the severe
tornadoes in Northwest Oklahoma yes
terday evening. The dead:
MIR. AND MRS. J. E. HALE, Little
Robe. Ellis county.
TWO UNKNOWN PERSONS, Ar
nett, Ellis county.
DIR. J. HOWsER, Vici, Woodward
county.
ARTHUR SIBEL. Mutual, Wood
ward county.
WILL HAND, Estelle, Major county.
MRS. YOUNG, ceiling, Durey county.
No list of the injured is obtainable at
this time, as telephone communication
is entirely cut off from the storm
swept area. and the only other means
of securing information is by stage.
The nearest point to Woodward that
the storm struck is Mutual, five miles
away. The most disant is Little Robe,
fifty-five miles southwest.
There was a succession of tornadoes
between and 10 o'clock in the even
ing. They appeared first in the west
ern part of the devastated district and
moved eastward. The most serious re-
suits were in the vicinity of Arnett,
where fully thirty persons are believed
to have received broken limbs. Nearly
all of these victims are residents of the
farming districts.
The only town known to have been
destroyed is Vici, a postoffice in the
southern part of Woodward county,
where 1t is said not a house is left
standing. Postmaster e. A. Speck has
asked that postoffice inspector be
sent to report on his office, which was
demolished and the contents scattered
in all directions.
The report of four deaths at Arnett
includes the two at Little Robe. and is
confirmed by the news that four cas-
kets have been sent overland from
Gage to Arnett, Gage being the near
est railroad point.
Wind Lifts Horse
Thrilling incidents are being related
by all who have received any informa-
ton from the storm center Mr. Hale
of Little Robe was one of the most
prominent cattlemen in that locality.
DR.. Howser, at Vici, was taking refuge
in a dugout when he was killed. A
horse was lifted by the wind and
dashed through the top of the dugout,
burying the victim beneath the entire
earth roof of the dugout and the
weight of the horse.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Sibel of
Mutual was killed by a piece of 2x4
lumber being driven through it's body.
At Mutual fifteen young persons had
gathered for Sunday evening social.
The storm lifted the house completely
off the floor on which they were seated.
leaving the floor and the young people
unharmed. o. E. Null and daughter
of the vicinity of Arnett were over
taken by the storm while driving.
They took refuge in hollow tree, bat
their horse was killed when a nearby
tree fell.
Reports from the neighborhood of
Vici state the heavy hail that accom-
panied the storm did much damage to
property, crops and cattle. Hailstones
measuring fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence are said to have fallen. AS there
is family on every quarter section of
the storm center, which is about a
mile wide and about fifty miles long,
definite figures on the number of VIC
Tins are not obtainable.