The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-12
Partial Death List Of lorna.
does to Which There May
Be Additions.
HORSE THROWN i'm AIR;
FALLS ON MAN In PIT
Death Comes in Remarkable
Manner to DR.. Howis, Who
Had Sought Refuge in Dug
o,lt-Roof Lifted Off OF
House and Social Party
Left Unframed.

vv WOODWARD, OKLA May H.
n I At least eight persons were
AA killed and scores of others
v injured in the several tor
nadoes in Northwestern Ok
lahoml yesterday evening. The dead:
j. e. Hale. Little Robe Ellis county;
Mrs. j. E. Hale. Little Robe, Ellis couns
"; two unknown persons, Arnett. Ellis
county; DR.. ]. Howis. yici, Woodward
county: Arthur Sibel, Mutual, Wood
ward county; William Hand, Estell,
Major county; Mrs. Young, Selling,
Dewey county.
Telephone communication is entirely
cut off from the storm-swept area
and the only other means of getting
Information is by stage. The nearest
point to Woodward that the storm
struck is Mutual. five miles away. The
most distant is Little Robe. In Ellis
county, which is fully fifty miles
southwest of this place. The disaster
seems to have consisted of success.
sion of tornadoeS, occurring between
a. NJ. and 1SP. NJ. They appeared
first in the western part OF the devas-
tated district and moved toward the
East.
Thirty Have Broken Limbs.
The most serious results were in
the vicinity of Arnett, where fully
thirty persons are believed to have
suffered broken limbs. Several Of
these are residents of farms.
The only town known to have been
destroyed is Vici a post-office in the
southern part Of Woodward county,
where 1t is said there is not house left
standing. Postmaster T.. A. Speck has
asked that a post-office Inspector be
sent to report on his office. which was
demolished.
The report of four deaths at Arnett
includes the two at Little Robe. and is
confirmed by the news that four
cofins have been sent overland from
Gage to Arnett. Thrilling incidents are
related by all who have received any
lnlorrnat ton from the storm-centre. Mr.
| Hale, OF Little Robe. was one of tht
most prominent cattlemen in his conn.
ty. ,t.
DR.. Howis, at vici. was taking re,
fuge In a dugout when he was killed
A horse was lifted by the wind and
dashed through the top OF the dugout
burying the victum beneath the entire
earth roof of the dugout and the
weight of the animals body.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Sibel. OF
Mutual. was killed when a piece OF
two by four lumber was driven through
his body.
| Lett Ihem Without Roof.
at Mutual fifteen young persons had
gathered for Sunday evening social
| The storm lifted the house off the
floor on which they We're seated. jleav-
ing the floor and the young people un-
| harmed.
o. F.. Null and daughter, of near
Arnett. We're overtaken by the storm
while driving. They took refuge in a
/ hollow tree. Their horses were killed
when a nearby tree fell.
1 Reports from the vicinity OF Vici
state that hail did much damage to
/ property, crops and cattle. Ilailstones
/ measuring thirteen to eighteen inches
IN circumference are said to have fal.
len. AS there is a family on every
quarter-section in the storm area
which is a nlide wide and fully fifty
miles long, definite figures on the num-
ber of victims are not obtainable as
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