Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-03
AUSTIN S DEATH
INST DH.NDa55
Is SOW uUrUNEU TO T0TNL Nor
MOhE THAN $50.
TO0Cl ElY TOUCH RUNS
All Nu- Work Recovering Budir--
Sugl,yr IHckiug-Lootcr~ n JAN
Two Died az Costello.

To- b, buried beneath the debris is the
Off aI census tonight of AustIns loss
of llf. i'm thc flood of saturday 1t is
conceded, however that several II not
many visitors and strangers We're N
town tina, day and probably per-
lshcd
Allowing for errors I'm the compil-
alton, the list has been placed at l5O.
Twenty-oue Of the bodies recovered
have been Identified, and Of the MISS
ing hope Is entertained that some may
yet be accounted for.
The problem tonight is TO recover
the dead from the thousand Of tons
OF debris choking the narrow valley
Ito do SO it becomes necessary to
burn the ruins and save the living
as am epidemic may reach the town.
The single line of wire out Of Aus
tin carried an urgent plea for work.
men to the mayors Of Buffalo, Pitts
burgh and Philadelphia.
"Give MS our dead" is Austln's cry
voiced by state Senator Baldwin, who
lost father, mother, sister and other
relatives. only the body Of his father
John e. Baldwin, had been recovered
tonight.
The nine-mile railroad leading here
from Keating Summit was given over
today to rescue and relief work.
Locked cars pulled out of the summit
for Austin. When they reached here
the workers were Immediately put to
work. Every man in Austin's streets
except newspaper men, were con-
scripted for service, and despite the
effort Of attorneys, only $50 were
working at sunset,
Smolderlng flames in the district
burst forth anew in the wreckage this
evening, but It is not believed any
bodies were burned,
Austin stands to a man against the
suggestion that 1t may be necessary
to put the torch to her ruins. The
feeling runs high, and should the
health authorities be forced to this
.!tremity, there is no foretelllng the
result. The Pennsylvania state con-
stabulary will remain heer until the
Board Of Health Commissioner, Hixon,
gives the word to vacate.
There is no shelter for tho laborers
who are expected here tomorrow, and
unless they come in bunk cars they
can not be cared for. Eight home
less men slept last night on the floor
Of house spared by the waters, and
all the refugees slept in the room
above them, while the household
wares were in the two remaining
rooms
Food and clothing reached Austin
in car load lots today and there was
enough for all TO eat
Across the street from the morgue
life insurance companies nailed their
shingles to a tree near a small
shack today, to show all looking for
their office to inquire within"
Two women too kturns at recording
their claims.
A call for aid came today from Cos
tello three miles below Conditions
there parallel the situation here the
distinction being that the town is
much smaller and less damaged than
Austin, while the death list at Cos
tello is but two. 1t is believed all
others escaped.
Eight men, charged with lootlng the
ruins, were arralgned tonight and
committed to the Freeport Jail. One
man complained today that his home
had been robbed of 81, another, a
storekeeper, declared that thieves had
smashed his cash register and stolen
$500. A little girl entered "A wrecked
dwelling and left with jewelry valued
at several hundred dollars. She was
stopped and relieved of her loot By
the state police.
The list of dead so far identified, Is
as follows;
j. r. Baldwin, Mrs Martha Kinni-
cut, Miss Ida Miller, William Nelson,
Mrs william Nelson, Mrs. A. f.. Man
suy Miss Annie Jackson, Mrs. Charles
Schoffield. Mrs. Martha Schwald. Mrs.
George Rennix. Mrs. Flossie Melzer.
Ralph Donafiro, Mrs. Lena Richard
son, baby boy and girl, Miss Jessie
Harper, Josie Glashy.
Doubtful identifications: Mrs. An
thony Benson and Mrs. Frank Sykes.
The first actually effective step to-
ward an organized movement to ex-
trcatc the community from its deso-
lation and grief was accomplished to-
day when Samuel Gibson. state exam
incr Of health, began his systematic
rescue work.
He and one hundred men were all at
work in Main street. Telephone poles
were used in lifting some Of the heavy
debris from the bodies while the la
horers worked to clear the Buffalo
and Susquehanna tracks which were
torn up almost as far as Costello.
Work was also begun at Costello
to meet the workers on this end.
The railroad track must be replaced
to get wrecking trains in and the
committee is to work from either side
Of these tracks with the hopes Of re-
covering any bodies still in the debris.
State Sanitary Engineer Snow. in
charge Of getting out the bodies and
clearing away the wreckage has sent
in a requlsition for several hundred
carpenters and they are being rushed
here on special train with tools