The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-14

| Fourteen farm houses were wreck
| ed, together with a number of barns.
| Farm wagons and machinery were
picked up in the wind and twisted and
torn to pieces Checotah is twenty
miles south of Muskogee
At Taft, negro town, twelve miles
west of Muskogee, six houses and
two churches were wrecked and ten
other houses damaged. No one was
injured there.
In the Oil Fields.
The storm which demolished the
town of Big Heart and the surround
ing oil fields approached from a
southeasterly direction 1t first struck
the oil fields, leveled every derrick
and storage house and swept on to-
ward the town. Hundreds of men
were working in the oil fields at the
time. It. has been impossible to learn
how many were killed and injured
there because the rescuing parties
have spent the night in searching the
wreckage strewned about the town
site of the town proper. 1t hardly
seems plausible, though that ali
should have escaped with their lives.
Gid Raddaugh, an oil man, who
was working on an oil rig, saw the
cyclone approaching. He threw him
self upon the ground and managed to
escape unharmed. He made his way
to the town He says that not sim
Gle oil derrick was left standing and
that he is confident that many of the
workmen met instant death by being
crushed beneath the falling tlmDers
or We're badly injured
From the oil fields the tornado
swept on toward the town at terrific
pace. Those who saw it declared It
was as black as ink and rolled like
mass of barrels. Not building
was left standing in the town accord
ing to the majority of reports. Others
say one building remains. Still 9TH
ers say six buildings were unscathed.
A new $4,000 school building was
crumbled to earth like a child's toy.
The most substantial buildings in the
town went down like a pile of blocks
about like chaff. A livery stable con
tanning six horses was picked UP bodi-
ly and carried, horses and all dis
tance of 300 yards, then dropped to
earth a mass of rubbish. The horses
were killed.
Those who saw the storm say that
it lasted several minutes. While itI
lasted, darkness almost black as
night, prevailed. From the town the
storm passed on to the oil fields
northwest and there the devastation
was complete, every derrick being
lcveled to the ground.
In Arkansas.
Fort Smith, Ark, April 13.-Wth
the restoration of the telephone and
telegraph wires today the extent OF
the wake of the storm last night in
western Arkansas and eastern Okla
homa became better known. In this
immediate vicinity one person was
killed and three injured. Eva Stroud,
of near Mountain Kurg. Crawford
L. l.
hCme was blown down last night. She
was killed in bed. Stroud was badly
hurt. At Uniontown. Crawford coun-
ty lightning struck the residence of
7. NJ. Hazard, in whose home the
village telephone exchange was To-
Gated. The house was destroyed and
Hazard and his daughter were slight
ly injured. Immense damage was
done to the berry fields of Arkansas.
In Missouri.
St Louis, April 13.-An eightstory
grain elevator. valued at $500, 900. 10 |
Gated in the extreme northern end
OF the city on the Burlington tracks,
was blown into the Mississippi river
by severe windstorm tonight.
The Bryan Hill public school also
in the north end. collapsed during
the storm.
Two women are reported to have
died from fright. making three deaths
up to the present traceable to the
storm.
Four negroes, two negro women
and two white men, We're killed sew
eral persons injured and several build
ings blown down at Valley Mines, Mo-.
about fifteen miles from Festus. Mo-.
by tornado this afternoon about .
o o'clock.
w. II. Bunt. postmaster at Valley
Mines, was injured.
Five persons are reported dead and
a score injured at Cadet. Mo-. town
OF 800 inhabitants twelve miles south
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