The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-05-01
STORMS FURY
KILLED SCORES
, In Its Devastating Sweep
Through Oklahoma.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IS GREAT
Two Towns Utterly Destroyed
Heavy Rain Accom-
panied Wind.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF DAMAGE

Oklahoma City, Ok, April 2S.-
( Approximately forty-one lives were
Host in the storm which yesterday
afternoon swept northward from
Childress, Tex, into Oklahoma, and
a portion of the southwestern and
central part of this State, according
to reliable reports. There are re-
ports of other fatalities, but these
cannot be verified The list of in
jured totals more than one hun
dred. Fully twenty towns were en-
braced in the storm-swept area.
Up to an early hour Sunday night
no word had come from the towns
of Eldorado, Warren, Martha and
Blair, all four of which Saturday
I-were reported to have suffered Sc
verely.
1t was not known Saturday night
that the towns of Butler, Foss,
Korn, Sentinel, Colony and Hinton
had been struck. News to this eff
feet was received from Arapahoe
early Sunday afternoon. Relief
parties were sent out from Arapa-
hoe in automobiles early to-day and
they report that the towns of But
Ter and Foss were literally wiped
out.
The heavy wind was accompan-
| led by a terrific downpour of rain
and in many instances hail. The
fall of rain amounted to from one
to five inches. As a result all of
the-rsmaller streams in Western
oklahoma are on rampage. The
Rock Island bridge over the CHM
'arron river, thirty miles south of
Enid, was washed out. All trains
are being detoured.
The two branches of Elk creek
west of Hobart have joined and the
stream is over a mile wide.
|. A farmers family of four, living
west of Hobart, names unknown,
are said to have been killed. High
water prevents rescue parties from
visiting that part of the country.
All rural telephone lines are down.
All of Central Oklahoma seems
demoralized and it will be several
days before anything like an accu-
rate estimate of the property loss
or list of the dead and injured can
be secured.
A call for aid was sent out to-
day by town officials of Lugert, who
say there are thirty destitute fami-
lies there.
4 Summary of Damage.
Following is a summary of the
damage to life and property in the
storm-swept territory;
Foss, Okla.-Ten persons re-
ported killed; twenty-five or thirty
injured; town badly torn up.
Butler, Okla. - Nine reported
killed; many injured; buildings
blown down.
Sentinel, Okla.-Two persons re-
ported killed; fifty houses blown
down.
Hinton, Okla.-One person kill
ed; many injured; score of build
ings blown down.
Hobart, Okla.-Country west of
this place visited by terrific winds;
two known dead; four others re-
ported dead; several injured; great
damage to property.
Lugert, Okla.-Two killed; five
fatally injured and score less Sc
riously hurt; one store building |
left standing.
Rock, Okla.-One killed. half of |
town blown away; upward of dozen
injured.
Calumet, Okla Three killed;
six or eight injured; heavy proper
ty loss.
Eldorado, Okla.-No news since
Saturday afternoon. when it was
reported many killed and injured.
y Martha, Warren and Blair still
cut off from communication and
nothing heard from them since Sat-
urday's report that they were
blown away. 800
Form, Okla.-Tovn torn up, but
no loss of life reported.
Colony, Okla. - Indian agency
building wrecked; no loss of life !.
or injuries reported. !.
Reports of numerous smaller cy-
clones received from Minco, Yukon.