The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-05
SEVERAL FATALITIES, MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE AND RAIL
 WAY TRAFFIC STOPPED.
MANY BRIDGES THREATENED
Swollen Oklahoma Streams Cause Immense Amount of Loss to Prop erty and Railways Are Practically Put Out of Commission.

Oklahoma City. May 4-Three lives lost, twelve large railroad and one large wagon bridge over the South Canadian and Cimarron rivers in Ok lahoma, with a property loss which will exceed half a million dollars; bottom land crops for 400 miles along the Canadian and 200 miles along the Cimarron in Western Oklahoma de stroyed: train service through Central Oklahoma, east and west, paralyzed for two days, and telegraph and tele- phone communication to a large sec ton between the two rivers in West. ern Oklahoma cut off, was the toll Of the floods which Sunday and Sunday night rushed down the two most treacherous streams in Oklahoma.
 The reported dead:
 w. F. Werner, bridge superlntend- ent Rock Island; headquarters at El Reno.
 w. F. Noiand, Geary. Rock Island bridge carpenter.
 Leo Liniger Geary, assisting bridge worker.
 It is reported that two uaugnters of Perry Bright were drowned at Two Points, Okla. but the report could not be verified.
 The three lives were lost in the South Canadian near Bridgeport when six men standing on the Rock Island railroad bridge, while train of box cars was being pushed onto the bridge to weight it down, were swept into the river when the rushing waters carried away the bridge. The string of box cars was swept away also No bodies have yet been re- covered
 Those men saved tell thrilling stories of their experiences.
 The damage to four Rock Island bridges wholly or partially carried away will exceed s2OO,OOO. according to unofficial reports, and the damage to the other railroads will exceed $3000 900.
 Along the South Canadian river nine of the eighteen bridges were partly or totally wrecked, and along the Cimarron west of Guthrie only two of six remained when the waters began to recede.
 Hundreds of thousands of acres of farm land was inundated from two to ten feet for a width of from one to two miles along the entire course of the South Canadian river and the Cimarron river in Western Oklahoma. All growing crops probably were de- and the damage cannot be estimated
 The waters in both rivers were re cediag rapidly tonight except i'll the extreme western part of the state, where the flood was at it's crest and normal conditions probably will be restored within AS hours, except where bridges are out. It probably will take from one to two weeks to repair those seriously damaged and longer for those completely destroyed.
 Late tonight it was reported that the Midland Valley railroad bridge near Stigler was in danger and that it probably would go down before the wall of water.
 The Arkansas river to date is slightly below normal all along it's Oklahoma course, but when the flood from the Cimarron gets into the Ar kansas at Keystone and joins that from the South Canadian at Hisaw. should the crests come together, great damage is expected.
 The following railroad bridges on the South Canadian river are out:
 Wichita Falls and Northwestern. near Carmargo; Kansas City, Mexico and Orient, near Oakwood Frisco. near Fay; Rock Island, Bridgeport: Frisco, near Futile; Santa Fe, Can adian, Texas; Rock Island, near Union City, and the Katy at Tyrola. < are partially out. The wagon bridge at Taloga is out.
 The following are the railroad bridges out on the Cimarron river:
 Orient, near Cleo; Rock Island. near Cleo; Rock Island near Isabella. and the Frisco, near Ames.
 The Wichita Falls and Northwest ern bridge. on the North Canadian at Luverne, wagon bridge at Tedda, on the South Canadian, and wagon bridge at Guthrie were reported out late tonight. A Santa Fe bridge near the same place also is reported par italy out.