Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-10
TORNADO.
KILLS 100.
IN SWEEP.
OF SOU TIL.
Death List May Be Larger
When Full Details Are.
Available; Entire Town
Swept Away.

Dallas, Tex. April 9.-The toll OF
tuesday nights storm in north
Texas, southern Oklahoma and
portion of Arkansas has reached a
total of 100 deaths. with hundreds
injured, and a property
loss that probably will run into mil
lions of dollers, according to lat
est reports received here early this
Damage to growing crops,
it was indicated, is enormous.
Direct kilograms from Durant,
Okla, gave the fatalities there as II,
as against six previously reported.
Reports from communities .show
the following deaths:
Canaan, Tex, 4; Durant, OIL. II;
Wood county, Tex, a; pontoc coun
ty, Okl, l.; Ector, Tex, 3; Ravenna,
Tex, 8; Mineola, Tex, II; Tundra,
Tex, s; Winsboro, Tex, IS; San An
gelo, Tex, |; Texarkana, Tex, |;
Newsome, Tex. 6; Pleasant Grove,
Tex, 2; Eustace, Tex, /; Ogden,
Ark, l.; Walter, Okl., J.
Town Wiped Out.
The little cotton town of Canaan
was completely wiped out.
Its cotton gin, church, school and
cotton warehouse containing much
of last years crop of the nearby
farmers, and its 10 houses were all
swept to the ground.
At Mineola the storm struck with
extreme severity. Three white
women and nine negroes we're killed
and many others receivedsuch severe
injuries that their deaths are ex-
pected.
Much damage was done to the
prospective fruit crops in many sec
tons according to reports. Straw
berries and peach and pear blossoms
were torn off and the loss from this
will be high. +
Shaw E. Ray, postmaster at
Winnsboro, was authority for the
statement of IS deaths in that COM
Soon after noon he sue
ceeded in establishing telephone
communication with Greensville and
asked that hel p be sent them. Six
miles east of there, he said, IS houses
had been blown away and four per-
sons killed. Three miles south of
Winnsboro, he said, eight houses
were blown down and many persons
injured. He said that reports were
only beginning to come in then,and
that in addition to the IS he esti-
mated dead, those BADLY injured
would number more than 100.
Three persons were killed At
Ector, Fannin county, and great
damage to buildings and farm prop
erty was done by storms throughout
this district last night and today.
A Missouri. Kansas and Iexas
freight train was blown from the
track near Denison. Tex, and two
trainmen hurt.
Trains Tied Up.
Denver. April "a succession Of
storms. ranging from heavy snow in
some localities to rain and sleet in
others throughout the Rocky noun
tain states and thu southwest today
resulted in serious delay to train
service and decentralization of tele-
phone and telegraph communica-
ton.
Union Pacific trains from the east
were reported to be five to six hours
late, Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cihc trains were reported 90 min
utes Behind schedule and Atchison.
Topeka and Santa Fe trains were
posted as delayed Indefinitely. by
heavy snowfall in Kansas.
The Colorado and oSuthern rail
roads line was reported blocked
somewhere between Amarillo, Tex,
and Trinidad, Colo. In New Mexi-
co, the snowfall was reported as
heavy as 10 inches at places.
Similar conditions prevailed in the
Panhandle section Of Texas. The
Rock Islands Golden State limited
train, westbound, was held at Dali
hart, Tex. several hours today
while snow plows were sent ahead
to clear the tracks. Drifts at Tucum-
carl, N. NJ. also held back trains
for several hours, but tonight the
trains were reported rs moving.
The snowfall was general through
eastern New Mexico. northwest
Texas. western Colorado, Nebraska
and Kansas and south into the
Mexican mountain of Chihuahua.