Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-10
FINDING OF
BODIES MAY
RAISE TOTAL
Several Hundred Residents
of Rural Districts Sc
verely Injured.
No Warning Given-Vic-
tirns Awakened by Crash
ing Down Of Homes.

. DdildS, lex, April 1U.-OHo
dred known dead had been listed as
victims of the tornado which yester-
day struck northern Texas, southern
Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas
when order began to be reached to-
day, after the chaos which followed
in the wake of the storm.
The injured, some of them so badly
hurt they cannot recover, are expect
ed to number several hundred. The
property damage, while it will run
into many thousands of dollars, will
be smaller than at first expected. ow-
ing to the fact that the storm avoided
large cities, striking only farm houses
and smaller villages.
Last night the homeless were cared
for at the homes Of their neighbors.
The storm in it's erratic course did not
leaving several houses untouched and
then dipping in and demolishing the
next few homes. The temperature
dropped to freezing along the north
ern lines of counties and added to the
discomfort.
The counties most seriously damag-
ed o were T Ggays1n' ;asi1a Tannin' Hunt Hunt
Camp and Titus in Texas and Bryan,
Cotton and Pontotoc in Oklahoma.
The oil fields of Wichita county and
of southern Oklahoma suffered hun
dreds of thousands OF dollars damage.
The hour at which the storm struck
probably caused the high death rate.
Nearly all Of the houses destroyed
cases the first the occupants heard
was when walls crashed down upon
their beds. The storm did not last
more than an hour. Many communi-
ties described it as not more than a
few hundred yards in width. It's limits
were well marked, while in other
places swath of ruined homes and
fields was a mile wide.
A plea for help from the storm
area has been received here by Mayor
Frank w. Wozencraft, from R. s..
May, mayor Of Leonard, and fifty
tents and a quantity of supplies were
rushed H0s5shaSsfown at once. -. +s'eS
/ Preedled by Rain.
| At Mineola, Tex, the tornado was
preceded by wind and rain, accom-
display. The tornado first struck a
negro settlement, encircled the town,
demolished ten houses, and travelling
along the Lake Fork bottom for Is
miles, leaving a path of ruin from
one-fourth of a mile to a mile in
width. The contents Of the meat
houses were scattered to the winds,
| ana numerous MANS anu DaCOnS were
picked up along the streets. -Four
bales of cotton on farm at Mcmillan
were picked up, carried a quarter of
a mile and set down intact, their
pile formation being scarcely dis
turbed.
The injuries of a large share of
those less seriously hurt were con-
fined to broken arms and legs, ac-
cording to the report from Wins
boro.
Storm cellars saved many lives, a
large share of the homes in the whole
region being equipped with them.
In the Bella community the store
was swept away.
In Wood county the property dam
age was estimated at $150.00O. and
more than 100 families were left
homeless. Only one house was left
standing in the village of Mulberry,
near Bonham. where seven persons
were killed and others injured. Al
Ector. where Samuel and Cecil Hut
faker and an Ashburn child were
killed, the family was awakened and
learned of the approaching storm and
was fleeing for the storm cellar when
it struck.