Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-10
DEAD AND HUNDREDS OF INJURED LIE
 IN WAKE OF TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA STORM
Local Storm Increases In Fury Until It Gains Force Of Tornado-Property Damages Will Mount
 To Many Thousands Of Dollars.

pr6 lSOlaIeQ at LIldL uOuI duu LII ,mber of fatalities may be increas
 when full details are available, a tornado swept through thick, titled farming communities Of thu
 reported dead, 43 have been identi led.
 ] Direct telegrams from Durant 3kla., gave the fatalities there a |even, as against six previously re brted
 l Reports from communities show Ie following deaths:
 Canaan, Texas, four. 1 Durant, Okla, eleven.
 Wood County, Texas, four.
 Pontotoc County, Okla, one. l Ector, Texas, three.
 Ravenna, Texas, eight.
 Mineola, Texas, eleven.
 Tundra, Texas, eight.
 Winnsboro, Texas, fifteen.
 San Angelo, Texas, one.
 Texarkana, Texas, one.
 Newsome, Texas, six.
 Pleasant Grove, Texas, 2.
 Eustace, Texas, one.
 Ogden, Ark, five. l Walters, Okla., one.
 The following addition to the known ead make a total of 43: At Pleasant Grove, TeXas-Aged toman named Clemmohs and a Mr. lockwood
 At Eustace, Texas-Mrs. J. w. shton. At Durant, Okla.-Mrs. John Mur- hy and her two children; Sam O'Con- pr, Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Neal, MT. tam, Mir. Moffett, John Inman and is daughter Beulah and Mrs. Vinson life of Baptist minister. l Dallas, Texas, April 9.-The worst auinoctial storm for many years wept over North Texas and South Fn Oklahoma last night, leaving in Is wake 69 death, hundreds injur- J and property damage which will mount to many thousands of dollars |ccording to latest incomplete reports |eceived here. The storm came up from the Rio Erande valley with high wind and |eavy rain, gaining force until it Pre through the northern tier of Texas counties with the destructive less of a tornado. The known white dead are: At Canaan, Texas-Mr and Mrs. Frover Atnip and two children. At Ector, Texas-Samuel and Cecil Huffaker.
 At Walker, Okla.-J. c. Miley, of Portland, Texas.
 At Tundra, Texas-Herbert Burns lnd four children; Will oJrdan, two |ons of James Martin. At Winnsboro, Texas-Mrs. L. c. Calhoun, Mrs. s. J. Austin, Mrs. w. A. Austin and baby. At Newsome, Texas-Mr. and Mrs. Allston, two Tillery children, Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. Morgan's baby. At Mineola, Texas-Miss Isa White, j Oak Grove and Mrs. Vickery and Mrs. Turner, both of Concord. At Pontotoc County, Okla, Mrs. Josephine Lankin.
 
 The course of the storm was cratic. At times, it leaped mile or mile be- ore striking the ground and doing Iamage, and skipping over one farm Pouse unharmed only only to de- polish the next one. No cities of my size were in it's path, it's chief prce being spent in overturning Roouses and barns. Most of those kill d were caught under their falling omes and buried. The heavy rainfall
 once extinguished the numerous res that started when houses were overturned, so that no deaths were eported from burning.
 The little cotton town of Canaan as completely wiped out. It's cotton ph' Its church, school and cotton afehouse containing much of last ar,s crop of the nearby farmers and
 sixteen houses were all swept tC e ground.
 At Mineola, the storm struck with treme severity. Three white wo. en and eight negroes were killed u many others received such ser us injuries that their deaths are ex- ected.
 Much damage was done to the pros etlve fruit crops in many sections Ccordlng to reports. Strawberries u peach and pear blossoms were
 high.
 telephone and telegraph wires were at out of service and it was not un
 today that full reports of the ex n1 of the sorm began reaching ht
 .sloe world. The rain made tn,
 Aas roads impossible and the onl, cans of reaching the stricken ham 's was by railroad.
 a, Winnsboro Asks Aid.
 nnaw E. Ray, postmaster at Winns
 '1 was authority for the statemen
 ao deaths in that community. Soo, seIhoon he succeeded in establish Ieelephone connection with Green
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