The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-03
Fifty Killed and $50 Injured
When Peggs Destroyed.
Are Five known Dead Is Re-
port from Chelsea.
z SEPARATE TWISTERS
Relief and Searching Parties
Are Already at Work.
Newspaper Reporter Sent to
Isolated Town by Plane.

Muskogee, Okla. May s.-Fifty
than $50 injured in a storm that wiped
the little town OF Pegs. Okla. Cher
okee county, off the map at $50
O'Clock last night.
Forty-four bodies had been recov-
cred at Peggs by rescue parties up
until noon today. The dead whose
bodies were extricated from the debris
are:
John Littlefield, Willie Littlefield,
Lizzie Littlefield Jimmy LittlefieId,
Soggy Littlefield, Dan Littlefield.
Baby" Littlefield. Jack Wagner. Paul
Kenyon, Mrs. Paul Kenyon, BABY
Kenyon, DR.. !. Hill. Jim Frank. Dora
Frank, Monroe Frank. Virgie Frank.
N. L. Stevens. Roscoe Stevens. sam
Stevens. Mary Stevens. Forbes Stevens.
Roy Stevens, Baby Stevens, John
Stevens Mrs. John Stevens Mrs. wad-
kin,"Wadkin (child). Will Blevins.
Mrs Willie Blevins, Baby" Blevins.
Yedda Ford. Baby" Ford. Jack WIKI
erson. Wiley Wilkerson. - Wilker-
son (child), - Wilkerson (childl.
- Wilkerson (child), Jack Bond.
Park Frank, Mrs Park Frank. Maud
Frank, Baby" Frank, Mrs. Hall
Ou ndt.
Reports to the Muskogee Times
Democrat from Locust Grove and
Tahlequah, where dead and injured
from Peggs are being taken. said that
not house was left standing in
Peggs.
A special train carrying doctors and
nurses and equipment left MuskoEee
for Pegs this morning. All doctors
and nurses in Tahlequah also have
gone. Practically every store in Table,
auah. which is the county seat Of
Cherokee county. has closed and sew
eral hundred people have gone 10
Pegs to do rescue work. Direct COM
munication with the stricken town
was impossible this morning as all
wires from Muskogee to Pegs are
down.
Reporter Goes by Plane.
The little village of Peggs is on the
northern border of Cherokee county.
about sixty miles east of Tulsa. The
place is off the railroad and is stu
with the roads in the vicinity say Il is
practically impossible to reach Peggs
by motor car.
The Tulsa Tribune started 2 news
paper man by airplane to the stricken
district this morning.
Were Two Storms?
Tahlequah, county seat of Cherokee
county, fifteen miles south Of Pegs.
is the nearest railroad town to the
storm area.
The storm is believed to have been
| separate one from that which struck
north of Chelsea. Okla, last night
killing four persons and injuring sew
eral.
Five Killed at Chelsea.
Chelsea, Okla, May 3.-Searching
parties prepared early today TO spread
out over the countryside north of here
TO ascertain the full extent of a lorna
do that struck just before dusk last
night, bringing death to at least five
persons and serious injury to a dozen
or more. Ne estimate of property
| damage has been made.
| The district affected is rural and
! as wire communication was parniyzei ii
! by the storm. il was believed here the
exact loss of life and property damage
might not be known for some time
Altho the storm did not strike Chelsea.
| il passed at a short distance, and nnanv
out of sight.
Reports were current here that the
storm had struck other nearby towns.
but owing to wire conditions, they
could not be verified.
| Five persons were killed one mile
north of Chelsea. Two were reported
seriously injured. The propery dam
age runs into the thousands
The known dead are: Mrs. John
| Griggs, Mrs Henry Purcell and baby.
Lewis Madden and Frank Rothaway.
all of near Chelsea