The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-05


be directly in the path OF the storm.
Richards said IL was the worst
storm he ever saw.
Special to the world
DRUMRIGHT, Nov 4. - Four
people were killed and tremendous
damage was done to nearby oil
fields by the cyclone that swept by
Drumright at $40 Saturday after
noon.
Up to midnight the known dead
In this district are:
JOE JENNINGS, oil field worker.
employed on the Roxana lease. a
mile and half southeast OF town
Mrs. Jennings, his wife, and their
14-year- old son, Wilfred jennings.
WILL DODSoN, IS. who lived in
n house adjoining that OF the Jen-
nlngs family.
Two of the injured were identified
as:
Frank Hurst and Mrs. Fannie
Hurst, both OF whom lived in a gro
Gerry store on the RoXana lease,
whore the storm first struck.
Darkness Hampers Relief Work.
Several automobiles filled with
physicians departed at once for the
storm area from here and Oiltun.
Total darkness which covered the
ol. field as a result of the destruc-
tlon OF electric lighting equipment,
IS hindering the work of rescue
parties.
More than thirty houses of oil
workers on the RoXana. Prairie,
Tidal, Pure Oil and Gypsy leases
were wrecked, according TO reports
here, and oil rigs and pumping ma
Chinery strewn about for miles.
heavy downpour set In immedi-
ately after the tornado passed, and
Is continuing. adding 10 the diff
Guilty OF bringing in the injured.
Fate Spares Motorists.
Motorists who raced into Drum
right ahead OF the storm reported
that II pasesd over their heads when
their cars failed TO outdistance II.
II. II. Sykes. who was driving
from Bristow here saw two motor
trucks overturned in the road, Be-
side one he found a driver uncon.
sclous and brought him here.
The Jennings family, which was
wiped out by the storm, was living
on the Roxana Oil companys Lease
mile ana half southeast OF Drum
right The Jennings home was
blown to atoms, apparently, not the
found up to midnight. The bodies
Of Jennings and his wife were dis
covered more than quarted Of
mile from where the house had
been, lying within IS yards OF each
other. They were terribly mutllated
end nearly every bone was broken.
IL appeared that they had been
huctled along for distance, then
rolled on the ground, then picked
up and blown along some mere and
finally dropped. The body OF the
jennings boy was found a few feet
from where the home had been. IL
was not mutilated at all, the only
mark being small round hole In
the forehead, which looked as II
a metal object had been driven into
the skull. The body OF the Dod-
son hoy was found near the home.
Al four bodies we're placed In a
Drumright morgue.
Those injured on leases near here
we're being cared for In Drumright
hospitals tonight.
According TO sll reports the great
est destruction in this vicinity was
wrought on the RoNana lease, al
thought others suffered severely.
The Roxana lease, which was one or
the most important In the region
was utterly devastated,
definite report OF the damage
done on the Tidal lease, which ad-
Joins the Roxana on the north, was
received late tonight. on this lease
80 rigs were reported blown down
along with one power house. four
pumping houses, several drilling
houses and numerous store buildings.
The man in charge OF the Tidal lease
estimated his company's damage In
the field at $4,000 or more,
lie said the estimate OF half a
million damage in the field was
conservative.
Freaks Also Abound.
Terrific storms are always freaky
ana this one was no exception. The
most unusual occurrance related So
lar was the condition OF a big oil