Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-19
Village of Bethany Virtually
Demolished by Severe
Winds Early Today.
UNCONVENTIONAL SCHOOL
IN STORM TORN SECTION
One Hundred Buildings Destroyed
Relief Station Established
Near Swept Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, November 49,
At least II persons were killed and more
than 80 injured today by tornado winds
that did heavy property damage in the
village of Bethany, seven miles from
here.
Early this afternoon the bodies OF
seven victims had been recovered from
the wreckage of smashed homes and
business buildings.
Thirty injured were in Oklahoma
City hospitals
It was feared the list of dead and
injured would be increased.
w L. Burton ran to his home after
the storm to find 1t demolished. His
wife and child stood shivering in the
heavy rain. When the wind struck, Mrs.
Burton caught the baby in her arms
and sheltered it as the house collapsed.
The baby received minor scratches
while the mother escaped with lacera-
tions.
Finds Father IN Debris.
An ambulance driver, Yates Hoover,
accustomed to carrying on without a
show Of emotion, found the body of his
father in the debris of their home
Unable to find his mother, young
Hoover rushed the body of his father to
a hospital and then speeded back in
search of her.
Before the storm struck Bethany it
demolished school building near
Campbell Creek, killing Marguerite
curling, IA; Delbert Sharp. IL, and an
unidentified person
Miss Mary Proctor, the teacher and
several other pupils were injured. Farm
ers pulled the dead and injured from
the wreckage. Jack curling, a brother
of one of the girls killed, brought all
Of the victims to an Oklahoma City
hospital.
Other known dead are: Mrs. John
Douglas, r. L. Hoover, Mrs. w. o.
Bounds and Mrs. o. e. Manning.
Telephone Lines Down.
Telephone lines into the storm area
were down. but reporters were rushed to
the scene.
Bethany is populated largely by
members of the Nazarene Church. A
UNCONVENTIONAL school, Bethany Col
lege, is located there. The town is
about miles west Of here. The sur
rounding area is thickly settled.
Emergency relief quarters we're estab-
lished at the broadcasting plant Of
Radio Station WKY, q short distance
east of Bethany.
John Hutchinson, who brought sew
eral of the injured to Oklahoma City,
said at least 100 buildings had been
destroyed in and near Bethany. A
steady rain fell as rescue squads worked
in the storm area.
Half Of Town Razed.
The entire eastern half of Bethany
was RACED by the wind, Hutchinson
said. He believed many persons had
been buried in the wreckage, as roofs
and sides of houses collapsed.
More than foot of water was stand
ing in the stricken town. Gov. w. j.
Holloway issued orders for all avail
able space at the University Hospital
here to be converted into emergency
operating rooms.
Employees of the State Health De-
partment we're sent to this institution
to help render first aid.
Troops Called Out.
Adj. Gen. Charles Barrett ordered
three companies of National Guards
men with a strength of ITS men into
the storm area during the afternoon.
Claude Seaton, an aviator, reported
after an air survey that the damage
was confined to the immediate area of
Bethany.