Evening star., 1948-06-24

fash flood on Deer Greek which In
undated the city.
Guards Patrol Streets.
At Okmulgee in Northeastern Ok
lahoma, National Guardsmen pa
trolled streets against looters after
the business district was under
water.
Okmulgee Greek, which cuts
through the heart of that city of
1900 persons. forced almost 1000
persons from their homes. All roads
from the town were cut of by the
high waters.
In the Eastern river valleys,
toWnsmen and farmers braced them
selves for the flood crests yet to
come-and almost due.
AS the Weather Bureau forecast
gradual relief, new and heavy rains
hit Oklahoma City in the States
central section, Ardmore in the
south, and McAlester in the east.
The bureau said these rain torrents
were probably the last efforts of the
wider storms Western edge.
All the deaths so far are at Hydro,
in the west central sector, where
Deer Greek rose in a fash flood
Tuesday night and sprang smile
death trap along U. S. Sc transcon-
tinental highway.
More Than so Cars Trapped.
A Greyhound bus and more than
so cars and trucks were trapped in
a wall of water that rose swiftly to
u feet where the creek winds across
the highway four times.
Six dead were taken from one car,
tine bodies of two other motorists
were found where the waters swept
them, and the ninth victim was a
Negro bus passenger who drowned
in the dark while trying to swim to
safety.
The search for more dead contin-
ued today. The State highway pa
troll lists four others-including a l.
year-old baby-as definitely missing.
In addition, the occupants of seven
abandoned machines have not been
| traced. Two cars had Texas and
Wisconsin license plates: the others
were local
Patrolmen and volunteers used
walkie- -talkie radio in their search
today, fearing that the torrent may
have swept the bodies the 2 miles
downstream into the raging South
| Canadian River.
Six in One Family Killed.
| The six dead in the one car were
all from a single family. They in
cluded Wilson Friesen, AZ, Corn,
Okla; his n-law Mrs. Harvey
Friesen, 80; her two children, Carol,
8, and Jimmy. S, and his sister, Mrs.
E. J. Rogalsky, Oklahoma City, and
her son, Lowell Dean, 3.
Another child from the same car,
1-yeaI-old Gary Friesen, is missing.
The other dead were Mrs. Ethel
B. Scarlet, "a, Weatherford, Okla :;
James Dunn, Amarillo, the bus pas
senger. and another motorist tenta-
lively identified as Ellis B. Kinks, "a,
Henryetta, Okla.
/ Three truck drivers are also miss
ing-D. c. Bates, Oklahoma City;
Adolph Krewall, Corn, and E. p
Walters, Cordell. All are Okla
homans.
| The two out-of State cars carried
Texas license AE-3132 and Wiscon-
sin license 12-27081.
In Kinghsher, western town Of
about $500, another 1000 were tenn
porarily homeless with creek waters
covering both downtown and resi-
Dental areas. The power supply
failed, as it did at Hydro, and
emergency supplies of drinking
water were sent from Oklahoma
/ City.
| Below Whitefield, the Canadian
merges with the Arkansas River,
with the possibility of floods at
Fort Smith, Ark.
Main highways, including U. S.
66, are generally blocked through
out the State, and all rail lines re-
ported washouts, detours, and can
cellations.
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