GREAT REAT AR A NOW LAID WASTE I. I Recent Floods Proved Costliest Cost Cost- liest in History of i Coun Country try PROPERTY DAMAGE WI WILL L REACH MANY MILLIONS MILLIONS- A At t t. t Impossible at Present Time Timeto Time to Ascertain Number of Lives Lost GUTHRIE Okla Oka May 26 The Tho Tho sn sun sua is shining in Oklahoma today and th the th flood waters are arc fast receding No Xo ad ad j loss IOB 0 8 of life liCe i is reported and th thai thai- 5 are arc b beginning gradually to re To return turn to their homes Tho The death roll TOU r re remains rJ J mains at ei eight ht j I With n miles les of tracks washed out an ami ani brid bridges clI damaged or destroyed ed tho the raili roads arc are still demoralized train tram serJ vice ice vice on ninny many lines must remain annulled annulled an an- for several eral days et vet while od on others only a partial service co is 18 po possible ibl The damage o to crops and railroads c cof caz of course e bo be only onh roughly rou h estimated but bu buta bua bu bua a conservative figure places ca C I the tho a agre gate at close to It muk marki the costliest disaster over o sustained either in Iii Oklahoma and Indian terri terri- tory ton or by the new stata of or Hun Hundreds reds of arc stalled a ataSh ata Sh Shawnee Tulsa Tuba EI awl and at points Gas Shut Off J j A At t Muskogee ee the Arkansas ri river r con on tinned to rise rio up to last Di night ht but morning m began n gradually ly to lower A At Ad that point 2500 consumers are aro still tilI wi with out gas gah RS as a result of ot tho the principal l main breaking J I Three fourths of oC tho the great eat potato pot fields bet between een Muskogee rusko ee and Fort Gibson Gibson Gib- Gib 1 son are r submerged In lit West Guthrie where when more than 50 houses were ed l tho the wat water drained off fa fast fast- t. t to today toy y and conditions b bs tan gait to some as-some a a. norma normal aspect Th Tb bottoms bottom however will likely be nude under water for many days s yet J Around Shawnee Sapulpa Tulsi T enke and other points hundreds of rai rail rail- laborers arc rl at work repairing tracks and brid bridges bridges' ps At Stigler th tha Canadian river has made a completing of cc course and railroad bridges bridie that for loH merly spanned that stream m are rendered red U I J es f. f Ardmore has hu had but one mail i in sir thirty hours and anti in in that time ha hn been practically without telephone bone o or tel telegraph raph communication with the ou side Sile I