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Show SCORES KILLED BY OKLAHOMA TORNADO MSBw 1 . I Jft, JA. JL. -JS- JL -A. IDOCTORS RUSH FATALTWiSTER Bodies of Twenty-four Persons Per-sons Are Removed From One Building Alone HUNDREDS HASTEN TO OFFER RELIEF Newspaper Dispatches Reporter Report-er to Scene of Storm MUSKOGEE, Okhi., May 3. More than fifty persons arc known to havo been killed and approximately 100 were injured in a tornado that virtually vir-tually wiped out Pegg3. a small village In the northwest corner of Cherokee county, about 9 o'clock last night. Forty-three bodies have been recovered recov-ered by rescue workers from Muskogee, Musko-gee, Tahlequah and Locust. Grove. More are believed to bo in the wreck- I .'pnly threo buildings remained standing after the storm had passed. . t Crushed to Death. ;'-V Whole families were crushed to death when thoir homes were torn toj pieces by the force of the gale. Nine members of the Levcns family were killed; seven of the Llttlefield family, eight persons by the name of Frank and five members of the "Wilkcrson " family, are numbered among the dead. .Eiprtytwo coffins aro, being sent to quali. This Is as many as could bo ' Temporary hospitals have been organized or-ganized amid the wreckage and scores of severely injured .are being given first aid. Those who can stand the trip to Tahlequah aro being taken there, where they will' be placed in If Tahlequah doctors were the first to I reach the scene. Six physicians left I immediately after the storm was sight ed last night. Later they sent urgent calls for more assistance, and at C P o'clock this morning one hundred au tomobiles with men and women relief I workers were on their way to aid tlio The stricken villago had a population popula-tion of about 250. i 'When the rescuers arrived in Peggs I they found only a heap of mud-spat- i terod debris. A heavy rain and hail i accompanied the storm, and when the I workers began collecting the bodies from the ruins many were so plastered If" r " 'tviLli mud that they had to be washed p -' off before they could be identified. I The dead were collected In shelters ! leftflby the tangled walla and roofs. Freak of Storm. Doctors, nurses and assistant Impressed Im-pressed into service have worJccd unceasingly un-ceasingly since early this morning caring for the injured. A number of the wounded are en route, to Tahlequah. Tahle-quah. Due to the rough country and poor roads it will likely be lato this evening before they can be placed in the hospital there. One of the freaks of the storm wa3 that a small farm shack, uninhabited, was left standing in the heart of the town, while brick buildings housing many persons around it were razed. Tho Peggs school house, a concrete building, was crushed. |