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Show SNYDER BURIES I HUNDRED DEAD I Victims of Disaster Are I Laid to Rest. I Workmen and Undertakers From Other Towns Aid Survivors. Storm of Rain and Hail Frightens the Residents and Makos Relief - Work More Difficult. SNYDER, Okla., May 12 -Nearly one hundred corpses were burled here last night and today, removing tho most grue- J some evidence of the cyclone which near-ly near-ly destroyed the town Wednesday night. None of the injured died during the night. some of whom havo been kept alive only by the skillful efforts of physicians and nurses working In the emergency hospl-tal, hospl-tal, and as soon as davllqht came people were at work getting re.idv to perform tho last rites for the dead. Three Carloads of Coffins. Three carloads of coffins arrived rlur-ing rlur-ing the night from Oklahoma City, to-gether to-gether with a dozen undertakers from the convention of undertakers In gession-there gession-there Workmen also came in on a spe-clal spe-clal train furnished by the 'Frisco and tho work of burial was curried un with utmost dispatch Rain Adds to Difficulties. During the morning a very heavy rain came up and rendered operations dlfll-cult. dlfll-cult. The floor of the morgue was cov-ered cov-ered with water Most of ths building that remain st.mdtnK almittcd streams f water through the r""(, and the temporary tempor-ary hospital where the injured remained leaked like a sieve, wetting a number of the patients. The rain, which was accompanied by pom.- wind and hail, served to frighten the residents, but thoie who wero able 1 kept bravely at work through tho water and mud. caring for their sufferlntr injured and puryfng their dead Several of tho newly-made graves wero filled with water. Discovered Under Debris. Two more Injured were dls. ov.-rod un-der un-der some debris early In the morning, but neither was Identified The were pin- lotted under a house beam. One. a man. was delirious, and the other, a boy, was unconscious. Owing to the failure to keep any roc-ords roc-ords at the outset there has been great difficulty in si urlng an .n urate lint of the number of dead. The Associated Press representative secured the first list approaching completeness on Thursday J afternoon, and b.ut few a Iterations have been made. The two or three bodies that have been found slnec havo not been Identified. A revised list of the most seriously In-Jured In-Jured Is as follows: J Revised List of Injured. ARCHER, ALBERT, neck twisted and head bruised, may die. 1 ATTAWAY, FANNIE, head and shoul- BAILKV. MRS. GEORGE W , nrm and Ii g in oken, BECK WITH. A. L., cut on hip and leg. Bl'SSER, GRACE, thigh cut open, eye OUt ! BL'SSER. FREDA, broken shoulder. "ARSON. MRS. spinal fracture. JJJJH COLEMAN, FLORENCE, dislocated shoulder. 1 CROOKS, M. A. fractured skull CROOKS, STELLA fractured shoulder. CRAVER, J. v.. fractured shoulder. DILL ELVA, head ami back broken. DUNN, ALICE, limbs broken. muM HARRISON ED. skull crushed. H I I 'SON. IAVINA. skull fractured. mauaM HCDSON. . skull fractured, leg hro- ken and eve out. .tones, clark. skull fractured. LAW'SON. JOHN, snlri.nl fracture. LAW'Si N M ARTHA interna Ih mKWXm MUELLER, MRS. DR., leg broken and head injur. H MIZB, MARY. Internnllv. maM .M ("ART. N. W , arm cut. M'cart. MRS., skull fractured mJM PAULSON. M. C . back crushed maM PAI'LSUN. W. A., fractured skull and ZEIGLER. MRS , fatal Internal Inju- LM ZEIGLER, LETTA JANE. Internal. BTUBBLEFIELD, child; will die'. Responses Are Generous. Responses of a generous nature have been made by many Cities and towns In tho territory. seersl thousand dollar-worth dollar-worth of food nnd clothlnif having been sent In and placed lo charge Of the local committee for distribution. Relief work has ulso been furnished sufficiently t" meet every reQuiremenl During the day complaints were made to the Cltj MlTShs that bodies of ths dead bad been rod-d l vandals, and ho Issiil nn oro.-i that lndg s must be worn by every person in town The or-der or-der wus accompanied by D warning that those who refus-d to wear the badges nUSt go t Jail or leave on the first train -LnGTineei lug Corps Arrives, the enlneeriiiK corps, a division of the Oklahoma Nntlcmal Guard, arrived from H Lawton during the afternoon and went H Into camp. It Is presumed that the mis H Bion of the company Is to assist In pre- H serving order and protecting property. H One of the most remarkable phases oi lb.- disaster is the great percentage of H Killed. Twic- as many persons were gH klll.il as were seriously wounded, and of H the- latter many were fatal. H Large Perccntago Killed. TherS were remarkably few minor in- JJ Juries In proportion to the dead, and the H killed cxc-ed In per cent of the total nop- H i.latlon of Ui town. The number of dead 1 as nearly as can be ascertained Is nln - H Tonight there are few unburled bodies hit. and Interment will be completed In PH the H Will Provide for the Living. The citizens will then turn their atten- tiou to the erection of a suitable hublta- H lion for the living, many of whom are H t ow compelled to live practically with no BBBsm Shelter, while buildings that are haul- M table are fill -, I to overflowing. H A Second apixal ha- been sent out by SSBBBBBB the locul committee, stating that food H and clot h I ins ha been received In abuii- IJIJgfl dance, but the necessary materials to Bbbbbb build homes for the homeless is pressing It Is thought that about ten Or Iw.dvo of tho must, scriouel injured wUl ill, |
