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Show DEAD STREW SNVDER STREETS New Horror Confronts Survivors, Sanitary Conditions Are Rapidly Becoming Unbearable. Rescuers Unable to Cope With the Appalling Situation, So Complete Com-plete Is Destruction. GUTHRIE, Okla. May 11 Telephone rt ports from LKWton, Okla.. give fuller icialls concerning conditions at Snyder. At 1 o'clock thla afternoon ninoty-.seven persons were reported Jead at the Snyder Sny-der Improvised morgue and the list of Injured w is place,! at cm Telephone Girl's Escape. PetaJll of the scnsntlnrMl escape f one of the Klr operator at the Snlei telephone tele-phone exchange r,ro received. The man-nptr man-nptr of the exchange tv.s fatally injured nnd one of two female, operators ;is killed The other took refuse u n telephone tele-phone booth, which was blown into a in 11 without seriously Injuring Its occupant, occu-pant, 'I WO trains wore started from Lawton today In addition to the repulai train from that place lo Snyder. Two hundred people have left Lawtotl for Snyder to render any assistance possible. Every Building Wrecked. The condition of the buildings at Snyder Sny-der Is also spoken of. It Is said that not r.ne building Is left uninjured In the whole town Every building north of the 'Frisco tracks Is demolished, Including the cotton compress and the roundhouse Dead Strew the Streets. The operator at Lawton says that a man coming from Snvder reports that It Is Impossible to walk tbrougn the streets f the eltj without Stepping upon the bodies of the u. ud. lie reports that the mi rgnes are overcrowded and that the. (military conditions are fast becoming unendurs Me. Newspapermen who have left Lawton for the scene of the disaster have as yet sent In no report from Snyder. Not Time to Reach Refuge. When the storm was seen coming people peo-ple rushed from their homes for Storm cellars; but most of them were caught before they reached places of safety. Flying debris injured many. Most of the killed were carried down when their houses collapsed and they were pinioned In the timbers. As soon as daylight came and people COUld comprehend the possible extent of the damage done a muss meeting was held and a relief committee was formed. |
