Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-04-28 | Page 1 | Two Score Killed and Many Injured

TWO SCORE KILLED ID MANY INJURED Series of Tornadoes Sweep Over Texas and Oklahoma; Enormous Property Loss. OKLAT-IOTcr f 'TTV. Okln., April 27. Thirty-one persons are rpportrd to have been killed bv a tornado that Mwept southwestern Oklahoma and the southeastern corner of the Texas Panhandle Pan-handle la to today. A dozen towns were struck and farming communities Huf fered. Communication fac-ihtes are par alyzpd topight and it is impossible to confirm the reports of loss of life or accurately to estimate the property da mage, Tho greatest loss of life reported is at Lugart, where it is said fifteen persons per-sons were hilled. A special train sent from Altus with physicians and nurses when it was reported a passenger train had been blown from the rails, picked up ten injured persons and started back for Alt us. Two of these, Mrs, Lee Stanaland and Miss Eva Stanaland died on the tram. Tt was reported a Kansas City, Mexico - Orient train had been blown from the track and twenty persons killed, but it developed that but two cars had been derailed and no one was hurt- Tho tornado started just acro-s the Texas border and first killed seven persons at Kirlrland, Texas, demolishing demolish-ing thirty buildings and blew a Rock Island work train off tbe track. Tearing on northward, the ftorm struck FJodorado, killing four; Calumet, Calu-met, killing three and Lugert and Rocky, where half the town is in ruins; Yukon. Warren. Martha. Blair and Lone Wolf, At each of these places many persons were hurt. Several of these towns are cut off from communication communi-cation tonight, What is believed to be the tail of the storm destroyed sev cral buildings at MuHiall. fifty miles north of Oklahoma City, but so far as known there were no casualties there.