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Show 10 SCORE DIE WHEN U50LIHE MS ore, Oklahoma, in uins and at Least 80 of Its Citizens rjjured as Result of (jjaster, Caused by park From Hammer piiting Fumes From . aky Tank. j IANTIC SEARCH ! FOR THE MISSING ) iwn in Darkness and artial Law Declared; omes Thrown Open ,' Ir Temporary Hospit-: Hospit-: i; Work of Identi- ring the Dead Slow j ml Uncertain. : national News Service. t UMORE, OUa., Sept. 27. Bc- ltfaty:fiTe and fifty persona are lid a: least 200 were injured, most i fca dangerously, this afternoon uO-barrel tank car of gasoline j 6if near the Santa Fe freight of a tie business district exploded. tronen'dous force of the explosion :i Mown many buildings and threw Q2 gasc'liae in every direction. A 0 nrates later the whole town was J racy of a score of fires. rH tonight the fires we're all unit un-it mtoland the city was placed un-3 un-3 Brail lair. sa-'i from a hammer ignited gas through a small leak in the tank J; Med the explosion, it was Btated P- Ttto workmen were busy on J i it the time. Both were killed. ' of the Victims. g j! the dead are: Charles R. former member o the police . pW was standing on Main street j w fridosion and was killed by i (Hone?; M.K.Atkins, a drayman ., i " standing almost three blocks t!rplosioii; A. G. Gould, a fruit J ho was driving across the W ' tracks near the explosion, his l killed and his wagon blown p and an Indian sitting on his I 1 fat of the Love hoteL His j d nagon were crushed when the Pj "' the building fell. r, , JWy aft,r the explosion homes ". 10 th injured and a I men oegan searching In the : B roins in the main part of P Wlctims. J Buildings Wrecked. ' fj! Pc freight station was . fT r'nrned to tile ground. fctJJeilger sta'10" le almoat a HM Prom the Santa Fe , to th, Whlttlngton hotel lnclud,ns. the Pennington , rCery hou. Is wrecked. 1 (C? the WWitlngton was I fcT the "P "lory to the first ' fcT "W0"11 lde of the street almoet as bad. Swift : W W" Wre''ked ai,a b"" - w, , r00n,in ho" over the hi 'J": or Main and .. .MKked. M WM Bigg,., ; Wnl6 kniwi th"re and ruin? I"1 'n wa" tr" I'" tw 5ead "egroes were - & rw.vid- ta. Mrs. Clara ifc-L!!l!h''rt and a bo,)k Along Main street frOm the Santa Fe freight station to the Whittington hotel every building wwas demolished. On the opposite side of the street Swift & Co.'s plaint was wrecken and burned. . A two-story two-story rooming house at the corner of Main and Caddo streets was razed, as was Biggs' restaurant. Twyford was killed there. The body of a woman was dragged from the ruins. Freaks of Explosion. Two women escaped death by pausing to chat just outside the door of a building build-ing which collapsed. One man's life was saved by a. safe which he was opening. Many other stories of miraculous escapes are told. Freaks of the explosion included the demolition of buggies and wagons at the railroad station, leaving the horses and mules hitched to the vehicles unharmed. G. V. Hunter's home, a block east of the spot where the explosion occurred, was wrecked, but Mrs. Hunter and two children chil-dren were unhurt, though nearly every piece of furniture in the house was re-(Siced re-(Siced lo splinters. Identified Dead. A revised list of the identified dead compiled late tonight showed that the majority of the victims of today's explosion ex-plosion of the gasoline tank car met death under falling walls. ' Of the thirty-tlvo thirty-tlvo bodies recovered, ten have been identified. The identified dead are; IRA WOODS. MTLTON TAYLOR. WILL GRAHAM. SIMS E. J. COX. CHARLES R. SMITH. M. E. ATKINS. "SHORTY" TWYFORD. C. A. GOULD. SAM STALLCUP. TWO SCO! I Will GASOLINE EXPLODES (Continued from Page One.) keeper, Raymond McCoy, was also seriously seri-ously injured. Almost every family had at least one member away from home and men and women frantically searched for missing ones. Telephone poles were twisted in two by the concussion. The town is In darkness tonight. Forty girls were employed In Dewitt's cigar store, but no deaths have been reported re-ported there. A two-story building occupied by negroes ne-groes as a pool hall and rooming house was wrecked. A negro stated that twenty negroes were pinioned In the place. The TIaTdyman hotel was demolished and it was reported that several persons were in the building. A crew of rescuers res-cuers is at work there. Hundreds of people were cut by glass. Automobiles hurried through the- streets, hauling the injured to their nomes, The tank of gasoline belonged to the Ardmore refinery and a young man from I he refinery wa s trying to stop a leak that had been reported from the Santa Fe railway office. Whether the boy escaped es-caped Ih not known. Thirty-five Bodies Recovered. At 12 o'clock tonight thirty-five bodies had been recovered. Of these twelve were negroes. The property loss was estimated at $500,000. Many of I hose who losl their lives were buried under debris when the force of the explosion shattered buildings and threw down outside walls. Cljarles Smith was standing on Main street when the shock Occurred. He was killed by bricks from a building near by. M. E. Atkins, a drayman, was three blocks awav wht-n the explosion was felt. The wall of a building buried him. A. C. Gould, a huckster, was driving across the Santa Fe tracks. He met death, alone with his horse. His wagon was blown to pieces. An "Indian sitting in a wagon near the Love hotel was crushed to death when the east side of the structure fell. |