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Show NEARLY ONE HUNDRED TORNADO VICTIMS ARE BURIED AT SNYDER. SYNDER, Okla., May 13. Nearly one hundred corpses were buried here Thursday Thurs-day and Friday, removing the most gruesome grue-some evidence of the cyclone which nearly near-ly destroyed the town Wednesday night. None of the injured died during the night, some of whom have been kept alive only by the skillful efforts of physicians and nurses working in the emergency hospital, hospi-tal, and as soon as daylight came people were at work getting ready to perform the last rites for the dead. During Friday morning a heavy rain came up and rendered operations difti-cult. difti-cult. The floor of the morgue was covered cov-ered with water. Most of the building that remain standing admitted streams of water through the roofs, 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 some wind and hail, served to frighten the residents, but those who were able , kept bravely at work through the ' water and mud, caring for their suffering Injured 'and burying their dead. Several of the newly-made graves were filled with water. Two more Injured were discovered under un-der some debris early In the morning, but neither was identified. They were pinioned pin-ioned under a house beam. One. a man, was delirious, and the other, a boy, was unconscious. Owing to the failure to keep any records rec-ords at the outset there has been great difficulty In securing an accurate list of the number of dead. The Associated Press representative secured the first list approaching completeness on Thursday afternoon, and but few alterations have been made. The two or three bodies that have been found since have not been Identified. A revised list of the most seriously in- j jured is as follows: |