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Show '-flAP'BY TORNADO; T5 1MB, - - 325: IN JUREI); BUSINESS SECTION ZONE ,- . r ' - i ' : . ; - 1 Relief Trains Being Hurried to Scene of Horror; Dead andDying Lying in Streets; Wires All Down. ... .. BULLETIN. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 11. It is reported from Hobart, via Chick-: Chick-: asha, thaf between 350 and 400 people are dead at Snyder, and that. bodies are scattered all over the streets and surrounding country. , BULLETIN. ! GUTHRIE, Okla., May 11. A special from J. S. Hennessey, 'Frisco agent at Chickasha, says that the road succeeded in repairing its wire at 10:30 o'clock hjs morning, and received a message from the operator at Snyder station, stating that there are Seventy-five dead and 352 injured; that the entire business section is destroyed, but that the residence portion is not badly damaged. , noma' City and other towns. Every train carried doctors, nurses and any person capable of rendering aid. On every hand relief workers found the wreckage and streets almost obliterated . by piles of demolished houses. The dead and dying lay about the streets, in yards and mixed up with the wreckage, while those who had escaped ran hither and thither in excited attempts to bring order out of the terrible scene, and to render what meager assistance they might. Not Confined to Snyder. The storm was not confined to Snyder. On the way to the boom town dead and Injured were passed in plain sight of the relief trains, but these were passed by in the efforts of the rescuers to reach Snyder, Sny-der, where there was greater need of their services. Tornado Hits Quinlan. The same tornado struck Q.ilnlan in Woodward county, on the Santa Fe railway, rail-way, destroying several houses and at 1 that point at least three persons. Mrs. O. W, Cox and her two sons, are known to have been killed. GUTHRIE, O. T.. May XL Snyder, a thriving town of 2500 "persons, situated in the heart of the rich Kiowa farming ' country, which was thrown open to white settlement in 190L was practically' practical-ly' wiped out of existence by a tornado that struck that place last night. Up to 10 o'clock today no clear estl- mate of the" casualties was obtainable, owlnz to the confusion at the stricken town. A conservative estimate places the dead at between seventy-five and 100 persons and the seriously injured at . 130. It is believed that a large number of the injured wlirdie. In a nurnber of cases entire families , were killed and in almost every family in the town some member was injured. Every house In the town except six is said to have been either badly wrecked or demolished, many of them were blown away. The havoc wrought Is most complete. The business portion por-tion is reported entirely destroyed. Undertakers on Hand. Ten undertakers attending the funeral funer-al directors' convention at Oklahoma. City left that 'place at 9 o'clock this morning with a carload of caskets for Snyder. Up to. 10:30 the only names of dead at Snyder obtainable were those of J. B. Ralston and his twenty-four-year- old. son Elmer. Start Relief Movement. The Mayors of Guthrie. Oklahoma City and some other Oklahoma towns have issued calls for mass meetings to formulate a system of relief for the in- - Jured, and early in the day special trains bearing physicians, nurses, clothing cloth-ing and provisions were started for Snyder. Situation la 'Fearful. It is impossible to describe the situation. Over 12 per cent of the "population is dead and over 30 oer cent is wounded. Ninety per cent of the town is a total wreck and the, loss cannot possibly be estimated. It Is abonght that the deathroll will reach at lat seventy-five, and some place it as hi?hlas 100. There are over 200 wounded. TKie list of dead who were counted at the morgue In Snyder at 8:30 this morning is as follows: Mrs. Beckworth, Fred Crump, Fred Crump, Henry Orcat, Fes-Bfnden Fes-Bfnden boy, Fessenden glrU Charles Stutt-gilt. Stutt-gilt. Mrs. George Davis, Mrs. Col. Wil-- Wil-- .liamson. Mrs. Murphy. Russell Buiser. W. H. Buiser, James McCart. section hand, r.ame unknown, Mrs. Hudson, Ada Wey. Prof Hibbard. wife, father, mother, two . children; only one in family escaped. Unidentified Un-identified man. unidentified woman, an old woman, Mrs. M. A. Fast. W. H. Fessen- .en. Mrs. Fessenden, Child Fessenden, Vanbuskirk. Mr. Beeman. Donovan. Aris-oo. Aris-oo. fireman; Fessenden girl. Hundson boy. , Harold Garten, unidentified boy, unlden-- unlden-- titled girl. Hudson'chlld, boy; two girls. I'nld ntlfied girl and boy, brother and sister; babv L. C. Jones, unidentified woman wo-man .supposed to be Mrs. Davis, Mrs. L. P. Jones. L. C. Jones, unidentified woman, - Miss Fessenden. unidentified woman. George Bailey, C. H. Barnes, child .of George Davis, George Davis, Mary John-. John-. son. Johnson boy. Gladys Crook, Morris Crook. Jr.. the Infant Crook. Mrs. Fannie Redwich. unidentified girl, Mrs. Biggs. Fire broke out following the storm and . entirely consumed one business block. A partial list of the property losses is as follows: ' ' . JJuch Propeity Destroyed. i Bank of Snvdr, wooden building, one story; the Hilton hotel, large two-story frame. Just opened last Saturday: Farm-, Farm-, ers and Merchants' bank, two-story woed-' woed-' .en structure; the Davis & Griffin block, etone. two stories; two-story stone building build-ing belonging to Robert Prltchard; the Sryder ootel. a two-story wooden structure; struc-ture; the Hall Street Furlture company, - stock and building; Tennlson & Hoffmas- - ter, large stocn of dry goods; Miller Brothers, large stock of dry goods; Sny- . oer Hardware company, large store of Jhardware; 8toffer Hardware company, elcck of hardware: Joyce Grocery com-. com-. prny, stock of groceries; Davidson Gro-cery Gro-cery company, stock of groceries; Joseph Morris, stock of groceries; Snyder Gin company, gin; Burnett Gin company, gin. First News Received. The first news of the storm was received re-ceived about midnight. Soon thereafter, before any details had been received, telegraph tel-egraph and telephone wires went down. - Immediately relief trains were ordered ou' from ail available points, starting Xroa Hobart, Chickasha, Guthrie, Okla- |