Show III r li rI r. r j r lWI T I IlAH IN lAH M fATAl Town of Peggs Said to Have Be Been n Wiped Out by Storm That Struck Str ck Region Sund Sunday y Night MUSKOGEE OkJa Okla May 3 At 3 At noon today four forty bodies had been extricated ex cx- trica ed from the debris resulting from last nights night's storm at Peggs Okla OkIa MUSKOGEE Okla Okia May 31 3 1 V I More 1 ore th than n fifty persons are known to have haye been killed and approximately were injured in in c lona that virtually wiped I out Peggs P a a. small village In the northWest northwest north north- west est corner of Cherokee county about 9 o o JocIS lopI last las night three Forty FOTt bodies have e been recovered recovered recovered ered by br rescue work rs from Muskogee Musko- Musko gee Tahlequah and Locust Grove Gro More 1 are believed to be in the wieck- wieck age Only three buildings remained standing standing standing stand stand- ing after the storm had passed FAMILIES WIPED OUT Whole families were crushed tr Ir death when their homes were torn tc Ic pieces by the force pf f the gale Nm Nini members of or the Levens family were wele killed seven of or the LIttlefield family famil eight persons by the name of ot Frank and five members of or the Wilkerson family are numbered among the dead two Forty-two coffins are being beAng sent to the scene of ot the storm from Tahlequah Tahle Tahle- quah This is as aa as many as could be found in the city s J Temporary hospitals have been organized organized organized or or- amid the wreckage and scores score of or ors s severely verely injured are re re being given first aid ald Those who icho can stand the theto I trip to Tahlequah are being taken there where they will win be Ie placed in hospitals Thirty-seven Thirty bodles bodies have been een re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered by rescuers from wrecked I houses according to a a. telephone report from Tahlequah This information was brought from Peggs Peggs' by the first man manto manto manto to arrive from there today Twenty of these b bodies dies are reported to have been taken from tram one building John Littlefield Littiefield his wife and sl six of ot their seven children were among those thosa killed in the storm a report to Tahlequah Tahlequah Tahle Table quah said The only physician in the town Dr br W. 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R Hill Hilt also alsa was killed SPECIAL ON WAY I A special train carrying doctors and nurses and equipment left heft Muskogee Muskogee Mus- Mus Muskogee kogee for Peggs this morning All An doctors and nurses in Tahlequah also have gone Practically every store In Tahlequah which is the county seat of Cherokee county has closed closet and several hundred people have gone to Peggs to do dOv rescue work Direct communication with the tha stricken town was impossible this morning as all wires from Muskogee to Peggs Pegga are down Reports to the Muskogee Times Times- Democrat from Locust Grove and Tahl Tahlequah quah where dead and Injured i from Peggs are being taken said that not a house was left standing in Peggs The little village of Peggs Pegga in In the tho foothills on the northern border of Cherokee county about si sixty t miles east of of Tulsa TulKa The place Is off tho the railroad Tahlequah rif fifee fifteen mile south is the n nearest arest railroad station Those familiar with the roads in th vicinity sa say it is practically Impossible to reach Peggs by motorcar A AThe The Tulsa Tribune started a g newspaper newspaper newspaper news paper man by airplane to to- the stricken district this morning IN OTHER LOCALITIES GEE Okla OkIa l Ia May 3 The number of dead near Chelsea or DY ova re result re- re suIt sult of or Sunday nights night's i is placed at at five with less th two 1 miles S of or he the stricken rea i rea traversed b bj rescuers tes- tes cuers More 1 than a d dozen z n persons are known to ha have VB been serl injured The twister also lo Io Ja reported to have swept Lusta LustS several e er l' l miles miles' east of Chelsea of-Chelsea bur swing wing ving to- to demoralized wire 1 caton Tittle little could 1 be learned earned J regarding d damage or Joss of Ife me rv- rv Th Known d J 1 John aIm M. M v 1 Mrs Henry Pu Purtell and infant Louis Louls Madden i i rt f t i 4 Continued on p page ge 10 10 fl v 1 II I I I TWISTER IN OKLAHOMA Continued from page 1 1 KILLED IN IN HOMES The storm ac according to reports from fromI Chelsea originated about one mile mUe- I north of th that t town and swept west and north With exception of ot Madden all aU of the known known dead are farmers who were killed when their homes were were- de destroyed de de- stroye Madden was riding horseback horseback horse- horse back ack alon along a country road when the torn tornado ornado do struck hh Three miles piles north of ot Chelsea Otis Ragan living wI with 1 his three children In n a brick farmhouse se terrified by the roar of pf the storm gathered his his' children children children chil chil- dren about him and they huddled d ina ina in ina a corner of a room waiting for the tom tornado ornado do t to strike The farmhouse was was demolished As the taIls galls were lifted the he four tour fell into the yard Debris showered down upon them Allare All Allare are badly hurt NARROW Nt ESCAPES Many narrow es escapes apes are reported Among those I who w weathered the storm safely were Walter Vatter Sutherland and eight friends who were riding Ina Ina in ina a wagon with Sutherland erland when they saw aw saw the storn approaching ching Sutherland Sutherland Suther- Suther land and hitched his team to a telephone pole ole and the party ran few yards ards ahead and fell face tac forward In a ditch The storm passed overhead Injuring any ny of them Th The horses and wagon were c carried carriea eli aw away ar |