Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 3 | Tornado's Toll of Death Grows

TORNADOS TORNADO'S TOLL I OF DEATH GROWS GROW Only Two Escape Injury a aI I School Is Demolished I Eleven Die i I J By tRy Auw rr rr- I I- ITi Ti T. T II i I Okla L Jan 5 The I end tornado to visit I lt tills this section of or th i country within two weeks swept S ar at atI I intermittent path across Oklahoma ant UlO IH Arkansas yesterday claiming a total Intal 0 or 01 I eleven elc lives all school children and anti g fl 1 Injuring many nany more mor that It Jt wa was hr 1 loved 11 toda today that t the ibo death ath list woul mount much higher All tile the loss of or life and the bulk hulk o 0 or property damage wa was effected in lit th th valley a 11 C town of or Okla Okia miles northwest of oC McAlester cAll ter tl Prep Preparations were rc being made for Cor tho the noor di dismissal at tho country school n rr when tho tile tornado entered th tit all vall VaIle alla a anti and swooped tl down on Oil the th village The wai waa dashed off oCt Us Its foun n foundation out out-i. dation lation and screaming children ant and timbers were hurled through the thc ah ala ahby it by hy the tur fury of or the tIle blast Bodies W wen werl rt picked up a it hun hundred yards ards from Crom wherE when tho lie schoolhouse e stood being hloi across a ravine and well 11 up on tin the opposite hillside Of or th the twenty nine the lie building only onh two escaped Injury Th The dead 1 scholars ranged from Crom G 6 to i H Hy y years ar ol old Four Foul are aro believed Nl to be sr n badly hully injured that th their h death d-ath is ml mo- mo expected The Tho teacher Mi ill ill- U Carter at first believed lt to have ha been boeti killed sustained a n double fracture of the tile Jaw Jan besides other painful in in- juries She he Is expected to recover IOCO Thin Tho Choctaw Indian mis mission lon at ot Vet Vet- Yere- Yere ton was van destroyed and virtually all th the rO residences suffered from the tho storm Before reaching the tho tornado struck at Ohm Okla seven een mile f t wr wrecking a a. boiler room and anda a tipple at a a. coal coat numb mine mino there It Tm lh leit lifted ami did tild further no-further damage until was wa reached quinton Okla twenty t mil miles northeast northeast north- north east cast of or also suffered froit Cron th the tornado Seven persons were injured anti and five houses were cra destroyed oyed by Ji ii activities acU there What is 15 believed to h be tile the same sam tornado tornado tor tor- nado natie caused ell damage estimated a at OOOO at nt Success 8 forty miles north of o Little Rock Hock Ark apt and ls ca caUsed d SeVere loss loso of or prop property rt at both Dardanelle and Danville Ark