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Show FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA CAUSE DEATH Of FIVE Unprecedented Rains Responsible for Loss of Life and Destruction of Property Along Waterways. Oklahoma City, Okla. Five people are dead, at least ten seriously injured, in-jured, several thousand acres of crops are inundated, and every stream in the northern and eastern parts of the state raging, as a result of almost unprecedented un-precedented rains during the last twenty-four hours in Oklahoma. A number of houses have been washed away The dead are: Mrs W W. Brown and three children chil-dren of P. Foraker. Mrs. Mattie Jones, negress. Mrs. Brown and the children were drowned in Salt Creek while attempting attempt-ing to escape from high waters. Mrs. Jones dropped dead of fright when the waters of Boggy creek, near Enid, surrounded her home. Railroad tracks near Shawnee, Hol-denville, Hol-denville, Tulsa, Pawnee, Muskogee, Vinita and Oklahoma City are in bad condition and section of track are washed out. Bridges are unsafe along, the Arkansas, Cimmaron and Canadian Canad-ian rivers, and traffic is generally delayed. de-layed. The Hood is the worst since 1S72, and the loss of crops will reach many thousands. |