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Show HUNDRED I TORNADO I Known Dead in Texas, H Oklahoma and Arkan- H sas Listed. FATAL INJURIES Property Damage Runs Into an Enormous Sum. H DALLAS. Texas. April 10 On hundred known dead had been listed as victims of the tornado which yes terday struck northern Texas, south ern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas when order began to be reached today The injured, some of them so bad ly hurt that they cannot recover, arr expected to number several hundred The property damage, while it will run into many thousands of dollars, will b smaller than at first expected, owinc to the fact that the path of the storm avoided all of the principal cities, striking only farm houses and smaller villages. Last night the boraeless were caren for by their neighbors. The storm ir its erratic course did not devastate any entire regions, often leaving sev-era sev-era houses untouched and then dip-ping dip-ping in and demolishing the next few I homes. The temperature dropped to j freezing along the northern line of counties and added to the discomfort. but so far as could be counted up all of those whose homes had been .crushed were eared for. Thr counties most pcrmuslv dam il I aged were Grayson. Fanning, Hunt 1 Wood. Van Zandt, Wichita. Pollin? (.'amp and Titus in Texas, and Bryan Cotton and Pontotoc in Oklahoma. Th oil fields of Wichita county and ol 'southern Oklahoma suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars damage ir I wrecked derricks and machinery. The hour at which the storm strucli i probably caused the high death rate In most cases the first the occupants I heard of the storm was when the walls crashed down upon their beds. The entire storm did not last mort than &. hour. The entire communi ties describe it as not more than a fevi hundred yards in width, its limits be ; ing well marked while in other places la swatch of ruined homes, fields and I orchards was a mile wide. 'f ppcaL tor help from the storrc, (area has been received here by Mayor Frank W Wozencraft from R.'c. May ! mayor of Leonard, and fifty tents anc. a quantity of supplies wore rushed tc that town at once. j At Mlneola. Tex., the tornado firs! .struck a negro settlement on the edg-I edg-I of the town, encircled the town on thf east demolishing ten houses and traveling trav-eling along Lake Fork bottom to th ' north and east for fifteen miles, leav I ing a path of ruin from a quarter ot I a mile to a mile in width. The con-I con-I tents of the meat houses were scat- 'M tered to the winds and numerous lus-! lus-! cious country hams and bacon were picked up along the streets. Four bales of cotton on a farm at McMillan ! were picked up. carried a quarter of 'a mile and set down intact, their pile I formation being scarcely disturbed. Many Broken Limbs. The injuries of a large share of thosa I seriously hurt were confined io broken j arms and legs, according to the re- ports from Wlnnsboro, due to so man; having been caught in the collaps-i ! of their houses and struck by falling I timbers. Storm cellars saved many liveB. a large Bhare of the homes in the whole region being equipped with them. Il was almost unprecedented for a severe se-vere storm to strike before daylight, tornadoes having heretofore come late in the afternoon. In the Belba community the storp ' was swept away and a heavy iron safe weighing nearly a ton was left uprighi I In the road about sixty yards from where the store stood. Only one house was left standing In the village of Mu)berr near Bonhnm I where seven persons were billed nnd nthara in inrerl Iowa In Storm. WASHINGTON. April 10. The 'southwestern disturbance which pa.M-ed pa.M-ed through Texas and Oklahoma Tues day night and Wednesday was central jH todav mer Iowa with increased inten-, inten-, iding to the weather bureau |