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THE HERALD■PRXNGFUBLJ). - - - COLORADOTORNADO KILLS 41 PEOPLETERRIFIC CYCLONE VISITS TEXAS PANHANDLE AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA.15 KILLED AT LUGERTDOZEN TOWNS MORE THAN HALF RAZED; PATH 8WEPT CLEAN.TVentern Nni-pnix r l.'nlon Sewn Service.Oklahoma City, Okla. — Forty - one persons are reported to have been killed by a tornado that swept southwestern Oklahoma and the southwest corner of the Texas Panhandle April 28th. A dozen towns were struck and farming communities suffered.Communication facilities are paralyzed and it is impossible to confirm the reports of loss of life or to accurately estimate the property damage.The greatest loss of life reported is at Lugert, where it is said fifteen persons were killed. A special train, sent from Altus with physicians and nurses, when it was reported a passenger train had been blown from the rails, picked up ten injured persons and started back for Altus. Two of these died on the train.It was reported a f^ansus City, Mexico Orient train had been blown from the track and twenty persons killed, but It developed that but two cars had been derailed and no one was hurt.The tornado started Just across the Texas border and first killed seven persons at Kirkland. Tex., demolishing thirty buildings, and blew a Rock Isi-und work train off the track.Tearing on northward the storm struck Eldorado, killing four; Calumet, killing three, and Lugert, Rooky, where half the town is in ruins; Yukon, Warren. Martha, Blair and Lone Wolf. At each of these places many persons were hurt.Several of these towns are cut off from communication. What is believed to be the tail of the storm destroyed several buildings at Mulhall, fifty miles north of Oklahoma City, but »o far as known there were no casualties there.P. B. Thompson and his wife were caught under the falling timbers of their home at Calumet and crushed to death. Several other buildings at Calumet were demolished and two persons were injured.Aledo, a village in Dewey county, is reported to be in ruins.Those killed in Texas were Roy Camp, wife and two children; Mrs. vJ. E. Kennedy and Hugh Singleton and wife.
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Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, May 03, 1912
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