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The tornado whipped on north, through the eastern side of Bethany State headquarters of the Nazarene Church and home of Bethany Peniel College, a denominational school. Like a gigantic scythe, the storm cut a sharply defined swath through a residential section, reducing frame houses to splinters and toppling brick buildings like toy block houses. Most of those killed were here. There were many stories of heroism. The first organized relief workers into the wreckage was the football team of the nearby Putnam Consolidated School.

Two members of this group alone carried eight dead from the wrecked homes. Yates Hoover, an ambulance driver, found the body of his father where their home once stood. Unable to find his mother, he removed his father to the morgue and then went back in search of her. When Mrs. Burton saw the storm approaching she caught her baby in her arms and sheltered it as the house collapsed. Her husband found her shivering in the rain, the child still clutched in protection.

The baby escaped with minor scratches, but Mrs. Burton was badly lacerated. The Weather Bureau said it was not unusual for a tornado to occur in this section at this season of the year. The weather has been warm the lew pressure area being hemmed in with high pressure. Oklahoma City, June 13, - Death toll in two tornadoes which struck here last night went to 28 today, officials aanounced. Scores were reported missing and approximately 60 buildings were demolished. Many inhabitants of the devastated area entered storm cellars when the first tornado struck last night and escaped the force of the second which came 10 minutes later.

The area contained mostly frame houses, a few grocery stores and a filling station.

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The first tornado apparently formed over Oklahoma City and moved west accompanied by brilliant lightning and heavy downpour of rain. It dipped down about p. The second twister, moving northerly, hit with even greater fury, sweeping everything before it. The main force of the blow was confined to the Capitol Hill South Side area.


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Every highway patrolman, fireman, deputy sheriff and policemen in the area was rushed to the scene. All ambulances were called out, including a half dozen from army headquarters, and rushed victims to hospitals and funeral homes throughout the night.

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An unidentified man, who raced down the block on South Agnew street, blowing a whistle and shouting that a tornado was coming, was credited with saving a number of persons by warning them to take cover. Only four of the dead had been identified. They included John L. Ina Trout. Of the dead, six were men, 11 women and 10 children. Oklahoma City, June 13 — A list of those killed in the tornado here last night:.

Billly Pitts, about 10, visiting here from Arkansas address unknown. That description came from Private G.

Prince of Will Rogers air field who saw the funnel dip down last night out of a stormy sky, lift a huge truck and lay it down near him in a ditch where he had taken refuge. The army sent soldiers from the air base who toiled through the night bringing the dead and injured from the debris, then stayed on tirelessly through the day to help tend the survivors. An area two blocks square in the southwest corner of the city was scoured bare of houses and only a few trees, limbs and leaves wrenched away by the wind, still stood.

Speedy government aid in rebuilding homes in the area was promised tonight by the disasters loan corporation and the local priorities office of the war production board. Private donations for relief work also were being received. Wilber Jr.

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Survivors told of a blast of hot wind that preceded the blow, of a half dressed man who had seen the funnel bearing down and ran through the streets sounding a police whistle to give the alarm. A group of soldiers, taking refuge in a ditch, had a ringside seat to disaster. By the brilliant flashes of lightning they said they saw homes picked up and torn apart, tires snapped like matches, cars hurled into the air.

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Then what had been a residential district a few minutes before was a barren waste in the lightning play, swept clean in some instances even of the foundations which the houses stood. The hush that always falls immediately after such storms was broken by the cries of injured, and the soldiers came from the ditches to go into action. State police, city police, and the Red Cross were on the scene quickly and all through the night volunteers and the disaster relief professionals poked side by side through the ruins of homes and buildings.


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The army put an emergency field dressing station on the scene. Police lit gas flares to guide the rescuers until the army could bring up flood lights. Every available ambulance was pressed into service and the line of bodies lengthened in the funeral parlors. Scores of residents who had been only cut and bruised were treated at hospitals and dismissed to make room for the more seriously injured.

In its vortex, the tornado torn up whole houses…. Soldiers scouted the ….. A man….. The Daily Ardmoreite, Sunday, June 14, , page 8, the rest of the article was unreadable. Guardsmen on Duty Five companies of Oklahoma National Guardsmen went into the area after the storm had cleared to protest the scattered valuables from vandals. The dead: R. Hoover Mrs. Murphy E.

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Davis, 31 Mrs. Jim Stephens, 35 Mrs. Manning William M. John Douglas Schoolhouse Wrecked Dropping first a few miles south of Bethany, the twisting funnel of death wrecked the Camel Creek Schoolhouse, killing four pupils and injuring the teacher and twelve other children. Comes at P.

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Four of Dead Identified An unidentified man, who raced down the block on South Agnew street, blowing a whistle and shouting that a tornado was coming, was credited with saving a number of persons by warning them to take cover. Ruth Cable, 29 Donald R. Ezra A. Edna Cox, 67 Hazel Tinsley, 13 Mrs. Josephine Clark, 70 Mrs. Carrie Mae Hoffman Riley J. Clark, 75 John L.

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Cox, 45 Inez Trout, about 50 Mrs. Wilson, 56 Ira F. Thelma Taylor Mrs.