Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1920 — TORNADO KILLS SI, INJURES 100 [ARTICLE]

TORNADO KILLS SI, INJURES 100

Oklahoma, May 3.— Fifty-one persons were killed arid approximately 100 injured by a tornado which swept away Peggs, Oklahoma, a ■small town in Cherokee County, Sunday night, say reports sent here tonight by parties searching the wreckage for victims. Many of the injured are seriously hurt, the reports said. No estimate of the property loss was available. 7T 7 , — The first trainload of injured, numbering between thirty and for- ' ty, arrived at Muskogee early tonight. Other trains loaded with injured were to be sent to Tahlequah and Vinita. Wire communication with the storm-swept area was impossible today, information being relayed by messenger to nearby towns where it was aout by telephone.