People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA.

It Is Believed That a Score of Persons Lost Their Lives. MOORE, O. T., April 26.—A terrible cyclone resulting in the death of ten and possibly twenty people passed over this section of the country Tuesday night. Even at this place exact details cannot be given. J. O’Connor and family of five were killed outright. So were men named Banks and Henry Clements. A babe of T. Bateman’s was killed by a hailstone. Thomas Weaver had an arm broken. All houses and barns in the way of the storm were leveled to the ground. The loss to property is heavy. Near Norman great damage was done, and it is said that eleven persons lost their lives. The wires are down and details cannot be secured.