Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — A FATAL WINDSTORM. [ARTICLE]

A FATAL WINDSTORM.

Two Persons Killed in Oklahoma and Buildings Are Destroyed. Oklahoma was swept Wednesday evenlng by a severe wind and rain storm, which resulted In loss of life and the destruction of much property. The storm was most severe In the neighborhood of Anadorko, which it struck at about 8 o’clock. There were two fatalities and upward of twenty persons were injured. Large buildings along the main street of the town, several of them in process of construction, were almost demolished, a number of dwellings were lifted from their foundations and hardly an outhouse is left standing. Reports from the country districts are meager, but they indicate that a number of persons have been killed, many buildings destroyed and that the loss in crops and live stock will be heavy. One report says that four persons were killed at a farmhouse.