Harry died from a ruputured viscus, fractured lumbar verterae that was a result of being in a Tornado. He was 53 years old.
Canton (Other Towns), OK Tornadoes, Mar 1949
Submitted by Stu Beitler
Oklahoma | Tornadoes | 1949
Less than three hours later another twister of lighter force struck the south side of Blackwell, population 12,000, and injured five. The Canton area is 75 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, and Blackwell is near the north central border.
"This town looks like it had been ground in a sieve,"
said the first state patrolman who reached Canton. "It's ripped to bits."
The two dead were 12-year-old LARRY ARNOLD, son of a widow storekeeper at Longdale, and CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Longdale was so badly hit that sheriff's deputies and patrolmen put up road blocks to keep the curious away and speed rescue work.
The Canton twister knocked out lights, power and telephones, and all through the early morning hours rescue work went on in the fitful light of auto headlamps and flashlights.
Two ambulances, themselves almost wrecked in the blast, carried the injured to hospitals in nearby Okeene and Watonga.
Brick buildings as well as frame houses went down in Canton like card-castles. The brick Mormon church and a brick warehouse were leveled.
"Longdale was almost blown away," said NOVA JEAN SCHISKA, 17-year-old telephone operator who manned her switchboard after the tornado.
"It came here with no warning -- hardly and rain and hail .. just bang!"
First word of the Canton disaster was phoned to the Daily Oklahoman by R. H. Burnham, publisher of the Canton Record, over the only telephone line left to the town. The Associated Press relayed the call to the state highway patrol, the central disaster headquarters for Oklahoma, and aid was ordered to the scene.
Canton is only 40 miles southwest of Woodward, Okla., where the worst tornado on record struck on April 9, 1947, killing 106. Canton has escaped the twisters for 30 years, although they have hit all around.
The Blackwell blow was only glancing. Police Sgt. George Morgan said it knocked down houses, a grade school and powerlines in the south part of town. There were five injured there. A report of another tornado at Medford, Okla., apparently was erroneous.
A tornado dipped down five miles north of Enid -- in northwest Oklahoma -- about 3 a.m. and demolished a hangar and several airplanes at a field operated by the Hirst air service.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED IS COMPILED.
Canton, Okla., March 30 -- (AP) -- A revised list of dead and injured in the Canton and Longdale tornado, with hospitals to which the injured were taken, follows:
Dead:
LARRY ARNOLD, 12, Longdale.
CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Injured:
MRS. MARJORIE STOWERS, his wife, about 30, broken back, Watonga hospital.
MRS. C. W. GODFREY, about 70, unknown injuries, Okeene hospital.
MRS. MARTHA SHAFFLER, 60, unknown injuries, Okeene.
ARTHUR McPHETERS, 75, Watonga.
MRS. McPHETERS, his wife, shoulder injury, Watonga.
MRS. AGNES WHITESHIRT, 20, Clinton.
MRS. ANN ARNOLD, St. Mary's hospital in Enid.
GEORGE LEE, both feet mangled, Watonga.
HARRY CARTER, 62, broken hip and cuts, Watonga.
CHARLES KIRK, about 55, hip and head injuries, Watonga.
MRS. KIRK, his wife, about 28, unknown injuries, Watonga.
MRS. WALTER DUCKETT, about 45, shock, not serious.
MRS. WALTER HARPER, 60, taken to Enid hospital.
A partial list of the tornado injured at Blackwell:
HOWARD MESSER, 55.
MRS. MAE HENSON, 39.
JIM HENSON, JR., aged 2.
MRS. AL ALWARD.
MRS. ALWARD.
MRS. JOE ASBURY, 25.
MR. and MRS. GLENN RAY.
Miami Daily News Record Oklahoma 1949-03-30
Canton (Other Towns), OK Tornadoes, Mar 1949
Submitted by Stu Beitler
Oklahoma | Tornadoes | 1949
Less than three hours later another twister of lighter force struck the south side of Blackwell, population 12,000, and injured five. The Canton area is 75 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, and Blackwell is near the north central border.
"This town looks like it had been ground in a sieve,"
said the first state patrolman who reached Canton. "It's ripped to bits."
The two dead were 12-year-old LARRY ARNOLD, son of a widow storekeeper at Longdale, and CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Longdale was so badly hit that sheriff's deputies and patrolmen put up road blocks to keep the curious away and speed rescue work.
The Canton twister knocked out lights, power and telephones, and all through the early morning hours rescue work went on in the fitful light of auto headlamps and flashlights.
Two ambulances, themselves almost wrecked in the blast, carried the injured to hospitals in nearby Okeene and Watonga.
Brick buildings as well as frame houses went down in Canton like card-castles. The brick Mormon church and a brick warehouse were leveled.
"Longdale was almost blown away," said NOVA JEAN SCHISKA, 17-year-old telephone operator who manned her switchboard after the tornado.
"It came here with no warning -- hardly and rain and hail .. just bang!"
First word of the Canton disaster was phoned to the Daily Oklahoman by R. H. Burnham, publisher of the Canton Record, over the only telephone line left to the town. The Associated Press relayed the call to the state highway patrol, the central disaster headquarters for Oklahoma, and aid was ordered to the scene.
Canton is only 40 miles southwest of Woodward, Okla., where the worst tornado on record struck on April 9, 1947, killing 106. Canton has escaped the twisters for 30 years, although they have hit all around.
The Blackwell blow was only glancing. Police Sgt. George Morgan said it knocked down houses, a grade school and powerlines in the south part of town. There were five injured there. A report of another tornado at Medford, Okla., apparently was erroneous.
A tornado dipped down five miles north of Enid -- in northwest Oklahoma -- about 3 a.m. and demolished a hangar and several airplanes at a field operated by the Hirst air service.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED IS COMPILED.
Canton, Okla., March 30 -- (AP) -- A revised list of dead and injured in the Canton and Longdale tornado, with hospitals to which the injured were taken, follows:
Dead:
LARRY ARNOLD, 12, Longdale.
CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Injured:
MRS. MARJORIE STOWERS, his wife, about 30, broken back, Watonga hospital.
MRS. C. W. GODFREY, about 70, unknown injuries, Okeene hospital.
MRS. MARTHA SHAFFLER, 60, unknown injuries, Okeene.
ARTHUR McPHETERS, 75, Watonga.
MRS. McPHETERS, his wife, shoulder injury, Watonga.
MRS. AGNES WHITESHIRT, 20, Clinton.
MRS. ANN ARNOLD, St. Mary's hospital in Enid.
GEORGE LEE, both feet mangled, Watonga.
HARRY CARTER, 62, broken hip and cuts, Watonga.
CHARLES KIRK, about 55, hip and head injuries, Watonga.
MRS. KIRK, his wife, about 28, unknown injuries, Watonga.
MRS. WALTER DUCKETT, about 45, shock, not serious.
MRS. WALTER HARPER, 60, taken to Enid hospital.
A partial list of the tornado injured at Blackwell:
HOWARD MESSER, 55.
MRS. MAE HENSON, 39.
JIM HENSON, JR., aged 2.
MRS. AL ALWARD.
MRS. ALWARD.
MRS. JOE ASBURY, 25.
MR. and MRS. GLENN RAY.
Miami Daily News Record Oklahoma 1949-03-30
Harry died from a ruputured viscus, fractured lumbar verterae that was a result of being in a Tornado. He was 53 years old.
Canton (Other Towns), OK Tornadoes, Mar 1949
Submitted by Stu Beitler
Oklahoma | Tornadoes | 1949
Less than three hours later another twister of lighter force struck the south side of Blackwell, population 12,000, and injured five. The Canton area is 75 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, and Blackwell is near the north central border.
"This town looks like it had been ground in a sieve,"
said the first state patrolman who reached Canton. "It's ripped to bits."
The two dead were 12-year-old LARRY ARNOLD, son of a widow storekeeper at Longdale, and CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Longdale was so badly hit that sheriff's deputies and patrolmen put up road blocks to keep the curious away and speed rescue work.
The Canton twister knocked out lights, power and telephones, and all through the early morning hours rescue work went on in the fitful light of auto headlamps and flashlights.
Two ambulances, themselves almost wrecked in the blast, carried the injured to hospitals in nearby Okeene and Watonga.
Brick buildings as well as frame houses went down in Canton like card-castles. The brick Mormon church and a brick warehouse were leveled.
"Longdale was almost blown away," said NOVA JEAN SCHISKA, 17-year-old telephone operator who manned her switchboard after the tornado.
"It came here with no warning -- hardly and rain and hail .. just bang!"
First word of the Canton disaster was phoned to the Daily Oklahoman by R. H. Burnham, publisher of the Canton Record, over the only telephone line left to the town. The Associated Press relayed the call to the state highway patrol, the central disaster headquarters for Oklahoma, and aid was ordered to the scene.
Canton is only 40 miles southwest of Woodward, Okla., where the worst tornado on record struck on April 9, 1947, killing 106. Canton has escaped the twisters for 30 years, although they have hit all around.
The Blackwell blow was only glancing. Police Sgt. George Morgan said it knocked down houses, a grade school and powerlines in the south part of town. There were five injured there. A report of another tornado at Medford, Okla., apparently was erroneous.
A tornado dipped down five miles north of Enid -- in northwest Oklahoma -- about 3 a.m. and demolished a hangar and several airplanes at a field operated by the Hirst air service.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED IS COMPILED.
Canton, Okla., March 30 -- (AP) -- A revised list of dead and injured in the Canton and Longdale tornado, with hospitals to which the injured were taken, follows:
Dead:
LARRY ARNOLD, 12, Longdale.
CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Injured:
MRS. MARJORIE STOWERS, his wife, about 30, broken back, Watonga hospital.
MRS. C. W. GODFREY, about 70, unknown injuries, Okeene hospital.
MRS. MARTHA SHAFFLER, 60, unknown injuries, Okeene.
ARTHUR McPHETERS, 75, Watonga.
MRS. McPHETERS, his wife, shoulder injury, Watonga.
MRS. AGNES WHITESHIRT, 20, Clinton.
MRS. ANN ARNOLD, St. Mary's hospital in Enid.
GEORGE LEE, both feet mangled, Watonga.
HARRY CARTER, 62, broken hip and cuts, Watonga.
CHARLES KIRK, about 55, hip and head injuries, Watonga.
MRS. KIRK, his wife, about 28, unknown injuries, Watonga.
MRS. WALTER DUCKETT, about 45, shock, not serious.
MRS. WALTER HARPER, 60, taken to Enid hospital.
A partial list of the tornado injured at Blackwell:
HOWARD MESSER, 55.
MRS. MAE HENSON, 39.
JIM HENSON, JR., aged 2.
MRS. AL ALWARD.
MRS. ALWARD.
MRS. JOE ASBURY, 25.
MR. and MRS. GLENN RAY.
Miami Daily News Record Oklahoma 1949-03-30
Canton (Other Towns), OK Tornadoes, Mar 1949
Submitted by Stu Beitler
Oklahoma | Tornadoes | 1949
Less than three hours later another twister of lighter force struck the south side of Blackwell, population 12,000, and injured five. The Canton area is 75 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, and Blackwell is near the north central border.
"This town looks like it had been ground in a sieve,"
said the first state patrolman who reached Canton. "It's ripped to bits."
The two dead were 12-year-old LARRY ARNOLD, son of a widow storekeeper at Longdale, and CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Longdale was so badly hit that sheriff's deputies and patrolmen put up road blocks to keep the curious away and speed rescue work.
The Canton twister knocked out lights, power and telephones, and all through the early morning hours rescue work went on in the fitful light of auto headlamps and flashlights.
Two ambulances, themselves almost wrecked in the blast, carried the injured to hospitals in nearby Okeene and Watonga.
Brick buildings as well as frame houses went down in Canton like card-castles. The brick Mormon church and a brick warehouse were leveled.
"Longdale was almost blown away," said NOVA JEAN SCHISKA, 17-year-old telephone operator who manned her switchboard after the tornado.
"It came here with no warning -- hardly and rain and hail .. just bang!"
First word of the Canton disaster was phoned to the Daily Oklahoman by R. H. Burnham, publisher of the Canton Record, over the only telephone line left to the town. The Associated Press relayed the call to the state highway patrol, the central disaster headquarters for Oklahoma, and aid was ordered to the scene.
Canton is only 40 miles southwest of Woodward, Okla., where the worst tornado on record struck on April 9, 1947, killing 106. Canton has escaped the twisters for 30 years, although they have hit all around.
The Blackwell blow was only glancing. Police Sgt. George Morgan said it knocked down houses, a grade school and powerlines in the south part of town. There were five injured there. A report of another tornado at Medford, Okla., apparently was erroneous.
A tornado dipped down five miles north of Enid -- in northwest Oklahoma -- about 3 a.m. and demolished a hangar and several airplanes at a field operated by the Hirst air service.
LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED IS COMPILED.
Canton, Okla., March 30 -- (AP) -- A revised list of dead and injured in the Canton and Longdale tornado, with hospitals to which the injured were taken, follows:
Dead:
LARRY ARNOLD, 12, Longdale.
CHARLES STOWERS, 32, Canton.
Injured:
MRS. MARJORIE STOWERS, his wife, about 30, broken back, Watonga hospital.
MRS. C. W. GODFREY, about 70, unknown injuries, Okeene hospital.
MRS. MARTHA SHAFFLER, 60, unknown injuries, Okeene.
ARTHUR McPHETERS, 75, Watonga.
MRS. McPHETERS, his wife, shoulder injury, Watonga.
MRS. AGNES WHITESHIRT, 20, Clinton.
MRS. ANN ARNOLD, St. Mary's hospital in Enid.
GEORGE LEE, both feet mangled, Watonga.
HARRY CARTER, 62, broken hip and cuts, Watonga.
CHARLES KIRK, about 55, hip and head injuries, Watonga.
MRS. KIRK, his wife, about 28, unknown injuries, Watonga.
MRS. WALTER DUCKETT, about 45, shock, not serious.
MRS. WALTER HARPER, 60, taken to Enid hospital.
A partial list of the tornado injured at Blackwell:
HOWARD MESSER, 55.
MRS. MAE HENSON, 39.
JIM HENSON, JR., aged 2.
MRS. AL ALWARD.
MRS. ALWARD.
MRS. JOE ASBURY, 25.
MR. and MRS. GLENN RAY.
Miami Daily News Record Oklahoma 1949-03-30
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