Madison County ArArchives Obituaries.....Gabbard, Sam April 12, 1945
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Miami Daily News - Record Friday April 13, 1945
Sam Gabbard of Crosses, Arkansas named in the list of dead.


Miami Daily News - Record Friday April 13, 1945

Tornadoes Take 77 Lives Over State;
Antlers Hard Hit

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Oklahoma City, April 13 -- (AP) - Oklahoma counted it's tornado-deat at 77
and the homeless in hundreds today after twisters bounced crazily over the
state to spread destruction in a dozen cities and rural communities.
The storms swept on into Arkansas, killing three, and two persons were
reported missing in a storm at Morrisonville, Mo.
    Most seriously hit in Oklahoma by yesterday afternoon's storms were 
Antlers with 55 dead, Muskogee with 11 and Hulbert with three and 
Oklahoma City four. Boggy had one fatality, as did Red Oak, Greenwood
Junction and Rowland. In Arkansas, two were killed at Dora and one near
Fayetteville.
   There were no accurate estimates of injuries and damage in the typical
Oklahoma storms but hundreds of persons were hospitalized and whole
sections of cities were swept away by the winds' fury.
   Red Cross Chairman Paul Osborn at Antlers, struggling to bring order
into rescue work, said one third of the city of 3,000 was demolished when
wind caught up 500 or 600 residences. Army posts and Red Cross chapters
were sending all available personnel into the area, and Will Rogers Army
airfield at Oklahoma City sent a badly needed portable electric power plant.
   At Muskogee a twister whirled through the eastern outskirts, seriously
damaging every building of the Oklahoma School for the Blind, many of
whose inmates were hospitalized. A large part of the city was without 
electric power for several hours when the lines from a plant on the 

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Arkansas river were blown down.
K. R. Reed, a resident of the Southeasters Oklahoma City district hit by the
first tornado reported, said the wind accompanied a cloud which he described
as "shaped more like an acre-wide spade than anything I can think of." Four
full blocks of residences were leveled here.
   Collectively, the tornado toll was the worst since a twister hit Pryor in 
1942,
killing more than 100 persons and smashing a major portion of the city.
   Twisters which did damage, but did not kill, also struck at these Oklahoma
towns: Cushing, Flower, Kendrick and Choctaw.

LIST OF IDENTIFIED DEAD
Oklahoma City, April 13
The identified dead in Thursday's tornadoes:
   At Antlers: Buck Smith, Lewey Turley, D. D. Galligly, Mark DAy, Mrs. Nie 
Nash,
Mrs Tom Spence and her four children, Wick Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pilcher,
Charley Welch (an infant), Floyd Maddox, Carol Crawford, Mr. Ryan, 
Nellie Nelson and her husband, Lydia Jones, Infant Cogburn, Mrs. Barborouse,
Mrs. Walker.
   At Muskogee: Mrs. Ruby Nelson, 36; A. M. Horn, 58; Jerry Huddleston, 4 
months;
Mrs. J. O. Hanks, about 42; Mrs Maybell Briley, about 30; Mrs. Earl Adamson, 32;
Delores Hicks, Alda Stephens, 14; Juanita Moss, 15, both studens of Oklahoma 
School for the Blind; a baby, last name given as Henshaw; a Mrs Burgess, a
Mrs. Noah.
   At Oklahoma City: Chief Warrant Officer T. D. Morange, Detroit, stationed at
Tinker field; Tech. Sgt. Harvey Rease Newell, Atlanta, Ga., stationed at Tinker
field; W. A. Brewer, civilian, Oklahoma City; Merritt Cecil Clanton, 3.
   
   At Red Oak, Okla.: Thelma Lorene Prince, 8.
   At Greenwood Junction, Okla.: Mrs Lee English
   At Rowland, Okla.: Pearl Johnson
   At Dora Ark.: Mrs Minnie Moser, 65; Margaret Moser, 1 year.
   At Crosses, Ark: Sam Gabbard.
   At Hulbert, Okla.: Mrs. Sally Gassaway, 51: Mrs. Maxine Wise, 19 and her
infant daughter Fern.

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