On Wednesday, under a coppery sky, the town began to clean up. Hundreds of residents and volunteers from across the state gathered to rake the debris from cemeteries and public parks. They swept out the driveways of neighbors and total strangers, handed out free water and hot meals and began pondering whether to rebuild or move on.

As she surveyed the rubble of her home of three decades, Nadine Jones said she could never repair what had been lost. At age 83, she said, she would try to salvage what she could — a gold-framed baby photograph of herself, a stuffed panda bear — and move into an apartment.

“It is a lot of tears,” she said.

Amid the cleanup, families across the area were planning funerals and grieving for the 24 people killed in the storm.

On Wednesday, the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office identified most of the victims and said that 10 of them were children, one more than had been previously reported. The cause of death in almost every case was either blunt force trauma or asphyxia.

To residents, the number of children on the list was heartbreaking. There was Christopher Legg, 9, who loved football so much that he played on two teams — the Rough Riders and the Red Eagles. He had suffered from melanoma and Osgood-Schlatter disease, which caused a painful limp. But his family said Christopher, a third grader, faced the diseases with strength and optimism.

“He was a very outgoing kid, always willing to help out,” Brian Trumbly, a cousin, said in an interview. “He loved his parents very much.”

The family’s home was also destroyed in the storm.

Christopher was one of the seven children killed inside Plaza Towers Elementary. There was also Janae Hornsby, 9, who was described by her family’s pastor as a “beautiful little girl” who made people feel happy just to know her. There was 9-year-old Emily Conatzer, whose mother, Kristi, posted a Facebook message saying she had hoped she would wake up Wednesday to see Emily jumping around and giggling. And there was Kyle Davis, 8, who played soccer and went to monster-truck shows.