Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-13
A VIOLENT TORNADO.
Buildings UlTuOlsd az Torn DOM
and Other Damage Done.
uAsY PERSONS SEVERELY HURT.
school Children Pnnlcslricksn - Dis
agreeable Experience Of a Proml'
neat Tanner.

OMAHA, May IA special to the
RE from Lincoln, Neb., says Lilo.
coin was struck at AS by = tornado,
which ragged with unAbAtod violence
lor twenty-five minutes. During this
p,riod rain fell NJ n from cloudburst,
accompanied by hhil. Tue prevailing
drift OF tho wind was from the south.
wost, but sometimes 1t suemsd to form
IN oddles between the business blocks
and was accompanied by cyolonic
features. Buildings were unrooied
and torn down, Odruiu,s swept from
roofs into the streets, anu the residence
portion Of tho city nearly denuded Of
tiees. The greatest damsge was ut the
s,ato hospital for the Insane, whore
many OF the larger builulngs were IN.
rootd, The damage Will be very
heavy. Tho inmates were excited, but
the guards hverted trouble. TIE dam
Hge in the city Will probably not oX-
estL $40, OOJ, though II may be- much
heavier, ne tho suburban districts are
20 yet cut on from communication.
ms injured are; !. l.. Workman,
head cut by dying dUutls; A. l..
Woody, In collapsed building; hrs.
J. n. ABBOTT, caught beneath a hortU;
Horny Meyer, j. l.. Thorpe. Theto
were no fatalities, Though the Injured
were severely hurt.
Attic state asylum Iron supporters
Weighing 800 pounds were blown sew.
rih hundred yards.
In the mhiu business part Of the
city the Kelly block, North and Il
streets, opposite and north Of tho
Lincoln motel, suffered the worst
Tue damage Is put al $1,000. The
Beckwith building was also partly de-
molisnod, the los being tstimated st
$1,000.
Tao Bohemian Catholic church, u
hrlcE structure at tho corner Of Second
aud Il slteets, was completely de-
stf0yed, loss being $4,000.
AT ELEuoRS.
Omaha, May ia special to The
Bee nom Elkhorn, Nob,, sAysi A cy-
clone swept this section this afternoon.
A iu0nel-shspoi cloud swept down.
ward from the storm center aud q gen.
ofal stampede " citizens for caves aud
crllars ensued. At the euhoolhouse
The school children fied psnlc-stricken
20 tho fuInHce-room, amid the wildcat
confusion, and number OF children
were hurt. The cyclone struck the
erouad noitl iof the town. Its
sourse WAs noiInwest. The path OF
lho storm was from 200 10 800 yards
wide, and everything In itt path was
rsEid TO the ground, Including several
houses.
Carl Johnson, q promluont farmer,
was caught Ia the twistsr. He had n
cam attached TO n wagon. lie en-
Geayofed 10 eslrt the storm by driving
Ia meadow TO the westward, but
before nc could lash his horses out OF
tue path Of tho TApidly-apptoaching
hurTicsne, be was caught In 10
vortex, and mon, horses and wagon
we're carried through space, together
with fenco-boarit, posts, wire hnd
uIner debris. His clothes were literally
TORN from his back, and no received a
number Of wUunde. At times the
wind would raise him high In the air
anu drop him back 10 the earth, only
10 catch him up again. lu his flight
he would describe a circle, and when
the storm hually passed over him, he
was 1850 yards or more distant from
where the storm first struck him, The
wagon was completely demolished.
Alter travortlng distance OF about
two miles, tho iunnel-shaped cloud
arose no suddenly 80 II had shot down
to the earth, anu ut a point rve or Elk
tnilos further to the nortn 1t dropped