The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-14

nCfHuH, III NSO!UShu, vas OS-
stroyed, and over 100 lives are
sad to have been lost.
| n MAHA. Nebr.. June ia tor
nado struck the town Of Herman,
~ ing and wiped the place out OF
existence. Herman ia . place of
about 300 inhabitants in the extreme
northern part of Washington County.
1t is on the line of the Chicago. st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad.
A conductor on the evening train from
Sioux City passed through the place rot
long after the storm, and he says that
not building is left standing. He
himself counted twelve dead bodies ly
ing in the streets The fatalities will
undoubtedly run UP to a hundred, if
not higher. A special train has left
Blair. the county seat, for the scene of
the disaster, carrying surgeons and all
needed supplies.
Advices received by the Zee UP to II
o'clock o-night state that every build
ing in the town is destroyed, except the
public school and one small dwelling.
both of which are on the outskirts. The
force of the wind was terrific ard
scarce one piece of any of the many
structures destroyed was left intact.
The scene in the streets of the once
thriving and beautiful little town is one
of destruction Wrecked buildings and
broken furniture. scarcely recognizable
in its dilapidated condition. are strewn
~
MANY places, the corpses badly disfg-
ured and some of them hardly recogniz-
BILE The means of the injured mingle
with the calls of the rescuers as they
pursue their humanitarian work in the
dark by the Pickering CLEANS of Ian
terms. The relief train from Blair ar
rived about an hour after the storm and
the work of picking UP the wounded
was begun.
Willing hands did what they could to
help the injured and in the course OF
an hour the train pulled out for Blair
with ninety-fve injured on board. They
were taken to Blair. as there is abso
lutely no place left at Herman at which
treatment could be administered.
All the citizens of Blair have thrown
open their houses to the wounded, and
the unfortunates are being cared for by
competent surgeons. Many of the In
iured will die, but some of them re-
ceived but slight injuries
1t is impossible at this hour, owing
to the confusion, to ascertain the num-
Der of the dead, but twelve are known
to have been killed, and the list will
run very much higher. Among the
badly hurt is George B. Clyde, the To-
cal station agent for the Omaha road
at Herman.
Superintendent Jaynes of the Omaha
road was at Tekamah when he
heard of the disaster, and left at once
for Herman on a handcar, taking two
physicians along with him to assist in
/ succoring the wounded.
The dead at Herman so far as OBJ
tainable at this hour are:
KILLED.
Miss Hopkins.
W s. Richards, Postmaster.
Anderson Hopkins, father and
mother.
Child of S. NJ Davis.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
L. ]. Hives, dangerous internal in
juries.
Mrs. W. A Anderson, head bruised,
arm broken; will die.
Louis Clausen, Missouri Valley, Iowa,
unconscious, head mashed will die.
Child of Samuel Deaver; serious.
Mrs. Kline of Blair; badly injured.
George Coyle, depot agent; head
gashed.
A new standpipe weighing twenty
tons was carried block and a, half and
a large safe was carried two blocks
The main street of the town is a mass
of debris A freight train left Blair at
midnight with medical aid and other
relief for the sufferers.