The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-14
TOWN Torn 1O PIECES.
Fully q Hundred People
Suddenly Dashed to
Death:
ONLY TWO BUILDINGS
ESCAPE CYCLONES FURY,
ExrInn nAsEERx TonTloN or TINE
srATB slAKsS ny 4 STORM
Or GREAr VIOLENCE.
victins % sAs Disasser at New
niehnena. wis., NnnAes at least
: nsaAreA DsaA sAa Aany
In4nreA.

OMAHA. Nsh. JuAs n-A tornado
Strnek ~ town cf EGRsaan. d wasAins-
toa connty. AAle. svesl09 - Niped 4Ae
place out a. sxistence. Hse1aM u place
of about - inhahttants n the extrsue
n0rfhsrn part s0f Washineten county. II
Ii On the lins Of the chtcAao. d. Paul.
Minneapolis = Omaha railruad- A com
ductor on the evening train from Sioux
City PASSED through the place not long
after the storm. ana counted twelve dead
bodies lying IN the streets. The fatalities
win undoubtedly run up 10 . hundred. II
not higher.
A special train has isft Blair, the ccun-
q scat. for the scene cf the disaster.
carrying surgeons and nj needed supplies.
The wires are all down north o. Herman.
and II II not known how much further
north the storm went. but reports are
coming In 70 the effect that . large por-
ton Of country north OF Herman 10 iaid
waste.
Easteru Nebraska sto9ma-sWept.
The entire eastern portion OF Nebraska
II being swept by a terrific rain. wind and
electric storm tonight. The streets OF
Omaha are flooded and the play OF light
ming II something fearful
Additional details are drihhling In con-
cernsng' the tornado at Herman Advices
received by the Bee up to II o'clock to-
night state that every building In the
town in destroyed except the public school
ard ono small dwelling. both Of which are
on the outskirts The force Of the wind
was terrific. and scarcely one piece OF any
of the many structures destroyed was left
intact. Wrecked buildings and broken
furniture. scarcely recognizable in Its d.
fspidated condition. are strewn all around.
while dead bodies he In many places. the
ccrrses badly disigured. and some Of them
hardly recognizable. The means OF the
injured mingie with the calls Of the res
ruers as they pursue their humanitarian
work in the dark By nsckerins gi~ams OF
lanterns.
Relief Trails Fron Dlsis.
The relief train from blair arrived about
an hour after the steym and the work Of
picking up the wounded vas begun. Will
lrg hanes did what they could TO help the
Injured, and In ;he course o. an hour the
train pulled cut for Blair with ninety
injured on board. They were taken 20
BIasr. as there IL absolutely no place iefi
a, Herman at which treatment could be
administered.
All TIE citizens Of Blair hare shYown
oper their houses to THE wounded. ana
the unfortunasss are heiug cared for By
competent surgeons. Many ri the injured
viii ksse hut scsne os them received bat
sigh, Injuries II ts Impossible at shs.
hour. owing 10 the eurfusiun, 10 ascertain
The number az deed but twelve are known
II, have been killed, and the list will run
very much higher. Among the badly hurt
II George II. Clyde. the local station agers
OF IL. Omaha read al Herman.
supt Jayn~s os ths Omaha road, was a.
Tsk~snsh when he heard ~ TIRE disaster.
ard Jeff al onee for Herman on = handear.
taking two physicians along With him 10
assist In saczcoring the wounded
saw the Storm Cowan1.
A sy,~rsai 20 the Bee sroEn Blair says
The STORM had heen gathering for SOME
hours apss people IN Blair and she sar-
rounding country bad noticed two hux~
funnel shaped essssts corv-rxsng towaya
ira, ppsn. Az H~rvnan people srssrrsez
in ali sir~rts0rs and souxns the szesssr
0s the nsw eyripns cellars. ard inssxnszy
the svsn wax y s@efaarx nsass 81 dekx1s
After sks nsss vts1ens burst 81 wind
sar-snt ~ rain feEl
Train No. .. fhe nyer ga the Chicago.
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