Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-27
No Lives Lost, Though Several People
Havs Narrow Escape.
iLUE RIVER oVERFlows ITS BANKS
Bridges Gone and Trains Stopped in vicin-
ity Of Fairbury.
LITTLE BLUE ALSO OUT NEAR HASTINGS
Heavy Rains, in Some Places Accom-
panied by Hail, Visit Many
Portions of the
state.
tFrom a stor correspondentl

| (From a Stafr Correspondent
! LINCOLN, May &.-(Specal)--A severe
windstorm travelling at the rate of seven.
| ty-eight miles an hour struck Lincoln at
G:25 this morning and did damage to the
amount of many thousands OF dollars.
| The wind was accompanied by a heavy
downpour of rain. The precipitation was
siN-tenths of an inch. The streets rah
rivers. By 6;57 o'clock the storm was
| over. For a few minutes hail fell
The greatest damage was done in the
wholesale district and losses this afternoon
were estimated as follows:
Wisconsin Furniture and CONN com 'O0'O
Curtis Bartlett company. ............. 5000
| nlncoln Gas company ...............,.. 1000
| Ferguson Elevator company......... 1000
| Miscellaneous losses ..,................. 1000
| According to the Weather bureau the
wind was merely a local thunder storm
of unusual violence. II came from the
north.
The large hve-story brick building oc-
| cupied by the j. /. Case company imple-
ments, was rendered almost valueless by
the storm. The nth story was blown
of and the entire building was twisted
and torn. The man who erected the
building said it would have to be rebuilt
from the first story. This building con-
tained about $4,000 worth Of machinery,
which escaped serious damage.
The roof Of the building occupied bV
the Wisconsin Furniture company was
blown on and the building was wrenched
from its foundation This building con-
tained a stock valued at $4,000 The
management believes this was damaged
by water to the amount of $4,000. The
building was damaged about 5000
| The Curtis Ia rtIett nIantn0 rni1 suf
fered the least loss of any of the whole
sale houses. II will probably amount 10
5000 The roof of the carpenter shop was
blown OFF and portions OF the main building
were wrecked The corrugated iron ware
house of the Lincoln Transfer company
was blown down and its stock Of barb wire
was scattered over the ground for great
distance
The Lincoln Gas company had SIX re-
tort chimneys scattered over the roofs
of several adjoining buildings and sec.
tions OF the retort building were blown
away. The oil house of the Ferguson
Elevator company was set of its founda-
tion and the big smokestack was blown
over. Two hundred feet OF TN gutter
were blown away.
Have Narrow Escape.
Mrs. Abel F. Norton, three daughters and
Miss Wilson. a stenographer, mad a narrow
escape from death while In vheir cottage at
26Z p street Next to the cottage stood the
, walls of the Second Presbyterian church.
recently burned. The walls were toppled
over on the cottage and made pancake out
, Of one end Of it. The family and Miss Will
son had just gone from the end that was
5 struck to the rear OF the house and escaped
! injuries.
Trester's big lumber shed at the interseo-
tion Of Twenty-seventh street and the Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks, was unroofed and the
lumber scattered over the adjacent terri
3 tory.
barn on the premises OF ]. j. Bridges
was upset and demolished. q horse thar
was in the barn and a COW that was tied on
the outside were not injured
! At the rear of the main room occupjed nv
L. ]. Herzog tailor. a brick building was
b blown down. This portion OF the buildinS
is used by the eleven young women EN-.
ployes of the tailor and none OF them had
gone to work when the storm came up
y whole City suffers.
j. Every portion OF the town shows the ef.
d fects of the storm. In the business section
s there is scarcely building put what had
a many windows smashed out Signs wer,
: picked up and hurled across the streets and
n smashed into kindling wood Many OF thes,
4 were dashed through windows in the SECOND
II and third stories OF buildings. Shingles anc
70 debris were blown promiscuously across tn,
k town; the streets became rivers and II wa.
y almost impossible TO sec any distance at all
n Trees tapped and Tapped over each othe,
II and swept the ground Branches OF trees
y grass and leaves were blown into neiehbors
yards to form heaps OF rubbish witt
shingles and pieces of roofs and glass. Neal
the auditorium the streets were green Will
branches of trees. covered with foliage
i being thrown upon II.
Delivery wagons that had been left ou
during the night were blown against build
ings and smashed to pieces. A large plan,
N box at Seventeenth and o streets wa
= blown a distance OF half block At time
the wind seemed to come from all dlrec
- tions and It had the appearance OF a reg
y ular tvTister Street cars were stopped
trolIeys blown down and for hours the tow
. had no telephone connections outside OF tn
~ city. Many Of the phones here wer
knocked out and poles were blown over
:, Trolley wires were down all over town
II was reported here this morning tina
,r Valparaiso and Raymond had been wipe
N on the map but this afternoon this wa
&c denied.
n Burial of MummHS.
re HASTINGS, Neb., May 2s-(special Tele
D. gramO-A fierce wind, accompanied h
N rain and hail. prevented the burning o
II burial NJ the cattle, horses and hogs tina
were killed by the tornado near Paulin
Sunday evening and as n consequence III
n Mumma farm is still strewn with wrecks 8
and dead carcasses. making a most desaiAt
NJ and grewsome place 10 look upon. For te
years prior 10 the atal storm John Mumrn
end wife were two OF Adams county's mos
enthusiast farmers. The NIL upon whie
the homo stood was most pioturesdueiy u
IT, Gated. comma nding hne view Of the va
nd ley of the Little Blue, and the VILLAGE
n Pauline. two miles beyond. They had sui
y rounded the house with hardy trees bot
Ie forest and fruit and the gro--rh of catalu
of which inclosed the lawn and other tres
nj he'd often been remarked by travellers