Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-13
TORNADO KILLS \,
ANOTHER FEARED
Several Towns in Eastern Neb-
raska Damaged By Very
Severe Winds
HITS LOUISVILLE AND HIGHLAND

College Buildings at Bellevue Dam
aged and Barracks at Fort Crook
Partially Wrecked-Half the Town of
Louisville Wrecked-Severe Storms
In Iowa
Omaha, May 13.-The weather bu-
reau has issued warning declaring
that conditions in eastern Nebraska
this morning are exactly similar to
those existing yesterday just before the
tornado, and that further cyclonic dis
turbances may be expected this after
noon or tonight
Reports which came in slowly to-
day from the tornado stricken dis
trict south Of this city added three
victims to the list of dead. The mone-
tary damage at 100000. The list Of
injured, some of whom are fatally hurt,
will reach at least fifty. Nearly every
one of the five towns in the path of the
storm, Bellevue, Pappillion, Richtield.
Meadows and Louisville, were badly
wrecked and the village at Fort Crook
and the post at that point suffered
heavy damage.
Omaha, Neb.. May 13.-Fourteen per-
sons are known to have been killed and
score injured by tornado which
swept over the northern part of Sarpy
county at o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The storm, which gained velocity on
it's way south, started in Omaha about
4:SO. At Bellevue the college buildings
We're damaged to the extent of prob
ably $4,000, and several persons were
injured, none fatally. The storm then
moved on to Louisville, Richtield and
Springfield, where the principal dam
age and loss of life occurred.
The casualty list, so far as known,
is as follows:
Teith, Martin.
Teith, James.
Hester, Mrs. Frank, near Louisville.
Leader, Charles, near Richfield.
Two unknown at Louisville village.
Seven persons, names unknown, IN
a sandpit near Louisville.
Martin, Charles, fatally injured, near
Meadow.
The storm was the most severe that
ever struck eastern Nebraska. The
damage to the college buildings at
Bellevue was heavy. The tower was
blown from Park hall and the build
ing wrecked. Lowry hall and Rankin
hall were unroofed.
The panicstricken students ran to
the basement, and in this way many
fatalities were probably averted. The
college stables were wrecked and all
the horses killed. A number of small
buildings and stores in the village were
blown down.
Those whose holses were completely
wrecked were Harry Peters, A. Wright,
L. N. Purcell, G. r. Glenn, ]. B. Dill
lon, Wesley Huff, and scores were
partially wrecked. No one was killed
outright, but several were more or less
injured. Mrs L. N. Purcell may die
and Mrs. Gunyon and Mrs. Sloan are
seriously injured.
Moving south the tornado struck
Fort Crook, damaging several of the
barracks buildings, but nobody was in
jured. In the town Of Fort Crook,
however, number Of buildings were
wrecked and other damage
done.
An officer from Fort Crook arrived
in the city last night, and stated that
the damage to the buildings would
to 100000 at the army post
alone, and that the village is almost
a total wreck. A remarkable scene
occurred when the officers realized
that tornado had struck the post. Six
hundred troops of the Sixteenth regi-
ment were brought to battalion forma-
ton, and in the midst of flying roofs
and other debris, they were marched
across the parade ground to the sub
stantial buildings, where they were put
at rest" and took to the cellars. The
roofs of several of the large buildings
were blown off and other damage done.
The storm lifted and dipped at in
continuing to move southwark,
doing much damage to farm property.
The first town struck was Pappillion,
eight miles south of South Omaha. At
that point the damage was not great,
the IuDLeI SIldpeu Clouu
lifting sufficiently to pass the town
serious damage.
1t again descended, however, as the |
storm moved toward Richfield, four
miles south of Pappillion.
In it's path was the farm Of Gus
Leader, whose farm buildings were
destroyed, and his son, Charles
Leader, aged IA, was killed outright. All
Of Leaders live stock was killed.
Edward Martins farm was the next
to be swept. Mr.. Martins home and
all his barns and small outbuildings
we're totally destroyed and Mr.. Mar
lin was fatally hurt by being crushed
under his home. The little town of
Richfeld was almost blown to pieces,
but the casualty list was small.
At Louisville half the town was
wrecked and at least eight persons lost |
heir lives. Mrs. Frank Hester was
killed in her home Seven men who !
took refuge in a sand pit north of town
we're killed outright. Their names |
were not available.
Washouts on Many Roads.
Des Moines, May 13.-Train service
IN the Rock Island and Milwaukee |
'ailroads was stopped by several wash
hat oil l