The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-13
Gne County In Nebraska Suf-
 fers Great Damage
FOURTEEN DEAD REPORTED
While the Storm Does Not Cover Large Territory, Many Buildings. Are Wrecked and Fatalities
 Are Numerous.

Omaha, Neb., May 12.-Fourteen persons are known to have been killed and a score injured by a coronado which swept the northern part of Sarpy county at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The storm, which gained velocity on it's way south. started in Omaha about 4:30. At Bellevue the college buildings were damaged to the extent of probably $5O.OO0 and several persons were injured, none fatally
 The casualty list, so far as known, is as follows
 Dead:
 Mrs. Prank Hester, from Louisville.
 Charles Leader, near Richfield.
 Martin Leith and son James, near Pa pillon.
 Two unknown at Louisville village.
 Seven unknown persons in Sand Pit, near Louisville.
 Charles Martin, fatally injured, near Meadow.
 The storm was the most severe that ever struck Eastern Nebraska, The damage done to the college buildings at Bellevue was heavy. The tower was blown from Park hall and the building wrecked. Low ry hall and Rankin hall were unroofed.
 The panic-stricken students ran to the basement, and in this way many fatali ties were probably averted. The college stables were wrecked and all the horses killed. number of small buildings and stores in the village were blown down.
 Barracks Damaged.
 Moving south, the tornado struck Fort Crook, damaging several of the barraclS buildings, but nobody was injured. In the town of Fort Crook, however, a num- Der of buildings were entirely wrecked and other damage done.
 The storm lifted and dipped at intervals, continuing to move southward, doing much damage to farm property. The first town struck was Papilon, eight miles south of South Omaha. At that point the damage was not great, the funnel-shaped cloud apparently lifting sufficiently to pass the town. It again descended, how ever, as the storm moved toward Rich field, four miles south of Papilon. In it's path was the farm of Gus Leader, whose farm buildings were entirely destroyed, and his son, Charles Leader, aged IA, was killed outright. All his live stock was killed.
 Edwin Martins farm was the next to be swept. Martins home and all his barns and small buildings were totally destroyed and he himself was fatally hurt by being CruSfleO under ms nome. The nItle town of Richfield was almost blown to pieces, but the casualty list was small.
 At Louisville half the town was wrecked and at least eight persons lost their lives.
 Many Are Killed.
 Mrs. Frank Hester was killed in her home. Seven men who took refuge in a sand pit north of town were killed out right. Their names were not available.
 Two miles north of Papilon, Martin Teth and his son James were driving along the little Papilon river, when their horse became frightened by the hail and plunged into the swollen stream Both father and son were drowned.
 An officer from Fort Crook arrived in the city tonight and stated that the dam age to the buildings would amount to $10O,- GOO at the army post alone, and that the village is almost a total wreck.
 A remarkable scene was enacted when the officers realized that a tornado had struck the post. Six hundred troopers of the Sixteenth regiment were brought 10 battalion formation and in the midst of flying slate roofs and other debris they marched across the parade ground to the substantial 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.