Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-07

thrown against the house and Mrs. Ben
nett was injured, but not seriously.
The Girls Industrial school buildings
were in the line Of the twister and the
engine and power house was unroofed, the
outbuildlnRs torn down, windows blown in
In the main building and the laundry de-
molished.
Cellar Saves Family. e
The house Of John shively was COM
pletely demolished and the timbers and
farm machinery are scattered over the
place. The family saw the storm coming
and went into the cyclone cellar for safety.
They thought 1t had passed and re-entered
the house and retired. They had just gone
to bed when the tornado struck, killing
three OF the occupants. John Shively was
found hanging in a tree, injured so that
there are no hopes of his His
face was cut away. Mrs. shiveiy is badly
injured n cannot live. Ed Russell. the
hired man. was also badly injured, a huge
spike being driven into his hip, but 1t is
thought he will recover.
At shickley. five miles southwest OF
Geneva, where the storm first struck.
Elijah A~rgenbright. an old man. was blown
100 feet when his house was demolished by
the storm and was instantly killed. His
aged wife wal carried quite a distance by
the storm and injured fatally.
The home OF James Merriman was
wrecked and Mr.. Merriman found buried
under the debris. He cannot live.
The buildings on the farm of James A
Flory were all blown down and the crops
damaged. Reports OF other losses are com.
ing in constantly and It is estimated that
the monetary loss will mount into the thou
sands Of dollars.
Fairfield Il wrecked.
FAIRFIELD, Neb., June 6.-(special Tel
egram.)-In the midst OF disaster the PEG
pie Of Fairfield are jubilant. for although
twenty-five or more houses and thre,
churches we're entirely demolished by thu
tornado which visited that place at
O'Clock last night, there was no s~acrific,
OF human life, Not a building of any kin,
In the path Of the storm escaped, but orAl
one person was hurt. This one victim, A
+. Reynolds. WAS milking in his barn wheI
the tornado lifted the structure over hi
head and sent it's timbers scattering about
He was quite badly bruised and cut, blu
will recover.
Other citizens saw the omnibus an
swirling. wreckage-ladeL currents an
sought refuge IN cellars and downtown
buildings.
The property loss In buildings only !
estimated at from $4,000 to 100000, Los
OF furniture and other personal propert
is probably 5000 more. The brick hig
school building was damaged, its roof wa
torn off and a hole was blown through tn
wall Not a chair nor a table as disturbe
IN the room thus penetrated. II Is CAREFUL
estimated that twenty-five homes were de
strOyed. Some place the number as hig
as thirty-five.
The storm rose after completing its wor
OF destruction In the town and did n
further damage until four miles ava!
where Il removed all buildings from
farm. II came from the west and swerve
a little TO the north as II struck the tow
Had II continued directly east IT would HAY
struck the main business street. I'll
tornado was accompanied by heavy rail-
fall measuring nearly five inches. tt
path OF the storm was only two bloch
from the main street.:
Horses ~suecessful fFliGht.
One Of the most astonishing features WI
the bodily removal OF a valuable horl
owned by Lou Wilson. 1t was carried
yards. probably twenty feet from Il
ground. and deposited in a cesspool.
The storm missed the Wilson home, b
nothing could be found OF the barn. whil
stood less than fifty feet away. The III
home OF Dan Nettleton. speaker OF Il
house OF representatives, was serious
damaged. but can be repaired. The chri