Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-13
Loss Of Life May be Score
With Halt a Hundred
Injured.
DAMAGE HALFAMILLION
Weather Bureau Warns That
Conditions Favor Another
Severe Wind.

Omaha. May 13- Reports which
come in slowly today from the tornado
stricken district south of this city add
ed three victims to the list of dead,
and placed the monetary damage at a
half million dollars. The list of injur-
ed, some of whom are fatally hurt,
will reach at least So
Nearly every one of the five towns
in the path of the storm-Bellevue,
Papillion, Richfield, Meadows, and
Louisville-were badly wrecked, and
the village of Fort Creek and the post
at that point suffered heavy damage.
Conditions Favor Another.
Omaha, Neb., May 13.-The weather
bureau has issued a warning declar-
ing conditions in Eastern Nebraska
this morning were exactly similar to
those existing yesterday just before
the cyclone and that cyclonic disturb
ances may be expected this afternoon
or tonight
Came Late In Afternoon.
Omaha, Neb.. May 13.- Fourteen
persons are known to have been killed
and a score injured by tornado
which swept over the northern part
of Sarpy county at 5 o'clock yester-
|day afternoon.
The storm, which gained velocity ON
| its way south. started in Omaha about
4:39. At Bellevue the college build
ings We're damaged to the extent of
probably $4,000. and several persons
We're injured, none fatally. The storm
| then moved on to Louisville. Richfield,
and Springfield, where the principal
damage and loss of life occurred.
I List of Dead.
is as follows:
| DEAD.
TEITH, MARTIN,
| TEETH. JAMES.
| HESTER. MRS. FRANK, near Lou
isville.
LEADER, CHARLES, near Rich
field.
TWO UNKNOWN, at Louisville vii
tlagc.
SEVEN PERSONS. names unknown,
il. a sandpit near Louisville.
MARTIN. CHARLES, fatally injur-
ed. near Meadow
The storm was the most severe that
lever struck eastern Nebraska The
damage to the college buildings at
Bellevue was heavy. The tower was
blown from Park hall and the building
wrecked. Lowry hall and Rankin hall
|were. unroofed.
students Saved In Basement.
The panicstricken students ran to
1.-THE basement and in this way
many fatalities were probably averted.
THE college stables were wrecked and
all the horses killed. A number Of
lsmall buildings and stores in the viii
llage were blown down.
4 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, a number of buildings were
entirely wrecked and other damage
ldone
soldiers Parade In Hurricane.
An officer from Fort Crook arrived in
, the city last night, and stated that the
damage to the buildings would amount
to $1,000 at the army post alone. and
that the village is almost total
wreck A remarkable scene occurred
when the officers realized that lorna
do had struck the post. Six hundred
troops of the 10th regiment were
: brought to battalion formation, and, In
5 the midst of flying roofs and other de
, bris, they were marched across the
S lparade ground to the substantial build
: ings, where they were put at rest
ei and took to the cellars. The roofs o.
: Iseveral of the large buildings were
/ blown off and other damage done.
FL The storm lifted, and dipped at in
n tervaIs continuing to move southwark
= doing much damage to farm property
e The first town struck was Pappillion
eight miles south of South Omaha. A
: THAT point the damage was not great
the funnel shaped cloud apparently
v lifting sufficiently to pass the tow
! without serious damage.
: 1t again descended however, as tn
+ storm moved toward Richfield, fou
4 niles south of PappilIion.
ei At Louisville half the town wa
!. wrecked and at least eight persons los
II their lives. Mrs. Frank Hester wa
a KILLED in her home. Seven men VIII
y took refuge in a sand pit north {
town were killed outright.