Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-05-13
Small Towns are
Wrecked by Des.
tructive Storm
DEATH LIST CONSIDERABLE
Military Post at Fort Crook
Damaged to Extent Of
100000

100000
Omaha, Neb., May 13.-At least Ave
persons are dead, two fatally injured
and a score or more badly hurt and
hundreds of thousands Of dollars
worth of property destroyed by tor
nado which late yesterday afternoon
passed over portions of Sarpy, Cass
and Nemaha counties. The known
dead are.
MRS FRANK HESTER, near Louis.
vile.
CHARLES LEADER near Rich.
field.
MRS. MARKO, Bellevue.
MARTIN TEITH, near Paplllion.
JAMES TEITH, near Papillion.
The fatally injured so far known
|are:
Edward Martin. near Meadow.
Mrs. Trucelle, Bellevue.
College Buildings Wrecked.
The greatest damage was done at
the Presbyterian College at Bellevue
The tower was torn from Park hall
and the building so thoroughly wreck
ed that In the opinion Of President
Wadsworth it will be necessary to
practically rebuild It, Lowry hall was
unroOfed and practically wrecked and
the interior of the building thoroughly
drenched
Rankin hall was also partially un.
|roofed and water poured into the
building. The barn at the college was
wrecked and two horses buried under
the wreckage.
The heating plant was entirely
wrecked and in fact the buildings are
so much damaged that for the time
being at least the college Is put out
of business.
Details Of Storm Lacking.
Telephone and telegraph wires are
down so that full details are not OBJ
tainable and it Is feared that there
may be more names added to the list
OF those killed when all Is known.
Besides the damage done by the
wind the heavy rainfall caused floods
which badly demoralized the railroads
| In the territory mentioned. The heavi
est property losses so far as heard
from were sustained by the United
States army post at Fort Crook and
the Presbyterian College at Bellevue
The storm lifted and dipped at In
ltervals, continuing to the southwark.
doing much damage to farm property.
The first town struck was Papillion.
eight miles from South Omaha. At
that point the damage was not great.
the funnel shaped cloud apparently
lifting sufficiently to pass the town
without serious damage. 1t again de-
scended however, as the storm moved
toward Richfleld, four miles south OF
Papillion. In its path was the farm of
Gus Leader, whose farm buildings
were entirely destroyed and his son.
Charles Leader, aged 16 years. was
killed outright. All OF his livestock
was killed.
Farm Buildings Destroyed.
Edward Martins farm was the next
to be swept. Mr.. Martins home and
Jail his barns and small buildings were
totally destroyed while Mr.. Martin
was fatally injured by being crushed
under his house. The little town OF
Richfield was almost totally blown to
Ipieces but the casualty list was small
At Louisville half the town was
wrecked. Mrs. Frank Hester was kill
ed in her room. Two miles north OF
Papilllon Martin Teith and his son.
James, were driving along the Little
Papo river, when their horses became
frightened at the hail and plunged In.
Ito the swollen stream. Both father and
lson were drowned.
1 Army Post Damaged.
| An officer from Fort Crook arrived
in the city last night and stated that
1.-THE damage to the army buildings
WVulu dulOuut W $lVV,VUV uL tu0 Oh Luy
lpost alone and that the village Is al
most total wreck "A remarkable
Iscene occurred when the officers real
lied that tornado had struck the
post. Six hundred troops Of the Sixth
regiment were brought to battalion
formation and in the midst Of flying
slate roofs and other debris they were
marched across the parade ground to
the substantial buildings, where they
were put at "rest" and took to the eel
liars.
The roofs Of several Of the large
buildings were torn OF besides doing
other damage.
Traffic Badly Interrupted.
. Only two of the six railroads run
ming between Omaha and Chicago
J were In working order this morning.
t the other four being out Of commits
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