Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-04-02

hospitals for the treatment Of the
hundreds Of injured. II
Aid 10 Forthcoming. 4
# Trains bearing physicians. nurses
and supplies have been arriving from
every direction. Money, too, is pour
ing into the city from all quarters and
offers OF aid are being received from
all sides. 81 IS ~ .
The situation ID appalling but It Is
believed that the authorities now
have 1t & well in hand and there re-
mains but the work OF locating all Of
the dead, caring for the injured and
clearing away the wreckage prepare
tory to rebuilding. s
e. It was night OF unimaginabIe ter
ror in Omaha, following the sudden
bursting Of the storm. A thousand
Incidents were related OF its fury and
the effects which followed in its
wake. W II III lei
Strikes Ralston First.
The tornado travelled in northeast
erly direction and first swept down on
Ralston, manufacturing suburb three
miles west OF South Omaha. It struck
the city limits Of Omaha ut the neld
club, in the southwest section and
plowed path six blocks wide straight
through the city three and one-half
miles In length. The tornado area was
from the southwest limits, across the
west side of the city. which included
the West Farnum residence section.
the most fashionable residence dis
trict, which was almost completely de-
stroyed, and thence to the north sec
ton, where the death toll was great
est After twisting across the north
east line. of the city, the tornado freak
tshly doubled back across the Missouri
river, wrecking the Illinois Central
bridge and tearing through Council
Bluffs, where at least six persons were
killed and great property loss caused
~ Whole Blocks In Ruins. 5,l
The wonder in the mind Of every:
person who has seen the blocks and
blocks OF ruins; the shapeless heaps
Of wreckage that were houses; and has
learned the authenticated instances by
which the houses were blown from
their foundations and dashed, four
stories high, against sturdier struc-
lures and of the tumblipg about OF To-
comotives !, on the Missouri Pacific
roundhouse little shuttlecocks OF the
wind, 10 that the death list 10 not
greater. One explanation brought for
ward is that the tornado came at an
hour when = greater percentage Of the
people were on the streets than usual.
Before the storm there had not been
even . pun Of wind. At i've % clock
the clouds piling UP from the south
took on an awesome greenish tinge. In
the minutes before 5:45 O'Clock the
sky turned to inky blackness and
the wind came. II IN u &. 81 81
hospitaIs Fillsd With injured.
All Omaha hospitals are filed with
injured. Scores Of these are kunidenti-
fed and other scores are unconscious.
Many physicians from nearby cities
have responded to the calls for aid and
there seems adequate provision for the
MANNED. 4. i..ss nj
Mayor Dahlman led the city com;
missioners in . grant Of $26. 900 for
emergency work. and BUSINESS men.
within few hours, raised $4,000.
Omaha will handle her own charity II
she can. and it 10 not likely that out-5
side relief will be sought q 4
!; Wa, Five kiilsd ii. illinois. To.
Five lives were lost In Chicago and
vicinity, three Of themsin the city and
two in the nearby Village Of Des-
PLANES, many persons were injured.
q score OF buildings were wrecked
and other heavy property damage re-
suited. particularly on the Northwest
side of the city % q result OF; the
wind, rain and hail storm which swept
over this section during the early
morning hours Of Monday. ,5%
The gale was one Of the heaviest
Chicago has experienced In recent
years and came just as the wire com
panies were recovering from the effects
Of the spring-day storm OF Friday
morning. The storm played general
havoc anew with telegraph, telephone
and trolley wires, and interfered to
some extent with = trafhc. Lightning
added to the damage by starting sew
eral fires. {! VI.
I, : Boy Killed In His Home.
One Of the victims Of the tragedies
resulting from the storm was Orlo
Slocombe, twelve years old, who wss
crushed to death In the home of his
parents, when 1t collapsed under the
fury OF the Observation-Disclosures
gale. Another fatality was that of
Thomas Ywanowicz, who was killed