The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-03-28
642 HOMES DESTROYED IN BIG
STORM BACK EAST.

1852 were sixteen more bodies recov-
cred from the ruins of the Idlewild
club. The loss in this and other
towns will exceed twenty millions
and the death list will be about 500.
Thousands were injured. The tor
nado, it's fury still unabated, added
about fifty more dead last night
and today by destroying other towns
in this and other states.
Hits Illinois.
st. Louis March 25.-Fifteen per-
sons are reported killed in a lorna
do that struck Makando, Illinois, last
night.
Twister in Arkansas.
Kansas City, Mo.,--A tornado last
night hit Leslie, Arkansas. 1t is re-
ported to have killed ten.
. Omaha, March 25.-Shivering from
cold, scores of men, and women and
children this morning struggled in
snow to rescue the dead or injured
who lay beneath the wreckage of
homes and b ildings crumbled in
Sundays tornado, which killed over
200 persons in Omaha alone A
snowstorm which seriously hampered
the rescue work began shortly after
midnight and is continuing with
gathering force. More than three
inches of snow covered the debris
this morning. City officials began
distributing clothing and other nee
essities among the sufferers.
More than $4,000 has already
been subscribed for relief, $4,000
by the city and an equal amount by
citizens.
Many of the injured at hospitals
are receiving the best attentions.
Physicians and nurses from other
cities are volunteering their services.
The latest reports place the num-
ber of injured at 800 and the dead
at 202.
Snow, which is falling from Colo
RADIO to central Iowa. is seriously in
terfering with the slender thread Of
telegraphic communication, which
late yesterday was established out OF
Omaha.
Not entirely without warning did
the tornado strike Omaha.
The day had been one Of fitful sun
shine and winds. Immediately be-
fore the rush of the storm, the sun
sank behind dark clouds and death
stiffness of atmosphere
settled over the city. Darker grew
the afternoon. People with fear of
the approaching storm left their
houses to view the sky. Then out o.
the darkness and as though born on
the stiffness came a roar, a furious
cry of the death-wind. and scores Of
lives were snuffed out almost in a
while hundreds of injured
were left writhing in the path of
the storm From somewhere in Sasa
county the tornado developed, rush
Ing northwest, wiping out the town
Of Yutan and then hurting through
Waterloo and Ralston, leaving death
and misery along its course. Gretna,
Union, and Millard fell in the oroen
IF the cyclone, but the worst disaster
was wrought as it entered at Omaha
and Crater street. Fires sprung up
by the score, but terrific down pour
prevented a holocaust.
The property loss in Omaha will
run into millions.
'The town is burning, we'll all
be killed. someone kent CRYING and
his added to the fears of the others
There was no sleep that night for
any of the passengers and the women
On the train were half sick with ter
'or AS our train left Omaha we
could see big hotel burning. It's
flames shot into the air like those
If great torch above the surround
ng flames"
Coat Soaked With Blood.
The gray coat of George Peckham
If Lincoln, Neb., still bore dark
stains of blood as he alighted at the
Burlington station here. He had
ent it to a little girl to serve as a
pillow to rest her weary, bleeding
read.
Zone farmer in Ralston said that
or a week he had had a nremonition
hat something was going to hap
zen and was prepared for the worst
'aid Peckham. "He had been stand
ng on the doorstep when he noticed
he funnel-shaped cloud. He called
his wife and four children and thev
Ill sought refuge in a cyclone cellar
which he had finished DIGGING the
lay before. Five minutes later their
house went sailing away. All of IFS
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