The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-25

toast to his health when the storm
| swept the house away. All the party
succeeded in getting out with miner
injuries except grandchi1d. Miss Ce-
ella Bigelow. who was internally in
jured.
The party had Just begun dinner"
said Mr. Hynes. THE young people
We're making merry. and old rs am.
had entered into the spirit. Sud
denly there was roaring sound. The
next minute the house was in ruins.
wiggled around and out and aided the
others in escaping"
John Wright, railroad Waterman,
probably owes his life to the fact that
he went TO work a half-hour ahead of
time because he feared he would get
wet If he did not hurry.
Little Gladys Cook was revived after
"A house had been blown over her and
she had been imprisoned for more than
half an hour. 1t was necessary to chop
large hole in the side.
Cliff Daniels. his wife and their two
children. met death together. When
| soldiers. digging about the ruins of
their home. found the four bodies, the
two little girls were clasped in the
arms of their mother, while the body
OF the father was over them. as if he
had tried 10 shield them with his own
body.
, Mary knudsen, n servan. girl. was
blown out of the house of her en-
ployer and, badly frightened, ran all
the way down town to fall fainting in
front of u hotel Her own story was
the first news OF the disaster received
in tho downtown section
The body of an unidentified child was
found in the ruins of two houses with
little rag doll still tucked under her
arm
Runs Away Shrieking When He Finds
Wife Dend.
When C. Saber discovered the
crushed and almost unrecognizable
body OF his wife In the ruins of an
apartment house. he fed down the
street shrieking at the top OF his voice.
He is missing
Fort Omaha, became insane after help
ing carry number OF bodies. and col
iapscd. When he had regained con-
seriousness ii was necessary 10 take
him TO the post hospital, where he was
placed under restraint
Last night wire communication with
the outside world was entirely cut off
The only available report of the dis
asier was taken to Lincoln by train
and there filed over the Associated
Press wires. Telephone and telegram
wires along all the railroads were
down. Last midnight the battle of the
iinemen commenced and ut o'clock
to-HiSht TWO news wires Were working
out OF the city. Commercial bulletins
were sent to nearby cities In the care
OF the operators to he sent from there
The wires continued in an apparently
hopeless tangle between Omaha and
points directly last
Trains between Omaha and Chicago
crtwied along with nasmen walking
before them, taking the place OF train
dispa tchers and block signals
ha Hrgt ipf
east was I'VE hours late and carried
more than 90 linemcn to points cast
OF this city.
=. /. Green an advertising manager
of a department store, was on his
back porch watching the storm when
il broke
Ut came like n rushing and roar
ing torrent OF water" he said at
came from the South and passed right
| ny us 10 INC East | went TO my attic
window Immediately afterwards and
| saw hres bursting forth from houses
| along the path OF the storm. The
lanes made a ghastly sight as they
( Illuminated the areas OF RACED build
I ings."
/ y W. Dixon was bruised about the
mead and his wife and three children
/ We're seriously injured Dixon started
upstairs as he saw the tornado fun
ne! swoop down and crush the homes
"i ms ncighbors to tho south An i'm
slant later the wind struck his house
ana he was hurled downstairs into
the dining room fiat on his face
pazed he struggled to his feet ana
hurried his family TO the cellar. a
second later his home was swept
away and tho family in the basement
mad but the sky above them. Flames
sprang up.
1T seemed as II the whole CITY was
ahrs said Dixon. Then lifted nv
VII" and children out and down th,
street, joining scores Of my unfort-
nate neighbors. We had lost our. an
nut are thankful for our lives"
Citizens Raise Money for Relief o, su,-
fcrs.
City commissioners met carly and
appropriated s25 600 for RELIEF worL
o!'izens present Mt the meeting or.
s.n,|ca and raised $4,000 more. The