The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26

/ ton for the offers which, he declared,
| indicated the great interest the out
side world was taking in the city In
| its distress.
Help Offers Received.
|. Among today's offers were those of
cial organizations of Kansas City, st.
Louis, ST. Joseph, Mo-. Boston, San
/ Francisco, Detroit, Seattle and other
cities. Mayors of all the larger cities
of the country telegraphed Mayor
| Dahlman asking for suggestions as to
| what they might do to aid.
While the destruction of homes in
the city was great, there was not a
| single large business institution which
suffered a great loss.
Local theaters have arranged to give
benefit performances Saturday night
and several out of town theatrical
| managers telegraphed their intention
to do likewise. Sarah Bernhardts
manager stated in a telegram that she
would give such a benefit in the Den
yer Auditorium Sunday night.
Seven persons injured in Sundays
tornado died in hospitals yesterday.
These were Flora Cassell, nurse at
the Methodist hospital, caught in the
destruction of the Student Nurses
| crushed; A. w. Lavidge, living near
the hospital; an unknown elderly
woman; Early Price, a 9year-old boy,
and Mrs r. r. Vandeven and babe.
first considered by the city authori-
ties and City Physician Cornell I'M
dertook the enforcement of regula-
tions which will prevent the possibility
of an epidemic. Several hundred ami
mails were among the victims of the
storm and orders were given that their
carcasses should be removed at once
and incinerated.
Burial of the dead will begin today.
1t will require probably three or four
days to identify and dispose of all the
bodies. The coroner still retains in
his rooms eighteen bodies awaiting
either Identification or the care of
relatives
Probably one of the most pathetic
cases before the coroner was the care
of the bodies of one entire family, that
of Mr.. Klinsky, a baker at Twenty
fourth and Blonde streets. Their
home was above the bakery and when
the twister struck it the entire family
was precipitated into the cellar. The
five children were found in their beds,
their faces and bodies badly disfig-
ured
assistance during the day through it's
representative, Eugene T. Lies of Chi
cago, who was among the early ar
rivals in the city.
Soldier Looters Arrested.
The first case of attempted looting
occurred when two federal soldiers
stationed at Forty-third and Farnam
were discovered entering wrecked
building. They were promptly ar
rested by their own comrades and sent
to Fort Crook for court martial.
Sacred Heart convent five-story
school for girls, al Thirty-sixth and
Burt streets, which was almost en-
tirely demolished, is to be rebuilt soon.
Fifty sisters who were dragged from
the basement by rescuers are housed
at st. Joseph's hospital. Bishop Scan
nell'S residence, directly across the
street from the convent, is partially
wrecked. Workmen were put to work
to repair the damage.
A body Identified by papers in the
pocket as that of Frank Jamison of
Chicago was taken from the top
of high tree in Bemis park. Up to
noon the body had not been claimed.
Many prominent Omaha business
men are in receipt of kilograms from
business acquaintance in various
parts of the country asking if Omaha
is in need of financial relief. To those
former Senator Joseph H. Willard.
president of the Omaha National
bank, telegraphd the reply:
mo damage whatever in business
portion. Loss confined to a portion
residential district mostly to ordinary
houses of moderate cost. Probably
damaged We all appreciate kind
outside offers of help, but the people !
of this city and state can and will
take care for all needs
T.. y. evan, lIdIIlC manager OIL
the Omaha Comm ercial club, after a
short search found his pet canary
bird, "Dicky," safe under a heap of
debris. The cage was not to be found. |
A freak of the storm had freed the bird |
only to imprison it again under a |
drawer blown from a dressing table. |
The editor of the Omaha World-Her-
aid gives the following description of |
the tornado: 81 rode for two and one |
half hours in an automobile, following |
~, oil
mile it stretched it's heartrending way
"a path several hundred feet wide of I
wreck and ruin. For mile upon mile
there was only a bleak succession of |
blasted homes. with men and women, |
and little children too, working like
ants over a ruined heap in the dismal /
work of salvage. Hundreds upon hun
dreds were working, from the extreme
southwestern limits of the city to the
extreme northeast, under a raw, cold |
wind that cut like a knife, agony and |
despair stamped deep into their faces
hundreds were surveying the ugly
heaps that constituted all that was left
to them of many years of hard work,
of patient sacrifice, of hopeful saving
and building. Grim and pitiless.
Mother Nature had swept away, in less
than a minutes time, all the fruits Of
half lifetime of efforti'
Legislature Will Appropriate.
Lincoln Neb., March 26.-The state
of Nebraska will appropriate 500, 900
for the aid of the tornado sufferers in
eastern Nebraska, this money to be ex-
pended by a committee of seven, of
which the governor is to be chairman
This action was decided upon at a con-
ference with the governor by members
Of the legislature
She Knew Her Business