Arizona republican., 1913-03-25
MANY DIE IN STORM
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story justifNing t with the remark
 that it was the work, of Providence.
 A coincidence among the injured at
 the Child Institute. was that all were
 badly cut about the face, while the
 bodies were comparatively free from
 wounds. Ugly looking scalp wounds
 marked every one of the injured. The
 home of George j. Duncan. of the
 Omaha Bee. was completely destroyed.
 MT. Duncan died at the hospital this
 afternoon. Mrs. Duncan is in critical
 condition.
 At the home of Patrick Hynes.
 party in celebration of his eighty first
 birthday was in progress. The guests
 had just begun dinner and were drink
 ing q toast to the health of their host
 when the storm swept the house away
 The party had just begun dinner
 said Mir Hynes. The young people
 were making merry and old as I am, l
 had entered into the spirit of the even
 ing suddenly there was a roaring sound and the next minute the house was in ruins I Wriggled around and out and aided the others in escaping" When. the storm had passed Mir. and Mrs C. NJ Wilhelm found themselves
 buried under d mass of broken and twisted furniture and tin cans which had been blown into the house. They extricated themselves with difficulty. John Wright. q railroad watchman. probably owes his life to the fact that he went to work half an hour ahead of time. because he feared that he would ,o l
 Little Gladys Crook was rescued after the house had been blown over her and she had been imprisoned for more than half an hour. It was neces- | sary to chop q large hole in the side of 1 the house before the little girl whose
 cries for help had brought rescuers. she was taken out uniniured.
 Cliff Daniels. his wife and their two ! children met death together. Digging 1 about the ruins of their home, rescuers 1 found four bodies. The little girls were found clasped in the arms of the mother while the body of the father ! was over them, as if he had tried to 1 shield them with his own body. Mary Knudsen. servant girl. was blown out
 of the home of her employer and badly A- to fall fainting in front of d hotel Her | incoherent story was the first news o1 i the disaster received in the down town section. The body of an unidentified child was found in the ruins of two houses. with a little rag doll still tucked under her arm
 When c. Saber discovered the i crushed and almost unrecognizable l body of his wife in the ruins of an | apartment house. he fled down the street shreking at the top of his voice. He is missing. F.. H. Smith. private 1 of the signal corps from Fort Omaha l became insane after helping to carry ! out q number of bodies and collapsed When he had reSained consciousness 1t was necessary to take him to post hospital where he was placed under reStra int.
 Last night wire communication with 1 the outside world was entirely cut off The only available report of the disas- | ter was taken to Lincoln by tram ana there filed over the Associated Press wires The telephone and telegraph wires along all the railroads were ! down. Last night at midnight the bat 1 tie of the linemen commenced and at s o'clock tonight two news wires were working out of the city. Commercial bulletins were sent to nearby cities Tn ! the care of the operators to be sent | from there. These continued in an ap- parently hopeless tangle between Oma- | ha and points directly east. Three miles of wire were down direct east of 1 Council Bluffs while at several other points in the territory between Omaha and Chicago the lines were paralyZed