The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-27
and school buildings. Eight of ON
aha's public schools were wrecked.
Three Scenes OF Carnage.

I est SacIIllGGS. lUcSG were dt 4olU anu
f'arnam streets where a crowd had
sought refuge in a garage; at Path
and Lake street where n moving pic
ture theatre was demolished and at
oath and willis avenue where Il pool
room had attracted Il crowd. In each
of these places the fatalities were
large.
In the vicinity OF each OF these
%buildinGs the toll of loss was claimed
by the storm when The residents were
deu1oli- he'd and inmates unused tC
such phonomena remained quietly
until taken by the elements, making
escape impossible.
No such catastrophe has eve be-
fore visited the city and the citizens
were unprenared for ii. They quickly
"oso TO the situation however, ano
measure of relief were organized.
Trinity cathedral, parish OF the
Omaha Episcopal hisaop, was tempor-
arily turned into a coffee house
priests visited homes which had been
destroyed, in many cases administer
ing the last rites of the church anC
public bodies began the organization
of relief committees. Last nigh
$1OO, 900 had been subscribed for r.
lief of the destitute. Governor More
head arrived in the city carly in tn
day and took personal charge OF tho
policing OF the city. Three con
panies OF the state militia augmente'
by the federal troops which We're
early sent TO the city from Fort Crool
and the stricken portion of the cit,
is under martial law.
Thousands Are Homeless.
With the death list probably pas.
ing two hundred and the list OF in
jured at least four hundred. Oman;
and TIL ~sourrourding country in Nc
braska and Iowa faced the proble1
of housing thousands who were reno
cred homeless by the tornado. Tn
number of buildings destroyed is sal
to he i'm the neighbOrhood OF lively
hundred and the properly damage j
expected to reach several million!
, Related reports tended TO incfeas
i, the enormity of the havoc wrough
: and indicated n much wider terri
tory had been in the path OF tn
!, storm than at first shown.
Berlin Wiued Out.
Y Seven perosns were Killed at Be1
$ lin by the Tornado. The villag
Y was completely wrecked. Ever
building was totally destroyed. Hun
linemen are working in Omaha t
o r%e-establish complete communics
q ton with the world.
a The city commissioners passed a
v ordinance appropriating t%wenty-fv
thousand dollars for relief work.
Storm Came Without Warning.
y r1,n tn,,, N a1n,,n 1rtt1,n,,t -,
warning, the day which opened wit
overcast skies, having cleared in IL
: afternoon. The little town Ralsto1
three miles from South Omaha. frs
, fell the victim of the furious storm
which there took a toll of half
dozen or more lives and practical
destroyed the town. in Il norther
Up direction and almost in a straigl
n line it travelled with incredible spec
e. wrecking many handsome homes j
the fashionable West I'arnum an
"a Bemis Park districts. Many bushes
Sc buildings in the vicinity of oath an
Lake street we're destroyed or badl
lie damaged. Here the heaviest loss c
life occurred. The Diamond motto
e. picture theatre, ii brick buildin
which was partially filled with mel
women and children, collapsed, hare
I'd iy a brick remaining in the fall. TIL
10 Idlewild pool hail. %patronized by nei
roes, collapsed and the debris caugl
70 fire. 1T is believed that forty O
fifty persons persisted there.
h From Tw%onty-folrth and Lake, til
~ storm seemed to veer Il little t
the east and finally passed over tn
state line into Iowa at Garter LAX
n where many summer cottages Wei
Ill demolished. Residences wei
I'd wrecked all along tae lake. \ doze
or more fires We're started by stove
It and furnaces and il is believed mar
nj bodies were cremated.
n Telephone, electric light and tro
ed Icy wires We're carried away by th
,st storm and had TO be shut off in tt
devastated district, so that all wor
IN the night had to be done by til
to light OF lanterns and only an impe
ed feet idea OF the extent and characte
oh of damage could be had.
IS The hospital facilities are goo
de Forty physicians from Dcs Moint
came in with trained nurses and wi
Id remain in Omaha. Many Of tt
re homeless Joined in the search IL
d. bodies instead of fastening to frient
err Offers OF money from all quarters
do the United States were received We
terday.
- Among the buildings destroye
re were eleven churches and eigl
so s~choolhouses. No loss OF life a
companied the demolition of thes
n buildings. Sacred Heart nven VIZ
n, destroyed but the fifty inmates e
he capped.
- The Missouri Pacific roundhou:
IS at Fifteenth and Emmett streets an
tho roundhonse of the Chicago, S
of Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha raj
way We're wrecked.
MS The hospitals in Omaha are fu
of injured. many of whom have ~
been identified, apparently becau!
I'D their families are either dead {
T.. among the injured.
nd The loss to homes viii run in,
to the millions. The destruction bega
of with the mathematics homes in tt