The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-25


Breaks Out, But is Soon
Quenched - Property Loss
Around $12,OOO,OOO-Troops
Guarding the Ruins.
Omaha. Neb., March 24.-The es-
innate at o'clock this afternoon
gives the death list from last nights
tornado at 140, with 240 injured.
1t was thought $50 houses were
destroyed and total of 1850 build
ing damaged.
Associated Press Offices, Omaha,
Neb.. March 24.-(By Telephone to
Sioux City-At noon reliable re-
ports placed number Of dead in yes
terday's tornado at 100 with 24O
injured. More than $50 residences
were destroyed and ESQ were badly
damaged.
The financial loss will be very
heavy. The storm did not hit the
main business district but swept a
path of four to six blocks wide
through the residence section.
Governor Morehead has called
out the militia to guard the ruins.
Federal troops also are on duty.
The first and main storm struck
Ralston, three miles west of South
Omaha, shortly before 6 o'clock yes
terday evening and moved in
northeasterly direction through the
city Of Omaha
THIRTY DIE IN MOVIE SHOW.
The only point at which the force
OF the storm struck the business
section was Twenty-fourth and Lake
streets. Here the Diamond theater,
a moving picture concern, we'll fill
ed, was wrecked. According to the
best available figures at least thirty
OF its patrons were killed
Between forty and fifty were
= killed in the wreck of a pool hall
y ,atronized by negroes.
The well defined path of the storm
ended at Carter Lake, near the Mis-
souri, river, north Of the city. Fire
broke out in the debris and wreck
ed buildings. Fires burned them
selves out except in instances where
flames were brought under control
by volunteer bucket brigades."
The second storm swept across
the Missouri river about $50 D. m,
doing considerable damage in Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Figures compiled early today
place the number of known dead in
Council Bluffs at nine with a score
injured.
BUSINESS HOUSES ESCAPE.
The stretch of Omaha covered by
the tornado reaches from the south
ern limits to the suburb Of Florence,
six miles north of the point of origin.
The streets are filed with
wreckage OF houses, uprooted trees
and tangled electric wires. Street
car movement is impossible, wagon
and automobile travel almost so
The list Of dead, although already
" AOh6 ohOb 10 ptllcNeu ny InOSe WHO
have been over good part of the
devastated territory, to be but a be-
ginning.
Twenty or more fires were report
ed In the track OF the storm and
every piece of fire fighting appara-
tus of Omaha, as well as companies
from South Omaha and Council
Bluffs, were kept at work all day
and night. This and the fact that
torrential rains followed the blow,
soaking the debris, prevented a con-
fagration. The flames were under
control late today.
The storm swept the western part
of the city for its entire length. The
eastern half of the city-generally
composing the business section
was out OF the path OF the storm
tpt suffered greatly
SGStThe section damaged is the resi-
Dental portion Of the city. A num-
ber of outlying business thorough
fares also are in the destroyed area.
The greater part Of the damage
was done west OF Twenty-fourth
street, a north and south cross town
street extending the length OF the
city. Numerous streets with retail
stores are in this section, with the
residence portion OF the city scat
tered in intervening sections.
Thirty Dead at Terra Haute.
Terre Haute, Ind, March "a
Twenty-four victims Of tornado
which swept the southern part Of