The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-03-25
.OMAHO CITY NOW
NUMBERS ITS
DEAD At 10
Two Thousand Homeless Victims
of Sundays Cyclone
FIRE FOLLOWS WIND
Destruction Of Property in the City
Alone viii Amount to
s5,ooo,ooo.

Omaha, Neb, March 25.-Up to
noon today 10 persons had been re
ported killed in the city of Omaha and
it's suburbs by the cyclone of Sunday
night. In the city itself the dead
number 10 and over 1000 persons
are homeless.
Now that communication is being
restored reports of fatalities in the
small villages and the farming dis
tricts in the path of the cyclone are
beginning to arrive. Fifteen were
killed in a small village in Indiana
where practically every building was
fiattened by the wind.
With the death list fluctuatine
around $50, and injured apparently
400, Omaha and the surrounding terri
tory in Nebraska and Iowa last night
faced the problem of housing the
thousands rendered homeless by Sun
day nights tornado. The number OF
buildings destroyed was said to be in
the neighborhood of 1900, and the prop
erty damage loss is expected to reach
several million dollars Belated re-
ports coming to Omaha tended to in.
crease the enormity of the tornados
destruction and indicated that much
wider territory had been in the path
of the storm than was first shown.
Next to Omaha, where the dead will
probably remain around 100, Yutan
and Ralston, Neb., reported 16 and IA
deaths, respectively, and Council
Bluffs. IL.
The hospitals in Omaha last night
were full of injured, many of whom
have not yet been identified, apparent
ly because their friends are either
dead or among the injured. Last
night the stricken sections of Omaha
were patrolled by government troops
from Fort Omaha and the state mill
tia Gov. Moorhead has taken person
al charge of the state troops There
has been little or no looting. The bust
ness men are cooperating in every
way. The Omaha hotels have thrown
open their doors for the injured.
Every train into Omaha yesterday
brought scores of physicians from
nearby towns who have friends and
relatives in the city and they made up
one continual stream of visitors to the
morgues and the hospitals.
The storm appeared TO have started
at Fifthy-fourth and Center streets
From there it travelled north, veering
slightly to the east of Leavenworth
street. Then ii took a northeasterly
course to Fortieth and Farnam streets
sweeping its way through everything
Still travelling little east TO north, it
covered a course from Fortieth street
east to Thirty-fourth street, a distance
of six blocks.
Striking Bemis park, where the
homes of the well-to-do Omahans are
located, the storm turned sharply to
the east and passed along Parker and
Blonde streets to Twenty-fourth street
where its path was six blocks wide.
In the latter section the damage is
complete.
Finally at Fourteenth and Spencer
streets the storm swept over the
bluffs. high above the Missouri river,
demolished the Missouri Pacific round
house, levelled the big trestle of the
Illinois Central railroad over Carter
lake, wrecked number of buildings
near the rod and gun club, a fashion
able outing place, and disappeared to
the northwest
Sunday night wire communication
with the outside world was entirely
cut off. The only available report of
the disaster was taken to Lincoln by
train and there filed over the Associ-
ated Press wires. Telephone and tel.
egraph wires along all the railroads
were down. Sunday night at mid
night the battle of the linemen began
and at s o'clock last night two news
wires were working out of the city,
Commercial bulletins we're sent to
nearby cities in the care of operators
to be sent from there. The wires con
tinued in an apparently hopeless tan
gle between Omaha and points direct
ly east Three miles of wires we're
down directly east of Council Bluffs.
while at several other points in the
territory between Omaha and Chica-
go the lines were paralyzed.
Railroading under these conditions
was a return to first principles and
trains between Omaha and Chicago
crawled along with fiagmen walking
before them. taking the place of train
dispatchers and block signals. The
was five hours late and carried more
than loo linemen to points east of
Omaha.
Nswton's Fearful Crime.
At the end Of a meal at Haydon's
house Keats proposed toast in these
terms: "Dishonor 20 the memory Of
Newton"
The guests stared at him in question
ing surprise, and Wordsworth asked
for an explanation.
ut is" answered Keats. because he
destroyed the poetry OF the rainbow by
reducing Il to a prism" And the art
iefa All drank NTH ono couaonf con.