The Holly chieftain., 1913-03-28

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Tornado r9aS, sweeps five s.ate.&Sebrss. sfS ass
souri,
Property loss may reach $4,000; 900.
pass over the East Tuesday and We'd
nesday.
Governors of many states. mayors of
ing Denver. offer immediate aid to the
stricken communities.
Twelve hundred houses destroyed in
Omaha Loss Of life estimated at $50.
and Lincoln. Neb. suffer PROPERTY
daNage and loss of life.
Governor Morehead of Nebraska has
taken personal charge of the policing
Wires snapped off In all directions
and Il took many hours to gather and
circulate news of the disaster.
Denver. March 25-bcath destruc.
tion and dcsolation lie in the wake OF
the tornado that swept five states
Nebraska. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and
Missouri. At least 24O are dead AMI
hundreds are injured. many of them
so seriously that they will die.
, The property loss in the five states
struck by the storm mfy exceed s10,-
100000. The path was swept clean.
The finest residence section of the
city of Omaha was swept away ard
hundreds of buildings took fire. The
fire department was helpless and the
loss of life will probably go beyond
the first named mark.
Omaha, March 25.-More than 200
persons were killed and 400 were in
jured in the wind storm that demol-
ished 450 homes. damaged hundreds
of other buildings and caused a mon
etary loss of $5,OOO,OOO.
Most of the casualties were in Omu-
ha. which was stricken as never be-
fore. Nearby towns in Nebraska ami
across the Missouri river in Iowa also
suffered severely.
Fire broke out in the debris of many
wrecked buildings in the Nebraska
metropolis and these were menaces
for some time, as the fire companies
were hindered by fallen walls AMI
blocEaded streets. A heavy rain fol-
lowed the wind, however, and it
drenchcd the hundreds of homeless
persons, but it also put out the
flames
1t has taken Omaha and the sur
rounding country thirty six hours 70
begin to appreciate the enormity of
the devastation wrought by the East
er evening storm of wind and rain.
The storm assumed first the velos-
ity and destructive effects of a cy-
clone, and ended its existence in
series of tornadoes which dropped
Hercely on many parts of the city
and country without regard to human
life or property and visited the great
er portion of the residential part of
Omaha.
Wires were snapped off in all di-
rections and it took many hours to
gather and circulate the news of the
disaster.
All forms of communication were al
most annihilated by the wind and only
two or three wires were in working con-
dition when daylight relieved night
of high tension which at times almost
became a panic. Soldiers, state and ma
tional troops, poured into the city dur
ing the day to aid in bringing order
out of what for twenty hours had been
chaos. These guardians of the peace
are patrolling the residence districts.
aiding the police to maintain order and
relieve such cases of suffering as
come to their notice.
The greatest loss Of life occurred
sectionally. Three points in the path
of the storm offered the greatest sac
rifices. These were at Fortieth and
Farnum streets where a crowd had
sought refuge In a garage; at Twenty
fourth and Lake Streets where a mov-
ing picture theater was demolished,
and at Twenty-fourth and Willis ave-
nue., where poolroom had attracted
crowd, In each of these places the
fatalities were large.