Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-01

heartrendering disaster / therefore
urgently invite all our citizens to
contribute as generously as their cir
cumstances will permit in money,
provisions and clothing for the relief
of those who suffer from this ap-
palling calamity. Railroads and ex-
press companies have generously
offered to furnish free transporta-
ton for all such supplies. Money is
preferred, but contributions of any
sort will be gratefully received by
the treasurer of the Wisconsin state
board of the American Red Cross,
George w. Strohmeyer, of the Mil
waukee National bank, Milwaukee.
Wis"
Millions of dollars are being raised
and sent to purchase food and relieve
the sutferings. The entire country is
aroused and there will be no lack of
funds.
Following upon the terrible cyclone
had in many parts of the country on
Sunday, March 23d, and more espec-
tally in Omaha, it makes one think
that none are safe from winds and
floods no matter how favorably To-
Gated. At Omaha. the cyclone can
well be classed with the most severe
ever had in this country.
George E. Bleort of Holyoke, Mass,
who had been in st. Louis and st.
Paul during tornadoes and in San
Francisco during the earthquake
there declared the Omaha storm the
worst of them all. In none of the
others have L received ascratch. Yet
the four calamities | have mentioned
| have. made careful observations and
| have never seen anything that COM
pared with the drain on life and
property wrought by the tornado
that passed through Omaha Sunday.
Take the three and bunch them to-
gether and then the comparison could
not be made too strong.
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earthquake in San Francisco the loss
of life and property would not have
been great; the tornadoes in st. Paul
and in st. Louis were just summer
zephyrs when compared to the Omaha
storm.
81 am conversant with the history
OF WindstormS and | can say that the
Omaha storm was one of the worst if
not the worst in history. People here
do not realize the magnitude of the
storm. AS general thing wind
storms jump about destroying prop
erty in spots and taking lives at rare
intervals. The Omaha cyclone seems
to have kept to the ground after it
struck, leaving death and ruin in the
path"
A prediction that was put in type
May s, 1912, tells with almost I'M
canny accuracy of the coming of the
cyclone that has made itself felt
throughout the entire country. Ten
months before the coming together
of the two air currents that caused
the cyclone this meeting in the air
was scheduled and described in the
Hicks almanac.
The United Press correspondent at
Dayton, Charles Van Horn, who had
gone further north in the Dayton
food district than any other man has
dared, said;
II hope my eyes may never be bur-
dened with such sights again. 1t has
been said five hundred are dead,
should say $500. The river is whirl-
ing with human bodies. Once we
reached out and touched the head of
woman and again we cut the
bearded face of a man. We approached
the fire as near as we could. Persons
penned in the building must have
seen US as we heard their cries for
help. The people appeared at the
windows and shortly after fell back
into the blaze as we could not do a
thing for them. Two women in a
second story window, screamed to us
and jumped into the water. We
pulled them out and brought them
back. They had been standing eight
hours in the water up to their waists.
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