Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-15
TORNADO SWEEPS PATH A BLOCK
WIDE THRU TOWN, DEMoL-
ishING BUILDINGS.
THIRTY OR MORE PERSONS
ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED
Property Valued at $4,000 Destroyed
Town Will Not Ask for Outside
Aid-storm Reaches Omaha and
Council Bluffs and unroofs Buildings
Mo Fatalities at other Points.

Seward, Neb., May 15.-E1ght per-
sons were killed and fourteen injured
in the tornado which swept a district
in the north part of this city last
night shortly before O'Clock. The wind
storm came up in disguise Of a heavy
rain and hail storm.
No one has yet been found who saw
the funnel shaped cloud or who knew
what danger the darkness CT the late
afternoon contained.
Three persons were killed who had
every opportunity to seek refuge and
a half dozen were injured who said
they could see no tornado approaching.
The Dead and Injured.
The dead:
MRS. WILLIAM HASsINGER.
MRS. G. w. EDMONDS.
MRS. DAVID HOOVER.
SAMUEL GRIN.
AUGUST SCHULTZ.
ERMA SCHULTZ. little daughter OF
August Schultz.
MRS. DAVID INLAY.
MRS. C. w. WASSERMAN.
The injured:
Mrs. Ernest Holland, arm proAeil
and body bruises.
William Hassinger, body bruises and
severe nervous shock.
John F'ike. arm and ribs broken.
Mrs. John Fike. ribs broken and IN
ternal inquiries.
Mrs. S. c. Longworthy, slight injur-
les to head.
Victor Wasserman. arm broken and
serious injuries to head.
Mrs. August Schultz. burned on
body, internal injuries.
Eleanor. little daughter Of August
Schultz badly burned on limbs and
back.
Little August Schultz, Jr., arm in
jured. severe hip wound.
Fred Steinbecl, eye put out, back
injured.
Mrs. Fred Steinbeck, internal injur-
les.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fgard, both
bruised by flying timber.
Miss Inlay. niece of Mrs. Inlay,
slight internal injuries; body bruised
Incidents Of tho Storm.
At the Schultz place, where August
Schultz and a 4-year-old child lost
their lives, baby boy Of 2 months vas
blown out of the mothers arms and
dropped down within a yard Of where
his father and sister had been killed
by flying debris. Mrs. Schultz ana
another child were pinned under the
wreckage of the kitchen but were res
cued by volunteer firemen who formed
relief party.
Last week Mrs. W. C. Edmunds'
husband died following sudden ILL
ness. His widow mourned deeply for
him and expressed a wish to join him
soon. Yesterdays storm claimed her
in it's list of fatalities. She was struck
by flying timber and crushed into an
almost unrecognizable mass.
Will Not Ask for Aid.
The city will clear it's own streets,
pay it's own bills and will get along
without state troops according to a
statement made today by Mayor Cald-
er Property to the amount of $780,
600 was destroyed in the city, not in
Guiding damage to telephone lines.
At the INLAY place, which was the
first residence struck by the storm
following it's devastation Of the county
fair grounds on the Big Blue river,
two cows stood peacefully in their
barn while the greater part OF the
structure was whisked from over them,
Each COW lest one horn in the storm
and sustained no other injuries.
No Deaths at Other Points.
Advices this morning from Tamera.
Staplehurst, Waco, Bee. and Utica,
west OF Seward which were last night
reported damaged by the tornado, say
that all these towns were out of the
track of the storm. Wires to McCool
Ju. ction are still down and no direct
reDorts have been received from there.