American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-03-27
WEEK OF HORROR
in MIDDLE WEST
WIND AND FLOODS DEVASTATE
GREAT AREAS AND MANY
ARE KILLED.
SIX THOUSAND ARE KILLED
Ohio and Indiana Cities are In
undated With Awful Loss of
Life and Property - Tornado At
Omaha.

Inc nOrrlDle cdCaSLrOpneS Oh LIE
past few days in the middle wesi
make this week the most calamlt-
GUS one in the history of the Unit
ed States in time of peace, Be
ginning on Easter Sunday evening
with an awful tornado in Nebraska
Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan, that
snuffed out practically five hum
dred lives, and destroyed millions OF
dollars worth of property, the SER
les of ghastly misfortunes has con-
tinued and multiplied with II
great floods in Indiana, and Ohio.
where probably six thousand people
have been drowned, and where hun
dreds of millions of dollars in prop
erty values has been lost,
Dayton, Ohio, Is perhaps the
greatest sufferer from the raging
torrent of waters, Almost the
whole town was submerged by the
sudden rush, and the people We're
drowned wholesale, Many Of those
who escaped the rush of water and
took refuge in the upper stories OF
business buildings were burned to
death in the fires that followed the
flood. For three days this awful ca,
dition prevailed, not only in Day
ton, but in Columbus, Hamilton, De
aware, Akron, Cambridge, and many
of the smaller towns in Ohio; India
napclis, Terre Haute, Evansville,
Peru, South Bend, and the smaller
Indiana towns have endured con-
dition scarcely less terrible, Illinois
and Kentucky have been some
wh:,t affected. and fears are held
for all cities on the raging rivers
south of the present flood district.
Omaha was the greatest sufferer
from the tornado, but her troubla-
considered at the time most appalling
has in the light of later develop
ments, faded almost into insignifl-
cance, There were over 200 peo-,
pie killed, five hundred injured, and
property valued at millions was lost,
Forty city blocks were devastated, |
Other cities in the path of the hur-
ricanef were Terre Haute, nd, Chi
cago Illinois, Yutan, Nebraska Ber-
lin, Nebraska, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Iowa, Weston, Iowa, Nicola,
Iowa, Glenwood, Iowa, Beebe Iowa,
Malvern, Iowa, Walton. Illinois,
Sterling, Illinois, Traverse City
Michigan, and Perth, Indiana, These
in varying degrees
Hundreds of thousands of people
are homeless, and suffering from
want of clothes, heat and food, Hero
C efforts are being made to care
or them by the city, state and gov
authorities, the Red Cross
and various philanthropic
md charitable organizations, Cities
ire contributing money, clothes and
uel and hurrying it to the points
leeded Money is wanted to car
y on the work and anyone desiring
o contribute should send it to the
,overncr's office in Boise. where
t viii be sent to the flood dis
rict
1t will be months before any
hin like normal conditions can be
estored in the unfortunate sections,
nd the question of sanitation ,
Till be an awful thing to combat,
There are thousands cf human
odies to care for, and many more
thousands of animal carcasses that
lust begotten rid of, The filthy :
from flood, fire and T.
inds must be cared for, Sur |,
con General Rupert Blue Of the Q
nited States Marine service has q
cen sent to the scene of the dis ii
ster, and his work will be potent ~
lctor in the reconstruction, He $,
the man who cleaned up San n
after the earthquake, and il
perhaps the best man In the ma ii
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