The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-03-27


Trayerse City. Mich. ........ o
Perth. Ind. ......
Aihcoln. Neb. ............... o
TORNADO sweeps five statesNSebras.
souri,
Property loss may reach $4,000. 900.
pass over the East Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
ri, Govern9rs OF many states. mayors of
ing Denver, offer immediate aid to the
stricken communities.
Twelve hundred houses destroyed In
Ierre Haute, Ind, Council Bluffs. Ia :.
damage and loss Of lie. p0peF'
Governor Morehead of Nebraska has
taken personal charge of the policing
OF Omaha.
Money for homeless pouring in.
and i took many hours to gather and
circulate news OF the disaster.
Denver. March 25.-Dcath destruc.
ton and desolation lie in the wake OF
the tornado tnat swept five states
Nebraska, illinois. Iowa, Indiana and
Missouri At least 24O are dead AMI
hundreds are injured. many of them
| 30 seriously that they will die.
The property loss in the five states
struck by the storm mGy exceed }l0,-
100000 The path was swept clean.
The finest residence section of the
city of Omaha was swept away and
hundreds of buildings took fire. Tho
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
tured in the wind storm that demol-
ished $50 homes, damaged hundreds )
of other buildings and caused q mon.
stary loss of 35,OOO,0OO.
Most Of the casualties were in Omx.
ha. which was stricken as never Ue-
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 anil
blockaded streets. heavy rain fol-
lowed the wind, however. and It
drenched the hundreds of homeless
persons. but 1t 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 vel0c-
ity and destructive effects of a cy-
clone, and ended its existence in a
series OF tornadoes which dropped
fiercely 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 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 crowd had
sought refuge in garage; at Twenty
fourth and Lake streets, where NOV
ing picture theater was demolished.
and at Twenty-fourth and Willis ave-
nue., where a poolroom had attracted
a crowd. In each Of these places the
fatalities we're large.
The monetary loss will, 1t is estimat-
ed, exceed $5,O00,OOO. Perhaps 1,50o
persons are homeless.
Aside from this. 5000 buildings
we're more or less damaged, many of
these being church edifices and school
buildings. Eight of Omahas public
schools were wrecked.
No such catastrope had ever before
visited the city, and it was over
whelmed by It. They quickly rose to
the situation, however. and measures
of relief were organized promptly