Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-03-27

Lincoln, Neb.-A tornado, which
caused great loss of life and ruined
the best residence district, swept
across Omaha and it's suburbs early
Sunday evening.
The storm cut eff communication
with the rest of the world, and such
reports as are received come by train
to Lincoln, SO miles southwest of the
metropolis.
The tornado started at 6 p. m. at
the southwestern part Of town, after
a heavy rain, and ~sig-zagged eight
miles northeast across the city
through the residence district. From
the Field club, in the western part of
the city, to the Carter Lake club, sit
uated at the northeastern extremity,
is n mass of debris from two to six
blocks wide. Fires started in wrecked
houses, and many of them burned to
the ground because of the inability of
the fremen to answer alarms. Many
houses we're twisted to pieces by the
wind.
Federal soldiers were called out
from Fort Omaha to assist the police
in keeping order, and Mayor Dahlman
called on Gov. Morehead to order out
the militia.
Passengers on trains which left the
stricken city say at midnight the hos
pitfalls were full of injured and at that
hour every ambulance in the city was
at work picking up sufferers from the
storm.
The Illinois Central railroad bridge
over the Missouri river was destroyed
and a moving picture theater at
Twenty-fourth and Lake streets was
demolished, SO or more persons being
buried in the ruins.
The Webster street telephone ex-
change was wrecked, and the convent
Of the Poor Clares, at T~wenty-ninth
and Hamilton streets, was unroofed
and the Sacred Heart academy, at
Thirty-sixth and Bart, is reported to
have been demolished.
R~alston, Florence and Dundee, sub
urbs, virtually were wiped out by the
tornado, and Council Bluffs, Ia, q
large city directly across the river
from Omaha, suffered great damage.
Refugees from the residence sec
tons iocked into the business dis.
trict, and were cared for at the hotels
all night, while the police, firemen
soldiers and volunteers worked with
lanterns in the absence of electric
lights to recover bodies and rescue in
jured persons.
Omaha's north and south dimension
is eight miles and that from west to
east is four miles. The business dis
trict is south and east Of the geo
graphical center Of the city. The
storm passed a little to the west Of
the business section.
Early reports which reached Lin
coin and other cities through railroad
sources were that the dead in Omaha
numbered 1000 or more and that thu
city was burning. One report sale
the dead numbered 1,100.
Council Bluffs Also Suffers.
Omaha's suburbs suffered heavi1!
from the storm. Ralston, southwes
Of Omaha, was destroyed and half
score or more are dead. East Omaha
which felt the tail of the twister, re
ported houses demolished, but NJ
lives lost. Council Bluffs, Ia, ha,
nine dead, a score or more injure,
and great damage to property.
The worst damage in the city an,
the largest loss of lives occurred Il
the western part of Omaha and nea
Twenty-fourth and Lake streets an,
from there northeast to Sixteenth an
Binney. This is the residence porto,
|, and the destruction was appalling
, Whole blocks of homes were pickle
/. up and dashed into debris. Stree
cars were hurled from the tracks an
demolished.
From the moving picture show a
. Twenty-fourth and Lake, which wa
. destroyed, ten dead and eight injure
were removed early. but Il was fearp