The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-25

The body of an unidentified chill
was found in the ruins of two house,
with a little rag doll still tucked un.
der her arm.
When c. Saber discovered tn,
crushed and almost unrecognizabl,
body of his wife in the ruins of al
apartment house, he fled down the
street, shrieking at the top of hi.
voice. He is missing.
e. II. Smith, a private of the sigma
corps from Fort Omaha, became in.
sane after helping carry a number o
bodies.
Last night wire communication with
the outside world was entirely cut off
The only available report of the disas-
ter was taken to Lincoln by train, and
there filed over the Associated Press
wires. Telegraph and telephone wires
along all the railroads We're down
Last night at midnight the battle OF
the linemen began, and at s o'clock to-
day w new wires were working gu,
of the city.
A. L.. Green, advertising anage Of
a department store, living at 1904 I'm
derWood avenue, was On his back porch
watching the storm when it broke.
1T came like a rushing and roaring
torrent of water" he said. 1T came
from the south and passed right by
us to the EAST. I went to my attic
window Immediately afterward and
saw fires bursting forth from along
the path of the tornado. l could see
five fires burning at once The flames
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ings nearby
j. F.. Trayner, 513 North Thirty
sixth street, rushed home from his
place of business to find his residence
in ruins. His wife, his aunt, Mrs. Ed
ward Baggott of Chicago, who was
visiting them, and her three children,
We're in the house, but only Mrs. Bag
gott was hurt.
f. w. Dickson. 43S North Thirty
Eighth street, was bruised about the
head and his wife and three children
seriously injured. Dickson started
up stairs as he saw the tornado fun
mel swoop down and crush the homes
of his neighbors to the south. An
instant later the wind struck his
home. He was hurled down stairs
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his face. Dazed, he struggled to his
feet and hurried to the cellar with his
family. A second later his home was
swept away and the family in the
basement had but the sky above them.
Flames sprang up from every side.
TT seemed as if the whole city was
afire,' said Dickson. Il lifted my
wife and children out and ran down
the street joining scores of my unfor-
tunate ~neighbors. We had lost all
but we We're thankful for our lives"
The morgues and hospitals were
besieged all the morning by friends
and relatives Of the, dead and injured
and others made frantic efforts to
learn of the fate of loved ones.
Looting Reported.
Although a line Of soldiers and po-
lice was thrown around the path of
the. storm after it had passed, much
looting has been reported.
Omaha's suburbs suffered heavily.
Ralston, southwest of Omaha, was
RACED to the ground and a half score
OIL more are dead. East Omaha,
dashed by the. tail of the twister, re-
ported houses demolished but no lives
lost.
Council Bluffs, Ia, suffered min
dead, a score or more injured and
great damage to property. The worst
damage was done and the heaviest
toll of lives exacted in the western
part of Omaha, in the vicinity of
Twenty Fourth and Lake streets, and
from there northeast to Sixteenth and
Binney streets. This was the resi-
dence district and the destruction
wrought was well nigh appalling.
Whole blocks of homes We're picked
up and dashed into a shapeless mass.
Street cars We're hurled from the track
and demolished.
A moving picture house at Twenty
Fourth and Lake streets was de-
stroyed.
the spectators have thus far been re-
ported. Fifty persons were in the
theater and it is feared that most of
these are. buried in the debris.
Fine Residences Ruined.
Bemis park, one of the prettiest
residence districts in Omaha, was
RACED and fires dotted the park, COM
pleting the work of the tornado.
Among the show places damaged
was the Joslyn Castle. The roof was
torn off and the trees and shrubbery
u%prooted. The Convent of the Poor,
Clares, at Twenty-N Ninth and Hamil-
streets, was unroofed and the
grounds We're Uttered with debris. An
unverified report said tina the. Sacred
Heart academy at Thirty-Sixth and
Burt streets, was demolished.