The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-15
THREE TOWNS ARE HARD HIT
Seward Suffers Greatest Loss,
Eight Being Killed
TAMoRo REPORTED DESTROYED

Omaha. Neb.. May l5-Reports in
Gicate that the destructive tornado
which formed in the southern part o
Seward county last night, took tol
OF ten lives. injured twenty foul
and destroyed property worth
quarter Of a million AT least ihre,
| towns, Seward. Tamoro and McCoo
junction, suffered. the greater de.
struction being at Seward, where
eight were killed and fourteen injured
Tamoro is reported destroyed with
no loss of life. Al McCool June.
ton much damage was done to prop
erty. There were two deaths there.
At seward the tornado crossed only
comparatively small part OF the
town, instead of sweeping across the
densely populated portion two blocks
south, The property loss is forty
thousand.
The tornado apparently originated
southwest Of McCool Junction, moved
northeast and struck with full force
at ramoro and Seward All telegraph
and telephone lines in the path OF the
storm we're demolished. cutting sew
eral trunk lines between this city and
Denver
Continuing the storm ragged with
greater or less fury untl II reached
Omaha. Here it crossed near the
southern limits. but ITS strength had
been so spent that the damage was
nominal.
Many Omahans sought refuge IN
cellars Many wires were prostrated
In Western Iowa. the result Of the final
efforts OF the elements which crossed
the Missouri river at this point and
spcnt themselves in that state.
The Tcrnado's Toll ir Seward.
Seward. Neb., May Eight per-
sons were killed and fourteen Injured
in Il tornado which swept district
n block wide ana sixteen blocks long,
in the north part of this city last
night. shortly betor, o'clock. The
came up Ia the disguise or
a violent hail and rain stcrm No one
has Yet been found who saw a funnel
shaped cloud or who knew what the
late afternoon contained.
Three who were killed had every
opportunity 40 seek refuge In cellars,
and half a dozen of the injured said
hey could see no tornado approach
Ing The dead:
Mrs. William Hassnger; Mrs. G. W. |
I2dmonds: Mrs. David Hooper: Sam.
lel Grim August schultz and little
laughter; Mrs. David Inlay: Mrs. c. |
w. Waserman.
At Schultz place. where August |
schultz and four -year-old child lost |
heir lives, baby boy of two months |
vas blown out of its mothers arms |
md dropped uninjured within a yard |
VI where the father and sister We're
,illed by nying debris. Mrs. Schultz
nd another child were pinned under
vreckagc, ana rescued by volunteer |
iremen who formed ;L-relief party soon
fter the storm.
Last week Mrs. Edmonds' husband
led suddenly. The widow mourned
ceply and expressed a wish TO join
i'm soon. Yesterdays storm claimed
cr She was crushed by flying timber
nd was almost an urrecognizablc
lass.
The property damage is forty thou.
and. not including telephone lines.
At the Inlay place two cows stood
eacefully in n barn, while the greater
art Of the structure was whisked
rom over them. Each COW lost one
orn, but sustained no other injuries.
Advices from Tamora. Staplehurst.
raco. Bee and Utica, west of Seward.
ayS those towns were out Of the
rack of the storm last night. The
Tres az McCool Junction are still
own. |,