The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-03-27
Loss in Nebraska Metropolis Es-
timated at $4,000, 900
and $50 Killed.
HUNDREDS ARE BADLY HURT
Thirty Lose Their Lives at Terre
Haute, Ind, is at Yutan, Neb., ~
in Council Bluffs, la, and
Scores In Small Towns
Throughout Devas-
tated Section.

Chicago March 25.-A death toll
probably reaching 300 with Sl5,000,-
200 property loss was taken by twin
equinoctial tornadoes which swept
through the middle west.
Omaha, Neb, is the heaviest suffer'
ar with at least 80 dead and devas-
tation totaling $10Oo0,000. This takes
40 reckon of the hundreds more who
have been injured, scores perhaps
fatally.
Troops Maintain Order.
A broad section of the residential
district of the city, abiding places or
the wealthy classes was wiped out,
Fire added to the general havoc.
Panic ensued and the state and feder-
al troops have been called out to
maintain order.
Other Nebraska towns felt the
death-dealing force OF the wind which
swept over into Iowa as well. Mis-
souri,, Indiana, Illinois, Montana. Wis
consin. Kansas and South Dakota.
AS far east as Chicago the fatal
force of the storm was felt. the toll
there being five killed with 100000
damage. In Milwaukee 100000 prop
erty loss was sustained.
Thirty Dead at Terre Haute.
AS Omaha was the center of one
Of the torhadoes, Terre Haute, Ind,
became the center of the other Thir-
ty are dead from the storm which hit
the latter city. Fifteen were lost in
Yutan, Neb., between 25 and 50 in
surrounding Nebraska towns, ten in
Council Bluffs, Ia. while deaths of
from two to fifteen persons are re-
ported from score Of other small
towns through the nine states encom-
passed by the two storms.
The history of the middle west con.
tains no record of storms of such vio-
lence and attended by such appalling
loss of life.
1900 Houses Wrecked.
Twelve hundred houses were
wrecked in Omaha in addition to five
public schools and seven churches.
At the moment that the storm
struck every light in the city was
extinguished. Fires started all over
the destroyed section. Torrential
rains came Immediately and reduced
this danger to q minimum. Panic
ensued. Mayor nahlman took person
al command Of the situation and
called out all the available state
troops. appealing at the same time
to Governor Morehead for reinforce
ments. Before the roar of the lorna
do had died out i'm the distance the
work o. rescue had begun 1t con-
tinued uninterruptedly by lantern
light all through the night and with
the arrival of the governor with add.
tional state troops. supplemented by
the federal troops from Fort Omaha,
order IS rapidly being restored and
accurate accounting made of the ex-
tent OF the damage.
The hotels in the downtown sec.
ton OF the city, which escaped with
| little damage. have been turned into
hospitals for the treatment of the
hundreds of injured
Aid Is Forthcoming.
Trains bearing physicians nurse.
and supplies have been arriving fror
every direction. Money, too. is pour
Ing into the city from all quarters ant
offers Of aid are being received from
all sides.
The situation is appalling but it /!
believed that the authorities now
have 1t well in hand and there re
mains but the work of locating all O
the dead, caring for the injured ant
clearing away the wreckage prepara
tory TO rebuilding.
1t was night OF unimaginable fer
ror. In Omaha following the sudde,
bursting Of the storm. A thousan,
incidents were related OF its fury an
the effects which followed in II
wake.
, Strikes Ralston First.
The tornado travelled IN northeast
erly direction and first swept down q,
Ralston, n manufacturing suburb thre
miles west of South Omaha. II struc,
the city limits Of Omaha at the 6el
club, in the southwest section an
: plowed path six blocks wide strajgh
+, through tho city three and ono.hal
miles In length. Tho tornado aron wa
from the southwest limits, across tn