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The moving picture show was

did not touch the earth. but where II
came in contact with houses flames
burst out
Fire spreads Among Ruins.
Omaha's fire department. reinforced
by citizens. never fought better than
last night. but nothing could stop the
spread of the blaze Every fire engine
in the city was called out at once and
then ~ wires were down in all direc-
tons Couriers in automobiles started in
all directions to summon help
Council Bluffs could do nothing and
the other towns reported the same. II
was simply a case Of fighting fire with
hands and feet, almost as we'll as with
n few engines, and Omaha did that last
night; fought fire. carried out its dead
and took its wounded to places OF safety.
Omaha came out of the shock OF the
disaster in "A few minutes. Hardly had
the great black. whirling cloud vanished
| of to the northward than the hremen
and citizens were out TO help.
Militia Called out.
Word went at once from the Mayor
to the Federal troops at Fort omaha
and Major Hartman mad every man OF
his command under arms In n half hour.
Word too went to all the armories, and
il needed not the summons of the mes
sengers to have the State soldiers go to
their armories to go on duty.
Mayor Dahlman speedily called to him
business men and public spirited ciu
zens The hospitals summoned every
physician of the city VINO was not in
jurci for emergency duty, Automo-
bilists either volunteered n once as
emergency ambulance corps or at a hint
volunteered and while the skies were lit
by the flames of burning buildings the
work of the rescue was begun.
The tornado had left the night cold
with high wind and cloudy sky. and
through the streets early were running
hundreds OF half clad women and chill
dren. They wandered but a little while.
for the homes Of the fortunate were
thrown open at once and all were well
come. So soon as one home was filled
another was opened and families were
passed along in relays TO safety and
warmth and food.
The newspapers and the police CO.
operating speedily also established in
formation bureaus where the names
and addresses of all who had escaped
were posted. so that fathers who had
been AZ work could learn where their
loved ones were. and that aided in the
night IN restoring order.
Exclusive Club Lends Aid.
The Commercial Club. Omaha's most
exclusive business organization, at once
ordered its rooms TO be opened as
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THE WEST WRACKED
BY 9 DAYS STORM
Biggest Disaster the Climax Of
Cyclones Piled on
Billiards.

The past nine days have been almost
unprecedented for the damage done by
rain, wind and snow in the Northwest
and the middle West. The loss Of life
is large, and the property lose will be
millions Of dollars
Not a day has passed without the
telegraph bringing news Of great dam
age IN some part Of the country. on
March IL blizzard swept over the
middle West and Northwest from the
Dakotas to Illinois. Trains we're
blocked and the accompanying gale did
extensive damage. The next day a hur-
r!cane swooped down on Mobile. Ala,
Hundreds OF rooftops. whipped from
their moorings. dropped into the street.
\ steady. heavy downpour Of rain went
with the windstorm, and drenched and
flooded the towns The rainstorm did
much damage in Georgia, but the wind
blew itself ont N the region near
Mobile.
The next day. March II. storm
pounced upon Tampa. Fla. and did
much damage. For several days in sue
cesston the newspapers printed news Of
bad storms from other parts of the
country. mostly in the middle West, in
which lives were lost and property de-
stroyed. and then on, March 21 both
wind and snow brushed over the
Mississippi! Valley with n violence that
took more than i50 lives. The property
loss caused by this one storm alone will
run into millions. Everything break
able was broken. II will be at lea NJ
three years before the crops fully re-
! cover from the setback.
Then on Sunday and Monday the
! cyclone in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and
the Dakotas caused immense loss
and early yesterday Illinois and In.
diana felt the whirl of the same wind
storm nt cost of many lives near
Terre Haute
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, -,
,uin ,roni 'he ar',s oi its ia'r'i' ~ w,
"a'sn' ana ailer the s'orih II was louhu
shusEy ueposite" IN tnT zee oi proketi
rooi' aosoiutely unlnJureu ana even pro-
tected from inc ram ny tne roor OF a
mouse which formeriy had hcen several
docks away. Virginia MOTIFS daughter
OF well known business man. lay
sick on the second fIoor or their home.
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FINDS PARENTS BOTH DEAD.
Son Breaks Into Home with Polite,
man-Thousht Asphyxiated.

PAssAIc. N. /, March 24.-Accompanio6
by policeman. Alvin Muller. an insur
ance agent, of washington avenue. bro
into the home OF his parents, Mr.. A..
Mrs. Herman f. Muller of Sc Semel ave
nue., Garfield, to-day and found them dead
In a bedroom. County Physician Sanue,
f. Armstrong thinks that death was acct
dental.
When the son broke into the house hs
found his mother who was IS years old
dead in bed. Hts father. 86 years olo
was lying dead on the floor near the
bed. The gas Jet OF range in the
kitchen Immediately adjoining WAS wide
open. but there was no trace OF gas In
the room. The police believe the couple
were asphyxiated while asleep
Herman Muller retired recently with q
small fortune.
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duct of the Illinois Central Railroad as
II did SO. Just before crossing the
river the irunt OF the storm struck
the Missouri Pacific roundhouse and de-
molished IT, together with the locomo-
tives within.
The northwest roundhouse. which
stood close by. went down into smith
Greens. The great Convent of the Sac
red Heart, IA Catholic school was hit by
flying cottage and wrecked. The
two hundred and fifty girl students had
all gone to their homes for Faster ser
vice and none were injured
A, the Childs Savings Institute one
little baby was simply pulled out of
| the window by the force of the wind and
dashed To death a quarter Of a mile
away.
Al Twenty-fourth and Lake streets
forty negroes We're gathered in n pool
hail. Til. place was completely de-
mollshed and six negroes have been
! taken from the place dead, Thirty
others are believed to he beneath the
wreckage, but the numbers are not in
cluded in the list of two hundred dead.
- Buried Under Picture show.
Diamond moving picture show was In
full blast. The building went down like
house of cards and IL believed to have
buried at least seventy-five In the ruins
Those are not included in the list OF
dead.
Constantly to-day new deaths are re-
ported At least fifty names have BEEN
added to- the dead since noon. The fun
lao Ln until tho labrIs is
cleared away, and by many It Is believed
that $50 perlshed.
In Council Bluffs, where the storm
went after 1t crossed the Missouri, n
dozen people were killed and many In
jured.
20 killed on Iowa Side.
Leaving that city the twister moved
on into Iowa. leaving death In It's wake,
and twenty-six deaths have been re-
ported from that side OF the stream.
At Yutan, Neh., the storm killed
fifteen and injured forty before It struck
the city of Omaha. Several other small
towns were wrecked and assisted in
swelling the death list.
The storm tore down every telephone
and telegraph wire entering into Omaha
and for nealy twenty-four hours not "A
single message was sent out except by
train. The telegraph offices were be-
seiged by hundreds OF frantic people
anxious to notify their friN,ds Of their
safety.
Two little girls were blown from the
house OF Morris Christensen. They
were found three blocks from home.
Another baby, eight months old, was
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FOUND DEAD ON GOLF LINKS
william 4. Toles of boston In,
Been Away All Nirht.

BosToN, March 24,-The body of Will.
lam A. Toles, 65 years old, retired
Boston business man and resident of
Waban, was found this morning on the
golf course Of the Brac Burn Country
Club at West Newton.
MT roles played golf yesterday for
the hrst time this season and started
to walk home alone. Apparently he
collapsed At Mr., Toless home It was
said that he had been away all night.
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Snmmonses went out from the District
attorneys office yesterday for witnesses
VINO testified In tho Albany inquiry as to
Harry Thaw's alleged attempt to get ont
OF Mattcawan through bribery to 90 to the
Criminal Courts Building and talk with
Assistant District Attorney De Ford Al
tornerr Einnr Chrystie, counsel for tho
was In conference yesterday with Distri, 4
Nttorney whitman. who said the mater
would be put before the Grand Jury. as di
reoted-by Gov.SulSsr.
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by the shouts Of the uninjured as they
Joined in the work Of rescue.
Soon the streets were Uttered with
the wounded and the dead. The streets
were covered with debris and the autos
and Ambulances could make no head
way. The streets were made dangerous
by dangling live electric wires, which
spitted blue flames when they came in
contact with the earth. The storm
formed from the junction Of two clouds
and while being observed by thousands
suddenly turned into twster and
darted with the speed Of a limited train
to the northeastward.
Mile Long Viaduct Wrecked.
It passed across the Missouri River
into Iowa wrecklng the mile long via
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Or. Bristow's Condition Serious.

Dr. A. T Bristow. a Brooklyn surgeon
who Is suffering from blood poisoning in
his left arm at his home at 234 Clinton
street, was not 40 well last night. Hs
temperature was higher and his condition
was considered very serious The attend
ing physicians said. however, he was in
no immediate danger.
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streets Arc CioRged.

Telephone poles. trees and wrecked
houses filled all the streets around the
telephone building, making Il imNos-
sible for any vehicles to get ncn- the
place.
Automobiles passing were all urgcd
to stop, either to get physician or to
take the injured and dying to hospitals.
A street car on a North side line was
demolished by the tornado and ten OF
the passengers injured. Conductor Cald-
well said: II was on the back platform
when I saw the tornado coming. I gave
the signal to stop, shouted to the pas
sengers that a cyclone was coming and
ran for basement of m unfinished
building. l jumped Into the basement
and three or four passengers were with
me. Wreckage few over us and n lot
Of boards were piled on top OF us. A
scantl!ng was driven through the car
and wedged between the seats and the
side of the car"
How anybody could have lived in the
car is mystery. Every window Ia
broken. bricks and debris OF all kinds
are piled inside the car and every seat
Is torn loose.
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Girls Remain st Their Posts.

within five minutes after the storm
struck every girl was at her place at
the switchboard, and many continued TO
work while broken glass was showcrlng
about them. one of the RESI- rooms
the furniture soaked with water and
stained with blood was converted into
a temporary morsue. and bodies from
the surrounding distric, were held there
physicians occupied another room. where
injured persons were stretched on the
floor.
+, +. Russell lay on the floor, his
body covered with blood and his face
disfgured almost beyond recognition. He
had been buried by brick wall under
one of the Twenty fourth street build
| lngs that were demolished Fire sur
rounded him on all sides and he was
| nearly dead when dragged from the
burning ruins. Russell was delirious
while lying on the floor OF the tempo--
| airy hospital in the telephone exchange
and constantly talked about the fire.
| which he thought was still about him
The Rev. Father p. j. Judge. pastor Of
the Sacred Heart Church n little north
OF Twenty-fourth and Lake streots, was
In the telephone building. eDcaking COM
forting words to the suffering and pray
Ing for the dying. Many members OF
the priests congregation were injured.
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working at the switchboards when the
tornado struck Every window In the
building was broken out and consider
able damage was done to the building.
but the switchboards remained intact.
All night the force OF operators con-
tinued to work at the board
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CYCLONE KILLS 10
IN TERRE HAUTE

Continued from First Page.
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blazing Houses Line street.

Decatur and Franklin streets were
nlled with debris ana linod with blazing
homes for three quarters of a mile i'm.
mediately after the tornado As the fires
spread the destitute families wrapped
their wet garments about Themselves
and hurried toward the central mar, or
the city The high hill overlooking tho
scene of desolation In the Decatur dis
.rot was early crowded with the dcsti-
.ute ana injured victims Of the storm.
scores or weeping men and women
watched the burnn" wreck of their
homes lighting up the sky.
Many Of the victims. exhausted and
almost hysterical, gathered together in
family groups and sat ON the sidewalks
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strewn course az this point seemed TO
be the county hospital and poor farm.
= Although the main building with its
Is h,,dro5s 90 nai,,o,, ,,,,.,a, ua,
! sp"'e"' "'' VI '''e pai" an" ou'''ouses
sof the various buildings were swept
. clean. Goifers ON the held club INKS
s.w tho work of d,.yas,,,io, in nr,y-
ress.
The western boundary lay along the
. Falls city branch of the Missouri
Pacific until Forty eighth and Leaven-
worth streets was reached when the
. tornado seemed To jump to the Farnam
hill residence district
q '"'" N" "'As !" ""s
blocks in width and nothing hut ruin
o was left within It's confines. From tho
. entrance of the storm into Bemis Park
it appeared to have broadened its scope
s. Eelentlcssiy it tore path through
. block after block of store buildings,
flats and homes.
. In kountze place the scene of devas-
i. tation cuualled that i'm any other dis
r. trict. Binney street recognized as one
" ' "a,
avenue is rendered impassable. Great
trees thc uride of a resident of tho
street were ,,pronted or broken souare,y
IN two
Her. the street gas irbts had beep
lighted for the evening. The storm car
ried off the glass covering and demol.
ishod the mantIes The results were
bupa ,iclarinr ,orcb,s ,f flaming y.s
,bn, aubnncod , qb,st,v ,rna,r,nc. of
m, u.boI,-
lu,nmolaI,s ,i,l,od mn hoduv tr,,,
tho street and brr,.d &, oil a,roo,ion.
ara >, ha econ In ,,r;ous st,yos ~,
-demoIi,io, !, .vorv soctior ~ ,ba o,,,,
" "AutouobiIos n5u for,, - Iorr. -, -
: Tho rro,nr,, dos,rrc.,o, n,. A..
s.ro,,' :, ~ .a-,l
.,,.,,,,., ,,.i.,, ,,,..,','n
-,r,,t.,,. at,.,,,,. -. ~ W, u.
L.,r'ot RI, -, 's'e'
,nua ~, M ,'r ..o'u III
its foundation and hurled bottom side
"P,
=, "aiis S'ree'S WIN retali stores criss-
cross tAiS section with the residence
.por'io'i W 'he city scattered IN the in
'erVehinS sections. Many OF the best
PAL ihS "i 'he CITY are III the ulstrict COW
sered ana at least TWO OF these were
wrecked hanscom Park, situated near
,~here the storm started. was damaged
greatly. ana Bemis Park, one of the
show residence districts of the city, was
struck with sufficient force to wreck
most of the residences within its limits.
,, a., man
one part OF IN" area covered by the
storm Is that between cunning street ON
'he SCUM anu Afnes avenue on the
n"rth ana from TWentN-fourth street
on the east to Fifteth street on the
west. This Is the most thrkly populated
residence district in the city and CON
tains ten of the largest public schools
In Omaha Many OF the largest churches
of all denominations also are in that
part of the city. Omaha University was
I'm the path of the storm.
h"iSt"h' i'''nor anu Duhuee' SUI
md rounciI Rluffs In win "a ooo n,n,
,,Iot;,r diroc,I,. across III. river coon,
c,r,ba s,cornd yroo, d,r,ooa ros,
,,r,ha ,,hIcr tol, tho ,on -, ,ha .,.is,n,
,a,''r,a1 h,,,.os, ,to,,a,tshad 49,, ~, ii,'',
,,,',
''''
IIosDituI. Vnxrd IN l'tmu,t
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ThoKn0wn Dead.

ThsKnown Dead.
BROwER, JAMES
BRAYER, NJ.
CARTER. MOSES
DAVIS, MRS. IDA.
EDwARDs. CHANDOn6.
GRIFFITH. MRS. WILLIAM. Of Gar.
dentown.
HOUK. J. ". JR
KING. MRS FRED. ana hsSH
MATHERLY. WILLIAM. Of Garden.
town.
MOORE. DIR. MAHoN.
MYERS. JOHN.
ROGERS. ALEXANDER. (
FULLY. MISS LIZZIE.
Unidentified man.
Reported Dead.
CARTER, Mrs. N. A.. and baby.
DAVIS, HARLEY.
FOX. JEFFERSON.
HINES.
KING. FRED.
LEFTHNs. WILLIAM. :"
YEAGER. NEAL.
Tho tornado which visited this city
struck Perth. inthe northern part OF
Clay county. about 10 O'Clock and then
vanished in the air. No Nves were lost
there and only ono person was injured.
Nearly every building In the little
town Of 400 population was wrecked or
damaged. A brick store building, five
two story houses and seven cottage
the Conversational church, 4 school
house. three story structure. barns and
outhouses were completely wrecked.
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fate and conditioner their families and

.-...
iriends
about tho bosnital ,c.ied ar, q, n,,r a.,
fright ono IittIo follow wish a 49,.
cash over bjs cvo crIcd M, sa, st..
mother as bo was ,,oang talon =, ~.
operatinp room ttis father y,, ,a.
him and tr,od ,n ,ond ,vha, ca,,sa,.,
possible, A little rirl in ono NJ ,ha inv,
rooms NJ Tho hosni,,I n,.,,,d
laughed ON her bed while th,ns anxiou'
pbvsican. worL.a r,i,h hor &c. ~,
had su,ta,r.d co,rno,,na srao,,,-
tho leg and n dis,oco,od sho,,,dor
Victime' ErteuJs Crowo uo.p,t.,
rI,enos ana relatives OF people living
III .ne STORM devastated region soon
crowded inc halls or the hospitals, anS-
,ous'S 'hqu,ring IL those dear to them
were among the Nlctifns' Many learned
VI tne Whereabouts M relatives or
iriehus IN 'he rooms OF tne hospitsl and
crowded IN 10 see tneu when this was
possible expressing JOY that they had
escaped from death peneath the falling
waiis anu ',inpeIS OF 1neir MONIES. One
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which may hc measured in feet and
Sinchcs. Great residences and buildings
were cut SO cleanly in two that a
mathematician might employ the cali
pers in alIgning the exact razor edge
of the storm.
small Towns wiped out.
As far as can he ascertained the
swister started upon its career OF horror
somewhere in Cass county, wiping out
Nthe town of Nutan and then striking
through Waterloo and 1lalston. Its Zig
gag course was battling and many towns
report losses. which indicates that the
main stem of the tornado was con-
stantly giving off smaller twisters
which acted as fankers with the deadly
intent OF making clean sweep over
the outlying territory.
Gretna and Union and Millard felt
the force of the wind. hut the chief dis
aster lay in the path of the big wide all
powerful cloud which entered omaha
Centre street.
The eastern boundary of the death
astrewn course at this point seemed to
be the county hospital and poor farm.
Although the main building. with its
hundreds of helpless inmates. was
spared. all of the barns and outhouses
sof the various buildings were swept
p clean. Golfers on the field club links
and on the Nerandas of the clubhouse
saw the work Of devastation in prog
ress.
a. The western boundary lay along the
Falls city branch of the Missouri
Pacific until Forty-clghth and Leaven-
worth streets was reached when the
tornado seemed To jump to the Farnam
hill residence district
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| did not touch the earth. but where II
came in contact with houses flames
|
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-06
ALASKA NEEDS MORE
THAN ONE RAILWAY
Commission Submits Report to
President Taft.

Washington, Feb. 6.-The Alaskan
railway commission has reported to
President Taft that more than one ex-
tensiye railway will be needed proper
ly to open up Alaska's resources.
The report, which the president will
send to congress with recommenda.
tions, says there are several available
railroad routes from the coast into the
far interior OF Alaska. No definite
recommendations are made as to the
choice of routes. The report declares
that the route up the Susitna valley,
passing near the rich Matanuska coal
fields, on up through good agricultural
land to the Neana Ignite fields and on
to Fairbanks, in Central Alaska, with
it's gold, silver and other wealth, could
not develop the resources of the Cop
per river valley.
The route from Cordova, in the ia
nous Controller bay region, up the
Copper and Tanana river basins to
Fairbanks, would be near the Behring
coal fields, which could be opened up
by the building of a branch line, then
would go north through rich copper
country and on to Central Alaska.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-06
STANLEY FLAYS MONOPOLY Y
Speaks at Production Center of Two
Greatest Trusts.

Pittsburg, Feb. 6.-This city, which
has been the production center of two
of the biggeS combines-Steel and
Standard Oils turning over and ovel
about the utterances of Chairman
Stanley of the house steel investigat
ing committee before the American
Institute of Banking.
The Two Servilisms" was Stan,
ley's subject, and he said one was the
servilism of the workingman and the
other that of the monopolist. OF the
two Stanley pictured the latter as the
most destructive and as the cause oil
the spread of Socialism among work
ingmen.
I'm this country, instead of the
crime of monopoly being referred to
as thieVery, which for 500 years the
laws of the Anglo-Saxons have de
clared it to be, ii is declared 'co-opera
ton and the golden rule of business.
only that which is right can prop
erly be regulated. that which is wrong
should be punished"
Stanley, who was reported interest
ed in a probe of the Rankin strike,
stated the object of his visit here was
to address the bankers and not an in
vestigation of the strike.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-02-06
GARMENT MAKERS
STRIKE is COSTLY
Thirty Millions Lost to Both
Sides In One Month.

New York, Feb. Elm the one
month since the strike in the men
and boys garment making industry
began here a loss of $30,000,000 has
been borne by the manufacturers and
their workmen, according to esti-
mates.
1t is declared that more than one
tenth of the annual output of mems
and youths ready made clothing,
amounting to $20,000,0OO, has been
lost to the industries in this city.
while the loss In wages 20 wofkmen
is estimated at $10,0O0,O00. This does
rot include the losses incurred by the
strikes in the women's garment in
dustry.
There is no sign of peace in sight.
One manufacturer said that the in
dustry had now lost the greater part
of the seasons business and that
further negotiations with the strikers
were out of the question The pro
posal made by the United Manufae'
turers' association more thar week
ago, however, including a provision
for a fifty-two-hour week and an in.
crease in wages of from to 10 per
cent is to be voted on by the garment
cutters The tailors and operators
have taken no steps to vote on the
matter.