Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-25
FOR DEAD
in OMAHA IS
UNDER Way
PITIFUL SCENES ARE ENACTED As
BEREAvED ONES TRY TO FIND
BODIES OF LOVED ONES AMID
DEBRIS LEFT BY STORM.
HOSPITALS CROWDED
TO FULL CAPACITY

Omaha, Neb.. March 25.--Groups OF
men, aided and encouraged by women
and children labored necessarily today
among the ruins of homes ana other
buildings in the section of this city
which was practically annihilated by
tornado Sunday, in search of the liv-
ing or dead buried beneath the tons
Ci debris Added to last nights death
list of 1872 were 16 more bodies recov'
cred before 8 o'clock from under the
brick and iron beams of the ldlewild
club hall.
A thorough search in the wreckage
OF the Diamond moving picture the
atre failed to reveal any bodies, and it
ie the opinion of senrchers that ali
who were trapped in the building by
, the panic that ensued Immediately up
op the rush of terrific wind have been
found. Sixteen bodies already have
been removed from the ruins OF this
luilding.
Since last night the total number OF
missing persons has materially in
creased. Relatives of persons living
within the area stricken by the cy-
clone began to arrive in Omaha last
night and the influx of anxious ones
| continued late today From many oil
them come reports of missing friends
/ and relatives. This, it is believed, will
swell Omaha's death list to larger
| degree than had been expected.
The heavy snow which has fallen
since midnight and still is falling,
made rescue work particularly slow
and difficult Only portions of the
ruins of some buildings within which
persons are known to have been kill.
! ed have been removed
! AS quickly as bodies are found they
| are being rushed to morgues which
have been established in various parts
| OF the city effected by the tornado
! Relatives ere CLAIMING, most of the
bodies. but some remain unidentified
! None of these are being buried, the
coroner delaying interment until pos
sibility of identification becomes more
remote.
Funerals and burials of the dead
| whose families have claimed the
bodies. are being held today from all
churches and many homes. Gene
teries are thronged with grieving
friends and relatives OF victims.
Scenes in hospitals and public build
ings which have been converted into
hospitals beggar description. Nurses
have been on duty, many OF them
since Sunday night. Not only do they
have to administer to the Injuries OF
their patients, but give mucn OF their
time in consoling desperately anxious
relatives of those who lie upon the
cots in many wards. Equally untltns
are the physicians who have volun-
teered their services in alleviating the
suffering of victims.
Today many OF the patients began
to show marked improvement tina,
they have been dismissed from the
hospitals Such a process of elimi-
nation is expected to give both physi-
clans and nurses few hours rest to-
night, and by tomorrow hospital staffs
expect to have an organization which
can work in relays.
Storm sufferers are being fed in
churches and lodge halls. The city is
furnishing food for them and will CON
tinue to do so until some semblance
of order is restored within the strick-
on districts.
Martial law is still being strictly en-
| forced throughout the storm area
Upon the soldiers rest responsibility
for the prevention of looting and fires.
The city health department is making
every effort to place the district in a
sanitary condition as rapidly ar pos.
sible.
Garbage wagons and trash carts
were the only vehicles admitted with
in the patrolled section today. The
water supply remains unimpaired and
the city health officers are finding it
adequate aid in eradicating unsan-
itation.
Few people remain in that section
of the city to the north which was es-
pecially hit by the storm. Houses are
in such condition, even those that
remain standing, to preclude them as
habitations. Every dray, wagon and
moving van in the city was pressed
into service today by order Of the city
as we'll as by individual orders to
move the household goods from
houses which partially had been de-
molished.
Police took charge of the receipt
and delivery of messages concerning
injured people today. Inability of the
messenger boys to deliver kilograms
and failure to find large number of
people addressed made imperative
some new system, and large squad of
police with motor cars were pressed
into service.
Shivering from cold, scores of men,
women and children this morning
struggled to rescue the dead and in.
jured buried beneath the wreckage of