The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-03-28

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clasped in the arms of their moth
while the body of the father was
yer them, as if he had tried to shid
them with his own body.
Mary Knudsen, a servant girl, wi
blown out of the home of her ed
ployer and badly frightened, ran
the way down town to fall faintid
in front of hotel. Her own stoI
was the first news of the disastJ
received in the downtown section.
The body of an unidentified chill
was found in the ruins of two housed
with a little rag doll tucked undek
her arm.
Finds Wife Crushed.
When c. Saber discovered the
crushed and almost unacceptable
body of his wife in the ruins of an a.
partment house, he fled down the
street, shrieking at the top of his
voice. He is missing.
E. H. Smith, of the signal corps
from Fort Omaha, became insane af-
ter helping carry a number of bodies
and collapsed. When had regained
consciousness it was necessary to
take him to the post hospital, where
he could be placed under restraint.
Last night wire communication
with the outside world was entirely
cut off. The only available report of
the disaster was taken to Lincoln by
train and there filed over the Asso-
clated Press wires. Telephones and
telegraph wires along all the rail-
roads were down. Last midnight the
battle of the linemen commenced and
ats o'clock tonight two news wire
were working out the city. CONNER
clal bulletins were sent to nearby cit
les In the care of the operators to be
sent from there. The wires continu-
ed IN an apparently hopeless tangle
between Omaha and points directly
east.
Trains between Omaha and Chica
go crawled along with flagmen walk
ing before them, taking the place of
train dispatchers and block signals.
The first train into Omaha from
the east was five hours late and car
ried more than 100 linemen to points
east of this city.
Fire in Wake.
A. L. Green, an advertising mama
ger of department store, was on his
back porch watching the storm when
it broke.
1T came like rushing and roar
ing torrent of WATER" he said. "'rr
came from the south and passed by us
to the east. I went to my attic win
dow Immediately afterward and saw
fires bursting forth from the
houses along the patch of the storm
The flames made a ghastly sight as
they Illuminated the areas of razed
buildings"
E. w. Dixon was bruised about the
head and his wife and three children
were seriously injured. Dixon start
ed upstairs as he saw the tornado
funnel swoop down and crush the
homes of his neighbors to the south.
An instant later he was hurled down.
stairs into the dining room, flat on
his face. Dazed, he struggled to the
cellar. A second later his home was
swept away and the family in the
basement had but the sky above them
Flames sprang up.
at seemed as if the whole city was
afire," said Dixon. "Then 1 lifted my
wife and children out and down the
street, joining scores my unfortunate
neighbors. We had lost our all but
are thankful for our lives"
Fire broke out in the debris of
many wrecked buildings in the Ne
braska metropolis, and these were
menaces for some time, as the fire
companies were hindered by fallen
walls and blockaded streets.
Of the 200 known dead within the
area covered by the storm, 152 were
residents of Omaha. The remaining
dead are scattered over a consider
able range of territory, with Council
Bluffs reporting IL, Yutan, Neb., 16,
Berlin, Neb., 7, Glennwood, Iowa, 5,
Nicola, Iowa, 2, and Bartlett Iowa, 8.
1,500 Are Homeless.
Perhaps 1,50O persons are home
less. Aside from this, 5000 build
ings were more or less damaged,
some of these being churches and
school buildings. Eight of Omaha's
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