The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25

| O'Clock of the night before.
Nurses and medical supplies were
| also brought on this train.
Money Pouring In.
Money already is pouring into the
| city, the city organizations taking the
lead in providing funds.
State and religious organizations are
falling in line and offers of help are
coming from all quarters Of the Unit
ed States.
The Child Saving Institute at els
South Forty second street was veri-
table deathhouse after the storm had
spent it's fury. Every available room
was pressed into service and one after
another the dead and injured were
brought into the house.
A pathetic sight was that of a
young girl keeping watch over the
body of her mother. The mother, MIS-.
John Newman, had been killed in
stantly.
As the body lay on the porch of the
institute awaiting suitable burial ar
rangements, the daughter, Mabel New
man, told of the storm:
Mother was i'll and confined to a
room on the second floor of our home,
4224 Dewey avenue she said. when
the raging winds hit the house 1T top
pied over as if built of pasteboard.
Mother and myself were buried in the
wreckage. AS soon as I could pull my
for her. Board after board I lifted;
I tugged and pulled at them until my
hands were cut and bleeding. Finally
I reached her. I bent down to raise
her, but she was dead"
Work of Providence.
Dry eyed and calm the girl recited
the story, justifying it with the remark
that it was the work of Providence.
A coincidence among the injured at
the Child Institute was that all were
badly cut about the face, while the
bodies were comparatively free from
wounds. Ugly looking scalp wounds
marked every injury.
The home of George J. Duncan, adj
vertising manager of the Omaha Bee.
at 4101 Farnam street, was destroyed
completely Mr.. Duncan died at a hos
pital. Mrs. Duncan is in a critical con-
dition.
At the home of Patrick Hynes. 27O4
North Twentieth street a party in cele-
bration of his eighty-first birthday
anniversary was in progress. The
guests had just begun dinner and were
drinking a toast to the health of their
host when the storm swept the house
away All the party got out with minor
injuries. except a grandchild, Miss
Cecilia Bigelow, who was internally in
jured.
When the storm had passed. Mr.. and
Mrs. C. M Wilhelm found themselves
buried under a mass of broken and
twisted furniture and tin cans, which
had been blown into the house. They
extricated themselves with difficulty.
John Wright, a railroad Waterman,
probably owes his life to the fact that
he went to work a half hour ahead of
time, because he feared that he would
get wet if he did not hurry. Incidental
ly, this is the third time that Wright's
home has been threatened by a tornado.
Sixteen years ago in Norfolk, Neb., his
home was demolished and forty-two
years ago in Panora, Ia, he barely es-
capped with his life during tornado.
Little Gladys Crook was revived after
a house had been blown over her and
she had been imprisoned for more than
half an hour. 1t was necessary to chop
a large hole in the side of the house
before the little girl, whose cries for
help had brought reScuerS, was ta@en
out uninjured.
Entire Family Perish.
Cliff Daniels, his wife and their two
children met death together. When SOL
diers. digging about the ruins of their
home found the four bodies, the two
little girls were found cIasped in the
arms of their mother while the body of
the father was over them as II ne mad
tried to shield them with his own Lody.
Mary Knudsen, servant girl was
blown out of the house of her employer
and badly frightened, ran all the way
downtown to fall fainting in front Of
a hotel Her incoherent story was the
first news of the disatser received IN
the downtown section.
Although DR.. and Mrs d. C. Bryant
escaped without injury from their
home the mother of Mrs. Bryant was
found buried in the cellar of the house
and was rescued with difficulty. Debris
had piled about her until only her hea,
was exposed and she was unable to
take any steps to free herself
From the ruins of a negro pool hall
the body of a negro was taken out
along with many others. In one hand
of the dead man was clutched roll of
bills.
when c. Saber discovered the crush
ed body of his wife in the ruins of an
apartment house he fed down the
street. shrieking at the top or MS
voice He is missing.
Soldier Driven Insane.
E. H. Smith, a private of the signal
corps from Fort Omaha, became in
sane after helping carry number of
bodies and collapsed. When he had re-
gained consciousness it was necessary
to take him to the pest hospital, where
he was placed under restraint.
Sunday night at midnight the battle
IF the iinemen commenced and at 8
o'clock last night two news wires were
working out of the city Commercial
bulletins were sent to nearby cities in
the care of operators to be sent from
there. The wires continued in an ap-
parently hopeless tangle between
omaha and points directly east. Three
miles of wire were down directly east
Of Council Bluffs, while at several
other points in the territory between
Omaha and Chicago the lines were
paralyzed.
Railroaoing under these conditions
was a return to first principles and
trains between Omaha and Chicago
crawled along with flag
men walking before them, taking the
place of train dispatchers and block |
signals The first train into Omaha |
from the east was five hours late and |
carried more than 100 Iinemen to points |