Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-25
TERRIBLE TOLL Of DEATH ECTED STORM WHICH TALLY WRECKS OMAHA

Money b. already pouring into the
city the city organizations taking the
lead In pro,idine funds state and
religious bodies are falling ln line ana
offers Of help are coming from aH
quarters uf the United States The
child saving institute t No. olH
South Forty-second street, was Ner-
table death house after 'ho storm
had spent lbs fury Every available
room was pressed into se~vlce, and
one after another. Che dead and ins
iured were brought into thc house
A pathetic sight was that Of a
young girl kcepine watch over the
dead hody Of her mother The mother.
Mrs. John Newman had been Killed
Instantly As the body lay ON the
porch OF the institute awaiting suit
able burial arrangements the dnuHh-
ter. Mabel Newman. told of the storm.
Mother was Il and confined To "a
room on the second floor of our
home. No. 42zl Dewey avenue. she
snid "When the raging Winds hit
the house. IL toppled over as if built
.ol pastcboard Mother and were
buried In the Wreckage. As soon as
could pull myself from the debris,
began search for her Board after
board | lifted ugged and pulled at
them. until my hands were cut and
bleeding FINALLY ! reached her.
bent down To raise her, bat She WAS
dead.
Dry-eyed and calm the girl recltcd
the story. iustifylns IL with the re-
mark that Il was the work Of ProNi~
dence 4 coincidence among the IN
iured at the child saving Institute Is
that AN were badly eat about the face
while the bodies were comparatively
free from wounds t'gly looking scalp
wounds marked overy injury. The
home of George j Duncan. adNertis-
ing manager of the omaha Bee, at
No ii01 Farnum street. was complete
~ destroyed Mr. Duncan died at a
hospital this afternoon Mrs Duncan
Is IN critical condition.
At the home of Patrick Hynes. No.
.2704 North Twentieth street a party
in celebration of his eighty first
birthday anniversary was i'm progress.
The guests had just begun dinner and
were drinking "a toast to the health
of their hest when the storm swept
the house away. All the party sue
ceedcd IN getting out with minor in
iufies except erandchild, Miss Ce-
celia BigeloW. who WAS internally
injured
"The party had Just begun dinner.
said Mr. Hynes "Thc young people
were making merry and old as ! said,
had entered into the spirit. suddenly
there was "A roaring sound. The neat
minute the house WIS in ruins
Wriggled around and out and aided
the others in escaping
And then suddenly brought back to
the fact that his erandchild was neaf
death he said. "Oh. if IT had onlg
been me instead of Cecella.'
when the storm had passed. Mf.
ana Mrs G. NJ Wilhelm found theu=
selves buried under a mass of hfok IN
and twisted furniture and tin Guns
which had been blown into the house.
They eXtricated themselves With difii-
Guilty. John Wright, "A railroad watch-
man, probably owes his life 10 th fact
that he went to work a half hour
ahead Of time. because he feared mat
he would get wet ii he did not hurry
incidentally, this is the third lime that
Wrght's home has been destroyed hy
a tornado. sixteen years ago IN NOT
folk, Neb., his home was demolished,
and fortN-two years ago, In Pahora,
Ia. he barely escaped with his life
during a tornado.
Little Gladys Crook was revived al
ter house had been blown of p her
and she had Aoen imprisoned fr more
than half an hour. II was aaerssnrs
To chop large hole in the side ci tho
house before the little gill vncs
cries for help had brought reselers,
was taken ont nniniurod
Cliff Daniels his wife, aud tpetr
two children met death together
When soldiers going about the ruiz
"a T.. fsAtltNHH
the two little girls were found elusped
in the arms of their mother, while the
body of the father was over IN IN, as
II he had tried to shield them with hl3
own body Mary knudson. a servant
girl WAS blown out of the 1nir =
her employer and. badly frightened
ran an the way down town To fall
famtng i'm front of a hotel Her .n-
coherent story was the first news 81
the disaster wrcaked in the downtown
section
Although Dr ana Mrs D. g. 3rytni
escaped without injury from theie
home the aged mother Of Mrs. Bryaat
was found buried ia the cellar or he
house and was rescued With difficulty
Debris had piled aheut her until onlt
her head WAS exposed and she was
unable to take any steps TO free her
self
From the ruins de negro pool
hall the body of negro was takeu
out, along with many others In thel
hand of the dead man was clutched
"a roll Of bills.
The body of an unidentified clild
was found In the ruins Of two houses
with little rag doh still tucked undetl
her arm.
When q. sabcr disco red the
crushed and almost unrc, oTnizab'e
body Of his wife IN the ruins IN
apartment house he fled down the
street shrieking ot the top of his
voice Il is missing
f. G. smith, a private Of the Signal
corps from Fort omaha. became in
sane after helping carry a number ef
bodies. and collapsed When he p.ld
regaincd consciousness it was necAs-
sary to take him to the post hosp tll
where he was placed under rest ain
, Last night wire communication with
the outside world was entirely mt
Oft The only available report of the
disaster was taken to Lincoln by train
and there filed over the Associ1te |
Press wires Telephone and telegraph |
wires along all the railroads were
down. Last night at midnight the
battle CT the linemen commenced and
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