Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-07

home Of Richard Keefe, 4723 Ham
ilton street.
Ed. Utterbach, 4Slo Cunning street,
garage demolished and windows
broken.
C. F, Lambert, 4sl7 Cunning
street, southwest corner of first
floor room blown in and pieces of
lumber from the Utterbach garage
entered this home.
Garage Demolished.
J. F. McCaffrey. 1881 Cunning
street, garage demolished and auto
mobile damaged; sleeping porch
and windows damaged.
An automobile and garage at the
home of Austin Braun, 4808 Web
ster street, were carried $50 feet
northward and demolished. Mr..
Austin stated that he saw his Henry
Ford going through the air. The
car landed upside down near Burt
street. A section of neighbor's
chicken house was blown into the
Braun parlor which was damaged.
Supper Dishes Broken.
At the home Of ]. P. Eckles, 1900
Webster street, the front porch was
twisted and inside doors of the
house were blown off their hinges.
Mrs. Eckles suffered several cuts on
the hands and head from flying
glass. Pictures were blown from up
stairs rooms to the downstairs
rooms and the dining table was
turned around and all supper dishes
were broken.
A. Feldhusen. 1920 North Forty
seventh avenue, barn wrecked, part
of roof carried away; windows brok-
en- and interior partially damaged.
A 2x6 section of lumber pierced
the roof of the home of {. E. Nor
rill, 48l7 Burt street, and knocked
quantities of plaster off.
House Complete Loss.
The home of L. M. Koch, 4S15
Burt street, is almost a complete
loss. The interior was wrecked.
The roof was blown from the
home of Mrs. Thomas Farran, 48l5
Burt street. Ceilings were cracked
and other damage caused.
The family of A. S. Avery was
eating lunch when the storm broke
over their home at 1921 Cunning
street. A 2x4 section of lumber
was blown into the upper story and
fell across bed. Windows were
broken and the interior Of the home
disarranged.
Charles J. Jensen, 4622 Cunning
street, front room furniture blown
into next room.
Roof Blown Of.
Mrs. A. Mcdowell, 1923 North
Forty-seventh avenue, roof blown
off, front porch wrecked and win
dows broken.
John Virgil, 807 North Forty
ninth street, roof off, plaster broken.
Plaster fell on John Virgil, jr., / IL
years old, scratching his forehead.
E. R. Hume, o04 North Forty
ninth street, section of roof blown
to his lawn.
A. B. Dennis, 1902 Webster street,
top blown from automobile.
John Taylor, 1902 Cunning street,
garage wrecked, automobile not
damaged; porch twisted and win
dows broken.
J. O. Stanfeld was driving east on
Center street, near Fifty sixth, when
the twister struck his car. 1t picked
the car up bodily from the pavement,
turned it around, and blew it into
the space where garage had for
merry stood. The garage was de-
Eight people in the car,
members of the Stanfeld family and
friends, escaped injury.
Lifted Near Asylum.
The tornado seemed to lift after
it left the vicinity of the Deaf and
Dumb asylum and turned into a hail
storm which did considerable dam
age.
The storm travelled west OF Fort
Omaha. Reports from Briggs sta
ton were that hail as large as hens
eggs shattered the glass in the farm
houses in this section and did con-
siderable damage.
Irvington was also visited by a
terrific hail storm which lid con-
damage.
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