The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 03, 1913, Image 3

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FEARFUL TORNADO ?'? MANY PEOPLE KILLED OR RORT AT OR IN OMAHA i GREAT PROPERTY LOSS . -y ?4? More Tnan Two iiunureu i*eopie jviii4 ed, Over Four Hundred Hurt and Nearly Four Thousand Buildings, Homes.! Churches, Schools, I0tc., Wrecked uml Damaged. More than 200 persons were killed and 4 00 were injured in a wind storm that demolished 4 50 homes, damaged hundreds of other buildings and caused a monetary loss of $5,000,000, according to reports available up to a late hour Monday night from the main path of the tornado in and near Omaha. Fire broke out in the debris of many wrecked buildings in the Nebraska metropolis, and these were menaces for some time, as the fire companies were hindered by fallen walls and blockaded streets. A heavy ' rain followed the wind, however, and drenched the hundreds of homeless ? persons, but also put out the flames. Of the 202 known dead within the area covered by the storm, 152 were residents of Omaha. The remaining dead are scattered over a considerable range of territory, with Council Bluffs reporting 12; Yutan, Neb., 1C; Berlin. Neb., 7; Glennwood, la., 5, Neola. Ia., 2; and iBartlett, la., 2. The same cities and towns report an aggregate of 4 00 injured and 4 50 homes damage. While the loss of life is much less than at first reported, the damage by the tornado was fearful to both human life and property. Perhaps 1,500 persons are homeless. Aside from this, 3,000 buildings were more or less damaged, some of these being churches and school buildings. Eight of Omaha's public schools were wrecked. All forms of communication were A almost annihilated by the wind and only two or three wires were in \ working order out of what for'twenty hours had been chaos. The storm swept the western part of the city for its entire length. The eastern half of the city?generally composing the business section?was out of the path of the storm but suffered greatly. The section damaged is;the residential portion of the city. A/number of outlying business thor-"T^rjghfarefl.also aie in the destroyed area. * The storm appeared to have started at 5 4th and Center streets. From thorn it travelled north. vceri?)g slightly to the east, to Leavenworth street. Then it took a norheasterly course to 4 0th and Farnum slreets, sweeping its way through everything. Still travelling a little east of north, it covered a course from 4 0th street, east, to 3 4 th street, a distance of six blocks. Striking Bennis Park, where the >homes of the well-to-do Omahans are located, the storm turned sharply to the east and passed along Parker and Blonde streets to 24th street, where its path was six blocks wide. In the latter section the damage is Complete. Many handsome residences in this section were demolished and many people killed or hurt. Finally at 14tli and Spencer streets the storm swept over the bluffs, high a{)ove the Missouri River, demolished* the Missouri-Pacific roundhouse, levelled the big trestle of the Illinois Central Railroad over Carter Lake, wrecked a number of buildings near the Rod and Clun Club, a fashionable outing place, and disappeared to the northwest. The streets of Omaha are filled with wreckage of houses, uprooted ^trees and tangled electric wires. Street car movement is impossible, wagon and automobile travel almost so. The storm came almost without warning, the day which opened with} overeast skies having cleared in the I afternoon. It took the tornado only) a few minutes to do its work of de-! s traction. The little town of Ralston, three miles west of South Omaha, first felt II1? HU'jr UJL 111C DIU11U, VV illtll I I took a toll of a half dozen or more ( lives and practically destroyed the town. In a northeasterly direction , and almost a straight line it trav- ] elled, wrecking many handsome i homes in the fashionable West Far- 1 nam and Bemis Park districts. \ Many business buildings in the vi- , cinity of 2 4th and Lake streets were ( destroyed or badly damaged. Hero ( the heaviest loss of life occurred. Electric light and trolley wires were carried down by the storm and power had to be shut off in the devastated districts so that all work in the night 1 might be done by the light of lan- f terns and only an imperfect idea of r the extent and character of the dam- r age could be formed. ( The work of rescue was at once 1 undertaken but only slow progress 1 was made in the darkness, and the t blockaded streets. Emergency hospitals were established at various points and all available physicians and nurses pressed into service. Dr. t H. W. Connell, city health commis- 1 sioner, appealed to surgeons to vol- v unteer their services for the relief of c the Injured and the response came e ' ) by scores. City authorities, realizing the extent of the calamity, immediately asked the commander of the Federal forces at Fort Omaha for aid in patrolling the wrecked districts to prevent looting and aid victims. iMajoi Hartmann, in command at Fort Omaha, acceeded to the request without hesitation, sending all available men, A similar request to the commanders of the three local military companies also met with prompt response and the State troops aided much in the work of rescue. Later, when an appeal was sent to Governor Moorhead, he ordered four companies of militia from outside the city to report there for duty and came himself arriving at three o'clock in the morning. Among the buildings destroyed were eleven churches and eight school houses. No loss of life accompanied the demolition of these buildings. Secred Heart Convent was annihilated, but the fifty inmates escaped. The Missouri Pacific roundhouse and the roundhouse of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway were wrecked. A number of persons were seriously injured when a street car was blown over at 47th and Leavenworth streets. The conductor, John Cooper, was seriously injured. The motorman, Fred Hentley, jumped just as the car started to roll. The wind picked him up, carried him 2 00 feet and set him down in a field considerably shaken. Conductor Cooper says there were at least liftcen passengers in the car. All were more or less hurt. It was late Monday before all the details of the storm which accompanying wreckage were known even within the city itself. The pathway of the storm, from three to seven blocks in width, cut a swath twentyfour blocks long. Within the space of this storm center, which if made rectangular would cover a quarter section of land, 1,200 houses are wrecked, 100 bodies have, been recovered and search of th6 ruins is being made for others. Several are known to be still in the ruins at the end of the storpi's path. Estimates of the value of property demolished by the storm vary between $5,000,000 and $12,000,000. Some of the more substantial houses can be partially rebuilt. Where the buildings have not been torn asunder they have been so twisted that even the material is useless for rebuilding. The destruction began with the millionaire homes in the West Farnam and Bemis park district, but farther northwest the buildings collapsed more easily and a large number of deaths resulted. Rescue work started as soon as the people were able to hurry to the stricken district, but as the night's work was by the light of lanterns little was accomplished. The storm took down all the wires in its path and the electric power was shut off immediately to prevent further loss of life. With the arrival of daylight, a train load of militia from Lincoln, and the presence in the city or Governor Morehead, the work was systematized and Monday night indications were that one more day will end the search for bodies and will even witness a general attempt at rebuilding work. ? thkil.l.ing stories. ? Told by Eye Witnesses as They Traveled on a Train. Eye-witnesses of the flooded districts of Ohio, who reached Chicago Wednesday, told stories of devastation wrought by the swollen streams throughout the deluged section. From windows of a Baltimore and Ohio train?W. H. Chown, of England, saw men, women and children fleeing from their homes as the waters undermined foundations and carried off house after house. "For miles and miles we saw nothing but water," said Chown. "Farm houses, almost submerged, could be seen on every hand and from their windows, people carrying what few articles they could crawled into boats and rowed away. Every stream we crossed seemed to ,be a raging torrent, its waters racing at top speed far beyond its natural boundaries." Absolute darkness seemed to reign in the districts through which the I rain passed, according to Alfred Glriftln, another Englishman, who was fi passenger. The farther we got the worse seemed to become the conditions," he said. "There were no lights along the entire countryside, t wos most gloomy and awe-inspiring We could hear the swish of the waera through the darkness and every low and then the cries of people in listress. It was a horrible experience." Traiii and Paswngprs Liost. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad elegraph operator received a wire rom the railroad operator at a tower tear Cincinnati, saying that a comnuter train from Loveland, Ohio, to Cincinnati had gone through a iridge and all aboard, about two tundred persons, had apparently >een lost. ? ? ? Killed by Falling Tree. News has been received at Kingsree from the Mangon section of Wiliamsburg county, that Mr. Gasque, vho superintended one of the county hain gangs, had been instantly killid by the falling of a tree. % \ * \ DICKERT MAKES REPLY r ? | NEWBERRY MAN WRITES OF SOLDIERS' HOME ROW. He Makes Some Suggestions of a Change in the Management of the ) Home. 1 To the Editor of The State: 1 So much has been said and written | recently of the doings in the last meeting of the board of commissioners for the Old Soldiers' Home that I am reminded of the saying of the 'I 1. t. ? ..1. 1 .1, ? II A uuyji wiiun nu dueureu mu ?uw. mighty lot of noise for so little wool." Now 1 wish to give my version in a simple and straightforward manner and let the public be the judge, for the little jibes of the smooth spoken Todd, in his proclamation "To the people of South Carolina," I pass it by, as unworthy of notice. The "people of South Carolina" do not care a rap whether 1 was "drunk" or sober, or even whether 1 was dead or alive; but what they are interested in is the truth or falsity of the charges made against the management of the home. However, it would have been a little more manlv hnvfi w:iiitul until I had be come sober, if drunk, and demanded an apology, a retraction or rammed the false or offensive wonls down my throtit. But, as it was, really it may have been better for M*\ Todd and myself both to wait until I was hundreds of miles away, then let out his manifesto and issued his proclamation "to the people" instead of to me. It was kind indeed of him to be so thoughtful of my sensitive feelings, for which I tender him my thanks. I make no pretensions to a surplus of honesty, truthfulness or sobriety; these are not my long suits; ,but I am willing to be judged by Todd in his record of trying to obtain from the legislature $13,000 for his State house plans and model, and I am willing to stand against iMaj. Richardson in the charges made by the commandant and inmates of the home. 1 do not vouch for the truthfulness of either, bur both are in black and white, and some of them sworn to. This is no "falling out among thieves", for "honest men to get their dues". If there has been any thievery, I do not know of it of my own knowledge, but used the word graft in the broad meaning as it is understood to-day?allowing exor bitant salaries, knowingly permitting people's money to be ruthlessly squandered, loose handling of other people's money, favoritism, etc, T do not make these charges, but refer to the testimony taken before the investigating committee. Maj. Richardson and myself have always got along harmoniously and amicably. When I was first invited to a place on the board I took it as a mere compliment to the little part I had taken in the war. We were to have a capable manager, a good disciplinarian and an honest man to run the entire institution; therefore little for us to do. During Mr. Mixon's energetic and efficient, management everything rolled along smoothly. When he died, Maj. Richardson took his place. But soon afterward, complaining of his inability to give the home his time, owing to the pressing needs of )ilo o t ton f {r?r? r?n li J a farm Via roaicn. 11 1 U Ull/VylltlV/U V/il 41** AAA ? AAV/ A ** ed. We put Mr. Caldwell in. I did not know him, but being assured he was a good man, which we found him, I voted for him. But I found he was weak, physically, and old age had laid its hand upon 10m, so much so that he was not able to control and proprely govern such a difficult lot of old men, called for a young and a more positive man, but we kept him until his time was out. During all this time I had not the remotest idea that Maj. Richardson had had anything to do with the institution since his resignation until Mr. McMalian began to "raise the lid". I was astonished to find he was chairman of a board from which he had resigned and drawing a salary of $100 per month, contrary to law, as I thought. If he was chairman, as he claimed, he would have to be a member, and as such he could receive no X ly, I know, for the law and the appropriation made no provision for a treasurer at $100 per month. If so, there would have been a treasurer from the start. I brought this to the attention of .Maj, Richardson and he acknowledged the truth of my contention, but said he had been legally ad vised that the board had the power to create this office and lix the salary. I could not deny the logic, but doubted the wisdom of the law. When I saw I could not stem the current* and did not care to swim with it, I tendered my resignation. It was returned, with the request to withdraw it, as a personaT matter. When Maj. Richardson was asked the question, by the investigating i committee, whether he could produce t the minutes of the meeting of the I board in which he was elected chair- i man and treasurer, what members 1 were present and who proposed his i salary, he said he could. It seems { they did not press the matter, for I t have not seen anywnere a notice of i those minutes. I was curious to t know who of the board were really i present. I would be glad to see the { minutes of any meeting. No doubt * they can produce them, but in my t two years' membership I have never 1 heard the minutes read or & detailed 1 account of any disbursements. I ] JHBL jbWBBE ' Your i I and loved ones should be pr< aches and pains by always hi NOAH'S LINIMENT?the I NOAH'S LINIMENT is f< external application. Absolu made in a modern laboratory ; as a physician's prescription. NOAH'S LINIMENT doe ammonia, alcohol, naptha, ben Noah's I is an excellent remedy for rbev Dackacno, neuralgia, strains, spra and side, sore feet, etc. Peneti rubbing. NOAH'S LINIMENT is one throat, coughs, colds, colic and c sugar will usually relieve those toothache there is nothing betterapplied externally. Look for Noali's Ark?trade age; beware of substitutes. NOAII'S LINIMENT is sold the cities and out in the country $1 ( 0 a bottle. Send for booklei Noah Remedy Co., Inc.. IUc : _ ? j don't contend they can not be fur-! nished. Dr. Butler says at the investigation j that he was present at the time lie and the major were elected, and tne ; "whole board was present". (See Dr. Hutler's testimony before the investigating committee, page 53, last paragraph.) Dr. iBaitler is mistaken, although honestly so. Neither Maj. Thompson nor myself were present, and as Maj. Richardson had resigned he had no vote. If Gov. Dlease was present I feel assured he cast no vote, for in all the meetings in his oilice (only two, I think) he always expressed a willingness to help us in any way. { but would take no hand in our deliberation. He would not even allow us to organize or do any business in his presence. Then only two of the old members were there?Dr. Hutler and Maj. Richardson?both being beneficiaries of that vote. I charge no crookedness, but refer the curious to t V* r\ < n iyo r\ f lonrloln j LHVy J/ft V/l V V/ committee, pages 5 3,-5 4. When was the matron appointed and her salary placed at $(>0 per month? What members were present? She says she was not "ollicially" connected with the home when her father-in-law died. But , here are the questions and answers: Q. What capacity were you there? ' A. 1 was really not appointed ma tron. { Q. And your capacity there (now) * A. Just the same as now, but was not ( oliicially appointed matron. 1 Now if she is in no oflicial capacity 1 how is she continued on the pay roll? It appears in the committee's report j that she at one time received $25. Who is responsible for her receiving * $(>() now? I do not write this to say she received too much salary, for i " think she and I>r. Butler are both efficient and honest members of the N management, and neither receive too 1 large a fee. But I only wish to show ^ many things are done there that the whole board is not responsible for. j During one of our meetings I told ^ the board: "We must have a younger ^ and more efficient commandant." Mere I was met with the answer that ^ we could have none as commandant but an old veteran. 1 called Senator Johnstone's and Arthur Kibler's j. (member of ways and means committee) attention to the imperfection in j. the law. They looked into the mat- ^ ter and informed me that there was , 110 such law and we could elect whom we pleased. When 1 told the r board we must have a new deal. Maj. Richardson was ready with a "cure" for all "the ailment". Turn off Mr. Caldwell; make a Mr. Black adju- r tain; retain tnc matron; no wouiu no ^ superintendent at $ 100 per month. This did not suit me. Then we all agreed that the whole board would resign in two weeks and give the governor a free hand to appoint a new board. The public is familiar with 's the last two weeks' happenings. Gov. Blease retained Mr. Crews and F myself on the board and appointed three new ones. We met last Tuesday in the governor's oillce and adjourned to the old home. ' Just as I was starting for our ai meeting three lines of typewriten a matter was put in my hands without ai a signature, it read:"Have a guard. I in think there is a side current running pi to retain Richardson and the old ai management." As the major was no ar longer a factor, having resigned, with se do possible chance of his being rein- of stated only by the governor, I gave tu he matter no thought. But after our ro meeting and organizing, Todd's ro- pc Lion to retain Mr. Richardson and the tlf management in office until an inves- dr Ligation took place I took to mean fle "the balance of Blease's administra- Cc Lion." I became a little restless and i D< lot under the collar. Now tVir. Todd su may have been innocent of any j clt knowledge of the "silent current",! m< flome atected from the every-day aving on hand a bottle of Jest Pain Remedy, ar internal uses as well as for tely pure and clean to use, and compounded as carefully s not contain any chloroform, zinc or poisonous drugs. Liniment imatism, lameness, stiff joints, ins, cuts, bruises, pains in chest ates and requires very little of the best remedies for soro ramps. A few drops on a littlo 3 troubles immediately. For ?a little on cotton in cavity and -mark?on every genuine packby all dealers in medicines in , in three sizes, at 2Be, 50c and y o nn/1 f aoH ?> * Antnla to UUU WUOWlUlUUlUiOi I hmond, Va. | 'ftBi ism ^ ^ 3; High Grade See < MIXSON'SSEEDS GROW. They || LONG AND SHORT o The beat Varieties. Writ 3: CORN. SORGUM, MIL % Our Corn is all HIGH-BIt h Get our Illustrated C'atalogut X \\r ii yy . n. iyiiasui J[ CHARLESTON e * e ? ? J WE HAVE 200 Velvc Q ACCOUNT W. F. IMJ $2.75 PER BU. F. 0= Charleston J i i ? 2-4 MARKET, ST. 3ut it appeared to me, after the anc ^mous warning, he was playing wi i (leek of marked cards. When in :led I am more emphatic in the n )f words than polished. But I h provocation. Just, read the tes nony before the investigating coi nittee (all sworn to) of the grc mrtiality and favoritism, of the "di able" for the good boys contain! ill the delicacies and luxuries of t narkets; another for the "vile c ;inners", with stale cornbread ai atback; a spread of eight plati vith food for four; the insults legro cooks, when asked for a b nit, the screams of old soldiers f lelp at night, while the paid atten mts are fast asleep; old consum ives, shivering in the hospital, whi ilankets furnished by the ladies Columbia were elsewhere. All this lown in black and white and swoi _ i... i i.? ?...l.:. O, JSUIMU uy LIIU i:u!iiiiiaiiU(iiii 1111 elf. It is all very well for a committ< aced with such charges to say son mo of the board is "drunk" when 1 ieks against it. It would have bee tetter to have charged him with o his face or said nothing. With Todd asking me out in tl oad, Richardson threatening an terming, the matron charging 11 ith boJng a traitor and a falsifier, as enough to make a man fe< ough. When I do get rough, tli ghting blood is up. No wonder the aid 1 was drunk. D. A. Dickert. Newberry, March 2 4. ? TOKM KlliliS FIVE IX CIIICAGC * ifty Others Hurt und Many Ruild ing Wrecked. Five persons were killed, fifty *n ired, thirty-two buildings wrecke id scores of structures damaged 1:; storm which swept over Chicagt id its suburbs early Monday nut n g. The storm, which was acoom tnied by hail, rain, sleet, lightn'.nj id a gale which blew seventy miloi i hour for a time, was felt mos verely in the northwestern sectioi the city, wk'it houses were over rued, windows broken, trees up oted and electric light and troliej ties, blown to the ground. Near!: ty small fires resulted and hun eds of men, women and chlldrei td from their homes in terror msiderable damage was done t( ^splalnes, Park Ridge and othei burbs. Property damage in th( ty and suburbs is estimated a ore than $500,000. hr . / ' - jxttsb H H For Rk*aM(liM ui Ifearalgta I ?"I have been using Noah's Liniment for more than a year, and And it the heat 1 have ever tried for rheumatism, neuralgia and all H aches and pains of any kind."*?? Mrs. A. M. Doyle, ltlchinond, Va. For Colds and Hoarseness. H 'Noah's Liniment quickly relieves H colds and hoarseness, and I have H carried a bottle with me for years H In traveling."?VV. T. Burton, Wtl For llaekache and Stiff Joints^? I "I havo used Noah's Liniment for H backache and stiff joints and pains. and find it to be the best liniment ? 1 ever used."?Mrs. SallLe Young, Wf For I'uin Following Chills.?"My A<\ little girl was suffering with chills, and for the pain following I used Noah's Liniment, and it gave In- g /' j stant relief."?-A. II. Greenwood, Richmond, Va. Fop Sore Feet.?"Suffering for a month with rheumatism in my ankle, instep and toes, I commenced to use Noah's Liniment, and my foot has improved wonderfully, and can now walk with very little inconvenience."?C, A, James, Portsmouth, Va. Fop I*aln In the Hack.?"I Buffered dreadfully for ten years with pains In back. L.ess than half a bottle of Noah's L*lnin?cnt tnada a perfect cure."?Mrs. J. D. Billing*ley, Point Eastern, Va, mMKm pppi. .VHRpar/ : 1 I :d and Farm Lands ? are grown in the South for tho South FA PI F I IPI .AND COTTON t , -.r? | c us ror prices ami information. o .LET, VELVET BEANS &c j; ?_- 0 ED SOUTH CAROLINA CORN. ] i of all Vegetable and Farm Seeds. < 1 Seed Company, if SOUTH CAROLINA < >???@?$#o?????? IllSIIKLS CHOICE it Beans SKMAN, LEESHORE, FLA. q H, IIAKLESTON; sr 11. A Fruit Company, * ,-o- CHARLESTON, S. C. in-! IIICKS IIIT IT AKOL'T IU(iHTv\ th . * ~ Bt- ' H ' He Forecasted the Weather of the* ,se ad Past. Week Accurately. tiro. The Rev. Irl Hicks, who predicted tss the storm that destroyed Galveston iet almost to the day, made an accurate ng forecast of the terrible weather he 1(j through which portions of the South [1(1 and Northwest passed during the last is, week. Here is his forecast for this of period, printed in his almanac which is- was issued on the first of last Novemor bor, nearly live months ago. He said: d" "Tln> mnnii urlll tin in nnnnctttmi x uv it i vv/ it ?? At* wv tu v/|f|/voni\;ii P~ with earth and sun, at an eclipso node i? on the 2 2, and on the celestial equa?t tor and in perigee on the 2 1st. We" is will venture to put down Wednesday, 1,1 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun11_ day, the 10th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd, as constituting a period of great and dangerous disturbances. 10 People in southern parts of the coun10 try will do the wise and prudent ?n thing to recognize the probability of it equatorial and tornadic storms. Phenomenal electrical storms of rain and 10 1 h-ail will visit many sections, espec1(i | iallv the southern states; blizzardous 10 storms and gales will sweep down it from the north merging into storms L>1 from the south, causing tornadoes, . 10 floods and cold blizzard of snow." On Wednesday, the 19th instant, which is the first date he warns us, tornadoes passed through Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, killing many people and doing much damago to h property. Then on Thursday, Friday and Saturday wo had more torna|. does and destruction. On Saturday and Sunday Omaha and other cities in the northwest were visited by destructive tornadoes, followed by J heavy rains, snow and freezing weather. Then came the floods in Ohio, Indiana and other States. Dlizzards also raged in the same region even up to the present time. All these facts can be verified by refer^ eivce to tho daily newspapers of the t past ten days. Tho accuracy of the ^ predictions he made are remarkable. ? In the presence of tho awful calir amity that has overtaken the people / of Dayton and other places, words - are inadequate to express one's sym1 pathy. We can only remember that God is God, and earnestly pray that > in His infinite mercy Ho will com* r pensate in some way the men and a women and the little children who t have been forced to pass through this fearful horror. /, i ^