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Omaha i By Chicago, March 24.?Totals of the dead and injured in the track of Sunday's storm are as follows, according to reports received tonight: City. Dead. Injured. Omaha and suburbs 152 830 rerre Haute 18 250 Chicago 5 40 Yutan, Neb. 16 20 Berlin, Neb. 7 17 Council Bluffs, la. 12 13 Bartlett, la. 3 10 Weston, la. 2 2 Neola, la. 2 2 Glenwood, la. 5 3 Beebe, la. ? 2 Malvern, la. ? 2 Traverse City, Mich 1 ? Berth, Ind. ? 1 Sterling, 111 1 ? Totals 225 694 By far the greatest damage was j _ ?J ? uune in anu near umana, tnrougn part of which the tornado swept Sunday evening, throwing many substantial buildings, ripping off roofs and sidings of hundreds of houses and killing men and children by the scores.?The State. Messages by Train. The storm kept its work a secret from the rest of the world for hours by breaking down all wire communication. Messengers with news stories had to go by train to Lincoln, the state capital, to send out the first definite news of the disaster. During the early hours of the morn! ing injured persons worked desper1 rately to remove persons caught beneath razed buildings. The debris caught fire in many places and many persons were painfully burned before they could be extricated. No great number was killed in any one place. The wind swept along, taking its toll here and there. The tornado even jumped over portions of the city in its path, swooped down again and dashed obstructions to the earth. The gale left Omaha only to sweep ont to towns in Iowa in the same destructive manner that it had attacked villages in Nebraska. The rage of the elements even extended in a somewhat abated form to points far in the east to Illinois. No sooner had the twister passed than a gale swept over much the same territory, but with lessened fury. What seems to have been a separate storm swept portions of Indiana, being greatest in and near Terre Haute. There nearly a score of persons were slain and hundreds were hurt. Other places in Indiana report icoaci uauia^c. Sleet and Wind. The sleet and wind storm of the last few days had reduced telegraph and telephone companies to dire straits, as hundreds of poles and thousands of miles of wire were carried down in a tangle. The Easter tornado added to the havoc west of Chicago, although wires were repaired to the east. In many cases large regions were unable to use commercial telegraphic facilities and news associations were compelled to send reports in the most unusual ways to reach the newspapers. Floods swept through several Wisconsin cities, damaging many thousands of dollars worth of goods. T)nm Q WPrh WOgViaH All + in momr places and the released waters swept over the fields below. In Chicago all the elements seemed to meet shortly after Easter Sunday had closed. Wind blew a violent gale, snow flew before it in some places, hail crashed windows in other parts of the city. After the storms had passed the wind died to a gentle breeze the sun shone brightly and the warmth of spring pervaded the air. Stories of Pathos. Stories replete with thrills and pathos were related in Chicago today by eyewitnesses of the tornado. Terror-stricken, the narrators of I these stories had sat fascinated in the coaches of a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad train watching a great dark cloud skipping wierdly on its work of destruction. In several villages they helped pick up the dead and dying. The wounded and dead were placed on seats and in the aisles of the cars, until the train, which had passed through the begining of the track of the whirlwind that struck Omaha, reached the latter city. The hospitals in Omaha tonight are full of injured, many of whom have not yet been identified, apparently because their friends are either dead or among the injured. Troops on Patrol. Tonight the stricken section of Omaha is patrolled by government troops from Fort Omaha, and the state militia. Governor Morehead has taken personal charge of the state troops. There has been little or no looting. Business men are co-operating in every way; The Omaha ho :.v Wreck* < Raging tels have thrown open their doors fo the injured. Every train into Omaht today brought scores of physicians from nearby towns who have friends and relatives here, and they made uj one continual stream of visitors t< the morgues and the hospitals. The storm appears to have startec at Fifty-fourth and Center streets From there it traveled north, veering slightly to the east, to Leavenworth street. Then it took a northeasterlj course to Fortieth and Farnam streets, sweeping its way through everything. Still traveling a little east of north, it covered a course from Fortieth street east to Thirtyfourth street, a distance of six blocks. Storm Takes Turn. Striking Bemis park, where the homes of the well-to-do Omahans are located, the storm turned sharply to the east and passed along Parser and Blonde streets to Twentyfourth street, where its path was six blocks wide. In the latter section the damage is complete. Finally at Fourteenth and Spencer streets, the storm swept over the bluffs, high above the Missouri river, demolished the Missouri Pacific round-house, levelled the big trestle of the Illinois Central railroad over Carter like, wrecked a number of buildings near the Rod and Gun club, a fashionable outing place, and disappeared to the northeast. Rescue by Lantern Light. Rescue work started as soon as the people were able to hurry to the stricken district, but as the nights 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 of Governor Morehead, the work was systemized. Money for relief work already is available, the city organizations taking the lead in providing funds. State and religious bodies are falling in line and others of help are coming from all quarters of the country. The Child Saving institute was a veritable death house after the storm had spent its fury. Every available room was pressed into service and one after another the dead and injured were brought into the house. Watches Mother's Body. A pitiful sight was that of a young girl keeping watch over the body of her mother. The mother, Mrs. John Newman, had been killed instantly. As the body lay on the porch of the institute, awaiting suitable burial arrangements, the daughter, Mabel Newman, told of the storm: "Mother was ill and confined to a room on the second floor of our home, 4224 Dewy avenue." she said. "When the raging winds hit the house, it toppled over. Mother and myself were buried in the wreckage. As soon as i could pull myself out I began a search for her. Board after board I lifted. I tugged and pulled at them until my*hands were cut. Finally,I reached her. I bent down to raise her, but I saw that she was dead." 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 injured one. The home of George J. Duncan, advertising manager for Bee, on Farnam street, was destroyed. Mr. Duncan died at a hospital this afternoon. Mrs. Duncan is in a critical condi tion. Were Drinking Toast. At the home of Patrick Hynes, on North Twenty-ninth street, a party in celebration of his eighty-first birthday was in progress. The guests had just started dinner and wer drinking a toast to his health when the storm swept the house away. All the party succeeded in getting out with minor injuries, except a grandchild, Miss Cecilia Bigelow, "The party had just begun dinner," said Mr. Hynes. "The young people were making merry, and old as I am I had entered into the spirit. Suddenly there was a roaring sound. The next minute the house was in ruins. I wriggled around and out and aided the others in escaping." jonn wrignt, a railroad watchman, probably owes his life to the fact that he went to work a half-hour ahead of time, because he feared he would get wet if he did not hurry. I.ittle Gladys Cook was revived after a house had been blown over her and she had been imprisoned for more than an hour. It was necessary to chop a large hole in the side. Cliff Daniels, his wife and their two children, met death together. When soldiers, digging about the ru >d I Tor trade I r ins of their home, found the f< I i bodies, the two little girls w< I > clasped in the arms of their moth I i while the body of the father wafc I > ver them, as if he had tried to shi< I > them with his own body. I Mary Knudsen, a servant girl, w I 1 blown out of the home of her ei I . ployer artd badly frightened, ran i I f the way down town to fall faintii I i in front of a hotel. Her own sto I ' was the first news of the disast I i received in the dnwntnum aoMinn i The body of an unidentified chilli i was found in the ruins of two housclll ! with a little rag doll tucked undelll her arm. 'II Finds Wife Crushed. When C. Saber discovered the t crushed and almost unrecognizable i body of his wife in the ruins of an apartment 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 after 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 Associated Press wires. Telephones and telegraph wires along all the rail! roads were down. Last midnight the battle of the linemen commenced and at8 o'clock tonight two news wire were working out the city. Commercial bulletins were sent to nearby cities in the care of the operators to be sent from there. The wires continued in an apparantly hopeless tangle between Omaha and points directly east. Trains between Omaha and, Chicago crawled along with flagmen walking before them, taking the place of train dispatchers and block sivnnls 1 The first train into Omaha from the east was five hours late and carried more than 100 linemen to points i east of .this city. Fire in Wake. A. L. Green, an advertising manager of a department store, was on his back porch watching the storm when it broke. "It came like a rushing and roaring torrent of water," he said. **TT 4 came from the south and passed by us to the east. I went to my attic window 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 started 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 downstairs into the dining room, flat on his face. Dazed, he struggled to the cellar. A second later his home was I swept away and the family in the . basement had but the sky above them i Flames sprang up. i "It seemed as if the whole city was afire," said Dixon. "Then I lifted my . i -l:i J ' ' * wiic ttuu cnuaren oui ana aown tne > street, joining* scores my unfortunate ! neighbors. We had lost our all but i are thankful for our lives." i 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. Of the 200 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 RlnflPa ~ 10 XT-!- - " A WU{|; X 1 UtUII^ 11CU(| XO| Berlin, Neb., 7, Glennwood, Iowa, 5, Neola, Iowa, 2, and Bartlett Iowa, 3. 1,500 Are Homeless. 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 i public schools were wrecked. A Message to Railroad Men. E. S. 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