The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 28, 1913, Page PAGE 3, Image 3
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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Bacon, 11 Bast St., Math, Me.,
sends out this warning to railroaders
everywhere: "My work as conductor
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I speak from experience when I say
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On March 8, 1911, when Mr. Chambers
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