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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1925)
\\ orse Than War, Savjs Nebraskan of Tornado Area W Hud* Brothers’ Camp TTn harmed But Town Only I'wo Miles Away Wiped From Earth. ' It staggers the Imagination. It nm.s the mind. It Is wholly and tn i d Iv indescribable.’’ Those were the words of Bert l'anlkner, manager of the Woods line. Construction company, with )c adnnarters in Lincoln, used today In describing the “tomb of death” In i lie vicinity of Thompson ville, 111., which was raked by the most terrific tornado In the country’s history. Mr. K.iulkner, at Thompsonville, where I s company has a large camp, when the tornado spread death and desola tion for miles around, was on hiq wav back to Lincoln, lie told the story of horror at the Burlington station in Omaha while waiting for his train. Few Employes Injured. "Thompsonviliel was not damaged at all.” he said. “We felt only a slight wind there. Only a few' of our em ■ --s Omaharis Fathei Safe. At least one Omaha family still is torn by anxiety over tin fate of relatives who xvere in tile tornado iielt, .loel \V. Barber, 4(i<« Marry street, salesman for Andrew Mur phy A Son, has not heard from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bar ber, who were either at Bush or Benton, III., when the storm broke. Neither lias he hrard from a sla ter, Mrs. E. Roland and a neice, Annahelle Roland, xvho were at Murphysbnro, where more than 150 were killed. Mrs. R. B. Bradshaw was re lieved by news that her father, W. H. Krueger, was safe at Cape Girardeau, Mo., where a death toll was taken. v_ • J ployes in camps outside the city were injured. Their injuries are minor.” Here Mr. Faulkner hesitated. "Go on.” he was urged. "It's impossible to tell what hap p»ncd In that district,” he said. "It's a maddening situation." Then Mr. Faulkner told of what happened at Parrish, a town of 250, only two miles east of Thompsonvllle. t Select From the Best Instruments: Vega Washburn ISlingerland MICK ECS 15th #nd Harney St. ATIantic 4361 I QtiAidt I Barley 1AA& Flavor, lUU/P Puri*V .Results Blatz Malt Extract com bines them all. Behind each can stands the name BLATZ —and 75 yeare’ experience as Master Malt sters. Try Blatz, you’ll like it. Kuhl’s Supply House, 1307-09 Howard St., Omaha, Neh. _Phone AT 034a * Brother of Omahan Tells of Tornado I /Q~ ^8er£ Hert I'n ul li n<-r. ilia linger of the Wi coin. anil a brother of Mrs. (ieorge I., turned Friday from Tfloinpsoiiville, III. The town was completely wiped off the face of the earth. Roads Are Impassable. "Press reports have not begun to tell of the real loss of life. I counted 43 bodies at Parrish myself. When J left it was Impossible to get adequate relief agencies established there be cause the roads leading to where there was onre'a town and made almost Im passable hy debris strewn in tlie high ways. High voltage electric wires make the Journey perilous. Worse Than France. "Hut for miles around there Is de bris. Here you will find a pile of splintered lumber that once formed the walls of a happy family fireside. There you will find a splintered plank sticking in the soggy ground point ing heavenward like a soldier's saber at salute. "The property loss in the entire stricken area, of course, cannot lie estimated. Time only will permit of that. Rut that is not tlie tiling to he thought of now. I saw the desola tion of France, the wrecked cities, the pillaged homes, the heart-broken women behind the lines of war. I saw it and understood because it was war. Rut when T walked through what once were the streets of Par rish I could scarcely see and I could not understand. Aged Over Night. "T saw mothers who had aged many years over night. Their clothes were partially stripped from their bodies. And in' several Instances these moth ers carried in their arms dead babies. The bodies had been dragged from the wreckage hy the frantle mothers who refused the pirns of friends and strangers alike to put them down. They would not believe tho children in their arms were dead. In one In stance. at least on mother held the body of her unclothed child. The ■ lothlng had gone like the plans and the hopes of Parrish—with the demon winds. "Rescue workers have not reached this town in sufficient numbers to do real work. Of course they will, j They can't do everything at once. In Four Minutes. "Many of the children who were I killed there died from concussion. They were picked up and carried on Hie wings of the tornado a quarter j to half a mile. The fall to earth would cause death without leaving a mark on the bodies. The bodies of, several children were picked lip on j hillsides half a mile from the town. J It is not to be doubted that others) still are unfound, "Trees, four and five feet In diameter were anapped off near the I ground as though they had been | sticks In the hands of a giant. "The whole ghastly thing hap- j penecl in four minutes. Contrary to ; common belief that a tornado never follows a rain this dne did. It had been raining almost all day i\nd a [ few minutes before the funnel of death shaped In the braasv-hued heavens It had hailed. The people were caught without warning. They i were trapped.” Onlral Nebraska Farmers Organize Cow Testing Body Kearney, March 20.-The Central Nebraska Cow Testing association was organized here, at a meeting of farm ers. Krnery Peters of St. Michael was elected president; Owen Dailey, Min den, vice president, and li K Mower sox, Kearney, secretary treasurer. Herman Peterson and W. II. Swarts ley of ItlVerdale, together with Hie of fleers, constitute the hoard of direc tors. Organization took place at a meet Ing called by the Nebraska Dairy Dr velopment society ami addressed by Its vice president, Dan Morris, and Otto Liebera Lincoln. Systematic testing of dairy rows over the district for- a period of one 'ear Is the objective of the associa tion. Injured Farmer Improving. Heatrlce, Man h 20.—George Moor e. Liberty farmer, who wam kicked In the face by ft mule and nerlnusly Injured, is Improving. 11 In Jaw wa» «hattered, hi* broken and hie face badly F'HAbed. lie wna umon*cioUA for *ome time after the accident occurred. ” Chi mis Urns. Construction company, Lin Ucl.acy, 3918 Hartley street, who re , in the tornado district. PAROLE VIOLATOR GIVES HIMSELF UP Falls City, March 20.—Driven to desperation because he wai hunted throughout the country on*the charge of auto theft and violating his parole from the state reformatory at Lincoln, Albert Heikes dropped In at the county jail here and surrendered to author!* ties. Heikes was sent to the reformatory two years ago for forgery and was paroled early in January to N. T. Harmon, state probation officer. On February 10, it is alleged, he and S. It. Martin rented a car from the Saunders T)rive-It Yourself company In Lincoln and failed to return it. At Crawfordsvllle, Ind., it has been learned, they traded the coupe for a touring car and received $10 to boot. Martin was apprehended here sev eral days ago on a worthies.** check charge and was given 90 days in jail. Heikes will be returned to Lincoln to face new charges. Spanish V>ar Veteran Suecumbs to Stroke Nebraska City, March 20.—Frank Shannon, who suffered a stroke of paralysis last Monday, died at his home here early today. He was a veteran of the Spanish American war and served in the Philippine Islands with Company L of Omaha. He was a member *»f Lee For by post, Spanish American War Veterans of Omaha. He had lieen an invalid since 1921, when he suffered his first stroke. He was a druggist by profession. He is survived vby his wife and three brothers. Truck Driver Injured. Nebraska City, March 20.—Wilbur Thacker, truck driver for the Lucas Bakery company, was severely in juted when the truck he was driv ing clashed intfo the curbing and overturned. The accident was caused by the bright sunlight shin ing through the windshield and blinding him while turning a corner. him | Your dentist will tell you fj that Milk of Magnesia is a jj safe, sure, scientific means of counteracting the acids in the mouth which lead to Acid Decay and often to Pyorrhea. Squibb’s Milk of Magnesia is the principal ingredient of Squibb’s Dental Cream. It safeguards The Danger Line (where gums meet teeth) by protecting the teeth from \ Acid Decay and reducing the fj peril of Pyorrhea. It is safe ij for al1 —even for the baby. s] Squibbs Dental Cream Made with Squibb's Milk of Magnesia n Mystery Maid New Factor in Shepherd Case Unnamed Uirl, FormerK Connected With Detective Agency, May Be Trump Uard for State. By Tlie A s.er lit I il I'rf,,. Chicago. Mhrcli 0.-—A mystery girl entered the MrClintock case here to day as the state and defense began marshaling their forces for the court battle tomorrow when William D. .shepherd and his co-defendant in the indictment charging murder for the death of William Nelson McClintock, will be arraigned. The girl, said to have figured prominently in the affairs of (tie Jones Detective Agency, alleged to have been employed by Shepherd, was to be brought to the state's at torney’s office today to tell her story. Two other women, connected with the agency, already have been ques tioned by Judge Harry Olson, chief instigator of the McClintock death investigation. Tells of Visit. One of them, Gladys Roberts, for mer secretary to John Jones, liead of tl.e agency, is reported to have told Judge Olson of a visit made by Shepherd to I he agency's office. ‘‘Shepherd and Jones went into a private office and closed the doors," Miss Roberts told him, Judge Olson declared. “Out of curiosity I lis tened and heard some of the conver sation. Shepherd had been drinking, and I heard Jones say to him: 'The trouble with you, is you talk too much. If you stick to that one story, they will never get anything on you.' ’’ Miss Roberts told him, Judge Ol son said, that Jones expected a raid on his agency office by tho state's attorney's office, and had transferred a number of papers to the home of Evan Jones, not a relative. The mystery woman, It was ex pected, would fill in the breaks in this story, and it was considered possible that she would be placed on the witness stand tomorrow when the grand jury witnesses are strm « I evrry?xxljr tycrydAy "Posts Bran Flakes as an ounce of prevention Hotels, restaurants and Pull man diners serve Post’s Bran Flakes in Ounce of Prevention packages. • * ■ - 'H moned to tell why they gave their testimony. Counsel for Shepherd let it b** Known this afternoon that their ef forts at the arraignment tomorrow will he directed toward quashing of i lie indictment against their client. This failing, they said, they will of fer $500,000 bail for Shepherd s re if ase. Auto Dealers to Hold Show ;t11 Seottshluff Seottsbluff. M ivi'h 20 —Automobile] dealers of this citv have organized] with these officers: Henry Bomgard her, president; < \ F. Minnet*. vice president, and A F. Middaugh, secre tary-treasurer. The association vot ed to hold iis first annual automobile show in this eity April 23, 24 and Farmers Start Sowing Oats. Beatrice, March 20.—A few farmers j started sowing their oats crop yester day, and the work will be well in hand within the next few days. The acreage will be about the same as last season. Legion Relief Fund Near Gone Help fur Veterans Discon tinued Temporarily, Due to Heavy Drain. The slate emergency relief fund for world war veterans, administered by the American Legion committee, is practically exhausted, according to advices sent Nebraska legion posts. Only the most extreme cases will be considered until after June 30, whenl the present fiscal year ends. The fund receives approximately $100,000 a year, interest from the $2, 000,000 invested for the fund under the act of the state legislature of 1020. The drain on the fund in the last few months has been heavy be cause of economic conditions in the state, particularly the lack of em ployment. J. Kd C. Fisher of Beatrice, chair man of the fund committee, visited the Omaha legion post Wednesday, ad vising them that they must curtail all requests for aid from the fund until such n time as the committee can meet and discuss the situation. « Influenza Relaxes Its Grip at Newcastle Newcastle, Mart li 2U.—An epidemic of influenza which has kept the doc tors busy for the lust two weeks is beginning to relax its grip in this lo cality. Those who had the. disease suffered with a sore throat, high fever and weakness which confined them to bed for several days. The epidemic was quite general, teachers and pupils in the schools being af fet ted. and in some cases whole fami lies were sick at the same time. Randier Hurt in Runaway. Fort Morgan, Colo., .March 2*».— (h'Mge Whitney, 62. rancher, living southeast of Fort Morgan, was badly hurt when his'team bec ame fright ened at some paper lying along the road anti ran away, throwing him out of the wagon. 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