Nebraska Newspapers

    The Lonp City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA
200 PEOPLE
DIE AT OH
EARLIER ESTIMATES OF LOSS
OF LIFE TOO HIGH.
FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDING
Real Property Loss Will Probably Ex
ceed $53,000,000. Loss From
Fire Is Heavy.
South Dayton, O.—Dayton's loss of
life probably will not exceed 200. Th.s
estimate is based upon a personal
canvass of almost 100 of Dayton's
leading citizens, men of unquestioned
judgment and reliability, who have
been engaged in relief and rescue
work in every section of the city ever
since the rising waters mvaueu tue
business section.
The property loss purely tangible
and real will probably exceed $50,000,
000. This includes damage to real
estate and public works in those parts
of the city where these forms of prop
erty are most valuable; to automo
biles stored in two leading garages,
and other personal property, . much
of which was owned by the more
prosperous residents; to manufactur
ing, mercantile and jewelers’ stocks,
which were swept away, and to pub
lic utility plants and equipment. The
cost of rebuilding miles of asphalt
streets and walks, which literally
were ripped from their beds, also is
included.
Ureatest loss in ixortn uaKoia.
The loss of life was contined al
most entirely to North Dayton, in
habited by foreigners and laborers, in
West Dayton, which comprises dis
tricts of a more substantial charac
ter; in Riverdale, in Dayton View and
other residence districts, there was
almost no loss of life. Several lives
are known to have been lost in the
business district, but none of the ru
mors that human beings had perished
in the fire which swept two city
blocks would stand the test of search
ing investigation. In fact, a score of
cool headed men who were in some of
the buildings, and others who watch
ed the fire from across the street, as
sert positively that every occupant of
the burned buildings escaped. The
flood assumed dangerous aspects
Tuesday morning before most people
had started to work. Consequently
the loss of life in Riverdale, North
Dayton and West Dayton was oc
casipned when dwellings, mostly of
light construction, were swept away
and shattered by the swiftly moving
current, leaving the occupants, who
, had fled to safety in the second
^'stories, to fight for their lives in the I
water.
There are not more than thirty
such houses in Riverdale and possibly
seventy-five in North and West Day
ton. Many houses were moved from
their foundations, but remained up
right and their sheltered occupants
remained until they were rescued.
Two Allens Executed.
Richmond, Va.—Mumbling a prayer
and crying half audibly that he was
ready to go, Floyd Allen, a lawless
product of the Virginia mountains,
whose refusal to accept a short prison
term for a minor offense led to the
wholesale court murder in Hillsville
one year ago, limped to the death
chair in the state penitentiary Friday
eleven minutes ahead of Claude Swan
son Allen, his son.
The sentence of the court, held up
for six hours while desperate and
dramatic efforts were being made to
save the condemned men by eleventh
hour appeals to Lieutenant Governor
Ellison, speedily was ordered to pro
ceed when Governor Mann hastened
back to Virginia to take charge of
the situation. The prison superintend
ent, acting within the law, had agreed
at 2 o’clock in the morning to defer
the execution, giving Attorney Gen
eral Williams an opportunity to pass
on the constitutional right of Lieu
tenant Governor Ellison to interfere.
But the son of Governor Mann reach
ed his father in Philadelphia by tele
phone less than an hour after the de
lay had been ordered and the gover
nor was back in Richmond at 11:30
oclock.
Fremont Helps Omaha.
Fremont, Neb.—A visit of a com
mittee to Yutan, representing the Fre
mont relief workers, convinced it that
the needs there are not as serious as
in Omaha, and the balance of the Fre
mont relief fund will be turned to the
Omaha committee.
Zanesville Loses Four.
Zanesville, O.—With communication
being slowly restored rumors are rife
of loss of life, but there are only four
known deaths in this city as a result
of the flood.
Dies of His Injuries.
Grand Island, Neb.—John Syneck,
aged 28, a bi>tkeman on a Burlington
freight train, fell from the rear car of
a string that was being switched in
the local yards and several cars passed
over him. Both legs were cut off and
death resulted.
Train Service Improves.
Chicago.—There is a marked im
provement in train service with the
flooded zone in Indiana and Ohio.
Some have resumed regular schedule.
Relief Commission Appointed. .
Lincoln, Neb.—Judge W. I. Redick
of Omaha has been appointed a mem
ber of the relief commission by Gov
ernor Morehead in place of Mayor
Skinner of Ralston. P. L. Hall of Lin
coln takes the place of G. W. Potts on
the commission.
THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST IN
FLOODS INJHIO AND INDIANA
Appalling Disaster Caused by Bursting of Dams,
Which Let Raging Torrent of Water Loose
Upon Helpless Cities of Two States.
DISEASE EPIDEMIC IS NOW BIG MENACE
Swollen Waters Fall in Flooded District, and Fear of Sickness Is
Added to Horror—Loss of Life in Dayton Not So Great
as First Reported—603 May Be Dead in Co
lumbus—Scores of Towns Add to Toll
of Death.
STORY OF THE TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE IN BRIEF
Revised estimates of the loss in Dayton give ground for hope the dead
In all sections affected by the flood will not exceed 2,000 and may go be
low that figure. Daring investigators who penetrated the flooded section
revealed hundreds of persons safe who were believed to be lost.
At other points than Dayton the death list has grown. There was far
heavier loss of life on the west side of Columbus than was thought. One
estimate placed the number of dead above 600.
Apparently authentic reports from Piqua indicated twenty dead.
At Peru, Ind., the authorities estimated the death list would reach at
least 150.
From Hamilton, O., fifty persons were reported drowned in the collapse
of a hotel.
Twenty-five deaths were reported from Troy, O.; thirty at Middletown
and five at Massillon.
Latest reports from Zanesville arc that 150 lives are believed to have
been lost there.
Cincinnati, March 29.—Reports from
Dayton and other towns give a more
hopeful view as to loss of life. While
the death list is appalling, it is now
thought that the figures will not reach
anything like the first reports.
Explorers who penetrated to the sub
merged districts say that many hun
dreds thought to have been lost have
been found safe, but in a serious plight
from exposure and hunger. Revised
estimates in Dayton give ground for
hope that the death list there will not
exceed 2,000.
Even this figure may be cut down
considerably when the facts are known.
It is thought that the North side of
Dayton list will reach 300.
' The militia report that looters are
at work.
Shots frequently were head from
every direction. Militiamen say four
men have been shot, as no one on any
mission is allowed east of the Penn
sylvania railroad tracks.
The militia say a score of persons
suspected of being bent on looting
have been arrested. An ex-policeman
caught coming out of a deserted home
is in prison.
May Be 600 Dead at Columbus.
Early figures from the West side
of Columbus placed the loss of life
at 600. There has yet been nothing
to change these figures. The loss at
Piqua is now placed at 20; at Hamil
ton, 50; Troy, 30; Middletown. 25.
Peru, Ind., citizens insist that 150
are dead there.
Relief trains surround Dayton and
other points in the Miami valley on
all sides. It is thought that rail com
munication will be completed today
and that all may reach their points of
destination.
Washington is sending a number of
relief trains carrying food,"medicines
and army equipment for housing and
caring for the homeless.
Pestilence Now Greatest Danger.
Pestilence is the greatest danger to
be feared now in the flooded dis
tricts, and local, state and national gov
ernments are working hand in hand
to combat this grave peril.
In Chicago the various relief funds
have passed the $130,000 mark and
will be swelled enormously by the con
tributions today.
Stations Filled With Supplies.
At the stations where clothing and
provisions are being handled the work
ers are swamped with supplies. Train
after train load will be dispatched to
the flooded sections.
Reports from Fort Wayne state that
the situation there is well in hand and
that the authorities say they can get
along without outside aid.
The Ohio river is reported as rising
fast. At Evansville. Ind., the flood has
reached a stage of 39.5 feet, a rise of
4.5 feet in twenty-four hours. People
living in the bottom lands have been
warned to get on higher ground, and
steamers are carrying them from their
perilous positions.
Is Still Critical.
At Zanesville, Ohio, the situation is
still critical. The waters of the Mus
kingum and Licking rivers are still
rising. Six hundred houses are re
ported as swept away and food is
needed.
Middletown, Ohio, reports having
had communication with Miamisburg,
a town of 8,000, which it was feared
had been totally destroyed. Conditions
are bad, but the dead number only 25.
Heavy floods are reported from
points in New York state, in the Adi
rondacks. Hudson river and Mohawk
valley sections. Glens Falls, Schenec
tady and many other towns are flood
ed. Bridges have been washed away
and loss of life is reported. Every
stream in western New York is also
reported out of its banks.
Reports .rom Chillieothe, Ohio,
place the dead at 25. Linton, Ind..
says that 16 persons drowned at
Howesville. Ten deaths are reported
from Sharon, Pa.
Twenty dead were found among the
refugees in the court house at Peru,
Ind., victims of exposure. Seven births
also are reported. Contagion has
! broken out and the sick have been
! quarantined in a section of the build
ing.
The spirit of Dayton asserted itself
today when President O. B. Smith of
its chamber of commerce asserted that
Dayton could cope with the situation
and would be able to recover from its
! disaster.
The sun is shining bright on Day
I ton today. The fires have practically
burned out and rescue work will be
possible today. The ruins of the
Fourth National Bank building still
blaze fitfully, but the Beckel house,
reported burned with hundreds of ref
; ugees, is unharmed.
Floods Are Receding.
Indianapolis, March 29.—The floods
in central and north central Indiana
are receding, with the effect of expos
ing facts of desolation and suffering
i beyond precedent in that region.
The death roll in the stricken cities
has not yet been made up. but the
needs of the living and the dangers of
disease and epidemics due to exposure
and bad water are being revealed in
every message that adds details of
the situation.
In Indianapolis hundreds of refu
gees from the west part of town are
being cared for in Tomlinson hall. The
prospect is that the loss of life will
be less extensive in the capital than
first reports indicated.
Peru in Bad Shape.
Further light on conditions in Peru
came last night in a telephone mes
sage from C. D. Emmons, manager of
the Northern Indiana Traction com
pany, who is stranded in that town.
He said that twenty persons have
been found dead among the refugees
in the court house there.
“They are moving the people from
the courthouse in boats and it was
found that twenty of the refugees had
died from exposure,” Mr. Emmons
said. He added that smallpox and
diphtheria had broken out among the
hundreds of persons packed into the
courthouse. One corner of that build
ing was quarantined and all the res
cued persons suffering from contag
ious diseases were removed to that
confinement
Lieut. Gov. O'Neill, who is at Peru,
telephoned to Indianapolis denying
the report of pestilence. Mr. O’Neill
said he knew of twelve or thirteen
dead, that the toll would be greater,
but could hazard no guess as to its
size.
Horrors Beyond Telling.
State Senator Stephen Fleming, who
had charge of the relief train sent
from Fort Wayne to Peru, returned to
Fort Wayne, telling a story of harrow
ing suffering and of possible great loss
of life.
“It will be impossible to estimate
the loss of life in Peru,” he said, “and
the horrors cf the situation there are
beyond telling. There may have been
fifty persons drowned and there may
have been 600. Many people still in
their homes in the inundated city,
frightened at repeated capsizing of
rescue boats working to and fro
among the stricken homes, positively
refuse to accept assistance, and al
most crazed by their fear, insist upon
remaining in the houses, although
many of them are standing in water
on the second floors of their homes.
“Sewage from the courthouse is ab
solutely cut off, and filth collecting
there is adding to the suffering from
exposure through many cases of di
sease.”
Looters Are Shot.
Cincinnati, March 29.—With the re
ceding of the floods in Dayton and
other submerged towns in Ohio and
Indiana, scores of looters have ap
peared and are being summarily dealt
! wTith by the police and militiamen
guarding the property of the flood vic
1 time.
Communication was re-established
with Dayton and other towns today.
Reports from Dayton are that many
I sh°ts were heard fired within the
j flood z°oe early today, and these were
I taken to indicate that the guardsmen
This is a scene on the raging Miami river at Dayton, O.. where hun
dreds of lives have been lost in the floods.
are carrying out their stringent or
ders—''Shoot to kill.”
A number of looters captured in
Dayton were brought before the chief
of police.
Ordered to Kill.
"Don't bring these fellows before
me," he is said to have ordered; "kill
them.”
No one is permitted to pass east of
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks, the
established guard line.
West Indianapolis also is practically
under martial law' because of the ac
tivity of looters who commenced op
erations as soon as the receding
floods permitted them to prowl.
Looting has been reported from
Peru, Ind.. and from Piqua, Middle
town and other Ohio cities. That the
looters are being shot down is be
lieved, but for obvious reasons the
facts are suppressed.
Are More Cheerful at Dayton.
West Dayton, O.. March 29.—The
sun rose bright and clear this morn
ing on a happier Dayton. Prospects
are for a decided subsidence of the
flood waters and for greater rapidity
and efficiency in the relief work. The
weather has cleared and fear of pesti
lence now is the chief worry for offi
cials in charge of the situation. A
lieutenant of militia said last night
that~probablv 100 bodies had been lo
cated in the central district, but that
no attempt would be made to remove
them yet.
The state is paralyzed. Railroads,
trolley, telephone and telegraph traffic
is blocked and the cities in jvhieh
hundreds of lives have been lost are
cut off almost entirely from com
munication with the rest of the world.
Millions of dollars' damage has
been done to property, fully 75,000
people are homeless and appeals for
aid have been sent out to the Red
Cross. In Dayton alone 30,000 people
are homeless.
Reservoirs Give Way.
The four days' continous rain
filled every reservoir in the state and
a number of them undermined dams
and poured their contents into the
valleys. A wall of water seven feet
high rushed down into Miami valley.
The levees along the Miami river
broke and the residents of Dayton
along the river were forced to flee
for their lives. The rush of water
was so great, however, that houses
were undermined and carried along in
the swift current. Hundreds were
drowned before they had a chance to
seek places of safety.
The water crept higher and higher,
and finally it was thirteen feet deep
at the Union station. Some parts of
the city were under thirty feet of wa
ter.
540 Dead at Piqua.
In Piqua the river burst the levees,
poured through the town and trapped
hundreds of people in their homes.
The swift current undermined the
homes, and it is estimated that 540
were swept to their death.
In Delaware, the Olentangy river be
came a lake which covered most of
the city. It is estimated that fully
one thousand were drowned.
People were left clinging to trees,
roof-tops and telegraph poles, crying
for assistance. Owing to the swift
current in the river, the work of res
cue was duflicult.
Damage in Cleveland $2,000,000.
In Cleveland, while no lives
were lost, the damage will reach $2,
000,000. The Cuyahoga river swept
through the manufacturing district in
the flats, closed down hundreds of
mills and left more than fifty thou
sand workers Idle. The East Third
street bridge was destroyed when a
big steamer was swept from its moor
ings and crashed into it
Thousands of dollars worth of lum
ber was swept from the river and out
into the lake. Firemen were kept
busy dynamiting lumber jams at the
bridges.
In Youngstown, 25.000 workmen
were forced to quit work when most
of the big industries were shut down
by the flood. All bridges in the city
are guarded.
Fifteen Missing at Middletown.
The big bridge over the Miami river
at Middletown was swept away, fifteen
persons are missing and scores of
houses are floating down stream.
Two companies of state National
Guard have been sent to Hamilton to
help preserve order. Five were
drowned there.
Larue, Marion county, sent an ap
peal for help to Governor Cox. The
town is inundated and people have
sought refuge on the roofs of their
houses.
Nineteen Dead in Delaware.
The number of known dead in Dela
ware is nineteen, and from thirty-five
to forty are missing. It is reported
the mayor, B. V. Leas, is among the
drowned.
In West Liberty an engine and one
car rolled down an embankment
washed out by the flooded Mad river.
The conductor was drowned and sev
eral bodies were seen floating away,
and it is feared a number of passen
gers in the two cars were drowned.
In Akron more than five hundred
families are homeless, the rubber fac
tories were forced to close down, rail
road and trolley traffic is paralyzed
and it is feared that the big state
reservoir south of the city will break
Only one death, that of a lineman, who
was electrocuted, was reported
Dayton Under Martial Law.
Dayton is under martial law. Three
companies of the Ohio National Guard
are aiding the police in rescuing fam
ilies from flood-menaced homes.
The first direct word out of the city
after the breaking of the levee was a
long-distance telephone message to
Richmond, Ind.. from Frank Purvi
ance. an employe of the Terre Haute,
Indianapolis & Eastern Traction com
pany at Dayton. Eight thousand per
sons, he said, had been drowned there
''They're dying like rats in their
homes; bodies are washing around
thfc streets, and there is no relief in
sight." Purvianee said.
Telephone communication with Day
ton was established for a few minutes,
then was broken again. Purvianee
said water stood twenty to forty feet
in some of the streets.
Situation Is Appalling.
Frank Brandon, vice-president of
Dayton, Lebanon & Cincinnati rail
road, succeeded in establishing a
telegraph wire from Dayton to Leba
non. He said that the situation is ap
palling and beyond all control.
"According to my advices the situ
ation beggars description," said Mr.
Brondan. “What the people need most
is boats. The water is high in every
street and assistance late this after
noon was simply out of the question.
My superintendent at Dayton told me
that at least sixty had perished and
probably a great many more, at the
same time assuring me that unless
something that closely approached a
miracle happened the death list would
run considerably higher.
i'We are rigging up several special
trains and will make every effort pos
sible to get into Dayton.”
The greater loss of life is supposed
to have occurred a couple of hours
later, when the crest of the Rood
reached the city.
Levee Broke Early Tuesday.
The first break In the levee protect
ing the city occurred about six o'clock
Tuesday morning. By noon the levee
had broken in three places and the
business section of the city was five to
six feet under water.
The river was then at the highest
stage it has reached in 40 years and
still rising.
The suburbs of Riverdale, West
Side and North Dayton, were entirely
under water and in the downtown sec
tion St. Clair, Emmett and Second
streets were flooded.
Governor Orders Out Troops.
Columbus, O., March 26.—"If our
worst fearB are confirmed it will be
necessary for us to call on the outside
world for tents and supplies in order
to make provision for the worst ca
lamity that ever has befallen this
state,” said Gov. James M. Cox in a
telegram he sent to a New York news
paper.
The gevernor also informed the pa
per that troops were ordered out for
duty in the capital city and that the
naval reserves were dispatched from
Toledo to Piqua. The Dayton com
panies are on duty in that city, he
said.
The Cincinnati companies, presuma
bly. the governor said in his message,
would be dispatched to Hamilton and
Middletown, which lie in the Miami
valley and which sent out distress sig
nals.
State Aid for Stricken.
At the suggestion of Governor Cox
a bill was drawn and was presented to
the legislature today by Representa
tive Lowrie, appropriating $250,000 for
relief of the flood sufferers of the
state.
Irresistible Attraction.
Briggs—"I understand that Gudger
fell in love with the girl he married
at first sight.” Griggs—‘ Yes; when
he first saw her she was making a fat
deposit in the savings bank.”—Boston
Transcript.
For Scorch Marks.
To remove a scorch from linen, cut
an onion in half and rub the searched
part with it, and then soak it in cold
water. The mark will then disap
pear.
I Attempt to Electrocute Fi*h Is Fatal
Lancaster,.O.—While trying to kill
I fish in the Scioto river by charging
the water with electricity from a wire
attached to the third rail of the near
by tracks of the Scioto Valley Trac
tion company, Dudley Carpenter and
David Bobbitt were electrocuted.
Proof of Self-Control.
Self-control is what we show when
a woman in a crowded street car
pokes us in the eye with her umbrel
la.—Florida Times-Union.
Farmer Is Father of 37.
Grand Forks, N. D.—Being the fa
I ther of 37 children is the distinction
borne by H. T. Hertzog, a farmer liv
ing near Palermo, this state. He is
seventy years old and looks no more
than sixty, and has been married
three times.
Wedding Bells.
Heck—“They say a ring around the
moon is a sign of rain.” Peck—"So la
a ring around a woman's finger a sign
of reign.”
Long Hatpins to Be Barred Here.
Hartford, Conn.—Any woman in
Connecticut who wears a hatpin pro
truding more than half an inch from
her hat will be liable to 30 days' im
prisonment or $10 fine, or both, if a
bill passes the legislature.
Hen Lays a Green Egg.
Baltimore.—A hen belonging to J.
H. Seeger of Arlington laid an egg
that was splotched with bright green.
Seeger denied he was trying to "put
ov%r" a nature fake.
1174 KNOWN DEAD
Omaha’s Property Loss Will Ex
ceed $10,000,000 as Result
of Tornado
! UTTER DESTITUTION IN STORMS PATH REVEALED
ft_
Actual Disclosures Rack the (Serves and Wrench the
Meart-Strings of Those Who Behold Them.
Omaha - The utter destitution that attends the complete demolition of
hundreds of homes and the destruction of the personal belongings of the
thousands who were domiciled there when engulfed in the merciless swirl
of the tornado is made impressively conspicuous throughout the storm
swept district. It had been anticipated by all who realized just what the
tornado meant, yet its actual disclosure racked the nerves and wrenched the
heartstrings of all who beheld.
There were well understood causes that had delayed the grewsonte rev
elation. Hundreds who had been tortured in the grip of the maddened ele
ments had remained in a semi-daze for more than forty-eight hours, numbly
realizing that they had been despoiled and bereft, yet failing to actively com
prehend. Guided by kind friends and helpful strangers alike, they had been
conducted passively to the shelter of neighboring homes that had opened for
them, almost indifferent to the needs of the hour and but vaguely conscious
of the demands of the morrow. But now they have begun to “pull themselves
together” and to take account of the situation.
Stunned, by the weight of the blow
which fell so suddenly upon her, Oma
ha is under the spell of a strange
quititude, a reverent and subdued
tribute to the awfulness of the dis
aster.
With almost every tick of the clock
the name of another victim was add
ed Monday to the appalling list of
dead and injured, and the sadness
was not confined to the wrecked
homes of the bereaved nor the bed
side of the maimed.
There was little attempt at the
usual transaction of business in the
city. The men whose livelihood de
pends particularly upon their acumen
and sprightliness, whose affairs call
for an increasing pursuit of custom,
and who have been known as faithful
toilers in that interest, were sub
merged in the wave of grief. They
erosity of the untouched toward those
who have suffered will Ions be a
laurel upon the brow of the city’s
citizenship.
Snow Falls On Stricken Homes.
A light fall of snow in Omaha that
reached at least two inches in depth
by morning, came late Monday night
to add its part to the sufferings of
the stricken ones in the tornado-swept
section. The temperature Monday
was below freezing and the chill went
to the marrow of those who tried to
work among the ruins of their homes
in the effort to save a little from the
wreck.
Relief Offers Received.
During Monday, when the storm's
havoc became known throughout the
world, messages of condolence and re
lief offers came from many states and
cities. Prominent among the first
IN THE PATH OF THE OMAHA TORNADO
The devastation caused by the Omaha tornado is graphically illustrated
by this photograph, taken at Lincoln boulevard and Thirty-fourth street,
directly in the path of the storm.
gathered on street corners and in
cafes, and their conversation was
only of the calamity—of what might
be done to alleviate the suffering.
Representatives of tornado insur
ance companies, building supplies con
cerns and storage companies, who
might be readily and rightfully ex
pected to reap a rich harvest follow
ing the assault of the wind fiend,
found their work extremely distaste
ful and were loth to press their point.
Men of business importance were
seen to walk the streets softly and
with downcast faces, their thoughts
everywhere but with their affairs.
In the face of all the ghastly and
terrible manifestations of a calamity
which is attracting the attention and
concern of the whole world, there is
at least one bright lining to the cloud
which hangs as a pall over stricken
Omaha. The ready sympathy, the re
sourcefulness, the kindness and gen
Council Bluffs Hard Hit.
With the telegraph and telephone
lines still in very poor shape, it is
definitely known that the death list
in the recent cyclone disaster in this
section of the state, in and around
Council Bluffs will reach ttventy to
twenty-five and the injured at least
seventy-five. The death roll has.
so far as telegraphic or telephonic
service could be had, reaohed twenty
and the list of injured anywhere from
fifty to seventy-five.
Council Bluffs suffered the heaviest
Looters Will Be Severely Dealt With.
Ix>oters or robbers who in time of
disaster take advantage of the confu
sion to steal from the unfortunate are
finding their way hard in Omaha. The
stricken districts are efficiently po
liced by civil and military authorities
and any person discovered robbing
the homes or stores devastated by
the storm will meet severe punish
ment.
Gov. Morehead Views Storm’s Path.
A special from Lincoln Sunday night
was that of President Wilson. Others
were from Governor Sulzer of New
York. Governor Dunne of Illinois,
Chambers of Commerce in Chicago,
Denver, San Francisco, Seattle. Spo
kane, Kansas City, Salt Lake City and
Des Moines. Des Moines sent a spe
cial train of forty doctors and nuises
early Monday to assist in every pos
sible way in taking care of the af
flicted.
Solons Visit Omaha.
Nebraska legislators, with scarce a
half-dozen of the 133 missing, spent
live hours in viewing Omaha’s tor
nado-stricken district Chief Clerk
Henry C. Richmond ciceroned the
party and conveyed them in special
cars to various parts of the city.
The visit made certain a legislative
appropriation do aid the city in the
gigantic relief work which must be
immediately undertaken. A bill to
that end w-ill be introduced.
loss in life, seven bodies now being
laid out in the morgues in that city.
Weston has two deaths, Gilliat has
two, Neola four and Glenwood five.
Numerous persons were injured at all
of these places. Fourteen cases are
being treated in the local hospitals
one, Benjamin Benningholt of Duck
Hollow, having passed awav early
Monday morning at Mercy hospital
shortly after being brought there
N Krinski, his wife and five chi!
dren were killed in the basement of
their home. 1
brought Governor Morehead and party
to look over the storm s havoc and «ee
at first hand what should be done for
immediate relief. After a trip through
the the stricken district, the governor
was much affected by the appalhng
sights and asserted that he would ask
the Nebraska legislature to appro
priate a goodly sum at once to be
donated to the cause. De
Near Glenwood, la, Ben Dean and
his three daughters, all grown, ar6
said to have been killed in their hotal
which was destroyed.