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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1913)
THE INVENTORY: Lives lost - Persons injured People homeless - Estimates Based On Most Reliable Storm Information Now Obtainable 140 350 2,500 Houses demolished 550 11 .8 Money loss Tornado insurance Buildings damaged $5,000,000 $500,000 1,250 v.-,f. - Churches wred Schools The KEEP FRIENDS POSTED Mall them copies of The Bee tlie Raper with best recount of the storm avoc. It Beats Letter Writing Daily Bee EXTR vol. xlii no. 241. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAKOH 26, liUn.-SlXTElfiN PAGES. SINOLlfl COPY TWO CUNTS. WHITE SNOW BLANKET COVERS THE UGLY SCENE OF AWFUL DESOLATION . The second morning after Omaha's great catastrophe found the city enveloped with a fast, falling snow. ' '' . It was as If a heautiful blanket or white had been drawn over hideous rulus In the "path of. the tornado as If to hide the horror from view. The flakes came down thick and wet, but without any drlvlng"vlnd, and gave the atmosphere a moist, mellow flavor that exaled peaceful quiet after trouble. At the edges of the devastated district the tramp, tramp, tramp of the soldier sentries made foot prints In tho new fallen snow. Moving vans and burden laden autos were again In ovldence. The curiosity inspired visitors hud evidently had their querulousness satiated, for few came on tho ground as compared with the constant outpouring of the day before. friends and neighbors have been1 taking care of thoso driven out of thejr own homes. Pedestrians had to identify themselves and prove that they were bent on legitimate business, in order to get through fhe lines. At tho hospitals and tho improvised sickrooms, in the homes of gooa Samaritans, sorrowful callers came and wont doctors and surgeons upon their missions falherB, mothers and friends emerging with downcast looks or smiles as the reports received were favorablo or dIs:ourasing., Worse reminders of the storm's deadly destruction were the hearses and black funeral carriages winding here and there in sharp contrast with the snow's shining whiteness. In front of every undertaker's shop were gathered from time to time these grim vehicles of grief, signalB that tho funerals of tho victims had begun and that the cemeteries would be the, last resting place for all. ALL ENERGIES ARE NOW BENDING TO RELIEF WORK All energies are now bending toward relief work so that the victims of tho big. atorm tiiay not have to undergo needJeBB suffering. , The agencies through which the peen orgarjigea, ana as a nrst preliminary step. a nasty, syjyey or tno. ae--SoTuhcS' ifouBos, and their occupants, made under direction of the Com mercial club. Offers of financial aid are comiug from all directions. The. Bee's original estimates of tbp extent of the storm path, and the number of buildings effected, are being confirmed. Reliable estimates of tho monoy loss cannot yet bo made. Tho widespreal scope of the calam ity, however, is rocognlzdd, and it is known that the task of restorat'o 1 will lequlro tremendous effort and an outlay aggregating into the millions. Little of the property damaged is covered by insurance against wind. A committee consisting of J. J. Ryder, V. J. Byrne and C. C. Rosewater vas ap pointed yesterday at a meetlns of tno dtlrens' relief committee to establlJu eome six relief stations in the afflicted district. I The committee was given full power to act In all matters concerning the location and the manning of tile sta tions. The Jardlne Transfer company was given the control of the auto truck? that are to be used In the relief work, s'ich as hauling In furniture, hauling food anil clothing, The furniture Is to be stored in the Auditorium for a time. The sev eral stations to be established are to dis pense food and clothing. Lodging .up to the present time has been furnlsned by neighbors and friends, and hundreds of cots have been taken to the Audit. :rlum. where refugees will be taken. A num ber of tho brewery companies and others that have large auto trucks have placed them at the service of Jardlne, who :s to manage the trucks. Fort Omaha also (Continued from Page Five.) ' tSSS3 ' -. - .' k' ;' Incoming help is to be handled Thgyg, Ralston Residents 1 Direly in Need of Clothing and Food Mayor C; At. Skinner appeared before the city commissioners and the Omaha cyclone relief committee at tho city hall this morning and appealed for assistance for the poor unfortunates at Ralston. He said an accurate count taken by him shows forty-ono families destitute and eighteen .single persons. I "Wo need aid of every kind," said ' Mayor Skinner, "as tho conditions In Ralston are dllferent than here In Omaha, i The entire business section of Ralston has been wiped out and hundreds have been thrown out of employment, and many of the persons have not enough money to come to Omaha to get work. Why, there are people out In my town who have not even a stitch of their own clothing left and are going around with a few borrowed rags on their backs." Back of Idlewild Pool Hall Drawn for The Bee by Powell. BILL FOR HUNDRED THOUSAND teslalifre Wfir donfriBufewvTftrS Sum to Tornado Sufferers. SOME AVAILABLE AT ONCE Three Small Vlllnmvi AVrecUeil 'Will Hiivp ThaiiNnnt! Dollar r.acli nt Onei- for Purpose of He llef. - - (From a Stuff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Nob., March 25.-(Hpeclal.)-Tho sympathy of the state for tho af flicted at Omaha, Berlin, Yutan an1 Ralston took substantial form this after noon wh'en at the request of a Joint com. mlttee of th senate and house, after a conference with the governor, the latter had Introduced In the house a bill ap propriating UOO.OOO for tho people wno have been rendered In need of help by ,the tonado of Easter Sunday. Governor Morehead Instructed thi three small villages which wefo almost com pletely demolished to draw oi a Lincoln bank for J1.XX) each for immediate use. The money when appropriated by tho legislature will be distributed under the direction of the following commission; Governor Morehead, clmlrman; A- j. Smith and Robert 'Cowell of Omaha, ox Senator Buck of Berldv William Miller of Yutan and George W. Potts .of 'Paw nee county. The cost of the militia jm trol will be paid out of the appropria tion. The Joint committee which :onferred with tho governor on the appropriation bill was composed of the following; Krom (Continued on Page Two.) Home Million Dollars. , v Storm in Chicago CHICAGO, Mh;clt 25.-Wire men of the fire department worked , feVerlshly today lo restore the electric alarm system which was seriously Impaired 'by the storm which yesterday hit the city. it Is estimated' that the damage done In Cook county (Chicago) Including dwellings demolished, the miles of wires and poles prostrated, windows smashed, basements flooded1, railroad property and machinery Injured, will aggregate $1,000. OW. The greatest loss falls oh tho tele graph and telephone companies. Despite the cold today former occu- punts of most of the thirty dwellings j wllch wefo demolished by tho wind con ( tinned the search for valuables, but made i little attempt to clear away the debris. The contents of the houses were for the most part considered a dead loss. Forest Park in St, Louis Flooded by Rise of River ST. LOUIS. Mo., March 25. One person was drowned and several families driven from their homes by the rising of River Dlsperes, which' flows through the west ern and southern parr of the city today. 1 The floor was the result of a heavy rain, which at times during the last forty eight hours almost reached a cloud burst. Early today it was reported by the police stationed In the western end of the city that River Dlsperes was seven feet hlgherjthan ever before. The river flows through Forest Park, tho great show place of the city and today the principal drive there was under six feet bf water. 1 DONATIONS FOR SUFFERERS LEFT AT THE BEE OFFICE Oeorg A. noaglonc... ....5 A. 3. Jonas Xlrsohurauu & Sons B. B. VVUT I& Z. Oameroa KUatmU lausary Sa Jobr.ston, , , Homo KUlr , l'dte Xroch . , , . , Former Hani , n. u. ana E. O. Hamilton , ..... !. Boy CrtumnST, ............ Ciaci-ffa TUdaa ............... Caaa , CaftX .. , , Otnjdr. Vttnfitlfuiirn Ctotr. . , , ?ltuunxal& Uorr.-nTxial dab, o'a-i Ku!i "Wil'un loaches of Cctcubai. r.r. 3. C. Sick S. A. Stctirdtmt . J. TJVMasM r'rtbcUi E. 3Jisce. ........ Totn SaU jr. C. ltnde--Siol-a . rete- 3 rt men, 2703 Lrtj- w-jnii ttrtst , Sv.vl7ia 3e iIJl soc3z ...... Uarr7 E. a'm.'aia.i , r. v. BUiy..... Cos'. koU earrtes P. "7T, Vrviyi at'en Sju. ................... Occaur An&txvr. Ar va B. XJUa, Sltnx City, Ci', , "sr....,,.,..,...,,,, rrffscsfa Ca- .. . J , , P. " Kr;tc. , 0v "ffir-.. , r-T-T rr.o-:-, VTZsEtr CuV rt'-x'B . iwogr.n t r GaUaUa, ... Ch . .... Cash . - iX, j. ritmorrl , 600.00 200.00 300.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 60.00 B0.00 80.00 00.00 BO. DO 35A0 10.00 10.00 10,00 10.03 10.00 xaoo 10.00 O.0D 0X0 8.03 en 6XX B.09 2.09 a. co 1.03 2S.0O 23.00 10.01 0.0-1 3.00 .as 340 10.00 ADRP0PJ$JRTS TEEN Bulgarians Capture Defenses" "East of the City. BOMBARDMENT LASTS ALL DAY bUliHtvli from.Soflu Hay All f first Hue or Defense Around the City in' In the llaniU of the Allien. SKRVIA, Greece, March 23. The Turk- sh advanced, positions and all tho fort!. fled points to the east of the fortress of Adrianople wero captured by Bulgarian besiegers this morning. LONDON, March 25.-The Bulgarian be siegers today captured tho first line of defenses around tho Turkish fortress of Adrlanopler after a bombardment lasting several hours, according to a dispatch from Sofia. Benefit Performance by Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt wll give a benefit concert for Omaha suffemrS Sunday night In Deliver. The' city will donate the Auditorium. President Mohler of tho Union Pacific and D. K. Barley, gen eral passenger agent. Salt Lake, and Miss Bernhardt's manager arranged the benefit. A special train of eight cars will carry Miss Bernhardt from Salt Lake City to Denver In time for the perform nnce. Ruins 11 t-.- w. -y- -m MANY LIVES ARE LO FLOODS THOUSANDS HOMELESS lltl.Ll'.Tl.V. CIlILIilCOTlli:. 6.. March S.-A tele phone me&sage from Dayton said that 30,000 people wert homeless, n number of persons dead and tho water fifteen feet deep in the center of Dayton. It was still raining and tho river rising. 'A re lief (rain from .Xenla was started to Day ton loaded with supplies. The train Is expected to arrive at midnight. CHICAGO, March a.-Swept by wind and rainstorms of terrific violence for three dayp, vast areas of the middle west from the Missouri river to the Allegheny mountains tonight nro Inundated. Many persons have been drowned, and enor motiso property losses have bren caused by floods, the worst In years. Tho maps of Ohio, Indiana and parts of Illinois and Missouri nro maps of deso lation. Tcrre Haute, Indianapolis and Lafayette, In Indiana, nnd Dayton, Dela ware, Columbus nnd Youngstown, In Ohio, present particularly pitiable spec tacles. In all thene cities thero wail Ions of life, according to tho most authentic reports available, and fn each city tho property loss particularly was heavy. No (letlnlto Information as to what ac tually happened nt Dayton could bo ob tained until tonight, when Information from Cincinnati came that sixty HveB had been lost, radically all of Dayton wbi under water and tho residents had been forced to flee for their liver. Many o ftho moro Intrepid sought refugo on tho house tops. .Nineteen Ilend nt Deluvrnrc. In Delaware, O., nineteen persons are known to have lost .their lives and thirty to fifty others are missing. Terro Haute. HWept by a disastrous tornado lust Sun day, was today In the grip of a rain nnd wind storm which, seriously interfered with tho work of removing the stricken families, but the death list stilt remained M twenty, whue the list of injured Is rx peeled .to, aggregate 230. At Dayton,"' ).. three. rivers thd Miami, Stillwater und Mad-and other, streams. known as Wolf creek, Join. - 1 In in I Levee Urenks, For tho most part tho city lies on n level flat with the streams meeting a,l. most in the heart of the place and Is pro tected by levies twcnty-flvo feet high. Tho leveo protecting tho Miami river broke about fl o'clock this morning nnd tho flood was augmented by the rapidly rising waters of the other three streams and finally made uncontrollablo by the breaking of the Luramlo reservoir, fifty miles, abovo Dayton. , The waters swept through the city with terrific force, - One report which, how ever, lacked confirmation wns that the water In tho muln street wan fifteen feet deep. All wlro communication, except one slender telcphono wire to l'Jionoton, a station six miles away, was broken off and Information regarding the status of affair In Dayton was difficult to ohtntn Disastrous floods Inundated Important areas of Ohio and Indiana today, bring ing great loss of life In their, imln and driving thousands of persons from their homes. At Delaware, O,, twenty person were drowned. The property loss will run into the millions, lu tho flooded districts rlv ers were out of their banks, dams woro bursting und Inhabitants of the lowland fleeing for their lives. Governor Cox called out the mllttla to protect property and keep order. Tho loss In liva stock has been heavy. Following is a resumo of the situation: Dayton, O. Dam above city said to havs broken; five feet of water In the streets of the Sacred He art Convent ST I0i IN OH Delaware, 0. Twenty persons drowned, tnllltlu onlercd to patrol streets; relief supplier being sent. Columbus, O. Bridges near Columbus on SclotI river washed out and railway traffic paralyzed. Lima, O. There ale ten miles of rail road trains of nil kinds stnlled by wash out between Lima and Lafayette. Tho Ottawa river Is on a rampage. Akron, O. Dam north of city bro'ie. Horsemen rode through valley, warning farmers, who. with their families, fled by tho hundreds to higher grounds. I .ii Hue, O. llHlndntod. Kokomo, Ind, Southern pari oi' vltv flooded. Kokomo. Ind. Southern part 'it city flooded; city In darkness last ntglit when electric light plant stopped. Use of Mi litia authorized. Indianapolis Hundreds of persons liv ing In suburbs driven from homes I y rlso of lOaglc creek and White river. Thousands of head of llvo stock in state perished. Marlon, Ind. LeVee broke and M pej ple flee for their lives. Klwood, Ind. Three hundred homeless by floods. Ii Fayette, Ind Bridge wa3h -A out. Many persons missing. Detention hos pital flooded, but Inmates escaped. St. Louis, Mo. Ono person drowlici and many families fleo from Weste.'n part of city because of rise of River Des Peres. 'Lnrnmlp Hmervolr UrenUii. COLUMBUS. O., March 25.-Inform.i-tton was received at the stato rapltol building today from Dayton that forty persons had been killed no a result of tho flood In that vicinity. Adjutant Gen eral Wood Issued an order directing that tho rallroud bridge over the Big Miami river bo blown up. According to reports recolved the Main street bridge, a steel and concrete struc ture, has already been awept awal'. H wiui also reported that TVoy and Tlope canoe Olty. north of -Dayton, were both flooded and that many .liad taken refuge oil roofs. ' ' NRW YOrtK, March 2o.-Nn lives have been lost thus far atid no buildings de stroyed In the flood at Dayton, O., ac cording to a message received at 1J:15 today by tho Amorjcan Telephone ahd Teifgraph company from Its station at Phoneton. eight mjles north of Dayton. Tha company has a test wlro working from Phoncton to Dayton. The" company's men at Phoneton re ported that tho flood In tho Malml river was caused, by tho breaking o'f tho Lara mie reservoir In. Shelby county, about fifty miles nor(h of Dayton. When this message wag received the Miami river was rising about bne foot an hour. The water was seven feet deep In Main street, Dayton, and fourteen feet deep in many parts of the surrounding country. lliinrirertN Reported Dead. INDIANAPOLIS, March 2j.-The West ern Union Telegraph olflce here received a report at 11 o'clock that 1.600 persons had boen drowned at Dayton. Tho report stated that tho waters were rushing through the streets of Dayton like a mlllrace carrying destruction In thflr wake, Hundreds Of homes were washed awny, only tho strongest of the buildings being nble to withstand the tide. lliialnena District Under IVnlcr, DAYTON, March ,23,-Dayton Is seeing tho deep muddy waters of the Miami river rushing through Its downtown streets, In front of the Algonquin' hotel, standing on tho corner of Third and Ludlow streets, and besides which stand a mag nificent church, tho great Young Men's Christian association building and Vxo Hotel Atlas, the water Is many feet deep ' x ? V
