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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1913
Page
9
The Omaha death toll reaches 740 with 240 still expected not to recover as 350 homes and 900 other buildings are destroyed. Additional fatalities surface in nearby towns and Chicago, Terre Haute, and across the central Mississippi valley as relief efforts rush to reach cut off areas.
Nebraska and Iowa cities face homelessness and widespread damage after a night of violent tornadoes. Officials report up to 200 deaths in Omaha with hundreds injured, as hospitals fill and state troops assist. Governor Moorehead orders relief funding and saloons closed. schools and churches sustain severe damage while rescue work continues.
Eighteen people were killed and about 250 injured in Terre Haute as a tornado devastated the city and nearby areas. Some 276 houses were destroyed with property damage near four million dollars. Rescue efforts continued as searchers cleared wreckage and aid flowed to hundreds of homeless residents. Indiana National Guard units patrolled the ruined district under orders from Governor Ralston.
A colossal tornado devastates Omaha on Easter Sunday driving from the southwest through West Farnam and Bemis parks, destroying homes, crippling industry, and halting city services. Troops and the Nebraska National Guard join in the relief as miles of streets and blocks lie in ruins and the business district narrowly escapes destruction. The storm crossed Carter Lake and routed into Council Bluffs, with a death toll and losses mounting.
Reports from Bluff, Iowa detail growing deaths and injuries after Sunday tornadoes. Barlette adds three dead in the Dendean family. Mrs Hopper seriously hurt. father battered unconscious as homes are destroyed. Magnolia California Junction Blackburn Malvern report heavy losses with bridges damaged and multiple injuries.
In Reading a canoe carrying three youths aged 17 to 19 plunged over falls in the Bemughkill River past Haines Locks. Brothers William K. Uxley and Charles Asley and Paul Welte launched the craft. loss of control in swift current sent them over the falls and their bodies were recovered.
In Sprisgmmerld Ohio on March 24 Deforest Malloy a saloon keeper faces murder charges for the death of Midgar Hildebrandt a bartender whose body was found near his well at night in Punderburgh. Police report the suspect confessed to the crime.
A tornado wrecked Omaha neighborhoods as a department store advertising manager A J Green described the storm from his porch. Fires erupted along the path. several families, including W Dickson and Diksons, suffered injuries while others escaped by taking shelter in cellars. Fire and debris filled the streets as residents recount the terrifying experience and the loss of homes.
Witness accounts describe a late day tornado in Omaha causing widespread destruction. Reports recount collapsed theaters, burning debris, and bodies being hurled and dropped as fires followed, with several residents feared dead or severely injured.
Reported from Chicago March 24 describes a violent tornado outbreak across Nebraska Iowa and Illinois. Passengers recount wrecked towns damaged rails and hospitals overwhelmed as dead injured and frightened residents seek shelter and aid amid raging winds and collapsing structures.
In Brisbane on March 21 3amee Way and Sam Langford fought a twenty round draw with Langford having won their previous meeting.
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Spartansberg Ohio March 24 A 27 year old deaf mute Mies Elisabeth Rows living with her father T M Toes in a lonely house on the PULA of the City woke to a knock at the door. A silent figure entered. Mies Elisabeth ordered him to speak but he did not. Her father awoke and confronted the intruder. The intruder fled after a scuffle. A boy, 11, Louis Dueton, a runaway from Cedar Springs, was found near the scene and later wandered toward Greed Ville. The boy may recover.
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