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T17E JIORXIXCr OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1913. PORTLAND ANXIETY SKY GLARES RED AS The new book "The Life Mask" by the author of "To M. L. G." AT HIGH TENSION 1 500 Residents of City Fear for Safety of Friends and . Relatives. Cyclone Survivors Tell How Houses and Boxcars Were Hurled Through Air. AID OFFERED TO OMAHA WIND MOANS AND HISSES ............I tlliisssirl ...... STREET MAP OF OMAHA, SHOWING STOBM-SWEPT TISTEICT t SI0R1EALS DEATH Burlington Train Passengers, Saved by Being iMte, Sit Spellbonnd as Buildings Bowl Along Ground With Flames in Wake. CHICAGO, March S4. Stories replete with thrills and pathos were related in Chicago today by eyewitnesses of the tornado which yesterday swept over parts of Nebraska. Iowa, Indiana and Illinois last night, killing and injur ing hundreds. Awed and horror stricken, the nar rators of this had sat fascinated In the coach of a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad train watching a great dark cloud skipping fantastically at its work of destruction. In several vil lages they helped pick up the dead and dying. The wounded and the slain muti lated, groaning, dying were placed on the plush covered seats and In the car peted aisles of the cars until the train reached Omaha. Hero they were re moved and taken to hospitals or morgues. On the way In the Injured told heartrending tales of suffering and rarrow escapes which seemed to them miraculous. Storm Secma to Pursue Train. William Koon, president of an auto mobile company of Lincoln. Neb., gave a graphic description of the storm as he viewed It from the platform of the observation car. For miles it seemed as If the train were being pursued by tho storm. "We were approaching Ralston, Neb, when I first noticed a strange, copper colored cloud mounting toward the sky." said Koon. "Before that It had been clear. The cloud grew rapidly and was traveling at tremendous speed toward Ralston. It assumed the form of a funnel, and the air was filled with a curious noise, something between a hiss and a moan, but very piercing. Then the funnel seemed to grow black and the smaller end that near the ground was about half a mile in diam eter. It swished across the railroad track and swept toward the little town. "Then the storm struck tho town. Houses collapsed, roofs went sailing away and the side fell in. Passengers sat as though glued to their seats when the cloud struck. Then as they comprehended the desolation wrought a cry of horror went up from every one. It was a fearful sight. Paaaeagers Harry to Rains. Then the engine was brought to a stop and the passengers ran over to tho wreckage of the houses. We could hear the groans of dying men and the wails and shrieks of Injured women and children. I entered a house, or rather what had been a house, and beneath me lay a woman. I looked and I knew that she was dead. -We got all of the injured out of the ruins and brought them to the train. IVe were about to leave when our at tention was called to a little house some distance from tho railroad. It had been wrecked and moved from its foundation but we found a mother and her little baby lying upon a bed un injured. Another man was In a base ment. His house had been carried away bodily and be was left standing with a very surprised look on his face In the open uninjured. I recall that there was a big threshing machine standing near one of the houses and when the cloud struck. It shot straight up Into tho air and was carried about 40 rods. Houses were rolling; and tumbling along the ground. "I saw a boxcar carried along for a quarter of a mile. When it spilt open six or seven men, who turned out to be part of a repair gang, dropped oat. Some of them lay still, while others feebly crawled'away. "The next station our train passed through was Benson, where the scenes were still more appalling. There were several large factories there and all were strewn in heaps. We picked up a lot of injured and I don't know how many dead we left behind. "Then the cloud wheeled and made towards South Omaha. We were not far behind, but our way was blocked by the debris the tornado had thrown upon the tracks. Then. too. we -stopped frequently to pick up the In jured. There were some with their limbs torn off and all were cut and bleeding." , Another oassenger was Mrs. George J. H. Alderwent, of Syracuse. N. Y., who boarded the train at Lincoln. She still showed traces of the experience through which she had passed. Womaa Sees Girt Crashed. "When the houses began to fall." she aid, "I saw a little girl dressed in whit start from one of ths houses and run down the street with her hands above her head. Just then the side of a house cams soaring through the air and. shooting suddenly downward. It truck ths child and burled her be neath it. I closed my eyes I could look no mors. Another eyo witness was a Chl ragoan. who withheld his name to avoid possible shock to an invalid wife. He told of ths scenes at Omaha when Tha train stopped there. He said: "I was Just recovering from what I had seen on the train when we pulled into Omaha with the Injured. It was night then but such a sight the sky u lighted with a great red glare and the strecta were tilled with people nho acted aa though they were mad. Many of them had fled into ths city from outlying towns, but the majority were residents. To make It worse, it was raining a veritable deluge- Fre quently the cries of the wounded, un loaded at the station, were drowned by terrific crashes of thunder. " The town is burning. We'll all be killed." someone kept crying, and this added to the fears of the others. There was no sleep that Tight for any of the passengers and the women aboard the tram were half sick with terror. As our train left Omaha wo could see a big hotel burning. Its flash shot into the air like a great torch. The great coat of George Peckham, of Lincoln. Neb., still bore dark stains of blood as he alighted at the Bur lington station here. He had lent It to a little girl to serve as a pillow to rest her weary, bleeding head. "One farmer in Ralston told me that for a week he had had a premonition that something was going to happen and was prepared for the worst." said Mr. Peckham. "He had been stand ing on the doorstep, when he noticed the funnel-shaped cloud. He called his vt lfe snd four children and they all sonsiht refuge In a cyclone cellar, which he had finished digging the day before, five minutes later their house went sailing away. All of us passen gers were lucky. We were ten min utes late when ws neared Ralston. Had wo been on time we would have been I Concluded od 1'ace A.) ARROWS MARK APPROXIMATE DIBECTION AND LIMITS OB" AREA AFFECTED. This street map shows approximately the route of the storms that destroyed a Portion of the resl denci district of Omaha, as described In the Associated Press dispatches The suburb of Ralston men tioned in the dispatches as the first to suffer. Is about two and a half miles southwest of the city, j and is not shown. The storm struck the city at approximately the southwest corner and ed eral northeasterly direction, spending Its fury at or near Carter Lake, a few miles west of the Missouri River In the district centered by West Farnam and Thirty-ninth streets, which may be located by running a lint from Dundee, at the left, to Hanscom Park, and In the direct path of the storm, are most of the f afhionable residences of Omaha. It Is In that vicinity that the "Castle- of Georg e J'yn. Je wealthy president of the Western Newspaper Union, and the palatial residence of Cudahy, the pack I g house king, were located. Both buildings were destroyed. The suburb of Dundee, shown at the left. said to have been visited by the cyclone, is more than a mile out of the direct path and It is expected that the earlier reports concerning that suburb will be found to have been exaggerated The main business district, which centers at Farnam and Sixteenth streets, was not materially "Kted. -Near the upper right hand corner of the map Is a square which shows the location of the Illinois Central Railroad bridge, which was destroyed. Taking as bearing points Fontanelle Park and the suburb of Dundee on the left, Hanscom Park near the bottom and Levi Carter Park at the upper right hand corner and .the arrows covering the storm-swept area, persons who are familiar with Omaha may readily note the ap proximate boundaries of the stricken district. DEATH LI5I GROWS Small Iowa Towns Report Heavy Storm Damage. COUNCIL BLUFFS CENTER Tornado Divides Xear City, Sweeps Over Part or It, Killing Ten, and Goes on Through Villages Leaving Path of Destruction. COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., March 24. Each succeeding hour tonight tended to Increase the list of dead and Injured due to the tornado of Easter Sunday. Every town In Iowa that It was pos sible to reach by long-distance tele phone throughout the day added to the Immensity of the destruction. It Is not possible even to begin anything like an accurate estimate of the property loss, but it is sure to run Into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The town of Bartlett added three to the death list. All were members of the family of Edward Dendean. Den dean himself is said to have been killed with two other members of his family, but their first names were not learned. At Beebe Mrs. Kate Kavanaugh. mnihtf of Mrs. Lee Hopper, whose two daughters were killed at Neola and who was herseir seriously oun was probably fatally injured. A peculiar feature or tne nopprr unuiri vu. experience In the storm was the fact that the father was carried for more than a quarter of a mile In the tornado and was found unconscious with nearly all of tho clothing torn from his body. Heaw nrooertv loss was reported from the towns of Magnolia, California Junction, Blackburn. Missouri Valley and Malvern. No deaths were reported from any but at Malvern two persona were reported painfully hurt. Three miles east of this place a section of 200 feet of the Chicago & Great Western hrMara was blown away. Scattering towns all through the dis trict have reported one to two deatns. virwn Council Bluffs suffered kav11v. the storm breaking in the val ley Just east of the town proper and following the lines of the Milwaukee, Rock Island and Great Western Rail roads for a distance of a mile. Fifteen houses were leveled and a dozen deaths have been reported to date. Fallowing is the revised list of dead and seriously injured at Council Bluffs and nenrbv towns: Dead at Council Bluffs James Price and wife, Margaret Rice, 3 montns oio; John Schulte and wife, Mrs. William Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson (infant daughter missing), unidentified woman at Donsvllle Crossing. Injured-Miss Mary Poole, Louisa Parker, may die; Mrs. Bert Norgard and child, one child dead; Mrs. Lininger, Roy Hawkins. Dead at Weston, la. Mrs. Lon Thomas, Mrs. Joe Swinerman. Injured Lon Thomas and son. 71 a- -Tanll To fr FHlMTd Jones, two young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hopper. Injured Mrs. Lobernlck. Mrs. Kava naugh, mother of Mrs. Lee Hopper, not expected to live. t Dead at Glenwood. Ia. Mrs. Edward Lambert. Desha Lambert, 12 years old: Clyde Merritt, 2S years old; Mr. and Mrs. James McDonald. Injured John Merritt. J. L. RAXD'S FRIENDS ANXIOCS Baker Keenly Interested in Cyclone Which Swept Omaha. BAKER, Or., March 24. (Special.) Raker was keenly interested in the news of the cyclone at Omaha because so many here came from that vicinity and have friends there. Apprehension Is felt for John L. Rand, one of Baker's leading attorneys, and his wife, who left here Thursday and were due in Omaha at 5:10 o'clock last evening. Friends have tried to get word from them all day without success. w. J. McCulley. foreman of the Her aid mechanical department, received word that several of his relatives lost everything they had altnougn tney es rannd with their lives. F. T. Mltthauer, proprietor of the Geyser Grand Hotel. - , a. personal friend of George Ham mock, of the Byrne-Hammer Dry Goods Company, who was killed. MILWAUKEE IS HIT HARD TERRIFIC WTVD AND HAIN SVEEPS OVER CITY. Huge Sign Blows on Building, Carry, ing Rnln With It Ixss Is Placed at $600,000. terrific rain and wind Btorm today did damage to tne exxeni 01 94.vv.vvv. the streets Into miniature river. The temperature ruse iu u? .uuvs Seven bis coal conveyors were blown down ana vac oi& bw .inies a,WA.u The huge sign of a big department Biore, 5H1U IU -" - - 1 1 ,4 Wlnvern f-mm In building. Electric light bulbs by the hundreds went crasnins w xne bhw and the large eteel frame landed on top of a nearby hotel. scares of windows were blown in -.ri vA vain a-nt Into lhA build intra. causing- icreat damage to goods. Many basements were flooded. 5 DEAD AT CHICAGO 50 Injured and 32 Buildings Wrecked by Storm. GALE DAMAGES SUBURBS Wind Attains Velocity or 7 0 Miles an Hour, Upsets Houses, Breaks Windows, Fells Poles and Starts Many Small Fires. CHICAGO.' March 2. Five persons were killed, 60 injured. 32 buildings wrecked and Bcores of structures dam aged by a storm which swept over this city and its suburbs early today. The storm was accompanied by hall, rain, sleet and lightning, and a gale which blew at the rate of 70 miles an hour for a time was felt most severely In the northwestern section of the city, where houses were overturned, win dows broken, trees uprooted and elec tric light and trolley poles blown to the ground. Nearly oO small fires re sulted and hundreds of men. women and children ned from their homes, scantily clad. Considerable damage was done to Des Plalnes, Park Ridge and other suburbs. The amount of property damage re sulting from the storm in this city and suburbs is estimated at over 1500,000. CHURCH OXLY LEFT AT WALTOX Illinois Town Almost Wiped Out and One Man Loses Life. STERLING, I1L, March 24. Walton, a small town near here, was almost wiped out by a tornado Sunday night. The Catholic Church Is the only build ing remaining. Two persons were in lured, probably fatally, in the destruc tion of their homes and Daniel Little, superintendent of the Northwestern Barbwlre plant, was electrocuted while repairing a dynamo damaged by the storm. Little was the Inventor of several me chanical devices. Castle Rock Gets 24-Hour Serrice. CEXTRALIA. Wash, March 24. (Spe cial.) The Independent Electric Com Dtnr'i wiring crew has completed the task of stringing wires along both sides of the river at Castle Rock, and the current, supplied from the company's nower nlant at Chehails. was turnea on today, giving the town 24-hour power service for the first time In his tory. Scores of Eager Ones Await Mes sages That Will Stop Mental Suf fering, but Telegraph Com panies Give Xo Promise. Ti manv nenrtle in Portland receipt of the news of tne Omaha disaster was accompanied by mental suffering and distress, for many residents of this city have friends ana relatives mere. Efforts of Portland Ioik to get aireci i .i f mm !i ti tp , op friends in Omaha have. In the most part, been unsuccessful, as nearly all of the wires . ; ..-1 . H Amaha arA down and cuiijii- kue ... there is little aope of securing restora tion of servico uniu laio louaj. . r I . I, hallAVAfl that the list jiw n c (v i, ..j . of dead as reported by the daily papers and the press dispatches Is nearly com plete, and as tms nas laueu m a single known relative of any one ..-.i i t . i .. thA nn-rlnllg ones living i" w 1 J here feel some relief, so far as their own immediate personal interest is cuu cerned. Messages Are Undelivered. The telegraph companies are hold ing out no promises of getting mes- .1-- . V, hora tn Omaha OT sages luiwugu - 5 of delivering messages In Portland sent out of Omaha. It is reponeu uim city In the country has from 200 to 600 telegrams of inquiry waiting to i De transmitted to tne sincKen uij. v,. cago alone has more than 2000 such . . m,n.a in little hone, there- unvone here securing direct communication with friends or rela tives at Omaha much before the end of me wetn. ... Frank W. Robinson, assistant trainc manager for tne o.-w. x- !., arnrfttul VKStRrdaV Until he received advice that his wife and child, his mother and sister, who i In Omaha, are safe. Although they were In the district affected by the storm their homes were not damaged. Mr. Kotrinson formerly lived In Omaha. His wife Is visiting relatives there for a few weeks preparatory to coming to Portland to remain permanently. A. J. Cooley, manager of a big wood- i.. at OtnAha. was enware aupyij In Portland yesterday and was greatly rned over the fate of relatives and friends there. His family la vlsit . --ii in Thftir hnma in Oma- 1UK 111 v.iiiiJ-i'. in... -. ha Is at Forty-first avenue and Wake ly street, which Is In the direct path th .tnrm. He has not learned whether his home was destroyed. Portland Folk Unadvised. C. A. Hunter, general agent for the Rock Island Railroad, has two broth ers and a sister in Omaha. Mrs. Hun . - i iiMiha, n l.n live there. ter s mouier iv... - mt artA Mrs. Hunter feel confident . , . ,kn. AlatJvaa am net hurt. Mrs. Frank McTagert, who lives at the Bowers Hetel, also has relatives and many friends in Omaha. Her fath er A. J. Bartlett, formerly was presi dent of the First National Bank there. v i.unv aha tried to telegraph to . dlii. nf thn Omflh losepn Miner, -- - : --- National Bank, to inquire as to the fate of his family. Mrs. Irvin Hupp, a resident of Oma ha. Is a sister of Charles W. Myers, real estate editor of The Oregonian. Mr Myers has been unable to learn r. E. Lofgren, Stat e from Multnomah and Clackamas conn. .nytnmg oi m ties has a brother and sister living in Thulp raatrfenca is at 2909 .i.n trt. at the edge of the ruined district. . well-known Insurance Paul Sroat, a man, is and has many friends there concerning whom he is anxious w - ,t. n. uoiriawa v n. local areni t fnrmprlv lived in the suburb of Dundee, which is said to have been fipRtrovd. His mother, two brothers aiatm tlil live there. H I has not heard from them. land for the Chicago & Northwestern Kan rem j, uum v-cnnj He is well acquainted there and among n.x irRcrioni and dental (surgery maae pleasantly painless by our iew ro tanical Dis covery. Kntire Corner of Mnlker Building at the North east Corner of Second and Morrison Streets XniS oilice is aeauyuaiicia mmnatrn tn reduce the high Experts in the science of economy are delighted with our prices. Quality not sacrificed to Insure rea sonable fee. 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