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Show BABY TORN FROM MOTHER'S ARMS Omuha. Mar 2.'. Among the searchers last night and today was Mrs. W VY Sherwood, who was hold, ing her week old baby In her orms when the storm descended upou her little household The home WSI unroofed and the infant torn from the mothers grasp and blown none knows where. In spile Of her weak-r.css weak-r.css and suffering herself, Mrs. Sher-frood Sher-frood aided by her friends hunted through the hospitals and the Impro- i vised morgues about the city. In Ralston. Edward Mote, hi wife and three children were sitting in their home chatting when the tornado truck and carried them and their home to Pa' Creek, 10n yard- away! nit I dropped them Into the water. Mrs Mote was drowned and her hn'.v recovered late yesterday under the wreckage of the home. In the same town Postmaster D I, Ham, with his daughter, Mrs Kimball and his grandchildren were standing Jn the doorway of their home- when the wind struck them Mrs. Kimball and ber two -year-old daughter Fran-I ce stepped outside the door, which slammed shut. Their bodies were I found last night. II. E. Said and his wife, bride and, bridegroom of B month were in the same house Warned of approaching death hy Mr, Ham, the two uought i I solace m each others arms Thus death found them Mr. Ham was lightly Injured. When the tornado rushed upon Omaha, fifty nuns were In the Sacred i n. ;irt Convent Seeing Its approach thev hurried from the five story convent con-vent building and sought refuge at the home of Bishop Richard Scannell, just across the street. No sooner had the last of the women left the convent con-vent than the building collapsed The lr..i girl students at the convent were ; spendin'-r their Kaster Sunday at their : hornet or with friends. None of them In the building at the time |