Show atlig FIVE HUNDRED INJURED AND HUNDREDS homeless I 1 death and destruction destruction io n brou wrought 9 bt by storm at omaha hundreds of homes being demolished I 1 omaha neb more than persons wore were killed and were injured in a windstorm on sunday that demolished homes damaged hundreds of other buildings and caused a monetary loss of at least most of the casualties were in omaha maha which was stricken as never before nearby towns in nebraska and across the missouri river in iowa also suffered severely i were snapped off in all directions and it took many hours to gather and circulate the news of the disaster r fire broke out in the debris ot of many wrecked buildings in the nebraska metropolis and these were menaces m e na aas for some time as the fire companies were blu hindered dered by fallen walls and blockaded streets A heavy rain followed the wind however and drenched the hundreds of bom homeless eless persons but it also put out the names flames perhaps 2200 persons are homeless and 20 more are destitute aside from this buildings were more or less damaged many of these being church edifices and school buildings eight of Om alias public le schools wrecked all forms forma of communication were almost annihilated by the wind and only two or three wires were in working condition when daylight relieved a night of high tension which at times almost became panic soldiers state and national troops poured into the city during monday to aid in bringing order out of what for twenty hours bad been chaos these guardians of the peace are patrolling the residence districts aiding the pollee police to maintain order and relieve such cases of suffering as ome come to their notice the greatest loss ot of life occurred three points in the path of the storm offered the greatest sacrifices rif ices these were at fortieth and farnum streets where a crowd had sought refuge in a garage at twenty fourth and lake streets where a moving picture theater was demolished and at twenty fourth and willis avenue where a poolroom had attracted attract ea a crowd in each of these places the fatalities were large the cathedral ot of the copal church was temporarily turned into a coffee house catholic priests visited homes that had been do destroyed st in many cases administering the last rites of the church and public bodies began the organization of relief committees monday night had been subscribed for the relief of the destitute governor morehead arrived in the city early monday and took personal charge of the policing of the city three companies of the state miltia augmented the federal troops which were early sent to the city from fort crook and the wrecked portion of the city is under martial law mayor james 0 C dahlman opened negotiations with the governor for the protection of the cit city yand and for the reller relief of those who nad hafl been made homeless with the result that not only the state officials became active in the work but a majority of the members of the legislature in session at linclon came to this city to secure such information as might be necessary in taking up the work of state relief 16 insurance urance com companies pAules experienced heavy losses most of their fire poll policies carrying a tornado clause the loss to the municipality itself will be great five school buildings have been partly wrecked and eleven churches partly destroyed the residences destroyed in the restricted farnum district averaged in cost from to among the finest residences razed were those of george A joslyn howard baldridge W P bacon charles R sherman C E black C H pickens sidney D barkalow E A parmalee and 0 L hammer the storm appeared to have started at fifty fourth and center streets from there it traveled north veering slightly to the east to leavenworth street then it took a northeasterly course to fortieth and farnum streets sweeping its way through everything still traveling a little east of north it ft covered a course arnn fortieth street east to thirty fourth street a distance of six blocks striking bemis park where the homes of the well to do are aie located the storm turned sharply to the east and passed along parker and hondo streets to twenty fourth street where its path was six blocks wide in tho the latter section the damage la is complete finally at fourteenth and spencer streets the storm swept over the bluffs high above the Miss missouri missoura ourt river demolished the missouri pact fie roundhouse leveled tho the big trestle of the illinois central jail railroad road om ter carter lake wrecked of buildings near the rod and gun club a fashionable outing club and feared to the northeast A number of people were seriously injured when a street car was blown over at forty seventh and leavenworth streets conductor john cooper was wag seriously li injured ared the motorman fred bentley jumped just as the car started to roll over tho the wind picked packed him up carried h him fin feet and set him down in a field uninjured but considerably shaken conductor cooper says there were at I 1 least e ast fifteen people in the car at the time all were injured the pathway of thoi the storm from three to seven blocks in width cut 9 a swath twenty four blocks long first through an exclusive residence of the city then through a graduation of dwellings until it expended expanded its final energy in the wrecking of a pool hall and a moving picture show the total number of deaths in this part ot the city reached almost fifty within the space of ahls storm center which it if made rectangular would cover i a quarter section of land 1200 houses were wrecked 10 dead bodies have been recovered and workmen are stilt still engaged in searching the ruins for bodies several are known to be stilt still in the ruins at the end of the storms storma path estimates of tle the value of 0 property demolished by the storm vary between and some of the more substantial houses bouses can be partially rebuilt but this number la Is small and where the buildings have not been torn asunder they have been so BO twisted that even evan the material la Is use less leas for rebuilding monday five public schools were out out ot of commission in omaha seven churches are partially or wholly wrecked one private school for girls j Is a total wreck although the students f escaped the rest rese 0 of the loss Is tw to homes reconstruction was begun monday night when at a meeting of the real i estate exchange c committee was ap pointed to take up this work f |