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Show INCREDIBLE POWER OF A STORM. The telegraphic reports in no way exaggerated the tremendous force of the storm which recently devastated a portion of Nebraska. In the country near Omaha serious mischief was done. 1 A number of people were killed, aud a vast cmantity of property destroyed. The house of a farmer, J. K. Jester, was lilted bodily from its foundation I by a furious blast and whirled through the air five rods or more, stunning and bruising the frightened inmates. In the same town, nearly every house was unroofed, the wind tearing the roofs off like pasteboard. For miles the fi.oc corn-helds and wheat-fields have been ruiued. The afternoon train on the Fremont and Elkhorn Valley railroad was struck by the storm between Scrib-ner Scrib-ner and Crowcll, and the three coaches lifted from the track, thrown down the embankment, and turned upside down in the ditch. One sido of the engine was lifted eight inches from the track, hut the couolinc broke, and it fell back again. Nearly every passenger was more or less injured. The house of Nathan Austin was picked up by the wind, carried about 1U0 feet, and torn completely into pieces. Mr. Austin was crushed to death in the wreck by falling timbers. His daughter escaped with her life, though she W3s severely injured. The Union Pacific Rariload express train, which had drawn up to the water-tank at Lone Tree, was backed away from the building when the approach of the storm was noticed, and not a moment too soon, for the windmill and building fell immediately afterwards with a fearful fear-ful crash. As the storm swept about the train shaking it tremendously, the employes of the company hurried through the sleeping cars, which were considered the safest from being the I heaviest, and they said that the passengers pas-sengers were nearly all on their knees praying for mercy, for not one expected to escape alive. Immense hailstones fell at this point, and a dispatch received re-ceived from there said that hone were smaller than coffee drop3. One was found that actually measured twelve ' inches in circumference. In the city, twelve houses were blown down and destroyed. The roof was torn from the back side of the depot, tho kitchen of the hotel was blown down, the telegraph tele-graph poles were Lorn from the ground, ' a box freight car, stnndtng on a sidetrack, side-track, was demolished, 'the frame ol which was blown down an embankment, embank-ment, and tho track was taken up by an opposite current of wind and thrown on the main track; piles of lumber ' were whirled io evry direction. fx. |