Show OMAHA SWEPT BY FIERCE FIERCE THREE MINUTE HURRICANE Many Buildings Wrecked and Church Torn toPie to Pie Pies Pieces es by What People Believed Was a Genuine Genuine Gen Gen- Twister OMAHA Neb March I 11 The The storn from the northwest which swep through the northern portion of Omah early this morning did great damage Light rain and hall hail were followed by a veritable hurricane Wires were blown down windows shattered several buildings buildings build build- ings unroofed and find sidewalks torn from their places Five skylights each one of them weighing more than 00 pounds were blown down at the Coliseum build build- ing The Monmouth park Methodist Episcopal church at Thirty-fourth Thirty street at Larimore avenue was blown to pieces as was the building at 2218 Cumming street occupied by the Rutherford Rutherford Rutherford Ruth Ruth- erford Marble I works Roof Is Blown Off The roof at 2410 and 2412 Cumming Gumming street was blown to the street At the same time a bolt of lightning struck the flat at 2410 Cumming street shattering the rear portion of the building The effects of the storm were made more apparent with the break of day Half a hundred buildings were damaged more or less Cutting street from Eighteenth to Twenty-fourth Twenty and Twenty-fourth Twenty street north of Cutting are strewn with debris from damaged buildings signs and fences Nobody is known to have been injured Building Badly Wre ked The Coliseum building is the worst wrecked of the larger structures It was directly in the path of the storm Nearly all the skylights are gone and the roof is badly twisted The high board fence surrounding the building was also carried away Andersons Anderson's match factory immediately east of the Coliseum was badly wrecked and a row of five flats fiats across the street were vere twisted and all the windows torn Five large plate-glass plate windows in Taggarts Taggart's undertaking taking parlors at 2224 Cutting street were blown out and the furniture and interior wrecked Citizens Were Alarmed The storm ar aroused used the entire population population tion in the northern part of the cit city who thought the town was in the grasp of a real twister The storm moved southwest after leaving this city striking Elkhorn a village of persons ten miles away Half a dozen dwellings in that town were were badly twisted and several small buildings blown down The elevator-and elevator cribs cbs of the Omaha Elevator re received elved more mor damage than any company other property The storm came up suddenly sudden sudden- ly and lasted but three three- minutes All day yesterday the temperature registered 68 degrees and the weather bureau reports that the storm is the re result re- re sult suit of the unseasonable heat which Caused it to form over this section |