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Show DEATH CLAIMS TWENTY LIVES List of Casualties in Nebraska-Iowa Blow and Flood Increased by One; Child Dies RED CROSS BEGINS RELIEF OPERATIONS Property Loss Due to! Storm Is Estimated at $1,500,000; Great Damage Dam-age in Council Bluffs OMAHA, Nab, a. M (By A, P.) Tbraa mora pa. aawa war addad ta the known daath liat in the Meade and tarnadaaa and alaud buret wnich viaitad a part at laws and Neoraeka laet night and ta- oay. m man wa arewneo at kin eel n tenia ht whan h dr vo hi team of horse Into a ditah. Two ether wars hilled at Snoa lata Friday, whan their heme waa rased by a tarn a da, rrt roaivd tonight to-night id. Th death liat now stands t twenty -two. OMAHA. Nab.. Sept. IS (By V. P) With several families nome-leaa nome-leaa aa tha result of th wo rat storm In the history of tha city. Had ( roes workers, headed by Mlee Hnlyc Brown, began relief work la Council Coun-cil Bluffa today. All Red Cross war workers war drafted into th service. Ho up kltchene were established In th Inundated areas In ebarg of tha Red Croaa worker. Hchool house were thrown open and hundreds of cots placed la th clasarooms for tha sufferers. Th death toll In eaatern Ksbras ka and western Iowa waa brought to twenty with tha death to Council Coun-cil Bluffs of Ooldis tlUr, 11, Injured In-jured In th tornado last night, and ; tha discovery of tha body of Otto J. Dudek of York. Neb., who was drowned In a crsek near that city. Workers still searched lor ftva bod lea not yet recovered at Louis-In Louis-In one house war drowned. Property loss due to tha storm Is ostlmatad at U.Sftv.ov. Th loss In Council JBluff) win approximate $l,000.0oo. " Nearly every brtdgfo over India a croak, which flow through ths heart of Council Bluff, was washed out or so badly damaed that thsy were condemned as unaafe. Council Bluffs streets are eov-red eov-red with three feet of thick mud. AU buelnee houses on Broad way txcept a few war forced to close. Red Croaa worker hav not yot aent out a call for aid and It t believed aon will bo neoesaary. All marooned realdanta of tho lowlands caa ba taken ear of by people living oa higher ground. It waa said. Train eerv.ro and wlr communications com-munications war sailing back to normal tonight. An tains are still running on slow orders through tho Inundated -41s trlcta. |