Show elm mooch ak TORNADOES A N D F LOUD LO 14 4 UD win towns in ohio indiana and parts of illinois destroyed U onealia hit by y cyclone many M killed killet CHICAGO marca 35 26 plooma al at most unprecedented in area following the tornado and aad rains of the I 1 last as it three day days today swept tour tf tes of he valley ausing a loss lose of life that may roach reach into the thou thousands sanda and damage to property amounting to ranay millions of dollars ohio and indiana and tn in a beser leaa gr degree de gree illinois and missouri felt the brunt of the disaster at dayton 0 thousands 0 of per so a are reported drowned following the breaking of the miami river lorhee and the laramie reservoir fifty miles above the city tonight it was report reported od ahat hat the water nater la Is from to forty feet deep in many malay that bodice bodies were floating past window of office bul bullings and blat the had assume proportions na of a tidal wave vate hundreds of tiree fires wh which ich could not be extinguished were eald faid to have added to the horror ot of th olt f mt WW da h 1 alge p batai 2 four burae kea sixteen 0 seventeen Bev enteen deh hamilton 0 where conditto condit condi tio lone elm I 1 liar to those at dayton render rescue work Imp ossil 1 i otto a hamlot of a hundred ver wae was mid to have been destroyed and the fate of the inhabitants ua unknown known hundreds of uvee lives tia hale been loot lost in indiana railroads early in the night cancelled alt all train service 1 I 1 reports brought word of the tho audilet over helmling of whole tow but wire service vaa was ao no meager that the extent of the fatalities fatall tice could not be learned olt iaia STRUCK SUNDAY ciolla BY A 11 TORNADO seb neb march 24 more than two hundred persons were killed and tour four hundred were injured in a windstorm that demolished four hundred and fifty tomes damaged 0 other iga and caused a monetary loss of five million dollare dollars accordine accord lne to reports available up to a late hour from the main path of the Is 12 and near omaha moot bloot 01 ol the were in omaha which was stricken as never before nearby towns in nebraska and across roes the missouri river in bior lo 10 a albo aa suffered buffered severely wires ere snapped off la all directions mid and it took many hours to gather and cir circulate culat the news of the disaster fire broke out la in oe debris of nany many wrecked building buildings in the he ne brasla metropolis and these were menace menaces for some time ume aa as the fire t were hindered by alien fallen walls and blockaded streets heavy rains ming followed tho tu wlad wind however and drenched the bund hundreds rods of bamo lese low persons pe raone bat but it also put out ont the dames fifteen hundred persons are homeless aside from this three thousand buildings were more or leaa less damaged many of these being bolas church edifices and school buildings eight ol 01 Onia hae public schools were wrecked the greatest loes loss of 0 life occurred three point in be he path of the storm offered the greatest floes these were at fortieth and farnum street chons chor a crowd bad had sought in a 4 garage at twenty fourth and lake streets where a moving picture theater was demolished and at avenue and twenty fourth street where a poolroom had bad attracted a clawd in each of places t f aure largo large it as the greatest grea teat catastrophe that bad had over visited emalls and the ity ty waa ns overwhelmed by it the cathedral of the omaha EVIs copal eopal church was temporarily tym tymi i ed into a coffod bouse house cabb catholic ale priests visited houses that bad had leen destroyed IQ many bertna ic ring the lost last ribes of the church and arid public bodies began thu of c relief committees tonight a hundred thousand dollo dollars re bad hail been subscribed for or the of the destitute governor UW arrived in ia the city early in the day mid cad took po naj chargo charge oc of the tho policing of the city abreo ot of tho the state militia augmented tho the troops which were early sent to the city from fort crook and tonight the wrecked portio portion ot of the olty otty waa was I 1 auder martial law |