Show t 7 - ' V Pn A r HE rs In their belts Arrests are mads FREAKS OF OMAHA TOODO f all suspicious characters and Is being held at a minimum The general relief committee Issued he following formal statement: for Which There Unusual Happenings in 'The general relief committee Seema to be No Explanation he city of Omaha has masters well In which rand will be With the funds Omaha Neb —The freaks of the big ivailable for that purpose tney will tornado which wrecked a portion of ae able to provide all necessary food RETO BE HOMES A rWRECKED those who this city were varied clothing and shelter for STORED AS FAST AS WORKMEN auto being driven along a street need such assistance Considerable was lifted fifteen feet into the air and CAN BE SECURED imounta of money are being received The passengers side landed up right aot only from Omaha but from all saw an Injured man In front of them aver the country and are being grateThe only took him to a hospital and fully accepted" to Provide Committee Restoration was bent axles It la estimated that near 1000 per- damage to the car ' Funds tor Those Who Were and telephone wires were Lighting sons will require assistance until perwalked and Tornado ' by Destructive manent relief Is arranged for them blown flat Several persons tornado through the tangle after the Would Otherwise be Homeless The work of relief is being organized The dog went met a pet dog They of a a systematically Nearly quarter ahead and touched a hidden live million dollars has been subscribed The pedestrians He died wire Omaha Neb— The work of rebuild- for this work Additional tents arrived Friday and halted and retraced their steps ing that portion of tbe'city wrecked In a row of homes on by the tornado of March 23 has begun those who have not been provided porch cut an every available work- with better homes will be housed in Street one had its front In earnest wafted across man has been pressed Into service tents for the present Appeals for off as by a knife and the building the street Otherwise dead funds for relief of tornado victims One hundred and was uninjured have been identified In this city continue to pour In out the relief of In a house in the lower while Council Bluffs and other Ad- committee sees necessity for a great town the building was blownpart off Its making deal more money and is making addijacent cities report with all its equipment and foundation a total of 170 lives lost as a result of tional appeals for outside assistance which one piano furnishings except the destructive storm t In describing the storm an the front parlor remained where seAt least 2000 people suffered ness says: ‘We watched the cyclone should have been vere financial loss many being made for minutes before It struck had flat its house knocked One homeless and at least 200 We watched it come from steam radiators and all its bedding Opiaha they possessed and are abso- the southwest and destroy Ralston blown across thd street The house lutely destitute Then It came toward South Omaha demolished remained on its original The city of Omaha was one of the nearly to that cemetery west of us site heaviest losers while the losses of and then turned toward Omaha home went A printer’s employee was many of the wealthier citizens “It moved slowly I believe I could after seeing a show and commenced loss outrun it on a enormous The total monetary good road but it was to read a magazine Ha noticed somewill he between ten and twelve spinning very fast It looked like a thing uncanny in the air and took his — dollars column of smoke on a clear day going wife and children to the cellar He Went Nearly a thousand carpenters straight up and spreading out at the called to his mother and two sisters to work Friday repairing the buildings top but they did not get below The wind in no only paitly wrecked by the storm and rain “There was or lightning took the greater part of the house 2000 laborers bdgan clearing away the this cloud and we weri not a bit The two sisters were uninjured but debris of demolished structures Hun- afraid of It the mother wad caught under a mass dreds of roofs were being restored "If It had come our way we would of brick By good fortune she escapand the work of replacing many homes have gone down the street a couple ed serious Injury and will probably to the foundations from which tney of blocks and been clear of Its path ' recover Trad been twisted was begun I think when It was going across the At Fortieth and Farnum streets the That tire destroyed portion of the prairie it was about 300 feet In diam- tornado took a corner off an auto ever better than be will and rebuilt eter at the spreadground kept city clipped the gables off a resiand the ing out as it left the ground just as garage was the general Impression dence opposite and then capsized a besmoke will' do on a clear day alacrity with which the task was frame house just beyond “It followed the low ground and gun btar3 out that belief house the lower floor A Members of the various building went around the hills but It destroybeing of brick was caught- - by the trades unions held meeting Friday and ed everything In its path It struck wind which blew away the bricks to Omaha just north of us and cut a path it warf decided that' any attempt after which the two upper stories raise the price of labor at this time through the city for three or four settled down on the foundation as If The reg- miles and from two to five or six they belonged there' would not be countenanced clocks wide in among vogue scales of wages Corners and portions of buildings ular “It took them just as It came to were torn away repeatedly by the these unions were made public with In several Instances the statement that any attempt at ex- them — It made no difference about the freaky storm tortion would be frowned upon by the size or how they were built whether single walls were torn away leaving brick stone or frame You can see the buildings otherwise intact except unlonB lumfor broken windows and chimneys Large corporations have begun to houses that have every piece of The Inter- ber In them- broken and big native open their purses freely MEXICANS ENTER PROTEST the from sent a trees pulled up bodily national Harvester company statement the ground with for check $1000 to Exercise “There are big houses on the edge United States Requested that It would be glad to help of the In the Greater Vigilance to Prevent Smugfarmers path that nave every window districts The Union Pacific North one and all the furniture and other gling of Arms and Ammunition It looks as though railroads ontents gone western and Rock Island Mexico City — The Mexican governhe cyclone sucked everything out of have sent $5000 each to the commitment has made a formal protest to the tee and the large racking house in some of the houses American government against the ship"I saw one house that had terests have made liberal donations trom ping of arms and ammunition The fund including appropriations been lifted up and the first story car- the United States to the rebels and and roof by the state and city has reached ried away and the set down nearly oa the spot where It has requested that greater vlligance $260000 frontier In bo the exercised guarding There is one An army of builders continue their was before the storm officials understand that Mexican work and hundreds of new and par- 3ig house on the edge of the path that numerous consignments of war matially new roofs and other indications had all the porch posts carried away terial Including many machine guns otherhave begun to ap but the porch Is not damaged of reconstruction been across the border in sent wise The porch roof Is still In place have pear of crooks from all Put the posts back and it Is as good some cases even at the regular ports The appearance and now are In the bands of oi entry as is met new" of the by being country parts "Now and then you will see a house the rebels the police and soldiery In no uncerIt Is pointed out by the same offiStricter lines are being right in the path that is not damaged tain manner control-- a drawn and soldiers now do patrol much while all the others around are cials that since the rebels to and imashed rifles loaded wood" with part of the frontier this counkindling large duty try Is dependent absolutely for the time being on the United States to OF THE OMAHA TORNADO IN THE PATH prevent the rebels from obtaining supThat the rebels are securing plies of ammunition appears to caused by the Omaha tornado The devastation taken at Lincoln boulevard this photograph b directly In the path of the storm is graphically and SCENE ON THE MIAMI DAYTON AT DEATH TOLL LESS Tl s &" m - INVESTIGATION 8HOWS LOSS OF LIFE IN RECENT FLOODS NOT AS GREAT AS EXPECTED It Vs ' V XV ' - - v la Now Estimated That 424 Lives Were Lost In Ohio While in Indiana Thera Were 48 Victim In ths Submerged DlatrlcL Ohio — Investigation tends Dayton confirm the estimates of fewer than deaths in the floods that swept over a score of cities in Ohio and Indiana last week As the waters receded from Dayton and other places leaving a Columbus thick coating of mud alarm was caused by a rapid rise of the Ohio and to r 500 the Mississippi rivers Inundating along their banks parts of cities There is not much danger of Iobb of life In these places however as the inhabitants have hills to flee to and This dreds of Is a scene on lives have been the raging Miami river at lost In the floods Dayton O where hun- are used to floods Revised reports Indicate that the number of drowned In Dayton may not exceed 150 although there are those who say the number will be much greater The death list of Ptqua O fell off from the estimate of fifty to thirteen known dead The latest estimates show the following deaths in the submerged dis- tricts: WITH RECEDING OF WATERS AT THE WORK OF REDAYTON HAS BEGUN HABILITATING DAYTON NOW SUFFERING FROM WATER FAMINE AFTER BEING SWEPT BY FLOOD Greatest Water Relief Committee Appeals for Shipments of Bottled Water as It It Practically Impossible to Boil the Water Danger Now is From Impure and Sickness Which May Week of Follow Harrowing Flood and Famine for Drinking Purposes Dayton Ohio— After being swept by Dayton Ohio — The work of rehabilfloods in itating has begun here It Is believed one of the most disastrous that there Is no danger of the terrible the history of the country the streets being from three to thirty feet under floods of last week being repeated the one time at water the past during The greatest cause for worry for future is (he lack of pure water for week causing a loss of 250 lives It and seems strange that the people of the drinking and culinary purposes the fear of an epidemic of sickness city should be appealing to otner cities following the receding- of the waters for water but such Is the case Members of the citizens relief comof animal matand the decomposition mittee are apprehensive of a water ter and refuse The undertakers of the city now es- famine — water for drinking and culintimate the number of dead at 250 ary purposes Is being exhausted there Is believed little low Is as chance It while others place the number that the present supply can be made as 150 are In Dayton’s period of reconstruction to last until the water mains of the R H Grant head to use again will run Into mths according has Issued engineers just returned from the relief supplies committee of dead an appeal to all cities In the country Disposition flood districts animals and the disinfecting of thou- asking that as much bottled water ai Is the possible be shipped to Dayton Immhomes sands of submerged It is especially desired that most pressing problem ediately No attempt at the rebuilding of the this water be pure as it is practically sewerage Bystem will be made for sev- impossible to boll the water for drinking purposes eral days Until this is accomplished Medical supplies were reported woethe menace of disease will not be enfully short by Maj T V Dupuy who is tirely lost sight of Great distress among the survivors in charge of sanitary work Drugs was caused by the separation of fam- here were largely destroyed and the ilies and the consequent dread that medical chests of the militia as well as supplies sent by other cities have the missing had been drowned Since the rescue work began nearly In many instances been delayed by 100 children of the flood have been washouts and other mishaps of the born The authorities have opened a flood However a trainload of supmaternity hospital where the new plies is expected soon from Washingmothers with their babies are being ton cared for 8500 persons While approximately quantities None of the public buildings were are being cared for by the relief combe a fact than 5000 mittee there are more destroyed Among these are the Coloand in Victoria National PATIENCE club homeless LOSING Dayton who are AUSTRIANS perspns best they nial theatres city hall courthouse caring for themselves as Powers and Atlas can Beck el Phillips Algonquin None of the banks are open for Smaller Balkan States Anger Y business and for the most part the hotels Masonic temple postofflee by Persistence in Continuing M C A and all churches Attack on Scutari refugees had little or no money with limited to them when the flood came upon them The fire loss Is London— The stubbornness of Mon- the destruction' ofpositively Gas All the grocery stores and food supply the Dayton bombardthe In continuing tenegro the houses have been taken over by the & Coke company’s plant contrary to the Light ment of Scutari row of two and buildings and there are no fresh meats wishes of the powers and the dilatori- on both sides of Third street from militaryor milk available at any price eggs her ness of Servla in withdrawing avenue to Clair St street States lifeMembers of the United Jefferson troops beyond the frontier of the fu- the who navlaundry plant and two saving crew of Loulsvil’e by if not overcome ture Albania houses on the west side igated along sections of flooded apartment to lead will measures more peaceful returned National bank building The Fourth heretofore unexplored a demonstration and blockade of the which times to Friday at noon reporting conditions coast and the ports of have was reported several Montenegrin been destroyed by fire was un- in North Dayton and RIverdale quite Albania occupied by Servla a as deplorable as the flrpt estimates touched by the flames although is losing patience building immediately adjoining It was indicated as far as the suffering of the with ef little neighbors and Is urg- burned The tour howpeople was concerned ing the powers to take action to enThe newspaper' News offices ever failed to verify fears that there the force their demands Herald and Journal are safe had been a tremendous death toll In Servla has expressed her Intention but are not issuing buildings that section papers with of complying the powers’ deIn North Dayton privation among Money is of no use In Dayton at mands to evacuate Albania but has to the marooned has been severe but Every facility Is free present In that direction made no movement without tual cost except among children suffering Austria insists upon! the immediate everyone Refugees not living In Dayton are was neglible Cruising the southern removal of the Servians from the leaving the city by the hundreds on end of Riverdale where it was feared ' ' country foot there would be found a big death 't’he city Is without means of genlist Captain Gillooly in charge of the Club Women Stand by Negroes eral transportation there is not an crew reported conditions paralleling Chicago — The annual luncheon for electric light In the place except those those in other sections of the stricken tha league of Iowa county women’s of the National Cash Register com- city but only two dead bodies weie club was abandoned here Saturday There Is no adequate water reported to him as having been recovpany when the hotel In which the luncheon The flooded the sewer Bystem Is ruined ered from that ldstrlct supply was to be served excluded six negro the available fuel supply is limited territory In Riverdale which is a secwomen who represented a negro womowners hom and the supply of natural gas used for tion of substantial illustrated en's club is seventeen Llocks long The club women decided cooking has been shut off since Tues- proximately street to stand by the negro organization and peven b'ockfc wide day Ohio—Dayton 150 Columbus 56 Hamilton 60 Mlamisburg 50 Tiffin 14 IS Chlllicothe 18 Middletown 14 (Fremont Plqua 13 Harrison 12 fTroy 9 Valley Junction 6 Zanesville Massillon 5’ Cleves 2 New Beth6 Total 424 lehem 16 Indiana— Peru 20 Brookvll'e Fort Wayne 6 Terre Haute 4 Total Indiana 46 grand total 470 HOMELESS FORTY THOUSAND ON RELIEF FUND DEPENDENT District Residents of Flooded All When Their Household Goode Were Swept Away Many Lost Columbus Ohio— With previous resubstantially being minimized the work of cleaning up the debris has been begun In earnest the on a more took flood situation Ohio cheerful aspect on Sunday as viewed by Governor Cox and other state officials In many sections of the state visited by high waters reconstruction already has commenced Governor Cox stated that the situation In this state Is well in hand Forty thousand persons must be fed clothed and housed for a week ports while more Twenty thousand persons must be These are percared for Indefinitely sons who lost all when their household goods were swept away They must be provided with a few necessary household articles such as bedding pots and pans stoves and a few dollars A half million dollars could be used In this way by the relief committee Fifteen thousand houses and business buildings must be rehabilitated Two thousand houses and other structures or what remains of them must he pulled down Thousands of tons of debris must be removed ROOSEVELT FOR SUFFRAGE 'to In Wisconsin Progressives Support Amendment Madison Wis — In response to a telegram sent by Richard Lloyd Jones asking that he wire Governor McGovern his position on woman suffrageTheodore Roosevelt on Saturday telegraphed the governor as follows: “I earnestly hope that all Progressives In the Wisconsin legislature will We suppoyt the suffrage amendment in America should lead the way iu this movement We do not have to point to what has been done abroad The Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain states have tried the experiment and it has worked admirably "There is no difference between the work of the best women and the best men and it seems to me sheer nonsense when both are doing the highest kind of work for good citizenship that the artificial line of sex should be drawn as regards one form and only one form of that work the exer cl 3e of the right of suffrage” Urges Started Many Fires Winnipeg Man — Because he loved to hear the clanging of fire engine bfells and the excitement of attending fires James Dodds 23 a farm laborer started more than one hundred fires In Winnipeg and St Boniface !h less than a year according to a confession the police Saturday declared he has made to them 'l |