Show TORNADO STRIKES SIB k Platte River Valley for fOI I i Miles Strewn With t I W Wreckage rec k age MANY KILLED AND INJURED Homes Business Houses anc and Churches Destroyed and Away ih c Omaha Nob May l 12 For For For a distance y j of ot 10 miles the tile Platte river rl valley alley In 4 i Un tern Nebraska I Is 3 tonight strewn with the wreckage of ot the homes which toda today toda- dotted Us Its face tace a dozen ozen towns ate are torn to pieces ton ten people arc are 4 known to have e b been n killed forty forty- seven forty n e are arc known to be Injured an and reports report i art are hourly arriving Ing of ot still sUll further damage rhe town or of Fort Crook ten miles from froni Omaha Is in ruins an and the tho United States troops arc are in charge of rescue won work worl at that place Martial law has not been beon declared however howe Bellevue ue college the Presbyterian university of ot the thc West ost Is Is' In ruins ser ser- erat of oC th the buU buildings being completely destroyed and antI everyone more or 1 Is 8 Injured This college was as built with ew York lo an and Pennsylvania anla donations hunt Jilt UK Louisville Neb eb was probably the hardest est hit of or au any of the tho dozens of oft t tOwns damaged At tt 1 I 1 o'clock b by a hea heavy electric storm an and a deluge of ot rain a tornado struck the place killing four people Injuring 1 IS S others an and practically destroying tho thu town 2 22 being wrecked wreck wreck- e ed as well wen as z a. a number of residences I IThe 1 The Burlington depot and se so era eral churches were vere blown tiwa away iway The Tho MIs- MIs Pacific bridge ge across the tho Platte river rl was as moved mo feet on Its foundations and re upon Its piers without Injury to the structure 1 Passing to the tho river rl the tho storn storm struck Meadow I e destroying a anum num ber Ler of ot houses and ancl injuring five the people i Three reo loaded freight cars were wore lifted bodily an and thrown into the the- river was the not next town struck He Hero o Elmer Llmer Leeier a n bo boy was killed si Jee Leeder cr the tile father an and another were fatally injured and a c. number rn-i. rn s more or less leas Injured A tl were wrecked l- l Itro i Crook 1 At t l ort Crook Clook 1 15 IG miles mUc ol Of at atO I O 1 lajta tho thu storm practically oUy destroyed 1 toRU Most of ut tlC the houses were w story r affairs and cud o r ono was iu-c iu PI lL Jt Dra re r cc- cc u- u 4 I t l JL I d but n no d it I p- p r r cr dlatt Tu are 1 lt JUi no nl m hc ru ruu 1561 na Thu ThuS 1 S S 0 1 Ii S 5 J. el tOOD damage damageS S os tiu e 0 th big military buildings building f fv but t none nono of ot th tb soldiers ol were Hr cr Injured college c e milLs miles from tho the furl fort ert 1 a ts next In iii line an and great damage dam dam- S. S age ae resulted resulted- Two f of tho the bl bi bis S Ings were ere cl destroyed entirely an and i sIx lx S l S others ba badly damaged Three Th women t 1 a were hilled at ot Bellevue ue and nine persons per per- 1 sons Injured several vernl fatally oj j S Near e l' l Martin larUn Tighe Tigh nn and r hi his ks KOU on were wera driving The storm t picked up ui th the buggy th cw it into a aJlA fi f ditch an and pinned the m men Inch n beneath S the wreckage wr in such tuch manner that both were ver drowned b by the rain S S I T Reported l Demolished S is r reported portell demolished but 5 5 I S no IO direct information can be secured 5 t S. S Neinah City tb the home hom of Governor Sheldon is r reported d as badly bailly torn up 1 r but no one killed A number are arc re reS reported reported re- re S ported Injured Telephone and telegraph service is badly 3 l demoralized anti anil nd reports are t meagre The storm differed from itt nay cyclones in that thal it IL remained close 15 to tho earth throughout hout its entire l length ngUI an and in the arm section is S e to be bo especially severe ere This Thi tT d damage v. vIll not be bo reported until S r morning It I S a |