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Show FREAKS OF MUM TOBKAD! Jnusual Happenings for Which Thri Seems to be No Explanation, Omaha, Neb The frisks of the blj on.udo which wrecked a portion 0 hi r.ty were railed. A flvo-pfl 'sen 'cr a-to. being driven aim a street sva 1 rt .1 fifteen feet Into the air ni anded rtjrtit hide up. Tho passcngeri .aw an iitjured man In ft out of then nil took him to a hospital. The onlj 'uitiiie to the car was bent axles. I.I kii lag and telephono wires wen :lou flit. Several persona walkec hrouMi the tanpie after the tornado her met a pet dog. 'iho dog went i cad -.id t-. tel.. d a Bidden liv re Ho Cied. The pedestrian) ..:eu ana ritnuid their tep. In a row of homes on Tbirty-eigtitl street, one had lla front porch cul off as by a knife and waited arrow the street. OUierwUe the build'n; was uulujured. In a bouse in the lower part ol town, the building wna blown off its foundation with at its equipment and furnishings except one piano, wblct remained where the front par lot should have been. One bouse, knocked flat bad lti steam radluto.s and ail its beddiiu blown acrob4 the street. The bouse demolished, remained on its original -It a. A printer's employee went bonu after seeing a show, and commenced to read a maganne. lie noticed some thing uncanny In the air and took bit wife and children to the cellar. Hi called. to bis mother and two sisters but they did not get below. The wind took the greater part of the huiifco The two sisters were uninjured, but the mother was caught under a masi of brick, lly good fortune she escape ed serious injury and will probably recover. At Fortieth and Farnum streets, the torncdo took a corner off an auto garage, clipped the gables off a residence resi-dence opposite, and then capsized I frame house Just beyond. A tVc story house, the tower floor being of brick, was caufit by the wind which blew away tho bricks, after which tha two upper stories settled down on the foundation as If they belonged there. Corners and portions of buildings were torn away repeatedly by the freaky storm, in several Instances, single walls were torn away, leaving the buildings otherwise Intact, except for broken windows and chimneys. |