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Show HOUSES FALL LIKE CARDS Denver Times Correspondent Corres-pondent Sees Peculiar Effects of Wind on Structures Omaha, Neb, March 25. T. R. Porter, Por-ter, Omaha correspondent of the Denver Den-ver Times, gives the following de-scription de-scription of the c clone, the report being be-ing received in Salt l-iki over the wire of J. A Pollock Co.: As 1 stood on my porch within one and a half blocks of :he storm that wrecked half of Omaha yesterday, 1 saw one house picked up bodily and thrown a nuarlor of a block against the bouse which my vvile was In at th- tune I dUf; her out. Injured, fifteen fif-teen minutes later. I saw houses collapse col-lapse like cards. 1 saw on- one big bouse actually disappear before my eyes Another three-story residence WS8 cut In two as hy a giant sword As 1 looked a cottage came sailing through the air and struck the fifth smrv of the Sacred Heart acadt i smashing the south wing as though II were paper. In the van of the black Btormcloud rode a great while balloon of twisting electric fire. A billion bumblebees cciibl not bn equaled th, gianl huni- ming rhicfa accompanied lie st-.irm. Fifteen persons were killed aud 25 injured al Waterloo, Neb.; 80 were killed at Yutan. Neb . IS were Killed at Ralsion, Neb., and eight at Council Blurts, (a Telegraph wires are down and news is filtering through slowly. Prbb blj a dozen towns are hard hit and man: farming communities destroyed. New names of dead and Injured are com-lag com-lag in rapidly. Five hundred 'members 'mem-bers of the state militia from out of I the city are patrolling the wret Y. ' district and federal soldiers from Port Omaha and Crook are on duly Fifty houses In Omaha were destroy- ed by fire which started Immediately after the 1 1 lone. , The storm, coming from southwest to northeast, broke at 0 p. m. Sunday. i nning a swath four bloi ks v ule and ten tulles lon diagonally across the city through the best residence distriet, dis-triet, as well as poorer sections. The fashionable West Farnam district anl ' in well known Kountze place were wrecked. Every hospital in town Is crowded with dead and injured Corpses are at noon todav still beinn taken from the wrecks Fifteen to seventy-five people are supposed to be in iho wreck of the Diamond moving picture show at Twenty-fourth and Lake streets. These are not included In the list of the dead. Forty negroes are thought to be in the wreok of a pool hall at Twenty- !q fourth and Lake streets. These are j ( not Included in the list of dead The big Methodist hospital was par tially wrecked The Sacred Heart convent Is partially demolished The t scholars were home for Faster Bishop Bish-op Scannel's home is wrecked, but r none was injured there Bemls Par.. a splendid residential district, is a mass of wrecks jti |