| Show SAW STORM SM STRIKE AND PEOPLE KILLED passengers ON burlington TRAIN GIVE TION OF CYCLONE saw houses collapse heard the groans of dying victims and As aisted in picking up the dead and injured calca chicago 0 stories stones replete iv with ith ahr Us air and pit ho mere w ere related in chi CIRO cago alonda by avern rye eye of 0 the tornado ahiel swept over parts of nebraska and ic 10 a and illinois sun di dal nl bt killing and injuring In junni ruin ban deeds bcd and ho horror stricken the mr dar of clife e stories had sat gat fasel dated in coaches caches or a chicago bir I 1 ir kinglon ton K quincy railroad train watch natch ing a great dark cloud skipping fan an lily at its woh wo uh u h h of detric detraction tion in several cs 3 they h p cy up the dead and dung the wounded and ald the muti wed groaning cyin nere placed on the plush covered seats ind and in the carpeted aisles alsoc 0 the cirs cars until the train cached omaha they removed and tien taken to hospitals or mor morgues ques 0 01 1 tho the va ai in the injured told heartrending tas ot of suf dufferin ferin ind and barlow escapes which soini med d to them in mi a culous ivill ill am koon Dies dissident ident of an auto mobile company of lincoln neb gave a do of the sooim as he it from the plat fa form ran E ot f t tho 1 car for miles it seemed as if the triin tr were ero lelnd pursued by the storm we vere nere a ilton Tl thilton I 1 first notice a strange copped empei coland colo n d load mounting coard the sk sli said aid koon benoie beffie that it had been clear the cloud grew gren rapidly and was as traveling travel ng at speed toward ralton it assumed js umed the form of i fantl cl and the air w was as filled ian a curious no noe e cometh ing between a hits hiss wid ald a noon ioan out very piercing ercinK pi thin the uniel seemed to glow gioi blick black and the ani inilla clr end that near the ground was agol acordi a half a mile in dimet dimetri ci it ivied sili IIi eil ed across the erick and beit toward the little to n ihen tile the storm struck the town houses collapsed coll ipser the roofs roars want nt sail ing away aay and th ill sides tell fell in rhe ille sat ab glued to their seats lullen tile the cloud struck then a as they te die deso lation at on wrought a cay L horror went up alom e everone jt it aas as a tearful fearful sight I 1 rhen the aigin er tile engino engine to a stop ina ana the ran over to tho the wreckage ot cil the houses we could hear the gleans of dins aln men and the wails trails and shrieks ot of in aured bomen and I 1 entered a e or rathar wl it had been a house and beneath me jay hy a 1 oman I 1 and L knew that she was a dead we got all of ct the injured out of the ruins and brought them to tho the train we were mere about to leave leane when ihen our attention was vas called to a little houe bouse some d istance distance from the otner side bide it t had been and moved tron its foundation but we ve v e found a mother and her little bab lying upon a bed uninjured another man was in a basement hla house had been carried awa anaa bodal and he was left manding with a very surprised look on oil his face in ID the open uninjured injured im I 1 saw a box car carried along tor for a quarter of 0 a milt 11 hen it split open six or beien men v lio lie turned out to be plit pirt of a repair gang eing E ing dropped out some ot of them lay idy still while others feebly crawled ana next nett station our train passed through was benson where the scene vaa 12 s till still more appalling there were several large factories there and all iero strewn in heaps we picked up a lot of i injured and I 1 don t linow know how bow many dead we ne left behind din cloud v heeled and made towards tow toi ards south omaha i we wele riot not til be hind bind but our way nay was blocked b ba the debris the tornado had thrown epou on the tracks then too we e topped frequently to pick up ill the injured there were some come with ith then limbs torn olf md ind all cut and bleed ing |
