IN A TORNADO'S TRACK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 65, 25 March 1913, Page 6

IN A TORNADO'S TRACK.

FEARFUL EXPERIENCES. A NEBRASKA TOWN ALSO SUFFERS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (Received 12.20 p.m.) New York, March 24. Latest news from Omaha minimises the loss of life, but the damage to property is enormous. Scores of bodies have not been recovered. ■ |jHH) The district is practically under martial Jaw, and soldiers are camped in the streets. The injured are expected to number hundreds. - Twenty negroes were caught in a pool ropm , Avhen it collapsed, and none of them escaped.

The storm first struck Ralston and moved eight miles north-east, through Omaha, leaving a line of destruction four blocks wide.

There ivas much looting, folloAved by fire, but the presence of the soldiers acted as an effective check, A second tornado folloAved, completing the ruin. Communication has been paralysed.

Definite iigavs of the disaster did not reach the outside Avorld until tAventyfour hours afterwards. Wildest stories Avcre fast afloat. The toAvn of Qutan, in Nebraska, suffered heavily from the same tornado. Houses Avere unroofed and ten persons killed.