Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 26, 1913, Page 2

PLAN TO GIVE GIRLS WARNING National Campaign Is Mapped Out. GENERAL USE OF POSTERS Advice to Young Women to Be Placed fm Every Railroad and Street Car and in Every Passenger Station in| the United States. New York, March 25.—Plans for a @ountrywide campaign to warn girls ef dangers besetting them as a result | @f the activities of “white slave” traf- Sckers were announced here. James Cushman, president of stropolitan board of the Young Women’s Christian association, has appointed a committee to take up @ pian for unification with other organi- in travelers’ aid work. It was ned her action followed a confer- € among leaders in philanthropic @ffort along this line. One of the plans suggested is the @lacing in every railroad and street wailway car and station in the United States, a list of warnings to girls, ad- vising them, among other things: Never to speak to strangers, either men or women, even if they are in elerical or nurses’ attire. Never to ask the way of any person | ether than officials on duty. Never to go to an address with a stranger, nor take directions, without first making inquiry of a society active in travelers’ aid work. Conferences on the matter are ex- pected tobe held in connection with the sociological congress to be nota | next month in Atlanta. MARRIAGE LAWS T00 Lax | Wisconsin Assembly Sei leoramttiss Pro- poses Change. Madison, Wis., March 25. —Believing | | that the marriage laws in the state of | | Wisconsin are too lax the assembly | |} committee on judiciary has intro-! viding stricter regulation. Under this measure any person residing or in- consin, who is disabled or prohibited from contracting marriage, under the | {laws of this state, shall not be permit- ted to marry in another state. Such | marriage would be null and void. There is a reciprocal clause applica- | ble to other states, which provides | that no marriage shall -be contracted | in this state by a party residing or! intending to reside in another state, if tracted in the other state. | LITTLE TOWN IS WIPED OUT Fifteen Dead and Fifty Injured at Yu- tan, Neb. Omaha, March 25.—A courier rid- ing in from the little town of Yutan, on the Union Pacific railroad, north of here, told a horrible story of the entire place being blown off the face of the map. Fifteen persons were killed outright and at least fifty are seriously injured. many of them fa-| tally. The cyclone passed over the business and residence section, total- | ly demolishing every building. An ac: | curate list of fatalities will not be | known for some time, as all the wires | in that direction are downr Rain of Mud in lowa. | Fort Dodge, Ia., March 25.—When | the fearful storm swept across Iowa it rained mud here. 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Opposite Post Office PetuveveveetuviveveveNterertrrsererererrrMrrrrrrrerrrrtrtrcrrccstrrrrrrrr TTT i duced a new bill in the assembly pro- | tending to continue to reside in Wis- | TORNADOES WIPE OUT 300 LIVES Cyclonic Storms in | Several § States, OMAHA Sf HARD HIT: such marriage would be void if con- Loss of Life at Nebraska Me- tropolis About 200, THREE TIMES AS MANY nT Injured Will Number Seven Hundred, a Small Portion of Them Seriously. ' Damage to Property, Mostly in the Residence Section, Estimated at Tweive Million Dollars. He Ee he she be che he oh oho fe ete o> he hy ea PEER EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EELS THE DEATH LIST. Terre Haute environs. Council Bluffs, Ia.. oo 13 Woodbine, la... . Yutan, Neb... Desplaines, Ill.. Total ..cccesesscsceess The above table is made up from sporadic and incomplete news bulletins and is subject to correction. Reports say that Perth, Ind., was wiped off the earth; that Prairieton, Ind., suffered great damage; that Craig, Neb., was hard hit; that Chicago, Desplaines, Ill, and many widely scattered towns, villages and cities were in the path of the storms. In all ad- vices there is a suggestion of from one to many fatalities. Omaha, March 25.—(Via long dis- tance telephone to Denver).—Omaha and vicinity were swept by two dis- j tinct wind storms, both of cyclonic in- | tensity, which spread death and de- | Struction in their wakes. | buildings added to the horrors. | he best available figures place the | mumber of dead between 100 and 200, with not less than 100 more seriously in- jured and probably 600 more or less seriously hurt. The first and main storm struck Ralston, three miles west of South ; Omaha, shortly before 6 p. m. and moved in a northeasterly direction through the city of Omaha. The only point at which the force of the storm struck the business sec- tion was at Twenty-fourth and Lake streets. Here the Diamond theater, a moving picture concern, well filled, was wrecked. According to the best available figures at least thirty of its patrons were killed. Between forty and fifty more were killed in the wreck of a pool hall nearby which was pat- ronized by negroes. Path Ends at Carter Lake. The well defined path of the storm ended at Carter lake, near the Missou- ri river, north of the city. Fire broke out in the debris and | wrecked buildings. Fires burned themselves out except in instances where flames were brought under con- trol by volunteer “bucket brigades.” | The second storm swept across the Missouri river about 6:20 p. m., doing | considerable damage in Council Bluffs. } Early figures place the number of | known dead in Council Bluffs at thir- | teen, with a score injured. | Governor Morehead, Mayor Dahl- |man and Poliee Commissioner Ryder | stated that at least two hundred were | killed at Omaha. | The list of injured is expected to }reach 700. Many have been found in | the homes of friends, where they took refuge after the storm. Property damage is placed at $12,- 000,000. | The villages of Benson, Dundee and | Florence, suburbs of Omaha, were | practically wiped out. Only the fact | that a heavy rain fell for half an hour | after the tornado saved the mass of wreckage and many dead bodies from being burned. | RICH AND POOR ALIKE SUFFER Storm Hits Aristocratic and Lowly | Parts of Omaha. Omaha, March 25.—After a night of terror, in which women and chil- dren frantic with grief walked the streets cold and homeless, Omaha awoke to a scene of almost unbeliev- able devastation. Ralston was entire- ly wiped from the map. Then the tornado swept past the city hospital to the west and continued in a north- easterty direction, taking everything EERE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE PEEP PEE SEES Ge S | Fire which | | broke out in many of the wrecked > SECRETARY GARRISON. Rushes Troops to Omaha to Assist in Rescue Work. in its path. river and lost itself some place in the Iowa bluffs. Buildings were blown down or picked up and hurled with terrific ‘force many yards, trees were leveled and smal! structures were completely wrecked by the wind, which swept di- rectly across the most aristocratic as city. | Some of the finest homes, those re- wealthiest men, are a mass of ruins. Hundreds of followed the twister. Fire Adds to Horror. ; Following the tornado and the rain came an even greater menace in the fires that broke out in a score of places. At least twenty-five houses were destroyed by flames. To add to the horror of the night the electric lights failed, wires went down and not only the house lights but the street lights were extinguished, leav- ing only the fitful flare from hundreds of lanterns to light up the scenes of horror, while the rescue parties were at work. The sections of the city which have reported the heaviest loss of life are the districts surrounding the county hospital and the children’s institute. From every point in the path of the storm reports were received of people killed, injured or buried in the ruins of their homes. Shortly before 6 p. m. the storm was first noticed southwest of Omaha coming toward the city with the speed of an express train. The roar of the whirling, twisting widns could be heard long before the storm struck and the people in the southern por- ; tion of the city asserted they could hear the angry rumble of the storm when it struck the village of Ralston. Big Fan-Shaped Cloud. The vanguard of the storm was a ; huge fan-shaped cloud, dark and low- ering, which gradually narrowed into a funnel-shaped cloud that dipped earthward and wherever it struck left a wake of death and injuries and wrecked homes. | Almost all over the city people stood and watched the storm ap- proach, even when in its very path, some seemingly without the power to move or not knowing which way to go. The streets in the storm’s path | were filled with debris. Although dazed for a time by the suddenness of the storm and the dam- age done, the people living in the | wrecked portions of the city who were unhurt and those residing nearby hastened to the task of rescuing the injured. | Every available motor car and wag- | ~ on was pressed into service, physi- cians and nurses were hastily sum- moned and hospital and other pub- lic buildings turned into relief sta- tions for the injured and morgues for the dead. Every undertaker’s. estab- lishment in the city and even in South Omaha was taxed to the limit in car- ing for the dead. City Officials Do Rescue Work. As the night wore on the devasta- tion wrought by the storm became more and more evident and the city commissioners, headed by Mayor Dahiman, took personal charge of the relief work. Headquarters were es- tablished in the Telephone Exchange building and Major Hartman’s offer to take charge of the patrolling of the devastated district with between 200 and 300 regulars was gladly accepted. Every policeman and firemen in Oma- ha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs was used in an effort to prevent loot- ing of the buildings, in the rescue of the injured and in putting out fires. Before morning a call for local com- panies of state troops had been is- sued, and state troops will aid regu- lars and city officers in guarding the wrecked buildings and searching ruins for dead and injured. As soon as day- ght appeared Mayor Dahiman and Major Hartman made a tour along the storm’s path and planned the work of caring for those rendered homeless by the storm and for policing of the em tire district. 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