. Electric railway journal . the storm. The company, however, was extremely fortunate inhaving a liberal supply of poles and other line materialon hand. This material had been purchased since the firstof the year for replacements and new construction workscheduled for the current year. Additional material wasalso rushed to Omaha from other cities. Of course, agreat deal of the work done is necessarily of a temporary 2000. The property loss in the city of Omaha is estimatedto be about $5,000,000. THE STORM IN TEKRE HAUTE On Sunday night, March 23, a destructive tornado alsopassed through the we
. Electric railway journal . the storm. The company, however, was extremely fortunate inhaving a liberal supply of poles and other line materialon hand. This material had been purchased since the firstof the year for replacements and new construction workscheduled for the current year. Additional material wasalso rushed to Omaha from other cities. Of course, agreat deal of the work done is necessarily of a temporary 2000. The property loss in the city of Omaha is estimatedto be about $5,000,000. THE STORM IN TEKRE HAUTE On Sunday night, March 23, a destructive tornado alsopassed through the west-central part of Indiana, strikingthe neighborhood of Terre Haute, Brazil and path was in a northeasterly direction. About twenty per-sons were killed at Terre Haute, and probably 200 injured,and nearly 300 houses were wholly or partly wrecked. Theprobable property loss in that neighborhood is nearly$1,000,000. Only three places in Indiana were struck bythis tornado, which descended near Prairietown about 9. Omaha Tornado—View on Street Showing Complete Disappearance of Trolley Wire and Trolley Poles character and will have to be done over again. It willprobably be a month or longer before the permanent recon-struction work has been completed. Among the employees of the company, one was killedin the tornado (his wife was also killed), five were injuredand forty-four lost or sustained more or less damage totheir homes. Many of the men who lost everything theypossessed in the world nevertheless worked straight through,day and night. Those of the employees who escaped injury to person ordamage to property lost no time in coming to the help p. m., and then passed on to Terre Haute, taking a paththrough the open country to the northeast, and vanishedabout 10 oclock. A large amount of damage was done to the street rail-way svstem not only on account of broken cables and trol-ley wires, but also on account of the wrecking of a num-ber of cars. Immediately after the
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