Death In A Gale

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 6- A high wind at 2 b'clock Monday afternoon blew down a large section of the east wall of Max Meyers' brick building, at the corner ol Farn m ind Eleventh streets, recently gutted by fire, completely wrecking two buildings immediately to the east. Five people in the wrecked building were killed and several others more or less iniured, Lincoln, Neb., Feb 6 .- A heavy gale prevailed all over Nebraska Monday, starting at 2 a. ra. at AlLance and reaching Lincoln f.t about 9 a. m. Considerable damage was done in the western part of the State, buildings being unroofed and trees blown down. At Arapahoe a number of srnall buildings ■were blown down. Lincoln escaped with a few cornicei blown away and a few outbuildings overturned. The storm was an electrical disturbance, many watches and clocks in th s city stopping at about 8 o'clock in the morning. Hastings, Neb., Feb. 6.- A wind-storm struck Hastings at 11 a. m. Mondny, blowing sixty miles an hour and wrecking the old News building and blfiw in the front of a two-story building ou Hastings avenue. At 12:30 a 100-foot section of the sidewalk in front of the South ward public school building was blown 300 feet and Miss Aldrich and three children were buried under it. A 10-year-old son of Mrs. Puls was fatally injured and Miss Aidrich's arm was broken and her head hurt. ïhere are doubts as to her recovery. The other children escaped with slight cuts. FUBIOÜS STOBMS ABROAD. London, Feb. & - Zuring the gala Sunday evening the barracks of tho Salvation Army at Derby were blown down while a meeting was in progress; almost immediately the debris took fire from the stoves and began blazinf fiercely. A boy of 14 was killed and nis body burned, but the other occupants of the barracks succeeded in escaping from the fire, though many of them were soriously, and some perhaps fatally, injured by the falling beams, etc. Berlín, Fet. 5.- There was a heavy fall of stuw in Berlin on Baturday, accompanied by a thunder-storm. In the mountain districts heavy and continued rains have fallen and further floods are feared. There has been asevere storm in the North Sea, and three Heligolaad pilota have been drowned