of Stricken Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

CHAPTER XIX
Omaha: "The Gate City of the West" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

CHAPTER XX
Other Damage from the Nebraska Tornado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

CHAPTER XXI
The Tornado in Iowa and Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

CHAPTER XXII
The Tornado in Kansas and Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

CHAPTER XXIII
The Tornado in Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

CHAPTER XXIV
The Tornado in Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

CHAPTER XXV
The Freak Tornado in Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

CHAPTER XXVI
The Flood in New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

CHAPTER XXVII
The Flood in Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

CHAPTER XXVIII
The Flood in the Ohio Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

CHAPTER XXIX
The Flood in the Mississippi Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

CHAPTER XXX
Damage to Transportation, Mail and Telegraph Facilities . . . . . . 277

CHAPTER XXXI
The Work of Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

CHAPTER XXXII
Previous Great Floods and Tornadoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

CHAPTER XXXIII
Lessons of the Cataclysm and Precautionary Measures . . . . . . . . 308

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The Unleashed Gods

By Percy Shaw

Iron and rock are our slaves;
We are liege to marble and steel;
We go our ways through our purse-proud days,
Lifting our voices in loud self-praise--
Forgetting the God at the wheel.

We build our bulwarks of stone,
Skyscraper and culvert and tower,
Till the God of Flood, keen-nosed for blood,
Drags our monuments into the mud
In the space of a red-eyed hour.

Kings of the oceans are we,
With our liners of rocket speed,
Till the God of Ice, in mist-filled trice,
Calls to us harshly to pay his price
As we sink to the deep-sea weed.

Muscle and brain are our slaves;
We are liege to