Eva and her mother Clara Kidd Babcock were killed in the 1913 cyclone (tornado) in Yutan, Nebraska.
Information from Saunders County, Nebraska web site:
The day of Easter Sunday in the year 1913 will be remembered by the residents of Yutan and their descendants as the date of the worst calamity that ever visited Saunders County; the date when a raging tornado whirled towards the town from the southwest and ripped a path through the community and destroyed the lives of nineteen people then living in Yutan.
In proportion to the population Yutan suffered more than any other town in the path of the cyclone, even more than Omaha, where fully two hundred lives were lost.
Easter morning, 1913, dawned with crisp, clear atmosphere and a bright sunshine, an ideal Easter morning. As the morning advanced, however, the heat became rather unusual for the time and season and dire predictions were made by several men of the town who were accustomed to observe the weather accurately. Late in the afternoon of this day, March 23rd, the sky became overcast with storm clouds and the wind velocity rose to the degree of a gale. About 5 o'clock rain began to fall and the clouds assumed angry shapes. The situation was very ominous.
The storm came with a tremendous roaring sound. The storm passed, a quiet settled over the town for an instant and then people rushed from their homes and places of business, to seek medical aid for the injured and to take care of the dead.
A careful search revealed the fact that nineteen persons had lost their lives and seventeen others were injured and many had minor bruises. Among the dead were Clara Babcock and her little seven year old daughter Eva. Among the injured was the son of Clara & William Lorenzo Babcock, George Babcock, who would have been ten years old at the time. George recovered from his injuries.
Eva's grandparents on her paternal side were George Babcock and Mary Ann Eason Babcock.
Publication: Weekly Ignacio Chieftan(sic) (Ignacio, La Plata County)
April 11, 1913: Section: None: Page: 2
SURVIVERS OF TORNADO TO MAKE HOME HERE
We have two in our midst who were sorely afflicted by the disaster which wrought havoc in Omaha---Mr. Babcock and little son who just arrived from Nebraska and are with the former's sister, Mrs. Clyde Ohlwiler and aged mother of Animas City.
The Babcock family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and two children, a little son and daughter, resided in their cozy home, about thirty miles from Omaha. Theirs was a happy household and all was well with them. Suddenly without hardly a moments' warning the terrible storm struck the house and completely demolished it. Mrs. Babcock and the little girl were killed by the falling timbers.
The broken hearted husband and little son have come to their relatives here for consolation, their lives almost shattered by the terrible sorrow which is their portion.---Durango Herald.
Information researched by Patricia Ruth Major Miller
Information from Saunders County, Nebraska web site:
The day of Easter Sunday in the year 1913 will be remembered by the residents of Yutan and their descendants as the date of the worst calamity that ever visited Saunders County; the date when a raging tornado whirled towards the town from the southwest and ripped a path through the community and destroyed the lives of nineteen people then living in Yutan.
In proportion to the population Yutan suffered more than any other town in the path of the cyclone, even more than Omaha, where fully two hundred lives were lost.
Easter morning, 1913, dawned with crisp, clear atmosphere and a bright sunshine, an ideal Easter morning. As the morning advanced, however, the heat became rather unusual for the time and season and dire predictions were made by several men of the town who were accustomed to observe the weather accurately. Late in the afternoon of this day, March 23rd, the sky became overcast with storm clouds and the wind velocity rose to the degree of a gale. About 5 o'clock rain began to fall and the clouds assumed angry shapes. The situation was very ominous.
The storm came with a tremendous roaring sound. The storm passed, a quiet settled over the town for an instant and then people rushed from their homes and places of business, to seek medical aid for the injured and to take care of the dead.
A careful search revealed the fact that nineteen persons had lost their lives and seventeen others were injured and many had minor bruises. Among the dead were Clara Babcock and her little seven year old daughter Eva. Among the injured was the son of Clara & William Lorenzo Babcock, George Babcock, who would have been ten years old at the time. George recovered from his injuries.
Eva's grandparents on her paternal side were George Babcock and Mary Ann Eason Babcock.
Publication: Weekly Ignacio Chieftan(sic) (Ignacio, La Plata County)
April 11, 1913: Section: None: Page: 2
SURVIVERS OF TORNADO TO MAKE HOME HERE
We have two in our midst who were sorely afflicted by the disaster which wrought havoc in Omaha---Mr. Babcock and little son who just arrived from Nebraska and are with the former's sister, Mrs. Clyde Ohlwiler and aged mother of Animas City.
The Babcock family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and two children, a little son and daughter, resided in their cozy home, about thirty miles from Omaha. Theirs was a happy household and all was well with them. Suddenly without hardly a moments' warning the terrible storm struck the house and completely demolished it. Mrs. Babcock and the little girl were killed by the falling timbers.
The broken hearted husband and little son have come to their relatives here for consolation, their lives almost shattered by the terrible sorrow which is their portion.---Durango Herald.
Information researched by Patricia Ruth Major Miller
Eva and her mother Clara Kidd Babcock were killed in the 1913 cyclone (tornado) in Yutan, Nebraska.
Information from Saunders County, Nebraska web site:
The day of Easter Sunday in the year 1913 will be remembered by the residents of Yutan and their descendants as the date of the worst calamity that ever visited Saunders County; the date when a raging tornado whirled towards the town from the southwest and ripped a path through the community and destroyed the lives of nineteen people then living in Yutan.
In proportion to the population Yutan suffered more than any other town in the path of the cyclone, even more than Omaha, where fully two hundred lives were lost.
Easter morning, 1913, dawned with crisp, clear atmosphere and a bright sunshine, an ideal Easter morning. As the morning advanced, however, the heat became rather unusual for the time and season and dire predictions were made by several men of the town who were accustomed to observe the weather accurately. Late in the afternoon of this day, March 23rd, the sky became overcast with storm clouds and the wind velocity rose to the degree of a gale. About 5 o'clock rain began to fall and the clouds assumed angry shapes. The situation was very ominous.
The storm came with a tremendous roaring sound. The storm passed, a quiet settled over the town for an instant and then people rushed from their homes and places of business, to seek medical aid for the injured and to take care of the dead.
A careful search revealed the fact that nineteen persons had lost their lives and seventeen others were injured and many had minor bruises. Among the dead were Clara Babcock and her little seven year old daughter Eva. Among the injured was the son of Clara & William Lorenzo Babcock, George Babcock, who would have been ten years old at the time. George recovered from his injuries.
Eva's grandparents on her paternal side were George Babcock and Mary Ann Eason Babcock.
Publication: Weekly Ignacio Chieftan(sic) (Ignacio, La Plata County)
April 11, 1913: Section: None: Page: 2
SURVIVERS OF TORNADO TO MAKE HOME HERE
We have two in our midst who were sorely afflicted by the disaster which wrought havoc in Omaha---Mr. Babcock and little son who just arrived from Nebraska and are with the former's sister, Mrs. Clyde Ohlwiler and aged mother of Animas City.
The Babcock family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and two children, a little son and daughter, resided in their cozy home, about thirty miles from Omaha. Theirs was a happy household and all was well with them. Suddenly without hardly a moments' warning the terrible storm struck the house and completely demolished it. Mrs. Babcock and the little girl were killed by the falling timbers.
The broken hearted husband and little son have come to their relatives here for consolation, their lives almost shattered by the terrible sorrow which is their portion.---Durango Herald.
Information researched by Patricia Ruth Major Miller
Information from Saunders County, Nebraska web site:
The day of Easter Sunday in the year 1913 will be remembered by the residents of Yutan and their descendants as the date of the worst calamity that ever visited Saunders County; the date when a raging tornado whirled towards the town from the southwest and ripped a path through the community and destroyed the lives of nineteen people then living in Yutan.
In proportion to the population Yutan suffered more than any other town in the path of the cyclone, even more than Omaha, where fully two hundred lives were lost.
Easter morning, 1913, dawned with crisp, clear atmosphere and a bright sunshine, an ideal Easter morning. As the morning advanced, however, the heat became rather unusual for the time and season and dire predictions were made by several men of the town who were accustomed to observe the weather accurately. Late in the afternoon of this day, March 23rd, the sky became overcast with storm clouds and the wind velocity rose to the degree of a gale. About 5 o'clock rain began to fall and the clouds assumed angry shapes. The situation was very ominous.
The storm came with a tremendous roaring sound. The storm passed, a quiet settled over the town for an instant and then people rushed from their homes and places of business, to seek medical aid for the injured and to take care of the dead.
A careful search revealed the fact that nineteen persons had lost their lives and seventeen others were injured and many had minor bruises. Among the dead were Clara Babcock and her little seven year old daughter Eva. Among the injured was the son of Clara & William Lorenzo Babcock, George Babcock, who would have been ten years old at the time. George recovered from his injuries.
Eva's grandparents on her paternal side were George Babcock and Mary Ann Eason Babcock.
Publication: Weekly Ignacio Chieftan(sic) (Ignacio, La Plata County)
April 11, 1913: Section: None: Page: 2
SURVIVERS OF TORNADO TO MAKE HOME HERE
We have two in our midst who were sorely afflicted by the disaster which wrought havoc in Omaha---Mr. Babcock and little son who just arrived from Nebraska and are with the former's sister, Mrs. Clyde Ohlwiler and aged mother of Animas City.
The Babcock family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and two children, a little son and daughter, resided in their cozy home, about thirty miles from Omaha. Theirs was a happy household and all was well with them. Suddenly without hardly a moments' warning the terrible storm struck the house and completely demolished it. Mrs. Babcock and the little girl were killed by the falling timbers.
The broken hearted husband and little son have come to their relatives here for consolation, their lives almost shattered by the terrible sorrow which is their portion.---Durango Herald.
Information researched by Patricia Ruth Major Miller
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