Houses on California Street, Omaha, Nebraska, after the April 6, 1919, tornado
Description
Black and white photograph (8.5 x 6 cm.) with a view of four houses on California Street in Omaha, Nebraska, after they had been hit by the tornado of April 6, 1919. One home does not have a roof. On the reverse is written in blue pen: 4/6/19 49th Calif.
The April 6, 1919 tornado came down at about 6:00 on Sunday afternoon, at almost the same hour and same day of the week as the devastating 1913 tornado that dropped down six years earlier on Easter Sunday, March 23, and followed about the same general path. The 1919 wind storms came through Lincoln and Elmwood, Nebraska, before dropping down a funnel in Omaha at Center and 55th Streets. It raged to the northeast across the Dundee addition, following 49th Street from Farnam to Cuming Street, then leaped to the Clifton Hill neighborhood and followed 45th Street northward. The tornado came after a sultry day and was preceded by some lightning and hail. Several homes and properties were damaged but there were no deaths, although Mrs. J. G. Micklen and her son and daughter were hospitalized. Source: Omaha World-Herald newspaper, April 7, 1919, p. 1-2.
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