Garage at 4811 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska after April 6, 1919, tornado
Description
Black and white photograph (8.5 x 6 cm.) with a view of the remains of a garage at 4811 Capitol Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, after it had been damaged by the tornado of April 6, 1919. There appear to be two sections of wall left standing. On the reverse is written: 4/6/19, garage across street 4811 Capt, came between our hse & next door.
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 Dundee, following 49th Street from Farnam to Cuming Street, then leaped to Clifton Hill neighborhood and followed 45th Street northward. The tornado came after a sultry day and was preceded by some lightening 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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