{"id":38080,"date":"2011-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/05\/unmc-history-101-the-1913-easter-tornado\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:00:00","slug":"unmc-history-101-the-1913-easter-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2011\/04\/05\/unmc-history-101-the-1913-easter-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC History 101 – The 1913 Easter Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Editor’s note: On the first Tuesday of each month, UNMC Today will feature an item on the medical center’s history.)<\/B><\/p>\n

On March 23, 1913 — Easter Sunday — five tornadoes hit Nebraska, including a devastating F4 twister that hit Omaha and the medical center campus. <\/p>\n

Poynter Hall — at that time the only building on the new campus at 42nd and Dewey — was under construction and the College of Medicine would move into the building in the fall. <\/p>\n


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\nMildred Williams, a medical student at the time of the 1913 tornado, set up an emergency hospital in the Child Saving Institute – which is pictured on the front page of UNMC Today<\/a> this morning. She treated 50 patients in the building, which also was struck by the massive storm that killed 100 people in Omaha.<\/span>
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\n<\/TABLE>Houses and other buildings of frame construction near the campus were damaged or completely destroyed but there was little damage to the brick, stone and steel construction of Poynter Hall. <\/p>\n

Medical student Mildred Williams (M.D. class of 1914), was “girl interne” at the Child Saving Institute – which sat where the Sorrell Center now stands. She prepared an emergency hospital before the first tornado victim arrived and treated about 50 patients throughout the night and late into the next morning. <\/p>\n

Williams treated patients in the CSI even though it had been damaged by the tornado, which struck the southeast corner of the building. <\/p>\n

A baby near one of the windows was killed after it was sucked out of the building by the twister. <\/p>\n

In all, the Easter Tornado of 1913 killed 110 people in Omaha and injured 400 others to go along with a massive damage and destruction to homes, schools, hospitals, convents, churches, street cars and trains throughout the city. <\/p>\n

Photos and story provided by Robert Wigton, M.D., associate dean of the College of Medicine, and John Schleicher of the McGoogan Library of Medicine.<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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