People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — STORM REPORT NOT VERIFIED. [ARTICLE]

STORM REPORT NOT VERIFIED.

Difficult to Obtain News from the Otoe Indian Reservation. Falls City, Neb., May 20— All efforts to ascertain the extent of the cyclone damage in the Otoe reservation have been unavailing. The report of forty killed and many injured cannot be verified. News travels slowly on the reservation under favorable circumstances, and with all forms of communication rendered difficult by reason of high water, bad roads and wrecked wires, it is exceptionally difficult to verify the present rumor. Citizens of this cdunty held a mass-meeting here and appointed a committee to procure funds for the cyclone victims of this immediate locality. Several hundred dollars were contributed.