The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-05-02
TORNADO.
Havoc Wrought by the Terrible

Dies MONIES, April pa fearful tor
nado passed over the northwestern portion
of Iowa on Sunday afternoon and night.
The telegraph lines are so badly broken
that a complete account cannot be obtained.
At Pomeroy, on the Illinois Central Rail
road, nine houses were blown down. Three
men were instantly killed and eight others
badly wounded, two probably fatally. At
Storm Lake, on the same road, the storm
was especially severe. The waters OF the
lake were forced up into the streets. \
number OF buildings were blown down, two
persons were killed outright, and 20 were
wounded, some of them very badly. At
Rippev. on the Fort Dodge and Des
Moines Railroad, three buildings and sew
eral barns were Frustrated. One man, one
woman, and a child were fatally injured.
A quantity of stock was killed, and almost
every house in town more or less damaged.
At Wall Lake the storm swept away half
the village. Three persons are known to
have been killed, but no details are obtain
able. The town OF Glidden, on the Chica-
so and Northwestern Railroan, also suffered
severely, but the loss Of life or the amount
of property destroyed cannot be learned, as
the telegraph wires are Frustrated for miles.
The wind was accompanied by severe
rain.
The STATE Registers special from Denison,
Iowa, says: "a tornado seruck the north
erp part of Crawford county at ) o'clock Oh
Sunday afternoon. 1t demolished 10
houses, killed FIVE persons outright, and
severely wounded eight others. Wherever
it struck houses and barns were carried
some 600 feet, and then utterly demolish-
ed"
The same paper has special from Ma
pie River Junction, Iowa, which says :
About o'clock in the afternoon 1t became
evident that a shower was coming up, but
nothing unusual was noticed in regard to it,
except that the wind was from the south
east, while the cloud was approaching
slowly from the southwest. Al Wall Lake
Station it was discovered a little after 4
o'clock that a genuine tornado was APP
preaching. For over an hour the inhabi-
tants watched the tunnel-shaped cloud APP
preaching from the southwest in the direc-
tion of Denison, in Crawford county. They
had ample time to prepare for it as it APP
preached. Many Of the people left their
houses, some to take shelter in the tall
gras. near by, and some to take refuge in
the depot. Several buildings were torn
down. but no lives were lot in the town.
Broken pieces of lumber were seen freely
distributed all over the town whole boards
were taken up into the air
and shiyered TO atoms in an instant, and
the fragments scattered in every direction.
North of Wall Lake several houses were
blown down. aud hardly ves,ige OF them
left, but strange to say, motives were lost;
the ground for six or eight miles north-eas,
of these demolished dwellings is strewn
with broken pieces of boards and shingles,
hardly any Of them being more than two or
three feet long. West of the town a house
was blown down, and every member OF the
family, five in number, was badly injured.
They we're found helpless. Two Oh the
children, it is thought, cannot recover. At
Deunison five or six we're killed. Al Storm
Lake, Pomeroy, and Fonda, on the Illinois
Central Railroad, there were several deaths
from the storm. Eight is laid to be the
aggregate Of deaths in these places SO far as
heard from at this writing. AT Sac City
there was no wind, but very heavy rain,
and the most terrific hail storm that was
ever witnessed BY the Oldest men in any
county. 1t will hardly be believed when it