Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-06-20
GENERAL NEWS.
The Track Of the Iowa Cyclone
is Three Hundred
Miles Long.
Subscriptions Being Received !,
Iowa for the Benefit Of the
Storm Sufferers.
Guiteau's Last Chance for Life
Sat Down Upon by the
United States Su.
preme Court.
The Iowa Wind Storm

The Iowa Wind Storm
Dubuque, Ia, June l9.-The wind
storm which was SO disastrous in central
Iowa on Saturday night struck this city
at 80 o'clock Sunday morning. Though
an unusually severe wind no damage was
done in this vicinity. The clouds at the
time presented ragged and peculiar ap.
pearance. but here the results were in no
wise so severe and disastrous as expert.
enced from the hail storm of Friday af-
ternoon.
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Des Moines, June 20.-The following
appeal for aid has been furnished the as.
sociated press. with a request for it's pub.
lication in all the papers in the country:
TO THE PUBLIC:
After two days and nights spent in
traversing the track Of the tornado that
swept over this state with such fearful
havoc last Saturday night, and having
reports from scores of reporters, l send
this appeal to the people of
the United States in their be.
half. The tornado made a swath of
destruction through a thickly settled
portion OF Iowa, some one hundred and
fifty miles in length and an average OF
half mile i'll width, extending from a
point south of Ames in the center of the
state, and swept in the shape of a cres.
cent to South English, in Keokuk coun.
W, III the southeastern part of the
state. We have the names
now OF sixty-four dead and five hundred
wounded. Half of the latter are already
rotting, and adding, in the hot weather,
the horror of putrifaction to the foul
and prevailing odors that are being given
off by the millions of tons of decayine
matter left in the wake of the tornado.
The horrors of the storm, the unspeakable
cruelties that it inflicted; the pitiless
woe of its coming in the night, when the
dead were not known and the wounded
could not be found; the piteous state in
which it has left hundreds of families be-
fore prosperous, may not be de.
scribed ia words, but ence
known to generous hearts must
command the instant sympathy of the
liberal and immediate help.
1t will take a h9ndred thousand dol.
lars at once to put the wounded people
in condition to be cared tor. 1t will
take million of dollars at the lowest to
keep the sufferers from want and to help
them to put the humblestroof over their
heads. The people of Des Moines and
Iowa are responding generously. The
eight thousand dollars this morning and
will make it twenty thousand dollars be.
| n ~ L
sending provisions and clothing besides,
but it will take the help of every humane
city and town in the west, and every lib.
eral city and town in the east to put
comfort and safety between these strick.
en- people and further euffering. For.
tunately Grinnell is town of New Eng.
land people, thrifty, intelligent people,
with the lowest rate of crime
and the highest rate of intelligence and
morality. The rich towns Of the east
may we'll help the sons and daughter.
of New England in their distress and
need by the sudden calamity visited upor
them SO cruelty; which has killed fifty O.
their people, destroyed one hundred anG
mutilated two hundred NOR,
of its people, many Of whom will soor
die, and oil Of whom must be cared fo
for month, and wiped out totally near
ly half million dollars in uninsured
property. The Iowa college has had al
its buildings destroyed; its foul hundred
students made homeless, and suffered 6
loss of $4,000 i'll uninsured property
The condition of othe
tows and farming communities is fully
as pitiable and helpless. All that til,
people of Iowa can do to alleviate the;
condition and repair, in part, the losae
of the sufferers will be done, but it viii
take $1,OO0,0OO to do it, eyel
in halt comfortable way, and the peo
pie of a state who have always born
their share and done their part in all ma
tional calamities, may fitly ask the peo
pie of other communities to heIp tier
in this hour of great calamity to many Q
the worthiest of its people, and t,
; this end l ask my fellow
! of the press throughout the Unite,
States to place these facts before thei
readers, and to give their timely help t,
} it for the purpose of raising and provid
ing aid at the earliest possible moment
The fury and power of this utter calam
ity were as understandable in their might
iness and strength as their havoc snt
power were cruel and complete. Man
people were bereft of their houses; not
, splinter as large as fle-not q shred O
furniture as large as skein of silk re
mains, and hundreds have no clothln
left except the night clothes they ha
on.
Remittances may be made to John I
Grinnell. at Grinnell, or the mayor {
Grinneil.
I write from the knowledge of tw
whole days and nights spent in til
scene OF desolation, and anon
the dead and wounde,
aud tell the facts of the multitude {
horrors simply as they are. feeling tbs
they will themselves best appeal to th
country, and most effectually aid th
sufferers. j. s. CLARKsoN,
:. Editor Des MONIES Register.
TERRIBLE RESULTS OF THE STORM.
Des Moines. June 2O.-Over three hui
dred families have had their houses +
tally destroyed, and there are now
least fifteen hundred homeless and
D want.
The loss in property will exceed tw
. millions dollars, and may reach three.
a In Grinnell alone, over four hundre
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