Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-06-24
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A TORNADO.

,rp.1L1NG Loss OF IarE AND PROPERTY
An,rp FORTY PERSONS KILLED AND ONE
UU,-xnREp AND FIFTY WoUNDED-HEART-
RySpING SCENES.
on,xxEIL. Iowa, June lS.-A tornado
.,rsnt through Central Iowa late iast
s;gbt from northwest to southeast, from
.,rsnty miles north of Des MONIES. Inc
,",vn of Grinnell was struck by lt, ana
hslf of the town left In RUNS ihirty-
TWO people are dead, and ABOUT loo or
wv We're wounded. The list of fatal
in o,, il as follows: Deacon Ford and
',';fa Mr.. Lewis and wife, Deacon Glenn
VS. two children. Mrs. Eva Morton, of
CHICAGO; Henry Pittsman's two children.
Hattie and Harry, Mr.. Pittsman being
nr"hably fatally injured; Miss Abbie
tSard, Photographic artist; Cornell
Chase. of Storm Lake; Mrs. Susie Bayer,
tbe daughter of dry goods merchant;
her mother and son were fatally injured.
Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Totten, Mrs. GULL
son and her mother, Mrs. AleNanders
two children Mrs. Hoff and child, George
Terry's baby, Mr.. Perry not eXpected 10
live. Bingham Barkett, student OF moi
tezuma: Madison Towards boy, laay
from Cedar Rapids visiting the Bayers,
three persons dead two miles west oil the
town: Barrett T.. Chase, student Vi
storm Lake: Henry Moore, q brakeman
on the Iowa Central Road, OF MARSHALL
town badly injured; John Diegman, con-
ductor on the Rock Island freight, fatal
Nv. n tramp from Des Moines, fatally;
travelling man, w. j. Barbour, OF Chica,
90: the hired girl of Deacon Ford and
Mrs. Totten. Eight deaths are reported
from Malchom, which is entirely levelled
and DESTROYED. Brooklyn has also suf-
fered some. Some eight of the students
are badly injured, having been dug out
of the ruins. The Chaplin House is turned
into a hospital. Some of the most danger
Gus cases being taken there are Charles
FRY, brakeman Oh the Rock Island Roao
AZ Train Wreck, north of Grinnell; child
of James Phipps, Mrs. Donahue, two
children of Alonzo Gillespie, three in the
Beatty family. A special dispatch sent
NJ haif-past seven O'Clock says From
numerous and contradictory stories of
stsrtled citizens we gather the story Of
deem roaring sounds preceding Il funnel
sbaned cloud. G. Pittman's house was
completely leveled, burying beneath Pitt
man. his wife and three children, his
wife's sister and her little baby. The
three wear old girl Hattie was taken out
dead. The boy Harry, aged 10, was ia
tally injured, and Arthur slightly in
inred. Not far away was the residence
of Mr.. Lewis, all old gentleman and lady,
who were both killed. From here the
storm pursued a Zigzag direction to the
north OF the city, when, after wiping out
the finest residence portion of the city, 1t
moved toward the college. The next
building was dumped into heap Of lath
and plaster and broken timber, burylng
beneath it eight students who rOomed
therein, all of whom were afterwards
rescued, more or less injured, but one
subsequently, Gied. In n 2-story house
4 Miss Abbie Agard was killed. There is
hardly sign left of the house. In the
vicinity, a block which contained nine
houses, all but one was leveled to the
ground In one of this block four per-
sons were killed-Mr. Ford and wife,
hired girl and Mr.. Tatten. In this vicini-
~ F. W. Williams house was unroofed
and Professor Herrick's and Mrs. Morris
were punched together. The scenes
around the ruins are heart-rendinS. The
engine-house, where seventeen of the
dead bodies are laid out, presents sight
which brings back army days. Some Of
tbe dead are i'm the wrecks of their homes.
The number of the injured ranges up
among the hundreds. AL MalCIlohh seNeH
are dead.
Dies MONIES, June 1S.-A special de-
spatch from Grinnell says that the sur
gcons now report that forty-one are
dead at Grinnell, and that five or six
more cannot live through the night. The
number of wounded exceeds $50, and the
number of houses destroyed is between
40 and 100. The total loss of property is
now estimated at SO 1000, 900. 1t is feared
that the number of deaths at Grinnell
will reach 80.
News has been received that Mr.. James,
wife and two daughters, and two other
persons living four miles northwest of
Grinnell, are dead. 1t is now thought
that the total loss of life outside of Grin
nell will reach %, and the total loss near
l.