Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-20
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bio wind storm pssvailed bstWssa 1
and o'clock this morning and Noun
81. Mary's Academy, four miles soutl
of the city suffered terribly. The mai,
sowsr was blown ovsr ON the dormitory
crushing in the roof and Ida Golden
Annie Mcdonald and Mabel McLach
lin of this city and Mary Carrollton
No., aged from II TO Is years, were in
SANITY killed, and three other children
injured. The Kansas Central elevate,
WAS blown down; loss 350,co0. Loss il
city and country about 100000. whea
WAS not seriously injured. Fruit wa.
half stripped from the trees bat will
s,ill be . good crop. An unknown mar
WAS blown into the river and drowned
Barns and houses we're blown down and
uuroofsd all over the city and trees up
r,oted and general devastation wrought.
81. LoUs, Juns H.-Ths ssvefssl
Storm that has visited this region for 4
very long time passed over tho city be-
tween II and l O'Clock this morning.
The wind attained velocity Of 66 miles
MI hour and did very grest aggregate
dsmagc, but SO far as known no single
injury of magnitude occurred. Trees
aad fences were Frustrated in all sec
tipns OF tho city; shutters, signs, Chin
nays, etc., we're blown down and gen.
sr,l havoc among small things pre-
vailsd. Very heavy rain accompanied
the wind, and streets, sewers and cellars
la many parts Of the city were flooded.
Several steamers at the wharves Lost
chimnsys or had some part Of their up
per works carried away, and barges and
many other small craft were banged
about good deal. Every telegraph
iine in the oity was proetrated and at
this writing communication is restored
- only very few points. A good deal
Of plate glass was broken in the bust
ness part Of the city and . great many
windows broken.
- perseas Killed By sssrm.
DE MoINEs, juno ia special to tho
S',,e Register says tho surgeons report
ii dead at Grinnell, and say FIVE or six
moro will not live through the night
DsiRnan. tho Rock Island conductor, il
dad. Surgeons reported that the num-
Der of wounded exceed Is. aud the num-
bsr of houses destroyed or ruined il be-
tween 40 and LEO. Total loss of prop
srty is now estimated at six hundred
thousand dollars. II Is feared the num-
ber of deaths at Gripnell will yet reach
IS. The path Of the tornado il now we'll
defined al having been about twenty-five
miles long and half mile wide, extend
ing five miles northwest of Grinnell and
twenty miles southeast. II In now
thought the loss of life outside Grinnell
will reach 25. and altogether near 100.
Casualties by the Tornado.
DEs MONIES, June ia special train
with physicians was sent out from here.
Register posts sonds the following: SO
people are dead; about 100 or more are
wounded. The list Of fatal casualties
il A. follows: Deacon Ford and wife, Mr..
Lewis and wife, Deacon Element and
two children, Mrs. Eva Merton of Chi
ogo, Henry Pittman and two children,
Hattie and Harry, and Mr.. Pittman
probably fatally injured, Miss Abbie A.
Gard, Photograph artist; Cornsliua
Chase Of Storm Lake. the only student
killed; Susie Boyer, daughter Of dry
goods merchant and her mother; Mr.
Berry. also his son, fatally injured; Mrs
0rsaivold, Mis Totem, Miss Cullisor
and her mother; Mrs. Alexander and
two children; Miss HUFF and Child, Geo
Terry and Baby Terry. not expected tc
live; Bingham Burkstt, student at Mon
texuma. Madeira, Howard's Bay. from
Cedar Rapids; vesitory Boyns persons
are dead west Of town; Barret Chase, q
student Of Storm Lake; Henry Moore, n
brakssman ON tho Central X. r, Of Mar.
shalltown, fatally injured; Jno. Duean
conductor Of the Rock Island freight; 4
tramp from Dss Moinss, fatally: w. J
Barbour, Of Chicago; hired girl Of
Jackson Ford and Mrs. Taltsn. Eight
deaths are reported from Malcolm
which is sntirelyp pevelsd and destroyed.
Brooklyn has also suffered some. Some
eight Of the students ars badly injured,
h,ving been dug out Of the ruins The
Caaplia House Ii turned into . hospi-
tai; some Of the most dangerous Gases
bsing carried there. @. Fry, brakssman
"a the Rock island road at the train
wreck, north Of 0rinnsl, child Of Jas.
Phipps, Nn. Douohus, two in Alfonso
0illespis's family, and 3 in Beatty ,and
the hoass completely lsveled, burying
beneath it Pittmsn, his wife and three
children, wife, sister and her little baby'
4 thrss-ysar- old girl, Hattie, Vas killsd
As. Lewis, an old esntlsman and lady,
both Of whom we're killed. From here
the storm pursusda zigzag course toths
north Of the city, whore, after vipina
out the finsat residence part Of the coun.
Try, il turned toward the college. Tbt
wst building was dumped into hsaI
Q: lath and plaster and broken timber
burying beneath II eight studsats. AL oi
wiom we're afterwards sxtFicatsd more
OF lees injured. and one died. Tie Eas'
College, a stone buildinc, was unroofsd
suda FIRE followed After, oompasting thu
work Of demolition. Across Ne rail
soad track oncs stood . two-seosy hous'
Ia which Miss Abbis 4. Gard VAS kill
ed. There 10 hardly . sign asft OF !
among the acres Of ruins. The hurri
sans took away everything north O
President Msgowns's hoaas, leaving tha
sniniursd. In the vicinity there was
block which contained nine HOUSES, q
0u1 onn heinO lNvallad IN thA 0ruu0d. l