The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-06-23

TERRIBLE TORNADO IN IOWA, MISSOURI AND
KANsAs-MANY LIVES LOST AND MUCH
VALUABLE PROPERTY DESTROYED.

Dies MONIES June 1S.-A tornado swept /
through Central Iowa late last night from /
northwest to southeast from twenty miles /
north of Des MOines. The town of Grinnel /.
was struck by it and half of the town was
left in ruins. The following despatch was
received from Grinneh early this morning:
Our city is halt in ruins by cyclone. From fiye
to ten persons killed and from fifty to one hun
dred wounded. Send doctors from Newton and
working outside Of the town. Send Immediately,
DIV order of the Mayor of the city. Both college
buildings and half of our best residences are nat
on the ground sc. ID. CHRISTIAN
a short time after l A. NJ. a special train
bearing twelve physicians from Des MOines,
Colfax and Kellogg, proceeded to the scene
of the disaster, reaching there at 8. 40 A. NJ.
A despatch says that thiTty-twO are dead
and 100 or more are wounded.
Eight deaths are reported from Malcolm,
which is entirely leveled and destroyed
Brooklyn has also suffered some what. some
eight students are badly injured, having
been dug out of the ruins. The Chaplin
House has been turned into hospital
Some Of the most dangeroue cases are being
cared for there.
surgeons now report that fOTty-one are dead
and that five or six more cannot live through
the night. The surgeons report that the
number of wounded exceeds $50. The num-
beI of houses destroyed is between 14O and
$50. The total loss of property is now estI-
mated at 5000, 900. 1t is feared that the num-
Der of deaths at Grinneu Will reach seventy
well defined as having been about twenty
five miles long and half a mile wide, extend
ing five miles northwest of Grinnell and
twenty miles southeast, News has been re-
ceived that Mr.. James, his wife and two
other persons living four miles northwest OF
GTiDnell, are dead. 1t is now thought that
the loss of life outside of GIinnell will reach
twenty-five and the total loss nearly 100.
Eight persons also, at least were killed at
Malcolm Station, nine miles east of .Grinnel,
and several were killed in the farming dis
tTict between those towns. a freight train
on the Rock Island railroad was caught in
the wind betweenGrnnell and Malcolm sta
tion and was badly wrecked, delaying the
trains west three hours. A freight train on
the Iowa Central road was also derailed just
north of Grinnell.
CHICAGO Juue 1S.-The latest reports in
regard to the cyclone in Iowa indicate that
forty persons were killed and great num-
Der wounded and that much property was
destroyed.
| ST. LOUIS, June 1S.-A special despatch
/ from Kansas City says:
'sThe most severe and destructive wind and rain
storm that has visited this city in years occurred
! between and O'Clock yesterday morning. The
velocity of the wind estimated at sixty miles
/ an hour. The rainfall heavy and the light
ming terrific Scarcely exposed building in the
/ city remained whole chimneys were blown down.
Among the more serious losses are the iron bridge,
costing $4,000 between this city and Armourdale,
three spans Of which were carried away; the
street railroad stables were damaged about SO OOO
/ and the court house, which suffered to the same
extent as Coates opera house, lost its roof. All
the hotels more OF less iniBred, and business
houses and dwellings in every part Of the city suf-
fered. The total loss will probably reach $500 600.
Information from the surrounding country
shows that the storm was general and that great
damage was done to crops and property"
CAIRO, ILL.,, June 1s.--A heavy wind and
/ rain storm swept over this city about o.
! clock P. NJ. to-day, doing considerable dam
( age to roofs and trees and overturning about
/ twenty box cars in the Illinois Central yards.
/ At tie Beach Ridge a cOlOred man was killed,
( and his wife, a white woman, had her arm
/ broken by their house falling in on them
! The wheat crop along the narrow-g gauge
| railroad was badly damaged. Telegraph
! communication being cut off from other
I points, the damage to this section cannot be
estimated at present. At Metropolis City
the storm was very heavy. II blew wharf
| boat loose, sank the steamer Jennie Walker
blew down the chmneys of the steamer Pari:
/ Brown, sank coal barge, and blew The
roof off a flour mill and several other build
inps.
LEAvENwORTH, Kan, June IS.--A terri
bic wind-stOrm prevailed between y and
O'Clock YESTERDAY morning. st. Mary
Academy, four miles south of this city, Suf
fered greatly The main tower was blown
down upon the dOrmitory, crushing in tn
roof. Ida Golden, Annie Mcdonald ant
! Mabel McBanathan, of this city, and Mar.
Austin, of CarrolltOn, Mo, from eleven Z
[ fifteen years Old were instantly killed.
About twenty other children were uninjured
, The Kansas Central elevator was blow
down, causing a loss of $4,000. The loss il
the city and county is about $500 ,000.-
Wheat is not seriously Injured but the fTui
is half stripped from the trees. There vii
be, nevertheless, a good crop. An unknown
man was blown into the river and drowned
Barns and houses were blown down and un
, rooted, trees were uprOOted and general de
, vaStatiOu was wrought
SARATOGA, June 1S.--A very heavy storr
prevailed here between four and six o'cloc
Saturday afternoon. Considerable damag
was done by the overflow of water courses
5 and some of the embankments of the Noun
5 McGregOr Railroad were washed out. l
? the northern towns of the county very heav
hail, accompanied by rain, did great damage
1 and many bridges are reported gone.
: METROPOLIS, H., June IA terrible cy
| clone struck this city yesterday evening
| blowing down several houses, killing Die
Turner, capsizing and sinking the steame
: / Jennie Walker and scattering harveste
, wheat in the vicinity. The damage is heavy
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION o
: LIFE AND PROPERTY IN IOWA.
B. DEs MONIES, June 19.-There are few me-
f developments to-day from the destruction b
e cyclone at Grinnel No further deaths al
e reported to-day, but up to ten o'clock K
:. night Al deaths had occurred at Grinnell an
: % at outside points, IL of them at MalcolT
. and in that vicinity, and five in the countT
j northwest of GrInnell. The doctors say ths
V at Grinnell, won't live tweEty-four hour
! and some of the physicians put the fin;
: death roll at Grinnell alone at more than d
:. while some fear it will yet reach as high
e 75. OF the wounded in that city there al
e now over 120 known cases, and some so
It them more or less serious In the cOuntI
t are also several serious cases of injury. tt
; best posted men at GTnnell yesterday est
s mated 5he death roll very likely to reach 10
IS 1t is now 64, as we have it. There were 81
h deaths yesterday and last night, among Il
r rest that of Conductor Deignen.
r. One hundred and forty three is now est
r mated as the number of dwelling houses d
7, strOyed by the tornado in Grinnell. 1t
estimated this entails loss of half a niilliC
dollars, which is nearly a total loss as hard
. any of them are insIred against toTHadoes
81 anything but fire. J. B. Grinnell states th
p fifty of the people in losing their homes To-
T. | all that they had in the world. Outside
> GriDnell and in Malcolm and in the count
l there IS also immense loss. Probably u
Is aggregate of all will not foot up less tha
y three-quarters of million dollars. Some
D the business men of Grinnell think the actu
: loss will be larger rather than less.
D. DELICATE FEMALES.
y The exactness of society, added to Il
Of fFa hold I,as