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Further Concerning the Great Tornado
In an Urgent Appeal for Help the Edit
or of the Des AToiues - Register Gives
Some Later Details of the Terrible Ca
lamity.
DEs MONIES, Ia. June 20.
The death-list of the cyclone foots up forty
one at Grinnell, seventeen at Malcolm, and
eleven at outside points. Fix or seven more
are dying at GrinnelI and there are 10 cases
of wounded, half of them very seriously. The
entire death-roIl is sixty-four, and t viii p-Ot-
ably reach 100. Fifty Of the homeless victims
have lost everything they hal. At Mount
Pleasant, twenty-eight miles west of Burling-
ton, the Baptist church was demolished; loss,
$25 600, and a number of other buildings were
more or less damaged. making total loss of
$150,0 In Story and Boone Counties the
damage is very large, many farmers and resi-
dents of small towns losing all they had. The
tornado originated in Boone County. IL soon
divided, one branch going north, destroying
buildings and killing stock. The south branch
of the tornado started at Garden Prairie,
Boone County, at 7:3l, and-svas south of Ames
at 7:45, at Grinneil at S45, Malcolm at 9:15, and
Mount Pleasant at II. Many describe the
storm-cloud as like long rope swinging back
ward and forward, and reaching from the sky
to the earth.
From the start, as seen from the north of
Boone, there were two storrn-clouds, one hite,
the other black, apparently contending with
each other. The black cloud took the west
course. The white cloud was high in the air
and swung off to the east over Nevada, curved
back to the west and south. uniting with the
black cloud in the south part of Story
County, thence southeast rising as ii went,
until near Kellogg, IN Jasper County, when
it struck slightly north OF that place with
a loop of its whirl; thence to Grinnell and
Malcolm, bending south of Brooklyn; thence
curving to the southeast and bounding over
Deep River Township, in the southeast corner
of Poweshiek County; thence southeast,
dropping on Brighton, in Washington County,
and Mt. Pleasant, in Henry County; then rs
ing and going out of the State a few miles
south of Burlington The distance traversed
WAS ls5 miles; velocity. thilty-eight mites an
hour; width of track, from fifty rods to five
miles.
The following appeal for aid has boon fur
nsshed the Associated Press, with IA request
for its publication in all the papers in the
country:
"ro the Public:
"Aher 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 the reporters of the Des MOincs
Register and Associated PresA, find the con-
dition of the stricken people so piteous and
SO needful of instant and generous help that
Spares ii thsir behalf The tornado made a
swat1 of destruction through the tn ok ly-sct-
tied portion of Iowa some 100 miles in
length and an average of half mie in
width, extending from point south of Ames,
in the center OF the State, and swept in the
shape of a crescent to South English. in
KeUkuk County, III the southeastern part Of
the State We have the names now of sixty
nine dead and 500 wOun led, half of the latter
grievously hurt, and probably fifth of them
fatally. Over 300 families have hld their
homes totally destroyed, and there are now at
least ,J00 homeless and in want. The loss in
property viii exceed S2, 900 and may reach
S.j,0JJ,000 In the town of Grinnell alone over
0OJ in property was destroyed, on none Of
which was a cent of insurance, as in the case
Of fires 1t will take at least 100000 to put
the people there beyond need and distress. 1t
will take Sldd,000 at once to put the wounded
people in condition to be cared for. 1t will
take S1,OO0, ,O00 at the lowest to keep the suffer
ers from want, and TO help them 10 put the
humhlest of roofs over their he ds.
The people of Des Moines and OF Iowa are
city have subscribed 5000 this morning, and
will make it $20,0JU before night, IN money,
and are also sending provisions ana clothing
besides. But it will take the help of every
humane city and town in the West and of
every liberal city and town in the East to put
comfort and safety between these stricken
people and further suffering and fatality.
"GrinneIl is a town OF New Eng land people,
a thrifty, Intelligent people, and with the
lowest rate of CRIME and iliteracy in the State,
and the highest rate OF intelligence and moral
ity. The Oh towns of the East may well help
these sons and daughters of New England in
the distress and need of the utter calamity
the air, VIII ch has killed fifty of their people,
destroyed 100 of its homes, manned and mutt
lated 200 more Of its people, many Of whom
will soon die, and all Of whom must be cared
for for months. and wiped out totally nearly
half million dollars in uninsured property:
Iowa College has had all It's buildings der
strOyed, it's 400 students made homeless, and
has suffered loss of $4,000 in uninsured
= The condition of other towns and farming
communities is fun as pitiable and helpless.
All that the people of Iowa can do Will be done
RI oil fp In M ri
the losses of the sufferers. But il will take
$I,000,000 to do it, even to halfway comfort and
recompense them, and the people of the State
who have always borne their share and done
their part in ali National calamities may fifty
ask the people Of other communities TO help
them in this hour OF great calamity 10 many of
the WOrthiest of its people, and to this end
States to place these facts before their read
ers, and to give their timely help to its sutli-
cent purpose of raising and providing aid at
the earliest moment possible.
''The fury and power of this utter calamity
was indescribable in their mightiuess Of
strength as their havoc and power were cruel
and complete. Many people were lett of their
houses not a splinter as large as finger, not n
shred Of furniture as large as shein of silk,
and hundreds have no clothing left except the
night-clothes they had on. Cases of eXcep-
tional horror add exceptional pathos TO the
piteous whole. Women in pr gnancy were
killed outright, others forced to premature de-
livery, and little children with both parents
killed and lett manned and wounded them
selves. Every condition exists that most
tenderiy appeals to the pity of the human
heart The wounds inf cted by the debris
that filed the air ike chaos, by the electric
inch of space, and that exploded with fear
ulIy fatal effect, will many of them defy
all skill and nursing, even with the tendcrcst
care.
The fury Of the storm, which clearly
Of electric origin. and which. indeed may be
described as having been electricity itself pre-
cipitated in chaos, may be understood from
the statement that in various places IL TOOK up
in its greater spiFals. or tunnels houses LOO
feet high. and took up and carried large herds
of cattle through the air for tnouaands q rect
and dashed them down dead in heaps. Many
thousands Of cattle horses, hogs and other ami
mails now lie in the track Of the tornado already
rotting, and adding. in the hot weather. the hor-
roF of putrefactIon to the foul and pervading
odOrs that being given of by the millions
of tons of decaying matter left i'm the wake
of the torneio The horrors OF the
storm, the unspeakable cruelties that il
inflicted, the plteOus woe Of its coming
in the night, when the dead were not
known, and the wounded could not be found,
and the piteous state in which it has left hum
dreds Of families, before prosperous, may not
be described IN words. but once known to gen
erous hearts must command the instant sym
pathY Of the liberal and immediate help.
- kemittances may be made to the Hon. J.
b. Grinnell, at GrinneIl, or the Mayor of Grim
nell.
- write from the knowledge Of two whole
days and nights spent on the scene Of desOla-
ton and among he dead and wounded. ana
simply as they are. feeling thatthey VIII them
selves best appeal to the country and most ef-
-. s. CLARKsoE,
81 Editor Des Moines Register"
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