The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-22
N RUINS
The City of GrInnen. Iowa, Devastated
by Cyclone.

N RUNS
The City of GrInnen. Iowa, Devastated
by Cyclone
DEs MoiSEs, H., june ia tornado
swept through Central Iowa late last |
night, the path of 1t running from /
northwest la southeast from twenty
miirs north of Des MONIES The town /
If Grinnrll WAS struck 10y il. and reports |
from there are that half eff the town Is ia |
ruins. Some twenty or thirty people |
", re Killed and over one hundred |
Wounded. Both the large buildings of |
the Iowa College were blown down To |
the ground. a train of cars WAS blown |
frum the track ia the vicinity of Grin
nell, and Ii special train ot ply sieians
and relief force have gone To the scene.
The news is meagre.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Iowa CITY, Ia, June 19.-Dr. Beck
and Superintendent KlmbalI, of the
Rock Island railroad, have just arrived
from Grinneii and state that the number
of deaths will reach fifty. and that there
are nearly one hundred wounded. The
best residence portion of the city and
The buildings of the Iowa college are
completely demolished. The loss To
properly will reach half million dol
lars.
MALCOLM, IOWA
At Malcolm, seven miles east of Grin
nell, houses were blown down and in
the suburbs seven persons were killed.
There have been fully.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
in the path of the tornado, which ex.
tends through Central Iowa. in "a south
easterly direction, to point almost sew
enty-fiye miles southeast of Orinnell.
The storm began near Ames, Iowa.
uEEARTHLY PHENOMENA.
MARsHALTowN, Iowa, June 1S.-The
most terrific disaster in the history If
Iowa is one which now dcsoIates the
town of Grinnell. The peculiar aspect
of the sky was matter OF remark on
| the streets yesterday afternoon, an hour
or more before sunset In the northern
sky, with cIiIes downward. were pointed
cioudS, the like Of which had never he
fore been seen. After sunset aud even
| alter darkness was gathering the western
| horizon and western sky Was lurid and
| brilliant and unearthIy. Almost ere the
| brilliant apparitinn had disappeared
the storm broke Ii WAS accom- anIed
| with
ROARING LIKE THUNDER,
| or pehaps more like the Tumbling of u
dozen freight trains. Chimneys. trees,
| houses, and barns began t1 tiV like
leaves, rain came in floods AS if wa
| ter spout had burst, which Was prt'lja-
| bly, the case, and wind and rain and
| binding lightning continued SD furious
| for near half mn hour that il was scarce
Saf. Tor ih,'S, whose ronfs swayed 'Iv, T
| 10 oian their doors; but great damage
| was done in very few minutes, and
| probably not more than Ave. Tue north
/ west corner of Town WAS laid flat
THE PATH OF THE STORM
| was comparatively narrow, but scarcely
| ANYTHING WAS left standing within lis
/ limit. Ii first entered town from the
| west and moved little moth from c''sl
until II reached Main street, then il
| curve to the southeast and whipped mp
college buildings and several houses oI
The east side of town. IL then seemed
| Ia bound intO the air, passing over MIR.
Shows and Mr. Perry's farms. Ii cross d
the Chicago. Rock Island 81 Pacific
| about "a mile and a half east OF this city
| where it met IA westward bound freight
train, which it completely demolished
| and as il passed southeast across the
country il demolished farm houses
fences and barns. It struck Malcolm in
the northern half and wrought
destruction as complete as in Grin
nell The track of the storm centereG
| as it cross ed the city and averaged about
two blocks in width. The damage out
side that narrow track was comparative
ly small, although in this respect the
tempest seemed
AS FREAKIsH AS LIGHTNING.
Most 81 the buildings in the storms
track were crushed like egg shells anC
reduced to splinters. A few were LITE
bodily and turned around. 1t is navel
Gus that the loss of life was not greater
| than it was. The storm came up will
such n roar that many betook themscivc:
To their cellars. This saved them, II:
their houses disappeared from lheil
heads, and even the foundation wall.
in many places were brushed off ever
with the surface of the ground. A con
siderable number OF
COWS AND HORSES WE'RE KILLED,
fowls had their feathers entirely stripped
off and the earth appeared rs II beaten
and lashcd with indescribablC
fury.
Reports come of several deaths sOutl
of Brooklyn, but the names and number
could not be obtained. The damage a
Malcolm and vicinity will foot up 800,
600. The damage done in general, will
aggregate $500,OO0 The total loss o
life Will foot mp fifty at least, while
many more will be crippled for life.
STILL. LATER.
| DIES MONIES, June 19.-Few new de
velopments today from destruction by
the cyclone at Grinnell. No further
deaths are reported to-day, but up TO Il
o'clock tonight forty-one deaths had &C
CURED at GFinnell, and twenty three a
outside points-seventeen of them q
Malcolm and vicinity, and five in thu
country northwest of Grinnell. The
doctors say that six TOR seven, and ever
more, of the wounded at Grinnell, won
live twenty-four hours, and some of The
physicians put the final death-rOll 3
Grinnell alone at more than fifty, while
some fear it will reach as high as seven
ty five. OF the wounded in that city Their
are now over one hundred and twenty
known cases, some of them more or les:
serious. In the country there are severa
serious cases of injury.
The best posted men at Grinnell yes
terday estimated the death roll as very
likely to reach one hundred. 1t is nov
sixty four, as we have il. There were
six deaths yesterday and last night
among the rest that of Conductor Deig
ner, of the Rock Island road. One hun
dred and forty-three is now estimated ii
the number of dwelling houses destroy
ed by the tornado in GTinnell. This en-
tails n loss of fully half a million dollars
which is nearly total loss, as hardly
any of them were insured against lorna
does. j. s. Grinnell states that fifty o
the people, in losing their houses, lOst
all they have in the world.
Outside of Grinnell and in Malcolm
and in the county there is also Immense
loss. The probable aggregate ofaii viii
not foot up less than three quarters of /
million dollars Some of the business
men of Grinnell think IFS actual los
will be larger rather than less.