The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-29
VOLUME XVII.---NO. so.
THE IOWA HURRICANE.
Graphic Picture OF tho Horrors of the
Storm.
DEs Mo1NEs. Iowa limo oC

DEs MONIES, Iowa, Juno 90.
An appeal for aid signed by j. S
Clarkson, editor of the Des Moines Reg.
isfer, is furnished on behalf of the strick.
en- communities in Iowa with the request
that all newspapers publish it.
AIR. Clarkson says: After 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
reporters of the Register and Asso.
ciated Press, sent to all parts of it,
find tho condition Of the stricken
people 30 piteous and so needful of in
stantaneous and generous help that I
send this appeal to the people of the
United States in their behalf. The tor
nado made destructive sweep through
thickly settled portion of Iowa, some
100 miles in length aud on an average
half mile wide, extending from points
south of Ames in Tory County in tho
centre of the State and in the shape of o
crescent to the south of English in Keo.
kuk County in the southeastern part of
the state: We have the names of sixty.
nine dead and five hundred wounded, half
OF the latter grievously hurt, and proba.
bly, fifth of them fatally. Over two
hundred families have had their homes
totally destroyed ard there are now at
least fifteen hundred persons homeless
and in want. Tho loss in property will
exceed S2,000,000 and may reach So, ,O00,.
0U0. In the Town of Grinnell alone
over S400, 600 in property was DESTROYED,
on none of which was there q cent OF
insurance as in tho case Of fires. It will
take at least $4,000 to put the people
there beyond need and distress. It will
take Sl0O, 900 ct once TO put the wounded
people III condition TO bo cared for. It
will take 81 100000 ut the lowest to keen
sufferers from want end t help them to
put the liumbest of roofs G .er their heads.
The people of Des Moines and Iowa are
responding generously. The citizens Of
this city subscribed $4,000 this morning,
ana they are also sending provisions and
clothing. 1t will take the help of every
humane city and town in the West and
every liberal city and town in the East
70 put comfort and safety between these
stricken people and further suffering and,
fatality, All that the people of Iowa can
40 Will be done to alleviate their condi.
tlon ana repair In part the losses Of the
sufferers, but it will take 100000 to do it
even IN half way comfortand recompense.
and the people of the State who have nj.
ways borne their share and done their
part in all National calamities NAV freely
ask the people of other communities to
help them in this hour of great calamity
to many of the worthiest of its people.
and to this end ask my follows of the
press throughout the United States 10
place the facts before their readers and
give their timely help to its beneficent
purpose of providing mid Mt the earliest
moment possible.
Every condition of woe exists that
most tenderly appeals to the nifty of the
human heart Wounds inflicted bv the
debris that filled tho air like chaos. by
electric balls Of fire that seemed to ira.
verso every inch OF space, and that ex.
ploded with fearfully fntal effects, will.
many OF them, defy all skill and nursing.
even with the tenderest care. The fury
OF tile storm, which was clearly of cleo.
trio origin, and which indeed may be de.
scribed ms having been electricity itself
may be understood from the statement
that at various places 1t took up in its
great sspouts of tunnels houses one thou
SAND ieet into the air, and took up and
carried large droves of cattle through tho
air for thousands of feet and dashed them
dead In heaps. Many thousands of cat.
tie, horses, hogs and other animals now
lie in the track of the tornado and are
already rotting and adding to the horror
the foul odors of putrefaction. The hor-
rors OF the storm are unspeakable.
The cruelties it inflicted and the piti.
less woe of it coming in the night when
the dend were not known and the woun-
ded could not be found, the sad state in
wh!c! it has left hundreds ,.r c.-.:i..,
before prosperous, may uot DO described
III words, but once known to generous
henrts 1t must command the instant sym.
pathy of the liberal for immediate help.
Remittances may be made to the Hon. J.
B: Grinnell at Grinneii, or to the mayor
OF Grinnell. | write from the knowledge
OF two whole days and nights spent at
the scene of desolation and among tho
dead and wounded, and tell the facts Of the
multitude of horrors simply as they are,
feeling that they will themselves best ap.
peal to the country and most efiectually
aid the sufferers.