Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-07-07
THE IOWA CYCLONE.
Incidents of the lsreat Disaster.
Des Moines Register.

Des Moines Register.
Mrs. Kruell, mother-in-law Of Mr..
Meyers, and among the dead, was SO
years of age.
Mrs. Mary Murray, one of the in
jured, near Malcolm, was a poor old
femaie tramp. DIR. Hunter found her
III crippled condition in an clubhouse.
The sight so familiar after cyclones,
and to which so little credence is given,
OF hens plucked of nearly every feather,
was one of the noticeable peculiarities
in Powe>hiek county.
A man named Rice and boy whom
he carried in his arms were blown out
of their houses and into a thirty-four
foot well and into four feet of water,
by the wind. Placing the lad on his
shoulders, the father seized the stock
ofthe pump and climbed to to the top.
This occurred about one-and- "a half
miles south of Malcolm.
One lady at Grinnell was blown dis
lance of ten rods from her house into
grove, and deposited on the ground
slightly injured.
A man at Grinnell was blown out of
his house a distance of thirty yards and
deposited in the branches of tree.
He declares that while so deposited he
could see numerous small balls of fire
running along the ground.
At Malcolm the Methodist Episcopal
and Presbyterian churches were both
leveled, the floor and pews being left
standing
The Malcolm Gazette office and build
ing was completely demolished. The
editor also dealt in agricultural nipple
ments, which are strewn in every d.
rection in broken woodwork and de-
tached iron and steel.
Mrs. Freeman Taylor, wife of
groceryman OF Grinnell, who was
among those who died Sunday after
noon, was blown out of her own house
and landed in the middle of the street
In the debris Of Graham's house. Her
own home was only slightly damaged.
Mrs. Griswold and her son, of Grinnell,
were blown some distance in opposite
directions.
One of the saddest incidents Of the
whole terrible calamity is the case of
the family Of Deacon Clements. 1t
would move pity to tears. Some three
weeks ago Mr. Clements passed away
in death on bed of sickness, leaving
wife and two children. Yesterday
the mangled remains of the children
lay side by side in the improvised
morgue, and the mother lay dying in
neighbours house. The whole family
thus passing from the land of life and
death to that of eternity within three
weeks.
L. c. Phelps. father, mother and sis
tiers sought to go down cellar, window
blew in, fastened down IKE same, and
they were in so they could not get out.
Nearly all the rest Of the house was
carried away, and they were LETT safe
and sound in this one room.
Some say the hurricane lasted fifteen
and some twenty minutes. But most
say that 1t did not last over two or
three minutes. All heard it roaring
before il reached there. The fall of
water was powerful and drenching-
like from water-spOut. The water was
knee-deep on the college campus after
the rain was over.
Mr.. Donahue, four miles west of
Grinnell,not expected 10 ive-wife and
two children also injured.
Mr.. Gilmore, six miles southeast of
Grinnell, and Mr., Foster, on the P. E.
Freeman farm, both had their houses
and barns destroyed Mr.. Foster had
twenty-five cattle in his barn-yard,
that We're taken up by the tornado,
carried sixty rods and dumped down in
a gully and all killed.
The home of J. B. Grinneil was not
injured, nor tina: of President Magoun,
although both had trees broken down
on all sides of them.
trsmpled in the mud the canaries
where were they?
Nearly sll the people who were kill
ed lived in houses without cellars.
Two sisters of Mr.. Dunlap, black
smith, corner Ninth and Walnut are
missing-both widows Mrs. Cue and
Mrs Williams, with q 14-year-old son
of Mrs. Cue, who has since died, were
blown out of the second-story window
rs or 100 feet into the middle of the
strt ct where they were all found, seri-
ously injured.
1t would seem impossible that the
wind could whirl in opposite directions
at the same time, yet it one place a
huge tree had kroken of about three
feet from the ground, and the upper
part had been wrapped around the
trunk in the direction followed by the |
hands Of watch, while not FIVE feet |
away was another tree broken of AID |
wrapped about its stump in the same
way, but in precisely the opposite d.
rection.
A pathetic incident was that of a
man in his shirt sleeves, WHO formed
the center of group, and who was de-
failing his chapter of horrors to some
friends. While in the midst Of this
narration an acquaintance stepped up
and informed him that his coat had
been found. MY coat" exclaimed the
man, "wel!. let me go and get 1t; It Is
all have in the worldI'
The time of the occurrence OF the
tornado is definitely settled, the watch
of one of the students who jumped