Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-19
Later Particulars.

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ments could be had last night from the lorna
do at Grinnell and the consequent prostratior
of wires, prevented any report being sent out
| The first startling reports of loss of life wers
soon confirmed, and later and authentic re
| ports swelled the list of dead at Grinnell to
about 40, with several severely hurt, and Cor
nell, Iowa, college building ruined. Eight, al
least, were also killed at Malcolm station, nine
miles east OF Grinnell, and several living il
| the farming district.
| A freight train on the Rock Island road be
low the town was caught in the wind and
badly wrecked, delaying trains west three
hours, and freight train on the Iowa Central
| just north of Grinnel was also badly delayed
| The first authentic news of the terrible
havoc was received by the Register as fol
| lows:
Kellogg, To-, June II, 11:50 p. m.-Both
college buildings at Grinnell blown down.
| with half of the north part of the town in
| ruins and large number OF killed and in
jured. You can send doctors on passenger
No. 2, that will be held to bring them on.
Soon after the following dispatches were re.
ceived by Superintendent Royce, of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway com.
pany's wire:
Grinnell, To-, June IS, 12:47 a.m.-Rsports
coming in from the wrecked portion of the
city are hourly becoming more heart
rending. It is impossible to Judge
of the extent of the loss of life,
or damage to property. The physicians
already have more cases than they can attend
to properly and are anxious for help from
other cities. No. II was wrecked a mile and
half east and Conductor D. ReGuan and
some of his passengers were seriously injured.
The head brakeman is missing. Fourteen cars
are said to have been blown clean off the track.
The track is not much damaged from the
water: No telegraph communication IN any
direction. WINTER, Conductor No. Is.
Grinnell, June IS, 1880 o. H.
Our city is in ruins by cyclone. From five
to ten persons are killed and fifty to 100 are
wounded. Send doctors from Newton and
Des Moines by special train. We have no
wires working outside of town. Send i'm
Both college buildings and half of oar best
residences are flattened to the ground.
Shortly after O'Clock special with railway
men and physicians left here. No satisfactory
news was obtained on account of break in
the wires, till the receipt of the following
from a reporter:
Grinnell, June IS, 4:5O a. m.-The special
train from Des Moines reached this
place at $40, with twelve physicians
on board from Des MONIES, Colfax and Kel-
log. The situation is worse than ever the
first reports made it appear.
TulRTY.Two PEOPLE ARE DEAD.
and about one hundred or more wounded.
The list of fatal casualties are as follows:
Deacon Ford and wife.
Mr.. Lewis and wife,
Deacon Clements and two children.
Mrs. Eve Menlor, of Chicago.
Henry Pitman and two children, Hattie and
Harry, and Mrs. Pitmsn, probably fatal ly in
jured.
Miss Abbie Agaid, Photographic artist.
Cornell Chase, of Storm Lake, the only stu
dent killed.
Susie Boyer, daughter of dry goods mer-
chant, and her mother, Mrs. Boyer; also his
son was fatally wounded.
Mrs. Griswold.
Mrs. Tolien.
Mrs. Cullison and her mother.
Mrs. Alexander and two children.
Mrs. Huff and child.
George Terry, badly burnt, and moi expected
to live.
Bingham Burkett, a student from Monte.
yuma, 10.
Hadison Towards boy.
A lady from Cedar Rapids visiting at Bayers.
Barrett E. Chase, a student of Storm lake.
Harry Moore, brakeman on the Iowa Cen
trail road, of Marshalltown, fatally injured.
John Dregnan, conductor Of the Rock
Island freight, fatally hurt.
A man from Des MOines, fatally hurt.
A travelling man, w. j. Barbour, OF Chi.
cago.
Hired girl of Deacon Ford and Mrs. Totten.
Eight deaths are reportad from Malcomb,
which is entirely leYelled and destroyed.
Brooklyn has also suffered some.
Some eight of the students are badly in
ured, having been dug out of the ruins.
The Chapman house is turned into hos.
pital. Some of the most dangerous cases are
being treated there.
Charles Frye, brakeman on the Rock Is
land road. the train wrecked north of Grinnel.
A child of Jas. Phillips.
Mrs. Donahue.
Two in Alonzo Gillespie's family, and three
in the Beatty family.
From numerous and contradictory stories
of startled citizens is gathered the old story of
deep roaring, the sound approaching from the
funnel shaped cloud. It was seen first COM
ing from the southwest, sweeping up to
the northwest corner OF the town. levelling
huge trees in its pathway and taking Eos
ter's house and barn, levelling both to the
ground and carrying Mr.. and Mrs Foster and
their two child, en- thirty yards, precipitating
them amidft debris, all somewhat injured.
Just east of Foster's was Hillman's house,
also completely leveled, burying beneath it
aillman his wife and three children, the
wife's sister and her baby. Foster took out
the three year old girl, Hattie, dead. The
boy, Harry, aged ten, was fatally injured and
Arthur slightly injured.
Not far away was the residence Of Mr..
Lewis, an old gentleman and lady, who were
both killed. Charles, their son, was in Des
Moines. and thus escaped.
From here the storm pursued it's journey in
a direction north of the city, where, after
wiping out the fneat residences of that por-
ton of the city, it turned toward the college.
The west building was dumped into heap of
lath and plaster and broken timber, hurying
beneath it eight students who rooMed therein,
all of whom were afterwards extrieated more
or less injured and one died. The eastcollege,
Eve story building, was unroofed and fire
followed.
After completing its work Of demolition
with the college the whirling fend struck
straight across the Iowa Central railroad aud