The daily gazette., 1882-06-19
ONE HUNDRED DEAD.
THE DEADLY WORK or AwEsT-
ERN CYCLONE.
AVID STORMS TERRIBLE SWEEP
Between lao and $50 Houses Destroyed
Nearly 100 Persons Kflled-96 5000, 900
Worth of Property Destroyed.


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DEs MoINEs, Iowa, June 1s.-A tornado
swept through central Iowa late last night
from northwest to southeast, from 20 miles
north Of Des Moines. The town of Grinnen
was struck by it and half of the place was
left in ruins. The following dispatch was
received from Grinnell early this morning:
Our city is half in ruins by a cyclone. From
five to ten persons are killed and from 90 to 100
wounded. Send doctors from Newton and Des
Moines by special train. We have no wires
working outside of the town. Send Immediately,
by order of the Mayor of the city Both college
buildings and half of our best residences are fiat
on the ground. G.. M. CHRISTIAN.
Soon after a. m, a special train pro-
eeeded to the scene of the disaster. No sat
isiactory news was obtained, on account of
the break in the wires, until the receipt of
the following ..s
GRINNELL, Iowa, June 1S-4.5Oa. ma
special train from Des Moines reached this
place at $40 with 12 physicians on board
from Des Moines, Colfax, and Kellogg.
The situation Is worse than even the first
reports made it appear. Thirty-two
persons are dead and about 100 or more
were wounded. The list of fatal casualties
is as follows; Deacon Ford and wife, Mr..
Leuis and wife, Deacon Clements two chill
dren, Mrs. Eva Morton of Chicago, Henry
Pitman's two children, Hattie and Harry
Mr.. Pitman being probably fatally injured /;
Miss Abbie Agard, Photographic artist ;
Cornell Chase of Storm Lake /; Mrs. Bayer,
the daughter of dry goods merchant,
fatally wounded Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Lot
ten, Mrs. Cullison and her mother Mrs.
Alexander's two children Mrs. Huff and
child George Terry's baby; Mr.. Terry, not
expected to live; Bingham Burkett, a
student of Montezuma, Madison Howard's
boy lady from Cedar Rapids visiting
with the Bayers three persons dead two
miles west of the town Barrett E. Chase,
student of Storm Lake Henry Moore, a
brakeman on the Iowa Central road of Mar
shalltown, badly injured John Diegnan,
conductor of Rock Island freight train
fatally injured tramp from Des Moines
fatally injured travelling man, w. j.
Barbour of Chicago, and hired girl of
Deacon Ford, also fatally injured.
Eight deaths are reported from Malcom,
which is entirely levelled and destroyed
Brooklyn has suffered somewhat Some
eight students are badly injured, having been
dug out of the ruins. The Chaplin House is
turned into hospital. Some of the most
| dangerous cases are being cared for there.
A special dispatch from Grinnell says:
'The surgeons now report that Al are dead
at Grinnell, and that five or six more can
not live through the night. Diegnan, the
Rock Island railroad conductor, is dead.
The surgeons report that the number of
wounded exceeds $50, and the number of
houses destroyed is between 14O and $50.
The total loss of property is now estimated
| at $500, ,0e0. 1t is feared that the number
of deaths at Grinnell will reach rs. The
path of the tornado is well defined as having
been about 25 miles long and half mile
wide, extending five miles northwest of
| Grinnell and 20 miles southeast. News has
been received that Mr.. James, wife, and two
| daughters, and two other persons, who lived
four miles northwest of Grinnell, are dead.
1t is thought that the loss of life outside of
Grinnell will reach 25, and the total loss
| nearly 100. 58
A special to the Register sent at 7,30 p. m.
says; From many and contradictory stories
| of startled citizens we gather the following
| account of the disaster.
The deep roaring sound was heard pro-
ceeding from funnel-shaped cloud, which
was seen first coming from the southwest.
The storm swept to the northwest corner of
the town, levelling high trees and houses and
barns to the ground. c. Pitman's house
was completely levelled, burying beneath it
Mr. Pitman, his wife and three children, and
his wife's sister and her little baby. His
three-year-old girl, Hattie, was taken out
dead, and his boy, Harry, aged 10 years,
was fatally and Arthur slightly injured.
Not far away was the residence of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Lewis, an old couple, who were both
killed
From here the storm pursued a zigzag
course to the northern part of the town and
after wiping out the finest residence portion
of the place turned toward the college. The
west building was dumped into mass of
laths and plaster and broken timber, bury
ing beneath it eight students who roomed
therein, all of whom were afterward
rescued more or less injured, and one of
them subsequently died. East College, a
| five-story building, was unroofed and fire
| followed.
MALooM, June IA terrible cyclone
passed over here at $50 tonight. We have
| found seven dead, and the wounded are
numerous. Five of the best business houses
including the Gazette office, are demolished,
| and both churches and one-third of the
| dwelling houses In town are fiat or badly
damaged. The following are among the
dead G. H. Wheeler, old Mrs. Meyers,
Mrs. o. Myers, and Mrs. Hail.
CAIRO, ILL, June 1S.--A heavy wind and
rain storm swept over this city at about p.
m. to-day, doing great damage to roofs and
trees, and overturning about 20 box cars in
the Illinois Central yards. No damage was
done to the shipping in the harbor except to
the Vincennes wharf boat, which was un-
rooted. At the Beach Ridge a colored man
was killed, and his wife, white woman, had
her arm broken by their house falling in on
them.
The wheat crop along the Narrow Guage
railroad was badly damaged. Telegraph
communication being cut off from other
points, the damage to this section cannot be
estimated at present. At Metropolis City
the storm blew wharf boat loose, sank the
steamer Jennie Walker, blew down the
chimneys of the steamer Paris Brown, sank
a coal barge, and blew the roofs off flour
mill and several other buildings.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-The latest reports in
regard to the cyclone in Iowa indicate that
40 persons were killed and great many
wounded, and that much property was
destroyed.
Indications.
ASSOCIATED Press dispatch to the Gazette.l