Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-29
APPEAL FOR AID.
ror the Sufferers by the Terrible
Iowa Cyclone.
estimates of Suffering, ard the
Amount OF Money r required.
me Trail of the Tornado Graphically
OeS ibed.

ne Trail of the Tornado Graphically
Oes bed.
A TOUCHING APPEAL.
DEs MOINEs, IA, June 2O.-The fol
lowing appeal for aid has been fur.
nished the associated press with re-
quest for its publication in all papers
in the country:
Toihe Public:
After two days and nights spent in
traversing the track of the tornado
that swept over this state with such
fearful havoc last SAturda' night, anl
having reports f'om scores of report
ers of the Register and associated
press sent to all parts of it, l found the
condition of the broken people SO pite.
Gus and so needfnl of instant and gen.
erous help that send this appeal to
the United 5 ates in their behalf. The
tornado made path of destruction
through the thickly settled portions Of
Iowa some $50 miles in length, and on
an average Of half mile in width,
extending from point south of Ames
in the central part of the state, and
swept in the shape of a crescent to
South English, in keokuk county, in
the southeastern part of the state.
We have the names now of siyty.nine
dead and 500 wounded. Half of the
latter are grievously hurt, and probab-
ly half fatally. Over 800 families
have had their homes totally destroyed,
and there are at least 1900 homeless
and in want.
THE LOSS ON PROPERTY
will exceed S2,O0O,00O, and may reach
$3,OOO,OOO. In the town of Gnnell
alone 100000 in property was des.
troyed, on none cf which was a cent
of insurance as in cases of fires. 1t
will take at least 100000 to put the
people there beyond need and distress.
1t will take 100000 at once to put the
wounded people in u condition to be
cared for. 1t will take $l,000,0O0 at
the lowest to keep tie sufferers from
want, and help. them to put the hum
blest of roofs over Their heads. The
people of Des Mpints and Iowa City are
responding generously. The citizens
of this city have subscribed 5000 this
morning, and will make it $4,000 be.
fore night in money, and are sending
provisions and clothing besides, but it
will take the help of every humane
city and town in the west and of every
city and town in the east to put COM
fort and safety bet ,een these stricken
people and fmL"cr suffering and IA
tality.
TilF TOWN OE GRlNNELL.
Grnne.l is a town of tile New
England type, with thrifty, intelligent
people, and with the lowest rate of
crime and illiteracy in the state, and
with the highest rate of intelligence
and morality. The ch towns of The
East may well help these sons and
daughters Of New England in distress
and need from the calamity visited
upon them 50 cruelty by this Moloch
of the air, which has killed fifty of
their people, destroyed l6) of its
homes, manned and muulatrd 200
more of its people, many of whom will
soon die, and all of whom must be
cared for for month, and wiped out
totally nearly half a million dollars in
uninsured property. Iowa college had
all its buildings destroyed. its 400
students made homeless and suffered
loss of t75,000 uninsured property.
The condition Of oth0r towns and
farming communities are fully as
pitiable and helpless. All that the
people of Iowa can do will be done to
alleviate the condition and repair in
part the losses of the sufferers, but it
will take million dollars to do it
even in half comfort. The people of
the state who have also borne their
share and done their part in national
calamities may freely ask the people of
other communities to help them in
their hour of great calamity to many
of the wOrthest of its people, and to
this end | ask my fellows of the press
throughout the United States to place
these facts before their readers and to
give their timely helpto its sufficient
purpose of raising and providing aid
AT TILE EARLIEST MOMENT POS IBLE.
The fury and lower of this calamity
were indescribable in their might and
strength, as their havoc and power
were cruel and complete. Many people
are bereft of their houses, not Il splinter
as large as finger, not shred Of furn.
iture Ps large as skein Of silk remain
ing, and hundreds have no clothing
lett except the night clothes they had
on. Gases of exceptional horror and
exceptional pathos, add to the piteous
whole.
Little children with both parents
killed were left manned and wounded
themselves. Every condition of woe
that most tenderly appeals to the pity
of the human heart is witnessed.
Wounds inflicted by debris, that filled
the air like chaos, ty the electric balls
Of fire that seemed to traverse every
inch of space, and that exploded with
fearfully fatal fleet, will many of them
defy all skill and nursing.
THE FURY OF THE sToRM
which was clearly of electric origin,
and which may indeed be described as
having been electricity itself precipitat-
ed in chaos, may be understood from
the statement in various places that
when the dead were not known, and
the wounded could not be found; the
piteous state in which it has left hun
dreds of families, before prosperous,
may not lie described in words, but
known to generous hearts must com
mand the instant sympathy of the lib
eTal and immediate help.
Remittances may be made to the
Hon. j. B. Griunell, at Grinnell, or the
mayor of Grinnell. | write from the
knowledge Of two whole days and
nights spent in the scene of desolation
and among the dead and wounded and
tell the facts of the multitude of hor-
rors simply as they are, feeling that
took up in its great spirals or tunnels,
horses a thousand feet into the air and
took up and carried large flock of cat
lie through the air for thousand feet
and dashed them down dead in heaps.
MANY thousands of cattle. horses. hogs