The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-06-19
college buildings at Griunelt ware blown
down with halfthe. north part OF the town
~ ruins, and a large number killed and
injured. You can send doctors on passen.
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|HU.N''t TERRIBLE RUIN. jg1l
Soon after the following dispatches wer,
received by Superintendent Royce, OF III,
Q. r. I. 4 T. railway company &i
"GRlsSELL, June ls.--lo:47 a. M.-Re
ports coming in from tho wrecked portion
ofthecity are hourly becoming more hear.
rcnding. 1t Is impossible 10 Judge OF tn,
extent oil the loss OF lie or damage to pro
per'y. Physicians already have more casel
than they can attend to properly, aud art
anxious for help from other cities. N
= Train No. II was wrecked Que mile and
a half east and Conductor Deignan ant
some Of his passengers were seriously in
ilred. The head brakeman Is missing
Fourteen cars are said 10 have been blown
clear oil the truck and two wrecked OH the
track. The track Is not much damaged
from water. No telegraph communication
in any direction. n i7,' "U1'',.
lsigned.l lWiNrrn, IT,
slf, Eu Conductor No. IS.
GnSSELL, June Is, 1850 A. M.-Our city
~ halt in ruins by u cyclone. From five
70 ten persons have been killed and from
fifty to one hundred are wounded. Send
Doctors from Newton and Des Aloines BY
special train. We have no wires working
outside Of the town. Send Immediately
by order Of Mayor Of City. Both College
buildings and half OF tho best residences
are fiat on theground j1GR. ~
tsigned] G.M. CHRISTIAN" a.
EXTENT OF THE DISASTER. e.
DEs MolSes H., June 1s.-A tornado
swept through Central Iowa late last night
the path OF it running from northwest to
southeast from twenty miles north OF Dc.
Moines. Thetownot Grinnell was struck by
it, and reports from there sent out tc
next station state that half OF tho town is
in ruins, and some 90 or 80 people ara
killed and 100 wounded. Both the large
buildings OF the Iowa College arc blown
fiat on the ground. .t;.Es 0.sg@ @VI.4Tla-'
Eight deaths are reported from Malcolm,
which Is entirely leyclled and destroyed
Brooklyn has also suffered some. Some
eight OF the students are badly injured,
having been dug out Of the ruins. Chaplin
House Is turned into IL hospital. Some ol
.i'e most dangerous cases are being brought
there. .aFEIss .lsI- N'SIlI'e5T
Ef DETAILS OF TIE STORM.
Aspecial to the Register, sent Mt 7:3O says:
From numerous and contradictory stories
OF startled citizens we gather the old story
Of a deep roaring sound preceding funnel
shaped clouds 1t was seen first
coming, from the southwest sweeping
mp 10 the northwest corner Of the town,
iievelins huge trees i'll its pathway, aud tax.
lng A. A. Foster ) house and barn, laying
both to the ground and carrying Mr.. and
Mrs. Foster and their children
thirty yards, and prccipitatins them
amidst debris, all somewhat injured.
Just east OF Fosters WAS Fl. c. Pitman's
house, also completely leyelled, buryine
beneath it Pitman, his wife and three
children, his wiie's sister and her little
baby; Foster took out his three year old
elnrI Hattie, dead, boy Harry, aged ten, Ia
tally injured and Arthur slightly injured,
Not iar away was the residence OF Mr.
Lewis. An old lady and gentleman were
10th Killed. From here the storm pursued
ztg zag direction TO the north Of the city,
Where, after wiping out the finest
residences OF that portion Of the city,
buillin" was 'I,n,od I ;n,n oi hoan c ~ T.I ,a;1
and nIas,er md n hro,"m . ,;nhar 'p Irr;n. " in,
benea,h il n;,Lt5 u,u',a,,s % ".l,n roo'n"4i '"t
therein. Ill H. wia," 1 a.,,a m" as,armas,l
cxtricaicd moro % ~ Vac lass "; ;n;~rni !
and one died RI, E,st Colloca tiv1
story building was mnroofod and ira fo,lnw
cd. ). After rSmmiet;na I ;,s rori a III ~ ,iomoI; M
ton at tho coiia@S 40 "o'N - .'i>"'' uo''o''
49, 49,,
-, TIE "iilRLlSd flESD
struck straieht across the Iowa Central r.
Il, and directly III i.s path lay loaded cars
A great mopnl e,n,.;r. ,r,s 1;ttnd conn,otol,
"A: No., ,sss,', iu "'' t.,e' sy'''p'',:'
:" "no topp'ed Oh eitl:erslde NJ the whin
OF The wind. Across the track was The
building OF Prof. j. W. Chamberlain
tressurer =; H.. oo,,o.n ,,,,;.,, ,u,, ,,,,;, :.
- ~ >o"'ee' ""'en ".s s"'".'
w W III secllohs ana dumped III Il dis
jointed heap, with portions upside down
irretricyably ruined. =.
NM 60,
:, =, -. =, seo.. ''ouse was ,u,neu "!
i''oSl co'''t'ete'y around. Z. W. AooaFss
elegant residence and barn are completely
gone. Near bv o,,ec s,ood a ,wo s,or,
house in which Miss Abbie Apar,ll wns
killed: Hardly sign was left Of it.
ln the vicinity stood the house OF H. Y
Mcdonnell, who was going around almost