Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-06-29
Tho Iowa Hurricane.
MILLIONS NEEDED TO REPAIR TIiB LOSS
INFLICTED.

Of tho Des Moincs Register, is furnished
on behalf of the stricken communities in
Iowa with the request that all newspapers
publish it.
Mr.. Clorkson says: "After two days ID
nights spout 10 travcrsing the track of the
tornado that swept over this State with
such fearful havoc last Saturday night,
and having reports from scores Of reporters
of the Register aud associated Press, sent
to all parts of it, iud tho condition Of tho
stricken people SO pteous and So needfut
of instantaneous ond generous help that I
send this appeal to tho people Of tho
United States in their behalf. Tho tor.
nado made destructive sweep through
thickIy settled portion or Iowa, somo
100 miles Oh an average half mile wide
extending fron poiuts South of Ames in
Tory County in the centre of the State In
the shape Of crescent to tho South Of
English in Keokuk County in the South-
eastern part Of the State. We have the
names of sixty niue dead and five hundred
wounded, half Of the latter grievously hurt
and probably fifth fatally. Over two
hundred families have had their homes
totally destroyed and thcro are now at least
fifteen hundred persons homeless and id
want. The loss in property will exceed
S2,oOO,OOO and may reach S3,000,000. In
the town of GrinnclI alone over 500, 900
IN property was destroyed, on none of which
was there cent Of insurance as in the case
of fires. 1t will tako at least 100000 to
put the people there beyond need and dis
tress 1t will take 100000 at once to put
tho wounded people in condition to be
cared for 1t will take s1,000,000 at least
to keep sufferers from want and to help
them to put tho hupblest of roofs over
their leads. The people of Des Moines
and Iowa are responding generously. The
citizens Of this city subscribed 5000 this
morning aud will make it $4,000 before
night in money, aud thoy are also sending
provisions and clothing. 1t will take tho
help of every humane city aud town in the
West and every liberal city and town in the
East to put comfort and safety between
these stricken people and further suffering
aud fatality. All that the people of Iowa
can do will be done to alleviate their coudi.
ton and repair in part the losses of the
sufferers, but it will tako 500, ,0c0 to do it
even in half way comfort aud rccompense,
and the people Of the State who have
always borne their share and done their yatt
in all national ca'amitics to help them in
this hour of great calamity to many of the
worthicst of lis people, and to this end I
ask my fellows Of the press throughout the
United States to place the facts before
their readers and give their timely help to
its beniiicent purpose of providing aid at
the earliest moment possible.
Every condition of WOO exists that most
tenderly appeals to the pity of tho human
heart. Wounds inflicted by the debris that
filled the air like chaos, by electric balls of
fire that seemed to traverse every inch Of
space, and that exploded with fearfully
fatal effects, will, many of them, defy all
skill and nursing, even with the tcndcrest
care. The fury Of the storm, which was
clearly of electric origin, and which indeed
may be described as having been electricity
itself, may be understood from the state
ment thut at various places it took up in its
great spouts of tunnels houses one thousand
feet into tho air, and took up and carried
large drcvcs of cattle through the air for
thousands of feet and dashed them dead in
heaps. Many thousands of cattle, horses,
hogs md other animals now lie in tho track
OF tho tornado ard are already rotting and
adding to the horrors the foul odors of
putrctac,ion. The horrors of the storm arc
The crucltios it inflicted and tho pitilesS
woe of it coming in the night when tho
dead were not known and the wounded
could not be found, tho sad state in which
it has left hundreds of families before
may not DC described in words,
but once known to generous hearts it must
command The instant sympathy of tho
liberal for immediate help. Romittances
mny be made to the Hon. j b. GrinncIl et
or to the mayor of Grinncll. I
write from the knowledge of two days and
nights spent at the scene of dosclation and
among tho dead and wounded, and tell tho
facts of the multitude Of horrors simply
as they are, feeling that they will them
sclvos best appeal to the country AID most
cflectualy aid the sufferers.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, Juno 22-Tho
following estimate is made of tho damage
done by the cyclone 10 the various counties
Of this State: Boone $4,000, Story
$50 900, jasper $50 900, Poweshiek slO,-
600, Keokuk 100000, Henry $1,000, 900
and Pocahontas $4,000. Tho Chicago
md Rock Island Railway Company lose in
merchandise and property sll 900, and
Iowa Central Railway $4,000. The total
loss is estimated at from $4,000, 900 10
IS 100000.
Cn1cAoo, Juno 20 The following dis
patch has been received here:
MALcoMn, Iowa, juno 22.-I have
just returned from Northwestern Iowa and
find this town in ruins. Onc-fourth Of
inc population is homeless and destitute.