The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-29
CYCLONES.
Terrible Wind-Storms in Kansas, Missouri,
Iowa and Illinois-Many Lives Lost
, Great Destruction of Property-Grinnell,
lows, in Ruins.

ing, and Mount St. Mary's Academy,
four miles south of the city, suffered
terribly. The main tower was blown over on
the dormitory, crushing in the roof, and Ida
Golden, Annie Mcdonald and Mabel McLana-
than, of this city, and Mary Austin, OF Carroll
ton Mo-, aged from eleven to fifteen, were in
stantly killed. The loss in the city and county
is about $4,000. Wheat is not seriously in
jured. Fruit is half stripped from the trees,
but will still be a good crop. An unknown
man was blown into the river and drowned.
Barns and houses were blown down and I'M
rooted all over the city, trees uprooted, and
general devastation wrought. ~. ..
Reports show that the storm covered a wide
area Of country. Throughout it was most VIC
lent in a narrow track. The storm came down
the Republican Valley and passed along the
Kansas Pacific and Kansas Central Railways
and intervening country. 1t increased in vio-
fence as it approached the Missouri River.
The pressure of the storm here was twenty
six pounds to the square foot, and the roar of
its coming was heard three miles away.
=, KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June II.
A terrific tornado visited this city last night,
which unroofed an overturned houses, blew
down trees and fences, and shook up things
generally. Fowler Brothers cooper-shop and
the Western Paint-shops were blown down,
and Thomas Maddern, who was in the latter,
was killed. The Howell Hotel, at Rosedale
suburb, was blown down, and William Reese
killed. and Fred Howell had a leg broken. At
Wyandotte, across the Kansas River, Dur
rings Opera-House was unroofed. The loss in
Kansas City is estimated at 500, 900.
4 s. ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June II.
The severest storm that has visited this re-
gion for very long time passed over the city
hafwaan fSValva nd ma n rvopr
The wind attained velocity of sixty-six miles
per hour and did very great damage. but SO
far as now known no single injury of magni-
tude occurred. Trees and fences were pros
trated in all sections of the city; shutters signs,
chimneys, etc., blown down, and general havoc
among small things prevailed. Very heavy
rain accompanied the wind, and the streets
and sewers and cellars in many parts of the
city are flooded. Several steamers at the wharf
lost their chimneys or had some part Of their
upper works carried away, a barges were
banged about good deal. Every telegraph
line in the city was Frustrated. A good deal of
plate-glass was broken in the business part of
the city, and great many windows OF resi-
dences were blown down.
The storm seems to have been more severe
in East St. Louis than on this side of the river.
Nearly all the southern part of that town was
flooded with water, and some fifty houses oc-
cupied by poor families were more or less in
jured, and several blown down entirely or
twisted out of shape. Women and children
left their homes and waded round in muddy
water for hours, seeking safe shelter from the
storm, filling the freight-cars and occupying
other places of refuge. The total loss cannot
fall short of $4,000, and may be more.
MARSHALLrOwN, Ia, June IS.
The blacklist gloom is over GrinneIl 1t is a
lovely city of $500 inhabitants twenty-five
miles south of here. The northern and the
northwest portions contain the most and best
residences. There was also located in that
part of town the Iowa Congregational College,
all in a beautiful grove of maple and elm
trees. The fearful tornado of last night first
struck Kelly, station forty miles west, on the
Chicago & Northwestern Road, and did much
damage already known before reaching Grin
nell, where it did its deadest and most de-
structive work. 1t struck the town about $3.50
p. m. The people saw it fully five minutes be-
fore it came, and were almost panic stricken.
An eyewitness thus describes it:
N early an hour or more before sunset the
northern sky was hung with conical down.
ward-pointing clouds. After sunset, and even
after darkness was gathering, the western no
rizOn and the west" sky halfway to the re
NTH was lurid, and brilliant, and unearthly,
an ominous sight, which fascinated while it
filled one with ill-defined dread. Almost ere
the brilliant apparition in the west had dis
appeared the storm broke. 1t was accom-
panied with roaring like thunder, or per-
haps more like the rumbling of dozen heavy
freight trains. Chimneys, trees and barns
began to fly like leaves. People took to
the cellars. The rain came in floods as if
waterspout had burst, which in fact was
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binding lightning continued so furious for
near Il half hour that it was scarce safe for
those whose roofs staid over them to open
their doors, but the damage was done in a very
few minutes The storm seemed to have an
explosive force, not infrequently carrying
out one side or end of a house. Within the
space of twenty feet one house would be
thrown to the west and another to the east
Most of the buildings were crushed like egg
shells and reduced to splinters. ALI who had
cellars were in them. and of those
who did only one was killed. The greatest
loss of life was where the people remained in
their houses. 1t took a sweep about one
thousand feet wide, and moved everything to
the ground, leaving but a portion of half a
dozen houses on a territory of ten blocks
which were before covered with the finest res
licences in the city, also the homes of many Of
the well-to-do mechanics. Over one hundred
were laid in waste, and of many of them al
most nothing remains. They were valued at
fully $25O,O0O. The Iowa College and Dormi-
tory, stone and brick structures, with the Ii
brary, etc., were valued at 100000.
GRINNELL, June IS.
The situation is worse than even the first re-
ports made it appear. twenty-five people are
dead, and about one hundred or more wounded.
The list of fatal casualties is as follows:
Deacon Ford and wife; Mr.. Lewis and wife:
Deacon Clements ana two children; Mrs. Eva
Murton, of Chicago; Henry Pitman's two chill
drcn, Hattie and Harry, and Mr.. Pitman prob
ably fatally injured; MISS Abbie Agard, photo
graphic artist; Cornell Chase, of Storm Lake,
student; Susie Bayer, daughter of a
dry-goods merchant, and her mother,
Mrs. Bayer; also his son is ia
tally wounded; Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Totten,
Mrs. CullisOn and her mother; Mrs. Alexan-
der's two children; Mrs. Huff and child; Geo.
Terry's baby-Terry Is not expected to live;
Bingham Burkett, student, Montezuma; Madi-
son Towards boy; a lady from Cedar Rapids,
visiting ut Bayers; three persons dead two
miles west of the town; Barrett E. Chase,
student, Storm Lake; Henry Moore, brake
man on the Iowa Central Road, of Marshall
town, John Deignan, conductor of Rock
travelling man: w. S. Barbour, of Chicago; a
hired girl of Deacon Ford.
Eight deaths are reported from Malcolm,
which Is entirely leveled and destroyed.
Brooklyn has also suffered some. Some eight
of the students are badly injured, having been
dug out OF the ruins. sas 81"
Charles Fry, brakeman on the Rock Island
Road, was dangerously hurt at the train
wreck north of Grinnell; also the child of
James Phipps, and Mrs. Donahue; two persons
in Alonzo uillespie's family, and three in the
Beatty family. .,..ft.
DIES MONIES, June Is.
A special to the Register says:
From numerous and contradictory stori es
of the startled citizens, we gather the old story
of the deep, roaring sound preceding the fun
nel-shaped cloud. 1t was seen first coming
from the southwest sweeping up to the north
west corner of the town, leveling huge trees
in its pathway and taking A. A. Fosters house
and barn, leveling both to the ground and
carrying Mr.. and Mrs. Foster and their
two children thirty yards, precipitat-
ing them amidst the debris, all
somewhat injured. just east of Fosters was
H. C. Pitman's house, which was also COM
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