The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-27
HELP.
An Appeal On Behalf of the
Stricken People Of
Iowa,
Who Were Visited by the
Tornado, Last Friday
Night.
Death and Destruction on Every
Hand.
A Thrilling Story by Editor Clark
A Thrilling Story by Editor Clark
son.

Des MONIES, Ia, June 2O.-Ihe follow
ing appeal for aid has been furnished the
Associated Press, with the request for its
publication in all the papers in the
country:
"To the public: After two DAYS and
nights spent in traversing the track of the
tornado that swept over the state with such
fearful havoc last Saturday night, and hav-
ing reports from scores OF reporters of the
Register and Associated Press, sent to all
parts of it, find the condition of the strick-
EN- people SD piteOus and SCI needful Of in
slant and generous help that send This
appeal to the people of the United States
in their behalf The tornado caused de
struction through ihickly settled portions of
Iowa, some 80 lies i'm length, and an av-
erage half a mile in width, extending from
a point south Of Ames, in the center of the
state, and swept to South English, in Keo-
kuk county, in the southeastern part OF the
state.
and at least FIVE hundred wounded. Half
of the latter are grievously hurt, and prob
ably fifth OF them fatally Over 300
families have have had their homes totally
DESTROYED, and there are now at least
800 homeless and in wan. The loss of
property will exceed S2,OOOOOO, and NAV
reach $4,000, 600. In the town of Grinnell,
alone, over 100000 worth of property was
DESTROYED, on none of which was a cent of
insurance. As i'm the case of fires, ii 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 condition to be cared for. 1t
will take ST ,OOO, 600 at the lowest to keep
/. the sufferers from want and help them
PUT THE HUMBLEsT OF ROOFS OVER THEIR
HEADS
The people of Dies Moines and Iowa are
responding generously. The citizens of
this city subscribed $1,000 this morning.
and will make il $4,000 before night, and
are also sending provisions and clothing
besides, out it will take the help of every
humane city and town in the west, and OF
every liberal city in the east, to put COM
fort and safety between these strickeH peo-
pie and further suffering and fatality.
Grinnell is town of thrifty and intelli-
gent New England people, with the lowest
rate of crime and illiteracy i'm the State,
and the highest rate of intelligence and
morality.
The rich towns of the east NAV well
help these sons and daughters of New En-
gland in their distress and need caused by
the calamity visited upon them so cruelty
by this monarch OF the air, which has
killed fifty of their people, DESTROYED l60
homes, manned and mutilated 200 more of
its people, many of whom will soon die,
and all of whom must be cared for for
months, and wiped out totally nearly half
million of dollars in uninsured property.
The Iowa college has had all its buildings
DESTROYED, its
FOUR HUNDRED STUDENTS MADE HOMELESS,
and mas suffered less of $4,000; unin-
sured. The property condition OF other
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 re-
pair in part the losses of the sufferers, but
it will take a million dollars to do it,
even to half comfort them, and the people
of the state who have also borne their
share and done their part in all national
calamities may fully ask the people of
other communities to help them in this
hour of great calamity to many Of its
worthiest people, and to this end ask my
iellowmen of the press throughout the
United States to place these facts before
their readers and to give their timely
help, for the purpose OF raising and pro-
viding aid at the earliest moment possible.
THE FURY AND POWER OF THIS CALAMITY
were as indescribable in their might of
strength as their havoc and power were
cruel and complete. Many people were
bereft of their houses, not a splinter as
large as a finger, not shred Of furniture as
large as a skein of silk remaining, and
hundreds have no clothing except their
night clothes they had on Little children,
with both parents killed, were left manned
and wounded themselves. Every condition
of woe exists that most tenderly appeals
to the pity of the human heart, wounds in
flicted BY the debris that filled the air like
chaos, by the electric balls of fire that
seemed to traverse every inch Of space, and
that exploded with fearfully fatal effect.
The storm, which was clearly Of electric
origin, may be described as having been
electricity itself 1t may be understood
from the statement that in various places
it took up in its great spirals and tunnels,
HORSES THOUSAND FEET HIGH AND
DROPPED AND
carried large fiocks of cattle through the
air for thousands: of feet, and dashed them
down in heaps. Many thousands of cattle,
horses, hogs and other animals now lie ih
the track of the tornado, already rotting,
and adding, in hot weather, the horror OF
putrifaction to the foul and pervading
odors that are being given of by the mil
lions Of tons Of decaying matter left in The
wreck of the tornado. The horrors OF the
storm, the unspeakable cruelties that it in
flicted. the pitiless vail of its coming in
the night when the dead were not known
and the wounded could not be found.
THE PITEoUs STATE IN WHICH 1T PASSED
HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES,
before prosperous, may not be described in
words, but once known to generous hearts
must command the instant sympathy of
the liberal and immediate help. Remit
tances may be made to Hon. J. B. Grin
nell, at Grinnell, or the mayor of Grinneil.