Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-21
APPEALS FOR AID
IOWA CYCLONE SUFFERERS SEND
OUT PITIFCL PRAYERS

| OUT PITIFCL PRAYERS
Widespread Destruction Through the
State-Great Need OF Money and Sap
! p,ies-Many Cities Quickly Responding
| The Track of the Storm.
| AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Dies MONIES, To-, June 2O.-The following
| appeal for aid has been furnished to the asso-
ciated press with request for its publication
| in all papers:
To the Public-After two days and nights
spent in traversing the track of the tornado
| that swept over this state with such fearful
havoc last Saturday night and having reports
| from scores of reporters, sent to all parts of
| it, find that the condition of the stricken
people is so piteous and so needful of instant
| and generous help that I send this appeal to
| the people of the United States on their be-
| half:
| The tornado made swath of destruction
| through a thickly settled portions of Iowa
| some $50 miles in length and an average of
| half mile in width, extending from point
south of Ames in the center of the state and
| swept iulthe shape of a crescent to the south
| of English in Keokuk county in the south
eastern part of the state. We have the names
now of sixty-nine dead and 500 wounded.
| Half of the latter are grievously shurt and
probably fifty of them fatally. Over 800 fami-
| lies have had their homes totally destroyed
and there are now at least 1,500 homeless and
| in want. The loss in property will exceed
| $200O,000, and may reach $3,O0O,0OO.
In Grinnell alone over $500, 900 improperly
| was destroyed, on none of which was a cent of
insurance, as in the case of fires. It will take
| at least 100000 to put the people there be-
You'd need and distress. It will take S100, 900
at once to put the wounded people in condi-
ton to be cared for. 1t will take 81 0oO, 900 at
the lowest to keep the sufferers from waatiand
to help them put the humblest of roofs over
their heads. The people of Des Moines and
Iowa are responding generously. Citizens of
this city here subscribed $4,000 this morning
and will make it $4,000 before night in
money and are also sending provisions and
clothing besides.
1t will take the help of every humane city
and town in the West, and of every liberal
city and town in the East to put comfort and
safety between these stricken people and fur
ther suffering and fatality. Grinnell is
town of New England people, a thrifty, in.
telligent people and with the lowest rate of
crime and illiteracy in the State, and the high
est rate of intelligence and morality. The
rich towns of the East may well help those
sons and daughters of New England in the
distress and need of the utter calamity visited
upon them SO cruelty by the Moloch
of the air which has killed
fifty of their people, destroyed
160 of its homes. manned and mutilated 200
die, and all of whom must be cared for for
months, and wiped totally out nearly half
million dollars in uninsured property. Iowa
college has had all its buildings destroyed, its
400 students made homeless, and has suffered
a loss of S75, 900 in uninsured property. The
condition of other towns and farming commu-
mites is fully as bad.
done to alleviate the condition and repair in
part the losses of the sufferers, but it will
take 81 100000 to do it in half way comfort
and recompense, and the people of state who
have always borne their share and done their
part in all national calamities, may fifty ask
| the people of other communities to help them
| in this hour of great calamity.
To this end l ask my fellows of the press
| throughout the United States to place these
facts before their readers and give their timely
| help to its sufficient purpose of raising and
providing, and at the earliest moment possible
| The fury and power of this calamity were as
| indiscribable in their mightiness of strength
as their havoc and power were cruel
| and complete. Many of the people were
| bereft of their houses. Not a splinter
| as large as finger, not shred of furniture
| as large as skein OF silk remaining, and hun
| dreds have no clothing left except the night
| clothes they had on. Cases of exceptional
| horrors add additional pathos to the piteous
| whole. Little children, both of whose
parents are killed, were left MANNED and
| wounded themselves. Every condition ofwoe
exists that most tenderly appeals to the pity
of the human heart.
Wounds were inflicted by the debris that
filed 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, and with many of them all skill and
nursing, even with the tenderest care, will not
avail 10 save them.
The fury of the storm, which was clearly of
electric origin, and which, indeed, may be de-
scribed as having been electricity itself precip-
itated in chaos, may be understood from the
statement that at various places it took upon
its greater spirals or tunnels houses Thousand
feet high and took up and carried large focks
of the cattle through the air for Thousands of
feet and dashed them down dead in heaps.
Many thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and
other animals now lie in the track of the tor
nado already rotting and adding in the hot
weather the horror of putrefaction to the
foul and Dervading odors that are being sent
of by the millions of tons OF decaying matter
left in the track of the tornado.
The horrors of the storm, the unspeakable
cruelties it inflicted, the pitiless woe of its
coming in the night when the dead were not
known and the wounded could not be found,
the piteous state in which it has left hundreds
of families before prosperous cannot be de-
scribed in words, but once known to gener-
GUS hearts must command the instant SYM
pathy Of the liberal and their immediate help.
Remittances may be made to Hon, J. B.
Grinnell, at Grinnell, or to the mayor of Grin
nell.
write from the knowledge of two whole
days and nights spent in the scenes of desola
ton and among the dead and wounded, and
tell the facts of the multitude of the horrors
simply as they are, feeling that they will
themselves appeal to the country and most
efectually aid the sufferers.
j. T. GARRISON,
Ed. Des Moines Register.
SUPPLIES SENT.
MARsHALLTowN, To-, June 20.-The citi-
zens here raised 81 900 to-day for the Grinnsll
sufferers.
The home of T. G. Wenzel, Logan township,
this county was sweDt aWav nv Saturdavss