The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-22
Property Worth So, 100000
Destroyed.
Families Homeless and
MANNED.

Des MOines, 2l.-The following sppes
for aid is furnished the Associated Press
To the Public:
After two days aud nights spent i
trsversing the track OF the tornado An,
having reports from scores of reporters
sent TO all parts of it, l find the condition
OF stricken people TO be so pitecus and 8
needful of instant and generous help tina
send this appeal to the people Of tn
United States in their behalf. Tn
tornado made a swath of destruction
through the thickly settled portion o
Iowa, some $50 miles In length, snd a,
average Of half mile in width, extend
ing from point south IF Ames, in tn,
centre of the stale, and swept in the shap,
of a crescent to South English, in KeokuE
County; in the southeastern part of tn,
state.
We have names here Of sixty dead snC
500 wounded, half of the latter grievously
hurt and probably one-Rfth of then
| fatally. Over 800 families b 4ve had theil
homes totally destroyed, and there are a
least 3OO homeless and in want. The
loss IN property will exceed 50, SOC, OCO
J and may reach So 600, 600. In GrinnelI
alone over $4,000 10 prOpertJ was de.
stroyed, on none of which was one cent
of Insurance as in the case of fires.
LII will take at least $500, 0U0 to put
people there beyond need and distress; il
will take 100000 st once to put the
wounded people in q condition to be
cared for; it will take 81, 600, coo at the
lowest to keep the sufferers from want
and help them put the humblest of roofs
over their heads.
The people of Des Moines and Iowa
are responding generously; the citizens
OF this city have subscribed So 900 this
morning, and will make it 3 1000 before
night, In money, and are also sending pro-
visions and clothing besides. But it will
take the help of every humane city and
town in the west and every liberal city
and house in the east to put comfort and
safety. between these stricken people and
further suffering and fatality.
Grinnell Is town of New England
people, thrifty, intelligent people, with
the lowest rate of crime and illiteracy in
the state, and the highest rate of intelli-
geuee and morality; the Molock of the
air has killed fifty of their people, des-
treyed I60 Of its homes, manned and
mutilsted 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 S5OO,000 in uninsured
property.
Iowa College has had all its buildings
destroyed, its 400 students homeless and
has suffered loss of $500 IN uniD-
sured property.
The condition Of other towns and farm
ing communities is fully as pitiable and
hopeless. All that the people OF Iowa
can do will be done to ALLEVIATE the con-
dlElon and repair, in part, the Losses of
the sufferers, but it will take $1,000
600.
Children with both parents killed were
left manned and wounded themselves.
Every condition of woe exists that most
appeals to the pity of human
hearts. The wounds inflicted by the
debris that filed the air, like chaos, by
The electric balls of Ere that seemed to
traverse every inch OF space and that ex-
oloded With tearfully fatal effect, will
many Of them defy all skill and nurs-
Dg.
The storm took up in It's grea. spir1li
II tunnels, houses thousand feet high
md took up and carried large focks of
,attle through the air for thousands of
eet and dashed them down dead in
heaps. Many thousands of cattle,
lorses, hogs and other animals now lie in
he track of the tornado.
A report from Storey County indicates
urther destruction west Of Kelly. Mr..
Clark and daughter, at Garden Prairie,
we're injured; Turner's house and barn
we're destroyed sRd his horse carried q
nile and dashed to pieces; Roberts lost |
rs barn and three horses; George Lewis |
0use was wrecked, he and his wife and |
laughter held to 8 wire fence; Irving's |
'srn and other buildings We're wiped |
way.
Ali accounts seem to indicate that the |
ornsdo originated ia Boone County,
sving been seen but little further west /
I there. Professor J. (. McComber, Of
Agricultural College, puts its commence
nent IN the southeast corner of that
ounty. After damaging the barn OF
Or. Lewis, it divided, one branch going
orth one and halt miles, tearing Mr..
)iark's house to splinters, half mile fur
her on the houses of Turner and RVb-
IT'S were completely wrecked; south of
Ames eight head of cattle were twisted
p and torn 10 pieces 10 wire fence.
house in this vicinity went
ext, then McFarland's, and half mile
lrther Templeton's.
The width of the funnel. McComber
sys, was 500 feet, tearing trenches from
ne to three feet in tire ground and fifty
eet in length, this in sod or hard road
Unfortunately. It ia thought these
renches may have been plowed by the
7reck Of the houses. This branch Of the
Ornado went toward Kelly; the south
ranch started at Garden Prairie, Boone
ounty, at $50, VAS south Of Ames at
!. As, at Grinnel st s As and 9.l5 and at
dount Pleasant at ll.Oe
Many describe the storm cloud as like
long rope swinging back and forward
nd reaching from the sky to the earth.
Governor Sherman makes an appeal
or contributions for sufferers By the |
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