The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-22
TERRIBLE TORNADO THE WEST.
Towns swep. Away-Immen.e Lo,s of Life.
DEs Mo1SEs. Iowa. juno IS.

DEs MONIES, Iowa, June IS.
\ tornado swept through central Iowa
late last night from Northwest to South
east, twenty miles North Of Des LIoines.
The town of Grinnell was struck by it
and half Of the town LEFT In ruins The
following j.. the lates INFORMATION re-
ceivcd:
"GRINSELL, June 1850 4. MA
special train from Des Moines /, ched
this place at $40 with twelve physicians
on board from Des Moines, Cofax and
Kellogg. The situation is even worse
than iir4t reports made it appear. Thir-
ty-two people were killed and about one
hundred or more wounded. Eight deaths
are reported from Malcomb, which isen.
tirely destroyed. Brooklyn has also suf-
fered, some eight of the students badly
injured, having been dug out OF the
ruins. The Chaplin House is turned into
hospital some Of the most dangerous
cases are being carried there"
A special sent at 7.30 says: "From the
numerous and contradictory stories Of
the startled citizens we gather the story
of deep roaring sound preceding a
funnel-shapcd cloud. G. Pittman's
house was completely levelled, burying
Pittbian, his wife and three children, his
wife's sister and her little baby. a three
year-old girl, Hattie, was taken out dead.
a boy, Harry, was fatally injured and
Arthur slightly injured. Not far away,
at the residence Of Lewis, an old gentle.
man and lady were killed From here
the storm pursued zigzag direction to
the North Of the city, when, after wipiug
out the finest residences in that portion
of the city, it moved toward the college.
The next building was dumped into n
heap Of lath and plaster and broken tim
ber, burying beneath it eight students
who roomed therein, all Of Yhom we're
afterwards rescued more or less injured.
but one subsequently died. In two.
story house Miss Abbie Agard was killed.
There is hardly n sign left Of the house.
In the vicinity was block which con-
tained nine houses, and all but one was
leveled to the ground. In one house of
this block four persons were killed-Mr.
Ford and wife, hired girl and Mrs.
lotion. In this vicinity F. w. Williams
house was unroofed. Professor Hcrrick's 8
and Mrs Morrisrtwo houses we're bunch
ed together. The scenes around the
ruins are heartrending. The engine
house, where seventeen of the dead
bodies are laid out, presents sight that
brings back army days. Some Of the
dead are in the wrecks Of their houses.
The number of injured ranges up among
the hundreds. At Malcomb seven are
dead"
DEs MONIES, June ia special
from Grinnell says: "The surgeons now
report that forty-one are dead at Grin
nell and that five or six more cannot live
through the night. The number wound.
ed exceeds one hundred and fifty and
the number of houses destroyed is be.
! tween 140 and $50. The total loss Of
property is now estimated at 5000, 900.
1t is feared that the number of deaths at
Grinnell will reach scventy-fve News
has been received that Mr. James's wife
and two daughters and two other per-
sons living four miles Northwest of
Grinnell are dead. 1t is now thought
that the loss of life outside of Grinnell
will reach twenty-five and the total loss
nearly one hundred"
Iowa CITY, Iowa, June 19.-From
ten to twelve persons are reported to have
lost their lives at Irish Ridge by the
cyclone.
METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS, June 19.-A
terrible cyclone struck this city yester.
day evening. blowing down several
houses, killing Dick Turner, capsiziDg
and sinking the steamer Jennie Walker
and scattering the harvested wheat in
the vicinity. The damage is heavy.