The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-06-29
HELP WANTED!

HELP WANTED!
Further Concernfng the Great Tornad,-
In an Urgent Appeal for Help tire Edit
or of the Des Moines " Register Gives
Some Later Details of the Terrific Ca
lamity. 5
DEs MONIES, Ia, Jun, 20.
The death-list of the cyclone foots up forty
one at Grinnell, seventeen at Maicelgl, and
eleven at outside points. Six or sevan more
are dying at Grinnell, and there are 1a0 cases
of wounded, half of them very seriously. The
entire death-rol is sixty-four, and it will prob
ably reach 100. Fifty of the homeless victims
have lost everything they had. AT Mount
Pleasant, twenty-eight miles west of Burling-
ton, the Baptist church was demolished; loss,
81, 900, and a number of other buildings were
more or less damaged. making total loss of
$4,000. In Story and Boone Counties the
damage is very large, many farmers and resi-
dents of small towns losing all they had. The
tornado originated in Boone County. 1t soon
divided, one branch going north, destroying,
buildings and killing stock. The south branch
of the tornado started at Garden Prairie,
Boope County, at 1880, and was south of Ames
at 7:45 at Grinneil at s:45, Malcolm at 9:l5, and
Mount Pleasant at Ii. Many describe the
storm-cloud as like long rope swinging back.
ward and forward, and reaching from the sky
to the earth. .l319 -
From the start, as seen from the north OF
Boone, there were two storm-ciouds, one white,
the other black, apparently contending with
each other. The black cloud took the west
course. The white cloud was high in the air
and swung off to the east over Nevada, curved
back to the west and south, Uniting with the
black cloud in the south part of Story
County, thence southeast, rising as it went,
until near kellogg, IN Jasper County, when
it struck slightly north of that place with
a loop of its whirl; thence to Grinnell and
Malcolm, bending south of Brooklyn; thence
curving to the southeast and bounding over
Deep River Township, in the southeast corner
of Poweshiek County; thence southeast,
dropping on Brighton, in Washington County,
and Mt. Pleasant, in Henry County; then ris-
ing and going out of the State few miles
south of Burlington. The distance traversed
was lS5 miles; velocity, thirty-eight miles an
hour; width of track, from fifty rods to FIVE
miles.
The following appeal for aid has been fur
nished the Associated Press, with 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 this State with such fearful havoc last
| Saturday night, and having reports from
scores of the reporters of the Des Moines
Register and Associated Press, L find the con-
"
SO necdful of instant and generous help that
Isend this appeal to the people of the United
States in their behalf. The tornado made a
| tied portion of Iowa some l50 miles in
| length and an average of half mile In
width, extending from point south OF Ames, @
| shape of crescent to South English, In
Keokuk County, in the southeastern part OF
| the State. We have the names now of sixty
nine dead and 500 wounded, half of the latter
| gricvously hurt and probably q fifth of them
| fatally. Over 30G families have had their
least 500 homeless and in want The loss in
| property will exceed $2,009,00 and may reach
S3,0O0,000. In the town of GrinneH alone oyel
Vvn IN propery was nestoyea ON none q
of fires. 1t will take at least S301O00 to pui
the people there beyond need and distress. Il
will take $l00, ,0G0 at once to put the woundee
people in condition 70 be cared for 1t viii
take $1,000, COO at the lowest to keep the uher
| ers from want, and to help them to put thu
1.-THE people of Des Moines and of Iowa art
c hass suDssElbea 81 ssss thIs ,ss ag an,
and are also sending provisions and clothing
besides. But it will take the help of eyerl
bens cty and Sgn sown in re ss to
comfort ana safety between these s;rioker
people and further suffering and fatality.
| "GrinDell is a town of New England 2e'sple
thrift, Intelligent people, and vfth th,
lowest raia Of crime cnd iiifteracy in ,he stste
and the highest rate of Intelligence ami ci?fal
ity. The ch towns of the East u.ay wei bell
these soua aid daughters of New Ergiaud ii
the distress and Dsed of the nttSr IalaInit,
visited upoo thsrn SO cruelty by this st''i;.oh o
the air, which has killed fifty of tht:ir i,eople
destroyed 100 of It's homes, MANNED and mutt
lated 200 more of its people, many of whom
will soon die, and all of whom must be care
for for months, and wiped out totally nearl
haif a million dollars in uninsured property.
-" Iowa College has had all its buildings de
stroyeds its 5oJ students ms made de homeless. an
= :" The condition of other towns and farmn
1hat % IS tul IL as ASP paDe ab d ana @ nePeS lei en
to alleviate the condition and repair in par
the losses of the sufferers. But It will tax
Sl.OOO,OOO to do it, even to halfway comfort an
recompense them, and the people of the Stat
who have always borne their share and don
their part in all National calamities may fitl
ask the people of other communities to hel
them in this hour of great calamity to many c
the worthiest of its people, and to this end
ask my fellows of the press through the Unite
States to place these facts before their reat
ers, and to give their timely help to its sufi
cieut purpose Of raising and providing aid 6
the earliest moment possible.
1.-THE fury and power of this utter calamit
was as indescribable in their mfghtiness {
strength as their havoc and power were CRUZ
houses not splinter as large as finger, not
shred of furniture as large as skein of sill
, and hundreds have no clothing left except th
tional horror add exceptional pathos to I'll
piteous whole Women in pregnancy wei
killed outright, others forced to premature
. livery, and little children with both parent
killed and left mained and wounded then
7 selves. Every condition exists that mo
] tenderly appeals to the pity of the huma
heart. The wounds inflicted by the debr
that filled the air like chaos, by the clectr
, balls of fire, that seemed to traYerse ever
inch of space, and that exploded with fea
;, fully fatal effect, will many of them del
) all skill and nursing, even with the tendere
: care:
3 of electric origin, and which, indeed, may
e described as having been electricity itself pr
cipitated in chaos, may be understood fro
i the statement that in various places it took L
4 In its greater sprals, or tunnels, houses 10
= | feet high, and took up and carried large herr
of cattle through the air for thousands of fe
. thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and other al
mails now lie in the track of the tornado alreat
rotting, and adding, in the hot weather, the he
8 ror of putrefaction to the foul anG pervadiI
( odors that are being given off By the milliol
s Of the tornado: The horrors Of Il
q inflicted, the pteous woe of its ccmir
in the night, when the dead were n
e known, and the wounded could not be foun
and the pitcous state in which it has left hu
dreds of families, before prosperous, may n
d be described in words, but once known to ge
erous hearts must command the instant syl
pathy of the liberal and immediate help.
Is Remittances may be made to the Hon.
d. Grinnell, at Grinnell, or the Mayor of Gri
le IL write from the knowledge of two who
/ days and nights spent on the scene of desc
ton and among The dead and wounded, al
tell the facts OF the multitude of horrc
4 simply rs they are. feeling that they will the
selves best appeal to the country and most
fectually aid the sufferers:
- =" Editor Des Moines Register
: "A German wine merchant has be-
hrO11Uht tO want for Sp11inr adu1tnrat