Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-21

wounded themselves, every condition Of woe
existing that most tenderly appeals to the pity
OF the human heart. The wounds inflicted
/! BY the debris that filled the air-lIke chaos by
the electric ball of FIRE that seemed to ira
verse every inch of space, and that exploded
with feartully fatal effect, will, many of
them, defy all skill and nursing. The fury
OF the storm, which was clearly of electric
| oxygen, and which may, indeed, be described
as having been electricity itself precipitated
/ IN chaos, may be understood from the state
ment that IN various places il took up in
IFS greater spirals or funnel houses q thou
sano feet high, and took up large Aocks Of
cattle through the air 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 tornado
already rottening, and adding, in this hot
weather, the horrors of putrefaction to the
foul pervading odors that are being thrown
on the millions of tons of decaying mat
ter left in the wake of the tornado.
The horrors of the storm, the unspeakable
cruelties that 1t 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, may
not be described in words, but once known TO
generous public must command the gener-
Gus sympathies of the liberal and their i'm
the Hon. J. B. Grinnell, Grinnell, or to the
mayor of the town of Grinnell. i write
from the knowledge OF two whole days and
nights spent in the scene of desolation, and
among the dead aad wounded, and / tell the
facts of the multitude of horrors simply as
they are, feeling that they will themselves
best appeal to the country and most effectu-
ally aid the sufferers.
J, S. GARRISON,
Editor DesMoines Register.
WHERE THE TORNADO ORIGINATED.
All accounts seem 10 indicate that the
tornado originated in Boone county, having
been seen but little further west of there.
Prof.. j. h. Macomber, of the Agricultural
College, put its commencement in the south
east corner of that county. After damaging
the barn OF Mr.. Lewis it divided, one branch
going north one and q half miles, tearing
Mr.. Clsrk's house TO splinters. Half a mile
further the houses of Messrs. Turner and
Roberts were completely wrecked. South of
Amer, eight head of cattle were torn all to
pieces and twisted up in a wire fence;
Wickham's house, in this vicinity, west, next,
then Netherlands, and half a mile further
Templeton's- The width of the funnel was
300 feet, tearing trenches in the ground from
one TO three feet deep and fifty feet long. 1t
Is thought these trenches may have been
plowed by the wrecks OF houses. The south
branch of the tornado went toward Kelly.
where the damage has already been described
in these kilograms. The south branch of
the tornado started at Garden Prairie,
Boone county, at 7:30 O'Clock, was south of
Amer at 7:45 o'clock, at Grinnell at S:45
o'clock, at Malcome at Gals o'clock, and at
Mount Pleasant at ii o'clock. Many describe
the storm cloud as like long cloud swinging
backward and forward and reaching from
sky to earth.