The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-06-25

The Ruin In Iowa.

Sibley, Iowa, Special Telegram, June 16.
Tho tornado Of Sunday night entered the
state at p. m. at Onawa. Mon6ts county,
travelling from southwest TO northeast at the
rate OF about fifty miles an hour. Itreached
Sioux City at 1915 and LIE Mars at 1915.
This storm 1asted about thirty minutes and
Was accomplished by rain and hail. 1t then
veered to the east and VIC Have beard OF
damage being done as far east as Waterloo:
Until 1915 q. m. it rained when another
tornado from the northwest swept over
LIE Mars more destructive than the first,
lasting an hour and Il half. This came
from Southern Dakota as far west as
Ynnkton. The track, rs far as can be learned
BIT this tinie, was In, the shape OF letter 7,
with the base OF the letter pointing east, the
junction being in Cherokee county, where
the largest amount of damage was done.
From Onawa by way ofSioux City to Chero-
kee it is nearly eighty miles; from Yankton
to Cherokee it is 12O miles, and from Chero-
kee to Fort Dodge it is seventy-five miles.
This will give an idea of the storms course.
The duration Of the storms at LIE Mars, was
about ah hour and half.
a." i, tftfs Loss BY COUNTIES.
=, The damage in Cherokee county will
amount to $20O, 900; in Woodbury. county,
$1GC, 900; Plymouth county, 500, O0O,
$4,000. At this time there TIE REPORTS Of
damage in Beuna Vista, Sac, Pocahontas;
Calhoun and Webster counties, but not
enough to form an estimate as to the loss.
Beyond Fort Dodge it was in the
form OF wind and rain, having spent
It's fury: The tiuthber OF casualties
81 far as learned is thirteen killed,
seven fatally and fifty severely wounded.
Tie following damaeey are IN addition to
tHe5e aIteady reported. At Sioux City the
brick paint works are in ruin, The packing
house is damaged $1,000. The Plymouth
mills at LIE Mars is damaged at q %. 900, and
the gas works $1,000. Four freight CATS srs
on, their sides. The st. Joseph German
Catholic church il damaged SIC, 600; theice
house so, 500; Adams skating rink 81 500.
The Richards house roof is cote and the
rooms flooded. The opera house is unrooie5
and nearly every house is more or less dam
aged. The main loss of life and destruction
seems to have been in Cherokee county, and
the news Is slow in coming in account of the
wires being down.
NAMES OF VICTIMS.
lie Mats, Iowa; Special Telegram, june
16.-The Killed. So FIR as. reported, by the
tornado OF Monday nothing, Gre: >.
Mrs. William Gano and child, at Marcus,
twenty miles east, on the Illinois Central
railroad.
Nick Mackel, aged sixty-fve years.
w. Goetchle, aged twenty-six, found in
lake, d plank having struck him over the
heart; be Was instantly killed.
Sixteen are reported killed in Cherokee
county Those fatally injured afe!.
Dcn1el Hayes, Struck in the head; concus-
sion of brazil:
Nick Goedert, jaw, ~ 9 ribs and shoulder
blade broken; lives at Perry Creek! ten
miles from LIE Mars.
Nj ana Mrs. Rudolph Lang.
Mr-kennedy I'll Benson, ten miles east.
MIR. moecke, aged fifty years; wound in
leg, two ribs broken, and otherwise bruised.
Mary Moecke, both bones in fore arm
broken.
Lizzie Moecke, scalp wound and chest in
iufed.
Adam Goetch1e, injured in the spine, ia
tally.
Those seriously wounded are:
John Swain, eight miles east, hip injured
and conclusion of brain:
Mr.: Cramer, dislocated shoulder.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of D. Hayes, collar bone
broken.
Two other ladies in the came house also
injured. :. .,.
scalp wound; his sic aud two children bad
ly bruised and cut. :.A.
scalp wound and his daughter has two
teeth knocked out.
Mrs. Silas Forbes badly injured on the
spine.
A German, who recently arrived in the
country, has child killed and another with
a broken leg
A Beadel of this city is the only man
hurt, having lost finger of his left hand and
Ill the others are broken:
The streams have risen so rapidly that
the physicians can not visit their patients.
There will probably be other deaths and in
iuries reported as the water subsidies.
SUFFERING INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Des Moines, Special Telegram, June 49,
Reports sent in to-day to the different instits
ance companies OF this city show that the
damage is very much heavier than was first
reported in Ida, Woodbury., Monona, Della
ware, johnson, Sac and Lynn counties.
The loss was the heaviert in Johnson and
Delaware counties. The largest ala heavif
est buildings were torn to pieces. In and
about Sioux City the damage is approx
mated at S15O,00O. The western por-
ton of the state, as far south as Potta-
wattamie county, and the two northern
tiers of counties were badly damaged, and
houses, barns, corn cribs fences and live
stock were scattered all over the prairies.
Seventeen lives were lost and a large num-
Der of persons injured The Hawkeye and
State. Insurance Companies of Des Moines,
and the Home ofSiottx City are the heaviest
losers in the northern and western part OF
the state, and the Phoenix and Continental
6he hea West losers in the eastern part;