The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-18
STORM HORRORS /!
Dreadful Results of Twu Re-
cent CycIonic Storms
In Iowa.
southern Dakota and Nine
COuuties in Iowa DesOlated
by Two Twisters.
several Killed, q Large Num-
Der wounded, Buildings and
Crops are Destroyed.
100000 Damage in Five
Counties, With Large Areas
still tu Hear From.
THE CYCLONES TRACK.
outhcrn Dakota and Nine Coun-
ties In Iowa Desolated Fear
fui Loss OF Life ana


Property.
Lemars, Iowa, June l7.-As reports
from outlying districts come in, il be-
comes evident that the tornado which
swept over Plattsmouth aud Chero-
kee counties was attended with great
loss of life.
Mrs. VIM. Cans and child, at Marcus,
20 miles east on the Illinois Central
Railway; w. Gaetchler, was found
dead in lake, plant having struck
him over the heart, killing him in
stantly; sixteen are reported killed in
Cherokee county.
Those fatally injured are: Daniel
Hayes and Nick Goebert, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lane, Mr.. Kennedy of Remson;
Mrs. Marke, Mary Marke, Lizzie
Marke and Adam Goetchler.
Those seriously wounded are John
Sway ne, Mrs. Cramers, Mrs. ID. Hayes
and two other ladies in the house with
her, John Goetchler, his wife aud two
children; John Bechair aud Mrs. Silas
Forbes.
The streams have risen so rapidly
that physicians cannot visit their pa
tients.
There will probably be other deaths
reported rs the water subsidies.
The course of the tornado was as
follows: It reached Sioux City at
1918 and Lemars at l0a5, where ii
lasted about thirty minutes and was
accompanied by both rain and hail;
it then veered to the east, aud we
have heard of damage being done as
far east as Waterloo
1t rained I'm il 1918, when another
tornado from the northwest swept
over Lemars and was more destructive
than the first, lasting an hour aud a
half. This came from southern Da-
kota, as far west as Saukton aud
the track, as far as can be learned
was in the shape of the letter y, will
the base of the letter pointing east
the junction being in Cherokee coun
ty where the largest amount of damag
was done. From Onawa, by way oil
Sioux City, TO Cherokee it is nearly
eighty miles; from lanktown Il
| Cherokee il is l20 miles; rom Chero
kce to Fl Dodge it is seventy miles
This will give an idea of the storms
course. The duration of the storm a
Lemars was about an hour and
half.
The damage in Cherokee count,
will amour to 100000, inWoodbur
county 100000, in Plymouth count.
800 900, in Mona county $4,000 ant
in Ida county $4,000. There are ais
reports OF damage In Buena Vista
Pocahontas, Calhoun and Webste
counties, but not enough to form a
estimate as to the loss.
| At Bayard and TT Dodge II was IL
the form OF wind and rain, having sper
| its fury before reaching that point.
STILL LATER DETAILS.
Lemars, Iowa, June 1.-THE kille
by the Tornado in Plymouth count
were: William Gotsche and Nichol'
Macke. A child belonging to a Ho
land family of new corners, kille
another had a leg broken and nearl
every one OF the large family receive
some kind of hurt. ID. Hays was bad
hurt in the head. Adam Gotschc W
hurt in the spine and internally. MI
August Marke had one leg lacerate
and her daughters, Mary and Liz
are injured internally and the form
has an arm broken. The mother a
an aunt of DIR. Hayes had their coll
4 bones broken. A young man nam
y Swayne, who took refuge from
storm in the house of a Mr. Cram
was seriously hurt, as also was M
Cramer. Mrs. Silas Forbes was c
ried of In her mouse while the r
of the family remained in the cell
she had been there,
remembering her dog was upsta
she went after 1t and was carr
away with the house and severely
iured. Nicholas Goddard had ali a
broken and was otherwise injured
There was good deal of ST.
Killed while the hail beat the grow
~ crops into the ground in vari
= parts of the country. The injury
orchards and groves is something
county cannot recover from in ye
In Cherokee county, as in
mouth, there were many exaggerj
reports of damage and inquiry "
hunted down they had no tounda
except in the imagination of pc
frightened. by the storm.
Mrs. N. Gano and her child of
Gus Cherokee county, were killed
Mr.. Gano was badly hurt. The '
m der Is that there were not
v killed and wounded. Over 600 cl
an for damages have already been
" with insurance agents in Lemar
IL is thought the number will
one thousand In that country. II
heavily on several of the state CO
MES.
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