The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-18
THE TORNADO IN IOWA.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED
The Counties Visited and the Shape of
the Storm-Partial List of Victims.
Loss Nearly 100000.
Peculiar Incidents.

LEMARs, Ia, June l7.--As reports
from the outlying district como in it
becomes evident that the tornado
which swept Portsmouth and Chero.
kee Counties was attended with great
loss Of lie.
THE KILLED.
so far as reported, are:
Mrs. William Gano and child, at
Marcus, 20 miles cast, on the Illinois
Central Railway.
Mic kMackel.
w. Goetchler was found in the lake,
plank having struck him over the
head. He was instantly killed.
Sixteen are reported killed in Cher
okee County. '"-.
Those fatally injured are:
Daniel Hayes.
Nick GOebert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lane. ~
Mr.. Kennedy, Of Remson.
Mrs. M1rke.
Mary Marke.
Lizzie Marke.
Adam GoetChler.
Those seriously wounded are:
John Swayne,
Mrs. Cramer.
Mrs. ID. Hayes,
Two other ladies' in the same house
were also injured.
John Goetchler, his wife and two
children.
John Baacbalr.
Mrs. Silas Forbes.
The streams have risen so rapidly
| that physicians cannot visit their pa
TENTS. There will probably be other
| deaths reported as the weather sub.
sides.
The course of the tornado was as
follows:
1t reached Sioux City at 1O:l5 and
| Lem srs st 1915. II lasted about &c
minutes and was accompanied by rain
aud hail. IL then veered &c
the east and we have heard
Of damage being done rs
far east as Waterloo. Until 1916 a
III. it rained, when another tornado
from the northwest passed over
Lemars, more destructive that the
first, lasting one hour and half. This
came from southern Dakota, as far
west as Yankton. The track, as fer as
can be- learned, was in the shape of the
letter X, with the base of the letter
pointing cast, the junction being In
Cherokee County, where the largest
amount OF damage was done.
From 0nawa, by way OF Sioux City
to Cherokee, IL is nearly so miles.
From fankton to Cherokee it is IN
miles.
From Cherokee to Fort Dodge it il
/ 20 miles.
This will give an idea Of the storms
course.
The duration of the storm at LIE
mars was about an hour and half.
The damage in Cherokee County
will amount TO 100000.
In Woodbury. County, 100000.
In Plymouth County, 100000
In Mora County, $4,000.
In Ida County, $4,000.
There are reports of'damage in Blu.
ena Vista. Pocahontas, Calhoun anC
| Webster counties, but not enough t
form an estimate 10 the loss.
AT Bayard and Fort Dodge 1t was
In the form OF wind ana rain, having
| spent its fury.
The killed by the tornado in Ply.
mouth County were:
William Gotsche.
Nicholas Mackel.
-, A child belonging to Holland fam
lily ofnewcomers.
Another had leg broken anC
Nearly every ono of large family re-
ceiyed some kind of hurts.
d. e. Hays was badly hurt In thu
head.
Adam Golsche was hurt In the splnt
and internally.
Mrs. Augu st Marke had a leg LAGER
ated and her daughters Mary and Liz
zie are injured informally, and the
| former has an arm broken.
The mother and aunt of ID. IL. Have.
had their collar bones broken.
A young man named Sawyer, VIII,
took refuge from the storm in Tn,
house Of A. NJ, Cramer, was seriously
hurt, as also was Cramer.
Mrs. Lilas Forbes was car
ried OFF in her house, anC
while the rest of the family remained
safe in the cellar. She had been there
but remembering her dog was III
stairs, she went after 1t, and was car
ried away with the house and severely
hurt.
Nicholas Goddard had an arm broker
and was otherwise injured.
There was a good deal OF stocl
killed, while the hail beat the growing
crops into the ground in various parts
of the country.
The injury to orchards and groves |,
something the county cannot recover
from in years.
In Cherokee County, as in Ply
mouth, there were many exaggerated
reports of death and injury, but wher
hunted down they had no foundation
except in the Imagination of people
frightened by the storm.
Mrs. N. Gano and her child, OF Mar
GUS, Cherokee County, were killed, anC
Mr.. Gano badly hurt.
The. wonder Is that there were no
more killed and wounded.
over 600 claims for damages have
already been filed with insuranc,
agents In Lemars, and 1t is thought
the number will reach 1000 in the
county. 10 falls heavily on several
Of the state companies.