The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
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The Ruin in Iowa,
Sibley, Iowa, Special Telegram, June 16
Tho tornado. OF Sunday night enterad tn,

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Tho: ornadoao OF Sunday night entered the
state ct 9 p. m. at Onawa. Monona county
ira yelling from southwest TO northeast at the
rate OF about fifty miles an hour. Itreache]
Sioux City at 1915 and LIE Mars at 1O:45
This storm lasted about thirty minutes and
was accompanied by rain and hail. 1t then
veered to the east and we have heard oil
damage being done as far east as Waterloo.
Until 12.15 q. m. it rained when another
tornado from the northwest swept over
LIE Mars more destructive than the first,
lasting an hour and a half. This came
from Southern Dakota as far west as
Yankton. The track, asfar as can belearned
at this time, was in the shape Of letter Y,
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 i. nearly eighty miles; from Yankton
to Cherokee it is 12O miles, and from Chero-
kee to Port Dodge, it is seventy-fve miles.
This will give ~ idea of the storms course.
The duration OF the storms at LIE Mars, was
about an hour and a half.
THE LOSS BY COUNTIES.
The damage in Cherokee county will
amount to 5000, OOO;i in Woodbury. county,
100000; Plymouth county, 500, 900;
Monona county, $50, 900, and Ira county,
$50, 1000. At this time there are reports OF
damage in Beuna Vista, Sac, Pocahontas,
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 number of casualties
so far as learned is thirteen killed,
seven fatally and fifty severely wounded.
The following damages are in addition to
those already 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 $40, 900, and
the gas works IS, 600. Four freight cars are
on their sides. The St. Joseph German
Catholic church is damaged $4,000; theice
house 50, 500; Adams skating rink 81 500.
The Richards house roof is gone and the
rooms flooded. The opera house is unroofed
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 Mars, Iowa, Special Telegram, June
16.-The killed, so far as reported, by the
tornado OF Monday morning, are:
Mrs. William Gano and child, at Marcus,
twenty miles east, on the Illinois Central
railroad.
Nick Mackel, aged sixty-five years.
w. Goetchle, aged twcnty-six, found in
lake, a plank having struck him over the
heart he was instantly killed.
Sixteen are reported killed in Cherokee
county Those fatally injured are:
Daniel Hayes, struck in the head; concus.
sion of brain.
Nick Goedert, jaw, two ribs and shoulder
miles from LIE Mars.
Mr. and Mrs RudO lph Tanp
Mr-Kennedy OF Remson, ten miles east.
Mr.. 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
jnred.
Adam Goetchle, 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 same house also
injured.
John Goetchle, father of Nick, serious
scalp wound; his wife aud two children bad
ly bruised and cut.
John Beaucaire, broken arm; his wife has
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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
broken leg.
A Beadell OF this city is the only man
hurt, having lost a finger of his left hand and
all 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
juries reported as the water subsidies.
SUFFERING INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Des Moines, Special Telegram, June 49,
Reports sent in to-day to the different insur-
once companies OF this city show that the
damage is very much heavier than vas first
reported in Ida, Woodbury., Monona, Della
ware, Johnson, Sac and Lynn counties.
The loss was the heaviest in Johnson and
Delaware counties. The largest and heavi-
est buildings were torn to pieces. In and
about Sioux City the damage is approx
mated at $15O,O0O. 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 we're lost and large NUM-
Der Of persons injured: The Hawkeye and
State Insurance Companies Of Des Moines,
and the Home OF Sioux City are the heaviest
losers In tho northern and western part Of
the state, and the Phoenix and Continental
the heaviest losers in the eastern part.