The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-14
THE IOWA TERROR.
Awful Work of a Tornado Near
Pomeroy, IG.
Seventy-four Persons Killed and Mary
More Fatally Iniured-A Scene OF
DesoIation and sorrow-A Night
of Horror-The Victims.

iured and $50 with broken limbs cuts
and bruises more or less severe. This
is what the tornado of Thursday night
accomplished in the matter of casualty
in northern Iowa. The town OF Pome-
rov is one of wreck There Is scarcely
a house left standing.
About fifteen acres of debris constr
tutes now what was a thriving village
Splinters are all that remain. Pome-
row Is part and parcel of the prairie.
the death-dealing wind having left
barren and desolated everything az
far as the eve can reach. Scarce
" a tree remains. Piles of broken
timbers and an occasional piece
of furniture are all that can be found
of what was once the largest building
in the place. Two hundred and fifty
houses were in all destroyed, and the
money loss of these and their contents
is placed at 5000. coo.
Thursday night in Pomeroy was one
that will never be forgotten by those
who were there. Darkness followed
quickly in the wake of the tornado,
and those who escaped death and in
Jury were compelled to grope their way
among the ruined homes guided along
by the cry Of some poor unfortunate
who was pinned under the falling tim
bers. Almost every light of any de-
scription whatever was destroyed and
the people from Fort Dodge and the
surrounding places failed to bring Ian
terms with them The search for the
victims therefore was necessarily slow
till morning came.
The tornado-for such it was-came
from the northwest. All of those who
saw it agree that it was not OF the fun
el-shaped sort. but came bounding by
there like a huge ball 1t was OF
dark green color and was accompanied
by terrific noise. There are those
who saw it approaching when far out
of town Most OF the people became
panic stricken They ran out
OF their houses and filed up the streets,
crying and shouting till struck
by the timbers or whirling trees
The cyclone was but Of a few min
utes' duration and was followed by a
terrific rainstorm, which continued at
intervals throughout the night The
path Of the storm seems TO be an eighth
of a mile in width and twenty miles
long
Fairfield. in Cherokee county. was
visited. swelling the total number
of dead fifteen Eight more are re-
ported killed at Storm Lake. and many
other places give notice OF one or more
deaths.
Gov. Boies arrived yesterday after
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fair.
The governor said the situation was
far worse than he had expected He
ordered more tents from Des Moines.
and said he would have a company or
more Of soldiers on the grounds The in
tense heat made it impossible to keep
the bodies Of the dead. and those who
were not claimed by relatives or friends
and by them buried or taken away by
noon were placed in the graveyard by
the officials Forty graves were dug
Id filed with dead up to 9 o'clock last
vening. At that hour the fitting Ian
ems in the cemetery showed plainly
that the work OF burial was still going
on. Hundreds Of willing hands dragged
the dead and dying animals, with
which the ground seemed literally
strevn. to points on the outskirts of
the town piled them in big heaps and
covered them with the remains of
houses and applied the torch. Fully a
dozen Of these strange bonfires were
kept going all the afternoon
Whole families were in many in
stances wiped out by the tornado and
houses that contained all the way from
four 70 eight persons. not more than
one escaped alive. Husbands have
been left without wife or children.
Children are left orphans and there
are fifteen or more women = Pomeroy
who have neither husbands nor chill
drea left.
LIST OF THE KILLED.
L Is impossible 70 obtain list OF in
jured. but an almost complete list OF
the dead follows:
AT Poueroy-Mrs. Bessie Banks, Mrs Dahl
sre-. Mrs. Near. Thozas Haruand. Andrew
:. Wilkinson John Anderson Mrs. John An
-1e-SOn. M GuEh-tt Mr. and Ms SIAs Bus
ton NJ. and Mrs Melting and son Mrs Frank
Johnson u5auin Davis. Miss Lille kieter.
Rov Banks. Miss FIRST Nj and Mrs Arnold,
Ms Marie Adams. Ms Harlaud. Mrs. c. H
jorge Banker F. @ Darts. Miss Ollie Luad-
ETttl. MISS A1fLr 11Tr. Ms y brEEl Anu
child, Mrs 3. q Hawiove, Mrs. T4bert Two
children OF John Beskiey-
Three miles east OF Poueroy the following:
Ms DlUith- :. P Lu1Gzreen. Slas Weston.
Mrs. DahIErec- Mr.. Hewlett and wife. 4 Fol-
KEY, Henry GejEe, Mrs. Q1Elan and baby,
Miss Allie Maxwell
\ short distance from PcmerOE the following
dead were found. Miss Tile Johnson BABY
Dahizrea. Grocer Black i years cd Geo-Ce
Back years old: Della Black II years Old;
Same Maxwe-. Richard George, unknown
oov.
Five niles southeast Of Fonda Eve were
killed Mrs Moron and three Children John
DetwlIer- Two we're killed near Quinby; Mrs
MolvzeEx. Ms Lester.
About I've niles south OF Aurelia we're the
following fatalities SAMUEL BGrch aa1 wife
and three chlcre1- John johnson, Lille and
Leila Skaters, swede glri, n2n= unknown
John Peters
Southwest o. Sssru Lake I've we're killed:
Jacob Gretter and child =zan named BoJl4n
and Two unkrowa- Five Files sOUt5 Of SeEeu
family CT three we're killed EIEes Unknown
Fight With Lion
CHICAGO July S.-Duriug the per
Torrance in HaseH5eck's arena a. the
worlds fair Darling, the lion tanner,
was attacked by Pasha. one of the big
geSt lions The beast sprang on him
and with one blow ripped the tanners
clothing into shreds 4 big blood
hound seized the lion By the throat
and the man beat the animal into sub
lection with 2 heavy bar. More than
LOCO persons witnessed the accident
Several women tainted The COWBOYS
rushed up TO the sreSza 7Vith revolvers
and only with difficulty were prevented
from shooting the Io11 The 1nan was
badly scratched