Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-08
EIGHTY DEAD
Fifty-Three Killed at
Pomcroy.
Sevcnty-Five Fatally
Injured.
Sickening Scenes mt q
MOrgue.
Devastation and Ruin
Is Clean.

acAds seventy I've fatally tutHF<ed Abd
lao With broken limbs. cuts aud bruises.
more or less scSsfe. This Is xhls tie
tornado os iasi eight accomplished ia
the matter q casualty. The town q
fomero, n one oompsete wreck. There
Is scarceiy hsase lrft standing Aboui
fifteen acres a debrss constitutes nov
what wss sesterds, thriving village.
hpiinters are all that remain.
Posneroy ~ part aud parcci - tic
prairie, the death dealing Wind having
left II bar1-a aad dcsoiate. Scarcely 4
tree remains, Two hasdis1 aud nifty
houses were IA all destroyed. and the
money ios.s on those aud their contents
is placed at s-sNos Everywhere al.5ut
the city were dead and dying peotla A
dozen men vcrc digging grascs IL tss
burying ground on the hiis, just north
of the village, aud the leasse was kept
bns, carrying the ,icfimr ~ The sforui
10 their lsss restirg place. I,octsrs
from dozen o more piacse hurried
through the streets aud .D their ake
followed squads IL soldiers carrying ooi
Tins Special trains frogI al the sur
rounding towns brought thousands Who
were ready 81 take part in tho work o.
caring for the dead and wounded
Searching in the Darkns~s.
Clothing. food and medicines vrrs
shipped ia by the son. soon order un<
brought out ~ chaos. relief corps were
organised, and things Sero golng aiong
IN business liko shape. Last night la
Pomerpy wac one that viii fsever he FIR.
gotten by those who were hcre. Dark
mess followed quickly in the wake II tle
tornado. aud tho~e who escaped death
and injury were c9mpelisd TO grope
their way among the ruined houacs.
guided by the cry a sone poor unfnftu
mate who was pinncsi under the falling
timt-rs. Almost every light II ar. II
ocriptson uhatsoevcx WIS destroyed. and
the people from Fort Dodge and the
surrounding places who 1cIe tie trrt
10 reach the sccDe. failed 60 hslrx Ian.
terms with them. The search Nf tie
victims therefore was reSeeszrily siow
tall mosning cafoe. N was mol tall the
first stIesks Of light aylrsred ia he
east that the cnornify ~ The disaster
dswned upon the people. They loo<rd
out where once city stood and n.v
nothing hut q timber strewn prairie.
Every residence south ~ the railroad
tracks had Disappeared, and the spires
" seven churches IL the place. that Gully
a few hour before shot upward 10 the
skies. were nowhere 10 Le secn.
ssckcning scrne cS Rstn.
Pomeroy yesterday had wealth n
shade trees. but this morning nothing
was fo he seen II them save a lfckon
and twisted usnss - limbs and rts,fs.
Horses and cattle lay dead ~ The rtretfe.
plrs stuck in the sides % hnrses. and
dead cats and dogs ind chickens were
scattered over the ground Poois a
human blood mingled with the mod 1T
every turn. showing where some victim
IL the tornado had been tossed after he
life had been crushed ont q ham
The air wss full - raoans aud s.Ds,s
and shrieks. aud every other Face met
on the street was stained with toars
The people IN Poneroy seemed rover
less 10 do anything Tor the sufferers aud
IL was nos until This morning early.
when the people frosa outside IN 0s sf
rived. that sbi1g ~ss done TOW nr,i re-
covering the dead end caring for tlse
woun.isd.
What IL called IRE posiofsice building
bat what hae recently been used 80 a
billiard rcota. visa turned into a tnoraso
and hospitals istre established Ia the
remaining bulldAbg. fhe islResf .pe i<
ing the romcroy hosei 'Ihr etFs,e IN
the improsls.d mofgus THE usornifg
vac a ehastiy Gre billiarj tnliss ven.
turned into slslba. and ar these the
uaaneled remsins a the dead sere
placed.
psoss<stsl os sse SBosgwo
The f.oef xsax hr3ls sanken ia The
middle and hsr, the h,cod - IL srsppei
from The fshtss, ran In small sssean,e
ss0b vith ths sssssssce - the wssss
frosn the rapidly sn.ltine ZEE forming q
puddle 10 gee bp B. the tops - the ~
ftndanfg sfsoet On The failas wr@s
io.iies wsfbuuf hesde and bodies with.
cut arms. bodies vhs.ae isrs had tH~r
blown sway ~ the cyclofe. and f,c-fis-
with he@ds fhsf bad t~.e8 erusf,e6 b~
y,,nd recrqniti,r ~ the fsistnr tir,hers
Op one table ht, tbs f~nlairs - sn old
woman. 3 kole - tlr as = lnsns fsl
torn in the rnsf part - hsr bend Ciu~s
~ ~ss a i'sby not usars thsn = yess Il
age. one - its iog- p5ns ard - l,ffls
sr,n ms-he-i ti icily
TIE tornado frs fsrA Il vss rarss
frtsal The northwest Al tfu~s pkc ssp
y agree that II wse nss a The furnt
| SHAPED sfcci.s bot cnme bcnn1inG
si,ing the frarse i'se . hurt bull 4
pss a Aayk green ss,,ns ard wa 80
rou uEanici ny = terrific no,ss The-.
are many sfsg sav 4 shsn II go ssI
cot a iesn Ikese gave tn ALARM np<
/ ussny were prepared fc- che s-vsnsfs,
I -. 1919 - =.