The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-07-13
A Relief Movement.

The National bank of Pomeroy has
started relief movement. People will
ing TO act as nurses were assigned to the
various hospitals, and here also proyis-
ions, money, bedding ami clothing were
received, and all of the necessaries rolled
in rapidly. BY 3 O'Clock this afternoon
the Office of the bank was stacked clear
to the ceiling with food and clothing and
boxes tof each were arriving on every
train.
Gov. Boies arrived at o'clock and
took Charge of the whole affair. He was
first driven out over the, ruins, then he
visited the hospitals and morgue, con-
suited with those who had been directing
things, and then issued proclamation
setting forth the needs of the sufferers
and calling upon the people of Iowa to
contribute literally. The governor said
the situation was far worse than he ex-
pected, and told the people that nothing
for relief and comfort would be left un-
done. He ordered tents and said he
would have company or more of soldiers
on the ground before long.
The intense heat made 1t impossible
to keep the bodies of the dead, and those
that we're not claimed by relatives or
friends and by them buried were taken
away by noon and were placed Ill the
grave yard by the officials.
Forty graves were dug and filled with
dead up to 9 o'clock this evening, and at
that hour the fitting lanterns showed
plainly that the work of burial was still
going on. There was much trouble in
securing cofins and by tonight the sup-
ply of the towns in this vicinity had been
thoroughly exhausted, Hundreds of will
ing hands dragged the dead and dying
animals, with which the ground seemed
to be literally strewn, to points on the
outskirts of the town, piled them in big
heaps and covered them with the remains
of the houses and applied the torch. Full
" dozen of these strange bonfres were
kept going all the afternoon.
Whole families were in many instances
wiped out by the tornado and in houses
containing from four to eight persons
not more than one escaped alive. HuS-
bands have been left without wife OF
children, children are left orphans, and
there are fifteen women in Pomeroy who
have neither husband nor children left.
The grief of those bereft of those they
held most dear is sad to witness. They
walk up and down in front of the spot
that marks the places where stood their
happy homes crying and sobbing and
Refusing to Be COmfOrted.
Most horrible of all is the wall of little
children robbed of mother and father
a1.4 in some cases of brothers and sisters
too. The fate of the Loghrin family is
4 sad one. 1t consisted of father, mother
and two children, both girls. Their house
was reduced to splinters, and all save the
father were picked up beneath the broken
pieces of his house, and the children were
* euItl buried under the ruins of house
lsAl yards away They were horribly
mangled. Mrs. Loghrin also suffered Sc
we're injuries, being hurt about the heal
nd oh 1,n A. L "a
bit there is not much hope of her FecaV
cry, She does not know the fate of her
husband and daughters.
y. u. Dayy, cashier of the Bank OF
fomeroy, whose house was right in the
lmth of the storm, is ameng the dead
likewise his BROTHER, Ben navy, who has
been attending school in Des Moines. He
alid intended to leave this morning
Mrs. Davy, wife of President Bavy, of
the bank, also lost her life. She lived
some distance from the Davy brothers,
and was in the house with the servant
girl when the storm was seen approach
ing. She ran ont of the house, intending
to get to one of the caves, but had Just
reached the middle of the road when she
was struck by the house blown from the
opposite corner, carried up against tree
and crushed to a pulp. The servant girl,
too frightened to move. fell OH her knees
and lifted up her hands in prayer. The
house was torn to splinters, the girl was
Whisked out into the back yard, but she
escaped with but single bruise
frankie Banks, seyenteen=year-old
girl living at Fort Dodge, was found
among the ruins to-day. A piece of wood
about half the size of an ordinary fence
pail, had been driven through her body,
entering right below the heart and com
ing out back of the shoulder blade. The
splinter was driven several feet into the
ground, and 1t required the efforts of three
men to release the body of the girl from
the earth, where she was pinned. 1t was
with great difficulty that the rail was
drawn from the girls body.
Many other cases might be given to
illustrate the deadly force of the storm.
Suffice it to say that the scene beggars
description.