The Globe-republican., 1893-07-14
DEATH IN ITS WAKE.
Fearful Tornado in Northwestern
Iowa.
The Town Of Pomeroy Completely Wipeo
Out-Fearful Loss Of Life aud Prop
erty-Sc0res Of Killed and
Mafmed-The Victims.


Deadly Tornado I'm Iowa.
PoMEROY, Ia. July s.-Seventy-foui
dead, half as many more fatally in.
jured 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-
row is one of wreck. There is scarcely
| q house left standing.
About fifteen acres of debris constf
tutes now what was thriving village.
Splinters are all that remain Pome
roy is part and parcel of the prairie,
the death-dealing wind having left
barren and desolated everything as
far as the eye 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 100000.
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
beers. 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 slo'
IL 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
nel-shaped sort, but came bounding by
there like huge ball. 1t was of a
dark green color and was accompanied
by a 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.
Gov. Boies arrived yesterday after
noon and took charge of the whole at
| 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 OF
more of soldiers on the grounds. The in.
tense heat made it impossible to keep
| ~, nd hO
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
and filed with dead up to o'clock last
evening. At that hour the fitting Ian
terms in the cemetery showed plainly
that the work of burial was still going
| on.
] The Dead.
It is impossible to obtain a list of in.
| jured, but an almost complete list OF
the dead follows:
| At Pomeroy-Mrs. Bessie Banks, Mrs Dahl
| greI, Mrs. Near, Thomas Harmand, Andrew
| J. wilkinson John Anderson Mrs. John An
| derson, Mr.. Hughitt. Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Bus
ton Mr. and Mrs Melting and son, Mrs. Frank
johnson. Ben jlmin Davis. Miss Lille Kiefer,
| Roy Banks. Miss Frost Mr.. and Mrs Arnold,
Mrs. Marie Adams, Mrs. Harland, Mrs c. H.
Jorge. Banker F. O. Davis, Miss Ollie Lund-
green, Miss Katie Davy. Mrs. o Brien and
child, Mrs B. G. Hawlowe, Mts Tabert, two
| children of John Beckley.
| Three miles east Of Pomeroy the following:
| Mrs Diwith. J. P. Lundgreen, Silas Weston.
| Mrs Dahlg-en Mr.. Hewlett and wife. A. Fol.
| key, Henry Geike, Mrs Quinlan and baby,
Miss Allie Maxwell.
| shor. distance from Pomeroy the following
dead were found: Miss Tillie johnson, Baby
Dablgren, Grocer Black. IS years old; George
| Black. years old; Della Black. III years old;
Samuel Maxwell, Richard George, unknown
boy.
| Five miles southeast Of Fonda five were
killed. Mrs. Morton and three children. John
Detwiler. Two were killed near Quimby; Mrs.
MolvneuX. Mrs Lester
Abou, FIVE miles south of Aurelia were the
following fatalities; Samuel Burch and wife
and three children, John johnson, Lille and
Leila Slattery, Swede girl, name unknown;
| John Peters.
Southwest Of Storm Lake five were killed:
Jacob Gretter and child. man named Botmau
and two unknown. Five miles south Of Newell
a familI OF three were killed; names unknown
Later Particulars.
FORT DODGE, Ia, July 9.-The roll OF
the fearful tornado of Thursday even.
ing in this section of northwestern
Iowa has been made up. The dead
number sixty-three and the injured
many scores, of whom at least fifteen
and possible twenty will almost Ger.
tainly die. The property loss is. esti.
mated at $4,000 in Pomeroy and $780,.
600 in other parts of the afflicted region
The scene of the worst desolation was
Pomeroy, where the dead number forty
four and the injured, dozen fatally
los. In the city hall the worst Of the
injured lie and the sights there are ter
rible. Every dwelling in the place
now standing has from two te
eight injured under constant care
Gov. Boies is on the ground anc
is doing all in his power for the
comfort of the wounded. Physician!
and nurses are needed badly Ter
physicians are all that are here and
calls cannot be promptly answered
The neighboring cities and towns arr
providing nurses literally, but more