The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-07-15
THE WORK OF A TORNADO.
Eighty Persons Killed by the Wind In
Iowa.

Iowa.
! A tornado or series of tornadoes swept over
; Northwestern Iowa on the 9th carrying dea'h
+ aud destruction with them.
| Toe storm followed very nearly the line OF
the lllinois Central railroad from Lemars 10
| Manson, distance of lC0 miles.
The report shows that about NIFTY were
| killed and twice as many injured at fomeroy,
| the town which suffered almost total destruc-
i ton: eight we're killed and three fatally In
| jurcd near Fonda 4 ON ten to fifteen we're
| killed in different parts Of Cherokee county I;
| two were Killed In Wright county, near Ciar-
| ion, and others near Alta
Ten we're killed near Aurelia. two near
| Quimby aud five near Storm Lake. AT
Quimby, south Of Cherokee, where the storm
started Mrs. Moly neaux and Mrs. Lester
were Instantly killed
Five miles south Of Aurella. Samuel Burch,
| wife aud thr,c children, also u farm hand
named Joseph Nelson, Lulu and Ella Slater
and a Swedc girl, were killed. John Peters
will die
Five miles southwest of Storm Lake j. Bos-
ton and child and man named Bott,nan were
dashed to death.
A family of five persons living i've miles
south OF Newell died in the awful tempest
Mrs. Gorton and three children and John
Detwiler were killed three miles southwest OF
Fonda.
II is believed that the number Of lives lost
will reach eighty.
Two hundred and fifty houses were In all
destroyed and the money los on these and
their contents l. placed at s2OO,OJ1. Every
where about Pom-roy are dead and dying
people. dozen men were digging graves In
the burylng ground ON the HILL just north Of
the village and The hearse was kept busy car
rylng the victims Of the storm TO their last
resting place. Doctors from dozen or more
places hurried through the streets and in
their wake followed squads Of soldiers carry
ing collins Special trains from all the sur
rounding towns brought thousands, who we're
ready 10 take part In caring for the dead and
wounded Clothing. food and medicines
were shipped In by the ton. Soon brought
out Of chao- relief corps were organ get aud
things we're going along IN bu-iness-llke
shape.
Much damage was done to crops and prop
erty east Of Sioux City in Woodbury. county,
and the counties East Cherokee, Ida, Buena
Vista Sac, Calhoun and Pocahouias we're de-
va,tated to great degree. some damage
was hDrt oultllt OF bHl9 Nllit'iHt N"s N'N ~
much In comparison.
A SSedi-h family of four, consisting OF
father. mother aud two children, are missing.
piece OF wool over two feet long remain' OF
thcir house, but not trace can lie found Of
the people who occupied II. \ search OF all
the ruins in the vicinity failed To reveal the
bodies o, the family or stitch of the cloth
ing they wore
A Forehc'- family consisted Of himself.
wife and i've children. They were all buried
la the ruins and all but one of the daughters,
Katy, seventeen years old, aud the baby, two
years old were killed outright. Katy 1, fa-
tally Injured. Her leg Is broken and her
head Is badly cut. The Torches were horrl-
by manElcd.
When the reseuing party visited the site
OF Torches house in the morning and com
mrnccd to dclvc amongst the tmbcr- Tor the
dead, the first thing that greeted them was
the smiling face OF the baby. He wa laugh
Ing and shouting and clapping his hand, with
glcc, unmIudfui OF the fact that close by his
side were the mangled remains OF hi parents,
brothers and sisters. The youuEster was TAX
cn 10 the hospital and examined. Not a
scratch was found upon HIN. The tornado
dealt crntlv ai.n riih The hshs 81 sii--
Ru-btcn. He and HIS wife were Killed. but
their child escaped with scarcely brulse.
IT was blown two hundred feet and landed
among a bunch of sharp spliDter-, but not
one of them entered the flesh Of the little