Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-13
poNEROY ENTIRELY DESTROYED.
A Complete Wreck, With Not a
House. eft Standing.

lcMcTOg, lOWd, Jury lO"u OI
pomeroy is one complete wreck. There
i scarcely a house ieIt standing. About
eleven acres of debris constitutes what
| was yesterday a thriving village. SPIN
trs are all that remain. Pomeroy Is
part and parcel of the prairie, the death
dealing wind having left it barren and
~desOlate. Scarcely a tree Piles
Of broken timbers and an occasional piece
| Of furniture are all that can be found OF
what were once the largest buildings III
the place. Two hundred and fifty houses
we're in all destroyed, and the money
boss on these and their contents is placed
at S500.UuO.
Last night was one for Pomeroy that
will never be forgotten by the survivors.
Darkness followed quickly in the track
81 the tornado, and those who escaped
Death and injury were compelled TO grope
Their way among ruined homes, guided
D the cry of some poor unfortunate who
vas pinned under the falling timbers.
Almost every light of any description
sas destroyed, and the people from Fort
Dodge and the surrounding places, who
we're the first to reach the scene, failed
p bring lanterns with them. The search
le the victims, therefore, was neces-
party slow till morning came. 1t was not
lnnl the first streaks of light appeared in
I've east that the enormity of the disaster
EaEned upon the people. They looked
ivy where once stood a city and saw
BHlhlng but a timber-strewn prairie.
Every residence to the south of the rail-
ad tracks had disappeared, and the
E@sres OF houses that only a few hours
aofe looked upwards were nowhere to
! seer. Pomeroy had a wealth of shade
- out this morning nothing was to
seen OF them save a broken and twist
mass OF limbs and roots. Horses and
sue lay dead in the streets, pigs stuck
me sides of horses and dead cats and
Found.
Pools Of Human Hood
snsed with the mud at every turn,
syNiIg Where some victim of the tor
~o nad been tossed after the life had
Eu crushed out of him. The air was
y VI means and sobs and shrieks, and
~ y. ,otner face met on the street was
~ued with tears. The people in Pome-
seemed powerless to do anything for
sufferers, and it was not until this
%nlng early, when the people from out
h. owns arrived, that anything was
I p,s awards recovering the dead and
ME- MIL Tor the wounded.
s ! va is called the postoffice building,
! = 'nat mas recently been used rs a bill
taooil, was turned into a morgue,
y hospitals were established in the re-
S MN buildings, the largest being the
10y hotel. In this im~provised
IN ,nls morning there was a CHASTITY
M Dlliard tables were turned into
tSo a1u on these the mangled remains
7 \ IN uead We're stretched out. Blood
small streams on the floor from
fasu.es mat had to be stretched on
amihg q puddle of gore up to the
N" me attendants shoes. Upon the
4 thon. Jay bodies without heads, bodies
- arms, bodies whose legs had been
h ws@.aay by the cyclone, and bodies
oy falli,nes crushed beyond recognition by
" Mains umbers. On one table lay the
m msu u an old woman, a hole as big
baaS." . INST torn in the back part OF
"a close by was a baby not more
a. Il year old with one of its legs gone
no niue arm mashed to a Jelly.
iM n hn"fhado-for such it was-came
ay,aa northwest. All those who saw
Eped mat 1t was not of the funnel
IN pr,; Specles, but came bounding along
Ia sraa e IKE a huge ball. 1t was of \
-, iArr;sseau color, and was accompanied
rM ac noise. There were many who
inlj Ne mnen 1t was far out of town.
rareSSa Ave me alarm. and many were
yilsa lor the monster when it reached
hA h naS;. Most of the people, however,
nd kanic stricken. They ran put OF
"a and " as and fled up the streets, cry
h I; ,sehrieking. until stricken by the
~ sssrnoers and whirling trees.
Iw 10y In Cyclone Caves.
81 We" o'er ones, however, and those
pups t,rs. nearest to them made for the
or i ku;,. N the southeast part Of the
,e u especially for such occasions.
sn mr. these ave were collected
Aapsd p wifher and . in another fifteen