Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-15

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| four people dead, at least five more to
die and over hundred injured is the
result of a cycome that started at
/ Quimby and ended with awful results
at Pomeroy last night.
I AT the latter place forty eight are
/ dead, over a hundred injured and five
blocks of residences demolished, moth
( ing remaining but kndling wood.
Two hundred families are homeless,
many having lost their all Business
! blocks were badly damaged and the
new postoffice, drug store and seven
churches were completely demolished.
The loss in Pomeroy will reach fully
/ $4,000 All is chaos there, the resi-
dents still alive being in a dazed con
dition and it is very difficult to get in
formation.
The storm came from the northwest
and did terrible work in literally one
minutes time. An immense amount of
damage was done to crops and the path
of the storm is strewn with carcasses
Of animals and in every direction there
is nothing but wreck and ruin.
Immediately after the storm passed
the cries and means of the injured and
dying were hearucnding aud willing
ones began the work of rescue Their
work was sickening as the people found
were literally torn to pieces some with
their legs or arms drawn. others suffer
ing from terrible wounds with their life
oozing out. Many of the dead were so
disGgured that they were unrecogniza-
BILE
The old postoflice was turned into a
morgue and ut one time contained
tweuty-siX bodies The Good Temp
lars hall and hotels were TUNED into
hospitals where every effort was made
to relieve the unfortunates.
The storm wiped out communication
with the world and Ed Masterson
started on a horse for Manson for help
He was stJr 'ed by a bridge being
washed our AID in attempting to ford
was nearly drowned. He hailed . spec
ial train bearing officials of the illinois
Central and they backed to Manson.
sent for assistance and then proceeded
with help to Pomeroy,
Another train with physicians and
other help followed shortly and soon
the work of relief ut Pomeroy was in
progress. A train left here with nurses,
bedding, food and collins this morning
and the intelment of the dead com
menced this afternoon.
A relief committee was established
in Pomeroy and all contributions and
offerings are received with gratitude
1t is impossible to get list Of the
injured. The dead are as follows:
Mrs. Bessie Banks. Mrs. Dahlgren,
Mrs. Neory, Thomas Harmand, Andrew
Wilkinson. John Anderson and wife,
Mrs. Hughett, Slas Buston and wife
man named Neidge, wife and son, Mrs
Frank Johnson, Benjamin Davis, Lii
lie Keifer, Roy Bunks, Ollie Frost
Arnold and wife, Marie Davis, Mrs
Hallon, Mrs. George Banker Davis
Ollie IMngren. Katie Dayy, Mrs. o.
Brien and child, Mrs. Marlowe, Mrs
Tabert John Beckley's two children
Mrs. Dilmith, J. z. Lumgren, SilaS
',,ston. Howell and wife, A. Forkey
Henry Geike, Mrs Qulnlan and child
Allie Masewell Tinie Johnson, Beby
.Dahlgrcn. Grover Black, George Black
Den Black, Samuel Maxwell. Richard
George, unknown boy.
The following were found five miles
5 from Fonda:
, Mrs Morton and three children, JOIN
: Detweiler
, These were found near Quimby:
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About five miles south of Aureh'
were the following fatalities:
: Samuel Burgess, wife and three chill
$ drcn. johnson and wife, Lille and lie
! lia Slattery, unknown servant JONI
Peters, L. J. Beecher and child.
Near Storm Lake We're found:
Jacob Brctter and child, Jacob Bot
tinan
South of Newell a family was killed
names unknown.
Many remarkable escapes are chron
e icled. A year-old babe was found OF
, the outskirts Of ruin entirely diyeste'
7 of clothing but uniniured NJ F. Mul
len and family and five neighborS saYe'
themselves by going into cycloh
cave. but their homes We're completel.
; demolished
e Many dead were found long distance
P. from their residences. and standin
!. houses had boards driven through then
1 bv the force of the wind. Trees 4
+ tho path Of the storm were su1ppe'
o even of bark and nothing escaped III
II injured
Pomerov was a thriving town OF
thousand inhabitants
g. The governor, who has made PEI
: Sonal inspection Of the ruin az PomeroS
has issued an urgent call TO the peopl
of Iowa for aid
e NApOTFONIC PAINTER.