The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-14
THE IOWA TERROR.
Awful Work OF a Tornado Near
Pomeroy, Io.

Pomeroy, Ie.
Usventy-four Persons killed and Many
More Fatally Injured-A Scene of
Desolation and sorrow-A Night
of Ho<ror-The Victims.
PoNERoY, Ia, July s.-Seventy-fouH
dead, half as many more fatally in
5ured 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-
roy is one of wreck. There is scarcely
; house left standing.
About fifteen acres of debris consti
fztes now what was thriving village.
Splinters are all that remain. Pome-
roy is part and parcel of the prairie:
the death-dealipg wind having left
barren and desolated everything al
fa< as the eye can reach. Scarce
iy = tree remains. Piles of broker
Embers 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 content.
is placed at 100000
Thursday night in Pomeroy was ONT
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
bers. Almost every light of any de
scription whatever was destroyed, an6
the people from Fort Dodge and the
surrounding places faile,l to bring la n.
terms with them. The search for the
victims therefore was necessarily SLOW
till morning came.
The tornado-for such it was-came
from the northwest. a IL of those who
saw it agree that it was not of the fun.
nel-shaped sort, but ca me bounding by
there like a huge bill 1t was of a
dark green color and was accompanied
by terrific noise. There are thos
who saw it approach ing when far GU,
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
The cyclone was but of few min.
utes' duration and was followed by a
terrific rainstorn, which continued at
intervals throughout the night. The
path of the storm seems to be an eighth
of a mile in width and twenty milei
long.
Fairfield, in Cherokee county, wal,
visited, swellin the total number
Of dead fifteen Eight more are re
ported killed at Storm Lake, and many
other places give notice of one or more
deaths
Gov. Boies arr lived yesterday after
noon and took CHI arge of the whole af
fair.
The governor aid the situation wa,
far worse than ho, 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
teI7se heat made it impossible to keeI
the bodies of the dead, and those who
were not claimed 10y relatives or friends
and by them buried or taken away by
noon were placed in the graveyard by
the officials. Forty graves We're dug
and filled with dead up to 9 o'clock las.
evening. At that hour the fitting Ian
terms in, the cemetery showed plainly
that the work of burial was still going
on. Hume reds of willing hands dragged
the dead and dying animals, with
which the ground seemed literally
strewn, to points on the outskirts OF
the town, piled them in big heaps and
covered them with the remains OF
houses and app lied the torch. Fully a
dozen of these strange bonfres were
kept going all tn e afternoon.
Whole families were in many in
stances wiped out by the tornado an6
houses that contain ed all the way from
four to eight persons, not more thar
one escaped alive. Husbands have
been left without wife or children
Children are left orphans and there
are fifteen or more women in Pomeroy
who have neither husbands nor chill
drcn left.
LIST OF THE KILLED.
It is impossible to OBTAIN list of in
jured, but an almost complet, list OF
the dead follows:
At Pomeroy-Mrs Bessie Banks, Mrs. Dahl
yren, Mrs. Neary, Thomas Harmand, Andrew
]. Wilkinson John Anderson. Mrs. John An
1erson, Mr.. Hughitt Mr.. and Mrs. Slas Bus
ton. Mr.. and Mrs. Melting ana son, Mrs. Frank
Johnson Benjamin Davis. Miss Lille kiefer.
Roy Banks, Miss Frost Mr. and Mrs Arnold
Mrs Marie Adams, Mrs. Haliland, Mrs. c. II
Jorge. Banker F. O. Davis. Hiss Ollie Lund.
green, Miss Katie Davy Mrs o Brien and
child, Mrs B. G. Hawlowe Mrs. Tabert, two
children of John Beckley.
Three miles east of Pomero the following:
Mrs Dnwith. J. P. Lundgreen, Silas Weston.
Mrs Dahlgren, Mr.. Hewlett and wife. A Fol-
key, Henry Geike, Mrs Quinli N and baby,
Miss Allie Maxwell.
A short dis lance from Pomeroy the followxns
lead were found: Miss Tillie johnson. Ba by
Dahlgren, Grocer Black. IS years old; George
Black. years old; Della Black. IL years old;
Samuel Maxwell, Richard George, unkn1wl
boy.
Five miles southeast OF Fonda five were
killed: Mrs. Morton and three children. john
Detwiler. Two were killed near Quimby. MIRA
Molyneux Mrs Lester.
About five miles south OF Aureia wem the
following fatalities; Samuel Burch and wife
and three children, John johnson, LILLY, and
Leila Siattery, Swede girl name unkb own;
John Peters.
Southwest of Storm Lake i've were killed:
Jacob Gretter and child man named Eotmar
and two unknown. Five miles south OF Newell
family Of three were killed: names unknown
Fight with q Lion.
CHICAGO, July s.-During the per.
Torrance in Hagenbecks arena at the
worlds fair Darling, the lion tanner,
was attacked by Pasha, one Of the big.
gest lions. The beast sprang on him,
and with one blow ripped the tanners
clothing into shreds- A big blood
hound seized the lion by the throat,
and the man beat the animal into sub
lection with a heavy bar. More than
| 1000 persons witnessed the accident
Several women tainted. The COWBOYS
rushed up to the arena with revolvers.
and only with difficulty were prevented