Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-13


j. NJ. O'Brien.
Old Mr.. Dillsmith.
Boy named Nudge.
Mrs b. ]. Harlow.
A. Foche.
The wires are down and news hard
to obtain.
The Tornado at Storm Lake.
STORM LAKE. Ia, July IA terrific
storm passed over this place Thursday
evening between and 6 o'clock. Four
churches were wrecked and number
of residences literally reduced to splin-
ters. Fires were started in three To-
calities by the lightning. The storm
center appeared to pass miles west of
this town, where for many miles moth
ing was left standing. Several lives
We're lost. Jacob Beecher, farmer,
was struck by a flying timber and in
stantly killed. His 5-year-old daugh-
ter was also killed. and his wife and
four children dangerously hurt.
Charles LOTHIAN, another farmer, is
reported dead.
Thomas Wall and his child have
broken legs, and his wife's spine is hurt
SO that she will die.
Others in the same neighborhood re-
ported killed are:
Joseph Slate.
Thomas Johnson.
Henry Straub
An old man named w. r. Clemens
and his wife are seriously injured.
Buildings Demolished in Norway Town
ship.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, July IA number
of buildings were demolished in Norway
township, Wright county, by the terri
BILE storm last night. One old man
named Liable and girl named Schmidt
were killed and number of others
were seriously injured.
Gov. Boies Goes to the Rescue.
Dies MONIES, Ia, July 7.-Gov. Boies
left this morning for Pomeroy to per-
sonally superintend relief for the
cyclone sufferers. Forty bodies have
been recovered at that place.
Tornado in Nebraska.
ROGERS, Neb., July IA destructive
tornado passed over the central part of
this county Wednesday evening. The
storm struck the home of Chris Miller
dUouC +. ILL.,, "uilc Vic IdullIS was
eating supper. All were injured ex-
cept the youngest child. Mr.. Miller
had three ribs broken and was inter
nally injured. East and west of this
place barns, houses and windmills were
blown down and fruit trees torn up by
the roots. 1t was the most disastrous
storm that ever visited this county.
The Latest from Pomerov
PoMERoY, Ia, July s.-Fifty-three
$50 with broken limbs, cuts and
bruises more or less severe. This is
what the tornado of Thursday night
accomplished in the matter of casual
ties. The town of Pomeroy is one
complete wreck. There is scarcely a
house left standing. About fifteen
acres of debris constitutes now what
was Thursday thriving village.
Splinters are all that remain. Pom
eroy is part and parcel of the prairie
the death dealing wind have left bar
rem and desolate. Scarcely tree re-
mains Pieces of broken timbers and
an occasional piece of furniture are all
that can be found of what was once
the larger buildings in the place. Two
hundred and fifty were in all destroyed,
and the money loss on these and their
contents is placed at 100000.
Thursday night in Pomeroy was one
that will never be forgotten by those
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 alone
by the cry of some poor unfortunate
who was pinned under the fallen tim
bers.
Everywhere about Pomeroy yester-
day were dead and dying people. A
dozen men were digging graves in the
burying grouud on the hill just north
of the village, and the hearse was kept
busy carrying the victims of the storm
to their last resting places.
Doctors from a dozen or more differ
ent places hurried through the streets,
and in their wake followed soldiers
carrying collins Special trains from
all the surrounding towns brought
thousands who were ready to take
part in the work of caring for the dead
and wounded.
Almost every light of any descrip-
ton whatsoever was destroyed, and
people from the surrounding places
who were the first te reach the scene
failed to bring lanterns with them
The search for the victims therefore
was necessarily slow till morning came
It was not till the first streal<s of light
appeared in the east that the enormity
of the disaster dawned upon the peo-
pie. They looked out where once q
city stood and saw nothing but . tim
ber-strewn prairie. Every residence to
the south of the railroad tracks had
disappeared, and the spires Of several
churches IN the place that only = few
hours before ehot upward to the skies
were nowhere to be seen.