Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-13
A Relief Movement.

A Relief Movement.
The National bank of Pomeroy has
started a relief movement. People will
ing 10 act as nurses were assigned 70 the
various hospitals, and here also provis-
IONS, money, bedding and clothing were
received, and all of the necessaries rolled
IN rapidly. By 3 o'clock this afternoon
the Office of the bank was stacked clear
10 the ceiling with food and clothing and
boxes OF each were arriving on every
train.
Gov. Boies arrived at 4 o'clock and
took charge of the whole affair. He was
nrst driven out over the ruins, then he
visited the hospitals and morgue, con-
suited with those who had been directing
things, and then issued a proclamation
setting forth the needs of the sufferers
and calling upon the people of Iowa to
contribute literally. The governor said
the situation was far worse than he ex-
pected, and told the people that nothing
for relief and comfort would be left un-
done. He ordered tents and said he
would have a company or more of soldiers
on the ground before long.
The intense heat made IL impossible
to keep the bodies of the dead, and those
that were not claimed by relatives or
friends aud by them buried were taken
away by noon and were placed in the
grave yard by the officials.
Forty graves were dug and filled with
dead up to 8 o'clock this evening, and at
that hour the fitting lanterns showed
plainly that the work of burial was still
going on. There was much trouble in
securing collins and by tonight the sup
ply of the towns in this vicinity had been
thoroughly exhausted. Hundreds of will
ing hands dragged the dead and dying
animals. with which the ground seemed
10 be literally strewn, TO points on the
outskirts of the town, piled them in big
heaps and covered them with the remains
of the houses and applied the torch. Full
ly a dozen of these strange bonfires were
kept going all the afternoon.
Whole families were in many instances
wiped out by the tornado and in houses
containing from four to eight persons
not more than one escaped alive. Hus-
bands have been left without wife or
children, children are left orphans, and
there are fifteen women in Pomeroy who
have neither husband nor children left.
The grief of those bereft of those they
held most dear is sad to witness. They
walk up and down in front of the spot
that marks the places where stood their
happy homes crying and sObbing and
Refusing 80 Be Comforted.
Most horrible of all is the wall of little
children robbed of mother and father,
nI.G in some cases of brothers and sisters
too. The fate of the Loghrin family is
a sad one. 1t consisted OF father, mother
and two children, both girls. Their house
was reduced TO splinters, and all save the
mother were killed. The remains of the
father were picked up beneath the broken
pieces of his house, and the children were
found buried under the ruins of a house
10O yards away. They were horribly
mangled. Mrs. Loghrin also suffered Sc
we're injuries, being hurt about the heal
and shoulders. She is in the hospital,
br.t there is not much hope of her recoy.
cry. She does not know the fate of her
husband and daughters. :,
G.. o. Davy, cashier of the Bank OF
romeroy, whose house was right IN ths
path of the storm, is among the dead.
likewise his brother, Ben Dayy, who has
h,een attending school in Des Moines. He
came home to spend the Fourth,
aud intended to leave this morning.
Mrs. Davy, wife of President Davy, of
the bank. also lost her life. She hved
some distance from the Davy brothers,
and was i'm the house with the servant
girl when the storm was seen approach
ing. She ran out of the house, INTENDING
TO get to one of the caves, but had Just
reached the middle of the road when she
was struck by the house blown from the
opposite corner, carried ND against a tree
and crushed to a pulp. The servant gll,
too frightened to move fell on her knees
and lifted up her hands in prayer, The
house was torn to splinters, the girl was
wbisked ont into the back yard. but she
escaped with but a single bruise.
The Injured.
The injured, as far as can be learned
are as follows: p.a-.
Mrs, Ruston, both legs broken; Bessie
Pope, shoulder broken; Gust ieim anu
wife, seriously injured; Minnie storkS'
left arm broken, head and face CUT; IL;
Rrownell, arm broken: Z. Weigeroft, head
emf: NJ. Bandoll, badly bruised; ECth
Maxwell, leg broken and head cut; Lille
Keefer. head cut: G.. A. Stewart, lett
arm broken: Mrs. G.. A. Stewart, head
emf and back hurt; Nellie Frost, pack
hurt: Ira Stewart. head and face cut
r T.. Dillon, leg broken: Mr.. Randal,'
lower jaw broken; Mrs. FltZgerai.'
bruised; j. Willer, hurt in chest; Mrs, "A;
Blomberg and two children, heau ana
face cut and bruised; Mary Solderstron,
left arm broken; Linde Glen, right arm
broken; Gilman Curl, head badly cut;Mrs
7, p. Lundgren. internally injured; Adam
SaIzman, back and head hurt,
Mrs Salzman, head and shoulders
bruised: A. i. Wilkinson, leg broken,
died this evening; J. Il. Wilkinson; chest
hurt: Mrs. G.. lkiy. head; paSh and
limbs bruised: Ada Guy, side ana shouiI
ders bnrt: Bertha Davey. head. face and
body bruised; George Guy. head cut;
Mrs. John Dayey, badly bruised, not ex-
pected to live: Ludwig L~ullSender,
crushed; John Reed and family, all bad.
" injured; j.. e.; scneiP%es, n Ieft arm
broken; ]. w. Anderson, wife and baby,
badly Injured: Tom Harmon, left arm
and logs broken; Nick Frost, badly
bruised; Mrs. Harmon, left arm c rih;
John Kuplance and wife, mean anu had.
crushed: G. u. K~uplance, skull crushed,
Mrs. John Drummer. head cut; George
drummer, ear cut off; Gust Linder; VIE
and child, hurt badly; Bridget hyan'
head hurt; Henry Millions two ooys.
badly injured; Anna SIMON. snJh nd,y
crushed; Sam Maxwen,s boy, pad,!
crushed. D. NJ. O'Brien died this after
nnnn Several Others died this evening"
hut names could not be learned.