The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-07-13

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manded by Lieut.. G. w. Haitian. forty
strong, arrived with a fully equipped
camp. Their tents We're close to the hos
pltal, and into these many of the sr1ffer-$
ers were. placed. They were not com
Portable. however, for the sun was in
tensely hot and caused the thermometer
to rise to 80 in the shade Those who
mad expired during the day number
dozen. =. e.. -. y - > Z
A Relief Movement. II
: The National bank of Pomeroy has
started a relief movement. People will
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
to the ceiling with food and clothing and
boxes Of each were arriving on every
train. +=-"a TIN
Gov. Boies arrived at 4 o'clock and
took charge of the whole affair. He was
first driven out over the ruins, then he
visited the hospitals and morgue, con-
suited with those who had been directing
things, and then issued 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
done He ordered tents and said he
would have a company or more of soldiers
on the ground before long. -
The intense heat made it impossible
to keep the bodies of the dead, and those
friends and. by them buried were taken
away by noon and were placed in the
grave yard by the officials.
Forty graves were dug and filed with
dead up to 9 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
to 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 dozen of these strange bonfres We're
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
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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 to Be Comforted.
Most horrible of all is the vail of little
children robbed of mother and father
aud in some cases of brothers and sisters
| too. The fate of the Loghrin family is
a sad one. It consisted of father, mother
WAS reduced to splinters, and all save the
mother were killed. The remains Of the
father were picked up beneath the broker
pieces of his house, and the children were
found buried under the ruins of house
! 100 yards away. They were horribly
mangled. Mrs: Loghrin also suffered Sc
we're injuries, being hurt about the heac
and shoulders. She is in the hhospita:
! brt there is. not much hope Of her recov
cry. She does not know the fate of he
husband and daughters.
c. 0. Davy, cashier of the Bank o
Fomeroy,, whose house was right in tn
likewise his brother, Ben Davy, who ha
l'pen attending school in Des Moines. 81
came home to spend the Fourth
aid intended to leave this morning
Mrs. Davy, wife of President Davy, O.
the bank, also lost her life. She LIVED
some distance from the Davy brothers
and was in the house with the servan
girl when the storm was seen approa Oh
= ling She ran out of the house, intendin,
to get to one of the caves, but had Jus
reached the middle of the road when sh
was struck by the house blown from tn
opposite corner, carried UP against tire
/ and crushed to pulp. The servant girl
, too frightened to move. fell on her knee
and lifted upvher hands in prayer. TIL
; house was torn to splinters, the girl wa
whisked out into the back yard. but sh
The, Injured.
: The injured, as far as can be learned
Mrs Ruston, both legs broken; Bess
, Pope, shoulder broken; Gust Yelm an
Il wife, seriously injured; Minnie Stork
; left arm broken, head and face cut; T.
:, Brownell, arm broken; P. Weigerof, hea
: cut; M. Bandoll, badly bruised; Edit
' Maxwell, leg broken and head cut; Lii
= = / Keefer, head cut; G. a. Stewart, le
= arm broken; Mrs. G.. A. Stewart, hea
I cut and back hurt; Nellie Frost, BAG
y hurt; Ira Stewart, head and face Gu
n j. L. Dillon, leg broken; Mr.. Randall
e lower jaw broken; Mrs. Fitzgeral
e bruised; j. Willer, hurt in chest; Mrs. J
5 Blomberg and two children, head al
II lace cut anu bruised, MARY SOlOerSIrO1
s left arm broken; Linde Glen, right ar
V, broken; Gilman Curl, head badly cut MI
e J. 2. Lundgren, internally injured; Ada
{ Salzman. back and head hui
f Mrs. Salzman, head and shoulde
e bruised; "A. J. Wilkinson. leg broke
e died this evening; j. o. Wilkinson, che
hurt; Mrs. G.. Ykiy. head. back al
leI limbs bruised; Ada Guy, side and shol
" ders hurt; Bertha Davey, head, face 81
el body bruised; George Guy. head CT
e Mrs. John Davey, badly bruised, not e
\ pected to live; Ludwig Lullsend,
q crushed; John Reed and family, all ba
10 " injured; j. g. Scheipzes, head cl
n. Miss Troup of Storm Lake, left al
re broken; J. w. Anderson, wife and bal
q badly injured; Tom Harmon, left al
=: and legs broken; Nick Frost, bad
" John Kunlance and wife hood and :;
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