The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-09
Heartrending Scenes in
POmerOy.
FORTY FOUR FATALITIES.
Over a Hundred Injured in the Hos
pitaIs-The Entire Number of
Victims Sixty-Three.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

FORT DODGE. Iowa. July s.-The dead al
Pomeroy number forty-four. 1t is one OF
the saddest scenes ever witnessed d
even the strongest are compelled to turn
away from some Of the sights at the City
Hall hospital. where most Of the 10S in
iured are.
Every dwelling left standing can be well
termed hospital. All are opened to the
sufferers and contain two to eight each.
Charles Rusen, bright child of years,
died at midnight.
Governor Boies is still on the ground.
doing all in his power for the comfort OF
the wounded.
Physicians and nurses are reeded badly.
There were only ten doctors here to-day.
and the calls cannot be promptly an
swered.
The neighboring towns and cities are
providing nurses literally, but more are
needed. Oftae injured twelve to twenty
more will die.
Reports are being hourly received from
rural districts. 1t seems the storm started
one mile west Of Cherokee, followed
closely the Illinois Central Railroad cut
ting swath from quarter to a half mile
wide ari completely demolishing every
thing IL its path for distance of sixty
miles.
Neal Fonda Mrs. E. S. Gerden and two
chidrsn weIe killed.
Near Newell John Detwiler was killed
and wife fatally hurt
In Wright County, eight miles west Of
Belmont, John Loubon and his daughter
were killed.
The total deaths from the storm, as far
as heard from. number sixty-three.
The work Of burying the dead at Pome-
roy has commenced. Seventeen were in
TERED late vest rday and twenty more will
be buried to-day.
A number of bodies have been shipped
away.
The scenes were heartrending. as rela-
lives from a distance came TO gaze upon
the features of their dead.
Two hundred and eight residences were
swept completely from the face of the
earth; not board was left.
Hardly a residence remains untouched
and the business portion is so badly
wrecked it can be said with truth that
POmeroy is no more.
Dead carcasSes of horses cattle and hogs
are being taken from the ruins to-day and
buried. Company 6, State militia, of Fort
Dodge, assisted by companies from Storm
Ike and Perry, are on guard night and
Gay.
It seems that as many fatalities result ted
from going into the cellars as from staying
above the ground.
The aeven churches of the town are all
demolished. No services will be held to-
morrow All is sadness and gloom
4, The to.al ynmte done in the State by
the cyclone is 10W estimated at $500, 600.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July S.-The work
Of organization for the relief of the tor
nado sufferers at Pomeroy is being pushed
in the cities Of Northwest Iowa. car
load of supplies was sent from here this
morning with half dozen surgeons and a
number of helpers. a meeting was held
this forenoon and committee was ap-
pointed 10 raise large relief fund.
WASHINGTON, July S.-A special bulle-
tin has been issued by the Weather Bureau
with reference to the recent disastrous tor
nsdo in Iowa. The bureau claims to have
foretold the calamity twenty-four hours in
advance and to have warned residents Of
the States in the Upper and Central Mis-
sissippi and Missouri Valleys to provide
places of safe resort, such as portions of
the cellars in houses strongly protected