Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-10
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tails. and here, also. PROVISIONS MONEY,
b,fding and clothing were received anu
al of those us,essaries rolled in rapidly
BY O'Clock Friday. the Office OF the nanA
was stacked clear to the ceiling with loo"
and Clothing. and boxes OF each were ar
,;yinr ON every train. Governor Boies ar
r;xed nj 4 O'Clock and took charge OF the
whole affair. He was first driven out over
the ruins, then he visited the hospitals and
the norgue, consulted with those VINO hsa
thus far directed things and then issued a
proclamation setting forth the neeas u
the sufferers and calling upon the
neople Of iowa TO contribute libsraily. Inc
governor said the situation WAS Tar "ofso
than he expected. and assured the people
maj nothing that would add TO their con-
for, and relief would be left undone- lie
ordered more tents from Des Moines and
a company or more Of soldiers
The intense heat made it impossible TO
keen those who were not claimed by reia-
riyes or friends Forty graves were aug
and filled with deaf. up to clock Friday
.yening. and at that hour the hitting IAN
terms in the cemetery showed plainly that
the work Of burial was still going on The
following is
List of the Dead
so far as they have been identified;
Mrs. Maria Adams, A. Forehe. Al. VIII
kiu,on. Henry Geikeu, Mrs Title Johh-
,on Mrs &. K. George, Lena kiefer, Mr.
and Mrs Hulet, Mrs. Dahlgren, Mrs.
Anderson, Mrs Taltert, Roy Banks, eiias
Rushton, J. p. Lungren. Mr.. Dillemuth,
Ollie Lungren, Bessie Banks, Mrs u, l.;
u Brien and baby; Mrs Quinian ana
baby; J. NJ. O'Brien, Allie Maxwell, ONE
Frost, Ezra o. Dayy, Benjamin i)avy,
Baby Dalgren, Grover Black, Samuel
| Maxwell, Richard George, Mrs. H. d. liar
lowe. two children of John Beckley.
Several babies have been found alive ana
well. but lit has been impossible TO nn'l
their parents Nearly every injured per
son has AN arm or leg broken or was terri
| bly, cut and bruised.
There was much trouble in securing COT
fins, and last night the supply of the towns
| in this vicinity had been thoroughly eA-
hausted Hundreds Of willing hands
drag zee, the dead and dying animals, with
which the ground seemed 10 TO literally
| strewu. 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. Fully a dozen of these
strange boniires were kept going all the
| afternoon.
Whole families were in many Instances
wipeI ont by the tornado, and III some
houses that contained all the way from
| four to eight persons not more than one
| escaped alive. Husbands have been lett
without wife or children; children are left
1 4 l. :,
| in Poneroy who have neither husband nor
| children left. \ Swedish family OF four
consisting Of father, mother and two
| children, are missing. piece OF wood
about two feet long remains of then
| house, but not a trace can be found OF the
people who occupied it,
| The Injured Are as Follows:
Mrs. Rushton, both legs broken; Bessie
| Pope's baby. shoulder broken; Gus Iclm
and wife. seriously injured Minnie Storks,
| left arm broken, head and face cut; L. j.
| Brownell bruised A. Forche, aged 10, leg
broken: f. Forche, left arm broken; =,
| Weigerhoif, head cut; NJ. Randoll, badly
| bruised; Edith Maxwell, leg broken and
| head cut; Lille keefer, head cut; 6. a.
| Stewart, left arm broken; Mrs. q. A
| stewart, head cut and back hurt, Nellie
| Frost, back hurt; Ira Stewart. head and
face cut. j j. Dalton, leg broken; Mr.
| Randell, lower jaw broken; Mrs. fItz
| gerald, bruised; j. Miller, hurt in chest;
| Mrs. A. q Blomherg and two children
| head and face cut and bruised; Mary
| Solderstrom, left arm broken. l4ynde
| DIden, right arm broken; Oman Curl,
head badly cut; Mrs j. p. Lugren, inter
| nally injured; Adam Salesman, back and
| head hurt; Mrs. Salesman, head and
shoulder bruised, J. +. Wilkinson, chest
| hurt; Mrs. e. ky, head, back and limbs
| bruised Ida Guy, side and shoulders hurt
| Bertha Davy, head face and body bruised
| George Guy, head cut; Mrs. John ,Davy
| badly bruised, not expected to live, Lud-
| wig Lullsnceder crushed; John Reese and
| family, all badly injured; j, q. Scheipze's
head cut; Miss Troupe. left arm broken
| j. NJ Anderson, wife and boy, badly in
| iured: Tom Harmon, left arm and leg
| broken; Dick Frost, badly bruised Mrs,
| Harmon, left arm injured; John kuplanc(
ana wife head and ribs bruised; G, U
| kuplance, skull crushed Mrs. John Drum
| ner, head cut, George Drummer, ear cut
| of; Gust Lynder, wife and child, hur
| badly: Bridget Ryan, head cut; Henry
| Millions two boys, badly injured; Anna
| kymon. shoulder crushed; Sam Maxwell
| boy, badly hurt.
| Several of the above have since died, but
| their names cannot yet be obtained
| The escape Of the Lowery family was
| strange one. They were sitting on the We
1 randall when the storm came along. A
| COW that was standing 80 yards away was
| blown right through the house, which
| was demolished. Not piece of furnitur,
| that was in the house escaped being blown
| TO atoms.
| Nothing except kindling wood is lett OF
| the Prange House. Prange himself wa
| crushed beneath the falling tin.bers
| Charles Banks a boy from Fort Dodge, is
| missing 1t is known that he was il
| pomeroy when the cyclone struck the
town. but no trace of him has been found
The Work of Destruction.
The German Lutheran church was de
| molished. Nothing is left of the Metho
dist Episcopal church but the bell and thai
is many yards from the building where i
hung. Some of the keysof the organ wer,
| picked up mile or so out on the prairie
The public schoolhonse is out Of sigh t
| Even the trees that surrounded it are gone
| Every business house in the town is NOR,
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entirely. Others had the roofs lifted of
letting in the torrents of rain, and thu
destroying the stocks. Some have tn.it
| fronts smashed in and some are smashed
in the rear. But they are all smashed
somewhere. No definite idea can as vet be
| obtained As to the losses in the resident
| district, nearly everyone who had house
being either dead or injured
/ n I.a.f L..
| reached the surrounding towns than thou
sands of people began to flock thitier Tx
| cursions to accommodate sightseers were
run from Fort Dodge. Those people were
at all times in the way of the people who
were conducting the work OF relief.
| The whole country in the path Of the
| tornado is baily wrecked. Groves of i'm
medse trees were twisted ont by the roots,
| houses and barns were blown away.
vi lis Of corn were destroyed and many
parsons were killed. Everywhere is evil
dence of the havoc wrought by the hurri.
eage. Droves # cattle have been slsugb.
tered and carcassss dot the fields on the
way from Cherokee county to Pomaroy.
! Casualties in Other Places.
Five miles south of Aurelia, Samuel
Birch and wife and three children were
| kiiiei; also a farm band named johnson.
i.uln and Ella Slater and Swedish girl
| were killed.
| Five miles south Of Storm Lake. f. J.
| Bteeton and child aud man named Bott.
mann were dashed to death A family Of
five persons living i've miles south of
Newell died in the awful tempest Mrs
Gorton and three children and John bet
wfier were killed three miles southwest Of
| Fonda
CHEROKEE SUFFERERS.
Ten Persons Dead and Half . Dozen
1 Dying In That Countv