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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
FROM ALTOONA.
Twenty-Five Dead at That Point and
Near Wesley.

Near Wesley.
ALTOONA, Iowa, Sept. 22-The cyclone
made straight path across the country
| east and west some three miles north of
! Algona. Many houses and barns and three
| school houses were totally demolished and
! many partially destroyed In the vicinity
| of Wesley II reported dead and as
| many near Algona. A partial list Of the
| dead and fatally injured:
| ROBERT STEPHENSON dead
MRS. GEO. BEAVERS and one child
dead and one child fatally injured.
MRS. BARRACK, fatally injured.
A child named LEE dying.
HOLMAN, child, dead.
CASHIER and wife, dead.
J. DINGMAN, dead.
MRS. PETERSON, fatally injured
MRS. FRENCH and three children, dead
There are many minor injuries and many
reported dead, but reports are unverified.
ALTOONA, Iowa, Sept. 23.-The storm on
Friday night, witnessed from this place.
| was one of indescribable grandeur.
Funnel-shaped clouds of inky blackness
swept along to the northeast ilumina tee
by almost continuous flashes of lightning
The roar of thunder was deep and contin.
uous. The opera house was packed with
people to witness a popular play, and al.
| most a panic was occasioned by the wal
Of the clements.
| Robert Stevenson, living four miles north
! of Whittemore, was the first victim. He
| was hit in several places. His grove
| looked though it was moved down by
a scythe. Mrs. Barrick was hurt in the
back by timber and her spine was so in.
Jured that her body and lower limbs were
paralyzed. A 6-year-old boy, Charles Lee
was hit on the head and will die. The
house of Fred Pompe was completely de-
molshed, but his wife and five children
came out Of the wreck unhurt. The force
of the wind was such that barbed wire
was stripped from the posts. The roof OF
Algo Homans house was blown away,
leaving the walls standing, and the whole
family was carried up from between the
walls and away about 80 rods, one of the
children being killed. NJ. w. Ferguson
family was carried some distance through
the air, and all but one of them landed in
a willow hedge. The baby went little
farther and was found seated piece
of roof The wife of Swan Peterson had
her skull cut open in two places, and the
exposed parts of her head were literally
packed with sand, plaster, hair and grass
Particulars are coming in all the time
| which indicate that half Of the terror OF
| the cyclone is not told. The scene of DESC
| lation was visited all day by great crowds
| every available conveyance being char
| tered. The destruction of property will
not be less than 100000. Most farmers are
| wel-to-do with snug bank accounts, ant
nf
victims are renters who lost everything
| The permanently crippled will make long
and sorrowful list. The wires were dowr
much Of the time and news was hard te
get or to send.
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in Kossuth county, where it Is reported
that one family of Ii children were killed
outright. The storm came upon ting people
without warning, having followed severe
hail storm during a thunder shower The
path OF the storm seems to be in north
easterly direction, although at times it
was driving directly east.
The Goulden farm, where the lives were
lost, there seemed to be clouds which met
and those living east of this place said that
they could plainly see the funnel shaped
cloud. and that whenever it came close te
the ground, that the damege was done, and
then it would rise and come down again
There was terrible deluge of water fell
Immediately before the storm and a terrific
hail storm. There were hailstones as large
as hens eggs
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
AT SPRING VALLEY.
Deadly Work of the Twister in Tha
Town.


Deadly Work of the Twister in That
Town.
SPRING VALLEY, Mimi, Sept. 22.-Last
night is one never to be forgotten in the
history Of this city. The most severe cy-
clone known in the history of southeastern
Minnesota passed through the north part
of the city last night between 10 and IL
o'clock carrying everything before it. The
path did not seem to be over 40 rods wide
Houses were blown to atoms and nothing
but splnters left. Household furniture
bedding and crockery are strewn along it's
desolated path.
Three are killed outright and 40 to so in
jured, with three of whom a recovery is
doubtful
The cyclone first struck c. G. Kings resi-
dence in the west part of the city, thence
passed northwesterly, taking the following
buildings in its course: Winona and South
western depot, cars on track, cold storage
residences of Torrance, Rumsey, Strong
Mcintyre, Harper, Rose, Stockman Loucks
Smith, Lemonson, Bovee, Mescheck, Ness
West, Dodge, race track buildings
The dead are: n Dodge and wife; Frank
Meschecks little boy. Injured are: c. G.
King, Clark King, Mrs. c. G. King Nellie
Lulu and Mira Rumsey, Mrs. W. H. Strong
Mrs. c. H. Rose, Lena Rose, Mr.. and Mrs
Harper, Mrs. Stockman, Miss Tyler, Bar
bara Smith, Jessie Harris, Stella Smith,
Sallie Williams, Mrs. Bovee, Laura Bovee
Mrs. Mescheck, Mr.. and Mrs. Ness, little
daughter of Ness, Charlie Dodge, Mrs
Denny and two daughters, Mr.. King and
Mrs. King are not likely to live and
| many are so injured internally that it is
| impossible to give details at this writing
A temporary hospital has been established
in Lewis house with willing physicians and
competent nurses to for the injured.
Relief committees have been organized
and systematic work is progressing nicely.
Nothing is left undone, which known means
can provide.
The work of clearing away the ruins goes
on uninterruptedly, A well organized force
of men are at work and there is a constant
guard to protect property from ghouls. c.
G. King died at 415 o'clock p m. Mrs.
Rose is dying. The rest of the injured are
doing nicely with perhaps the exception of
two or three doubtful ones. All property
in the ruins is a total loss which cannot be
itemized. At this hour the estimated loss
is from $50 600 to $75, 600. A large number
are left without means of any kind and
help will be needed. He. Rose, the only
man who saw the cloud, describes it as
the same old funnel shaped twister coming
without warning, not giving anyone time
to get into a cellar. Those only who have
seen such devastation with loss of life can
draw on their imaginations enough to pic
ture the horror. The More and Livingstone
Dramatic Company gave benefit enter
tainment at the opera house tonight, the
entire proceeds to go to the sufferers.
Thousands of people visited the scene of
destruction today. The total injured are
more than reported earlier and will reach
at least 30 more
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
and Cullon's homes are destroyed and all the
FAIR BUILDINGS

county
FAIR BUILDINGS
lie In ruins over the country and the fair
is declared off. Farther to the northeast
the Foley home is in ruins and three men,
bers of the family are fatally injured. Mrs.
Foley has both arms broken and is injured
internally. Alex Guelden, wife and child,
were found dead in the debris around his
late residence
Near Cylinder two members of the Kelley
family are badly lacerated and cannot live,
and Mr.. Burkes large family are all in
jured, two fatally. At Chas Lees their
two children We're blown away but We're
found about midnight, one dead, the other
just alive. Robert Stevenson was killed
and all his property destroyed. Physicians
from Algona and adjacent towns have been
doing their best to relieve the sufferers. but
they have been unable to properly do the
work.
Great property damage was done at Hay
field and Wellington. One man living on
the Ward farm was killed. In this county
the force of the storm seemed renewed,
but the width of territory covered did not
in any place exceed one mile in length Mr.
and Mrs. ID. T. Haddow had just gone to
bed when the storm struck their residence
and it was knocked into splnters Mr.. and
Mrs. Haddow were carried about 10 rods
and were found dead within few feet of
each other Clarence Harding, a young
man who visiting Them was upstairs
and he was carried in the air fully three
quarters of mile. The Beaver school was
RACED to the ground. James O'Neilrs resi-
dence and barn We're completely destroyed
and his aged father mad
HIS CHEST CRUSHED IN.
The properties of II. c. WeiSer and Chas
Hill are included in the wreckage Miss
Edith Bentley, who was visiting Hills, was
badly injured. Geo. Haters property was
wiped off the earth, but he and his mother
took refuge in the cellar and escaped with
out a scar Theodore Mckercher's property
brother the sight was appalling. Elery Nc
kercher and his 10-year-old boy were dead,
his hired man. Peter Peterson, was dead,
While his wife and two children and Miss
Maggie Barter are all badly mangled as
to be almost beyond recognition. Mr.. Nc
kercher, although being frightfully hurt,
gathered up the dead and dying about his
completely ruined home and laying them in
straw pile, naked and bleeding, walked
mile to a neighbours, who went to the res
dences were all destroyed. 1t is picture of
awful carnage and the hundreds who have
viewed it today can never forget it.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
INJURED.


Near Lacy, Mimi.
Blair, Charles.
Carlson, Carl.
Chamberlain. Horace.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Horace.
Cotton, Harry.
Cotton, Mrs. Harry.
MaXfield, Arthur.
Myers, r.
Weigner, Nels.
Near AIgOna, Iowa.
McKercher, Mrs. d.
Mckercher, Alice.
Bentley, Miss Edith.
O'Neil,. James.
Near Britt. Iowa.
Bingham, Mr..
Bingham, Mrs.
Bingham, three children.
Dana, William.
Dana, Mrs. William
Dana, three children.
Dauleman, F.
Dauleman, Mrs. +.
Dockman, a.
Dockman, Mrs. A.
Fox, w.
Fox, Miss.
Hanson, Chris.
Stuggart, Mrs.
Madison, Il. p.
MUTT, Mr..
Autz, Mrs.
MUTT, child.
Ortercourse, Mr..
Ortercourse, Mrs.
Ortercourse, child.
Smiles, Mr..
Smiles, three children.
Smi!lon, child.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26

A death dealing and property destroying
cyclone passed through Northwestern Iowa
and Southeastern Minnesota last Friday
night and early Saturday morning.
The storm evidently assumed cyelonic
character west of the north central part of
Iowa in Palo Alto or Clay county, extend
ing eastward through Kossuth and Han
cock counties, northeast through Cerro
Gordo, Worth and Mitchell counties into
Minnesota, continuing through Mower
and Olmsted counties and spending its force
In winona county without leaving Mime
sofa.
Following is the list of fatalities in the
cyclone so far as known at the time Of
going to press:
Spring Valley.
DODGE, MIR. AND MRS NEHEMIAH
KING, c. G.
MOSHEK, FRANKS CHILD.
ROSE, MRS. LOUIS. fatally hurt.
Leroy.
FINLEY. HENRY.
GILBERTSON, CHARLES.
DUNTON, MRS.
NELSON, JOHN.
Vicinity AlGOna, Iowa.
BEAVERS, MRS. GEORGE.
BEAVERS, MYRTLE, years old.
SWEEPER, NJ. and two children.
BECKLEMEYER, FRANK.
FRENCH, FRED, and two children.
GEORGE HALMAN'S TWO CHILDREN
DINGMAN, j. w.
CLOUSEDEN'S CHILD.
PETERSON, MRS SWAN
ALBERT BAKERS CHILD,
TWEED, MRS, and two children.
ROCkEVELLS CHILD.
Usage, Iowa.
HERBERT, HARRY, aged 8.
HERBERT, RUTH, aged months.
HERBERT, MRS. P. S.
LONERGAN. Mrs P.
PERRY, ANNIE. aged r.
PERRY, WILLIAM aged 81.
Near Wesley, Iowa.
CASTER. NJ
CASTER, MRS. NJ.
DINGMAN, j. W.
EDEN, baby. '
FRENCH, FRED, and two children.
ROCKOW, baby.
SCHROEPPE, NJ, and two children.
TWEED. MRS. and two children.
North Cerro Gordo, Iowa.
GRONGNALT, LOUIS.
HADDOW, D. T.
HADDOW, MRS. d. T.
NJ kERC HER, ELLERY.
PATTERSON. JOHN.
Near Britt, lowe.
GRIGGS, MRS.
JACOBSON, MIR.
STUGGART MIR.
STCGGART two children.
SM1LTON, MRS.
SMlLTON. child.
UNKNOWN MAN.
UNKNOWN CHILD.
Near Usage. Iowa.
FINDLAY. HENRY, 10 years old.
GILBERTSON, CHRIS, aged 1G.
NELSON, JOSEPH, aged 80.
Near AlgOna, Iowa.
GOULDEN, family of four.
STEVENSON. ROBERT.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
DAU, MRS. CHRISTIAN, and two chill
6ren.
Near mmetsburE, iowa
FOLEY, MRS.
FOLEY, MISS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
Helping Our Own Papers,

The following resolution was passed
by the executive committee of Min
nesota State Farmers Alliance, and
signed as appears below:
Resolved, That the executive COM
mittee of the State Farmers Alliance
urge all Alliance members in the
state to examine carefully the col
umns Of the REPRESENTATIVE, and
of all the local reform papers Of the
state, and to give their trade as far
as possible, to those persons who adj
vertise in such papers: as in this way
manufacturers and tradcsmen will be
encouraged to advertise in such re-
form papers. and thus help the cause
of the people.
Ignatius Dnnnelly, President.
A. II. Hendrickson, Secretary.
r. NJ. Probstticld, Treasurer
l.. G. Long, Lecturer.
}. |. Vermiiya, lst Vice-Presid emf.
c. II. Johnson, 81
Q. n. Perkins, 3rd I"
G. Il. Stark, 4uh
Geo. W. Day, 5th
CT. Bohall, 9th
r. j. Hail, It'll
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
FROM MITCHELL COUNTY.
DcsOlatiOn Marks the Course of the
Cyclone,

DcsOlatfOn Marks the Course of the
Cyclone.
Usage, Ia, Sept. pa cyclone struck
down on the Cotter place three miles north
east of this city, at 1890 last evening de-
molishing the house and farm buildings,
then went east, completely demolishing
Mrs. P. Lonergan's house and blowing
her several rods into a hog lot, where she
was picked up dead; also badly injuring
her daughter. Then on taking P. r. Her
berts dwelling, killing Mrs. Herbert and
two children, it next struck F. Perrys house
killing his daughter Anna, and it is thought
fatally injuring several others.
Then it seemed to raise until one mile
north OF Stansgar where it completely
wrecked a new 5000 bridge across the Ce-
dar river and demolished the residence of
a. Tollefson and Mr.. Groth and complete
ly wiped out the town of Lowther, on the
Chicago and Great Western.
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FATALLY INJURED.

In CerrO GOrdO County.
BAKER, MISS MAGGIE.
McKERCHER, HAROLD.
Nick ERCHE Ter, ALICE.
Near Usage, Iowa.
MCCAIN, JAMES
McCANN, MRS. JAMES.
STANTON, WILLIAM.
LOxvther, Iowa.
ANDREWS, MRS. PHIL.
MRS. CRUGER.
HAMILTON, b.
Near Mason City, Iowe.
BENTLEY. MISS EDITH.
O'NEIL, JAMES.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
BimetaIIism and MonometaIIism.
Bear Upon the Irish Land
Question.
BY THE MOST REV. DR.. WALSH,
Archbishop of Dublin.


Archbishop of Dublin.
Bishop Walsh's pamphlet is consid.
cred one Of the best contributions to
the Silver question ever published. Its
value cannot be too strongly empha-
sized.
The last census shows a very large num-
Der of our farms mortgaged. In so far az
the annual interest approaches the amount
Of rent paid by the Irish tenant, to just
such an cxtentis the condition Of our farm
er identical with his. and since, wit the
fall in the value Of farm products the
amount Of the farmers mortgage as we'll
as the interest, virtually increases, he is in
some respects more affected by the appre-
citation Of gold than the Irish tenant Arch
bishop Walsh presents the question 30 in
diligently, SO clearly. and with so much d.
rectness that his pamphlet cannot fail to
have very large and useful circulation In
this country.
The price of the pamphlet is only IS cents,
and 1t Is for sale, with q number of other
books on the silver question and the tariff.
by the REPRESENTATIVE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
LOWTHER LAID LOW.
Every building in the Place Re.
ported DESTROYED.

ported Destroyed.
OELWE1N, Ia, Sept. 22.--News has
reached here, stating that cyclone passed
along the line of the Chicago Great West
ern railroad. Lowther, a town of 100 in
habitants is destroyed and every building
Of Importance RACED to the ground. The
Chicago express on the Chicago Great
Western railway was delayed, clearing the
demolished buildings from the track.
New Haven was badly damaged by the
storm, many houses being wrecked and
several persons injured.
The storm passed over Riceville, doing
some IamaUa
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
Three Killed Near Britt,

BRITT, Iowa, Sept. PA cyclone passed
north of here last evening. Mrs. Fred Han
son and child and Mr.. Dannas little child
were killed. The Bingham brothers, VIM.
Danna, Thomas Smith, Fred Hanson and
Fred Duntermann have lost all their build
ings. Reports are meager, but the DAM
ages through the country are heavy.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
REMEMBER

When you sell your wheat. to pay up 90,
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
THE CYCL0uE'SFURY
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION LEFT IN
IT'S PATH.

COrty-FOur Deaths the Result of the
storm That Swept Through North
>rn Iowa and Southern Minnesota
Eriday Nfght-Many Others Iniur-
ID. Some of Whom Will Surely Die
appalling Sights Greet the Eye
of the Spectator Who Views the
Ruins of Erstvhile FlOurishfnE
Communities-ThcL List of the Dead
so Far Known.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13
.I,Africaine" Made Her sea.ick.

Any one who has seen "L' Africaine,
"Pinafore" or America" will remem-
Der the realistic manner in which stage
vessels rock up and down, as though
riding the long swells Of a genuine
ocean.
1t was in the third act Of L'AfIi-
caine," while the vessel was tipping
gracefully up and down, that man and
woman crowded rather hastily from
their seats in the parquet and passed out
through one of the exit tunnels. Persons
along the aisles noticed that the woman
was quite pale and leaned heavily
against her escort She was seasick.
This woman resides in Chicago, but has
travelled much, and in all her travels
she has never been able to overcome q
tendency to seasickness So sensitive to
this malady is she that the sickness
comes upon her before she boards ves-
sci for transatlantic trip The appre.
hension Of what is coming hurries the
attack. During voyage she never leaves
her stateroom. She goes ashore some
what languid, but possessed of a Zero.
cious appetite.
At Paris in 1878 she became seasick
while booking at marine panorama.
The suggestion was too much for her.
Likewise the tossing Of the vessel in
"L'Africaine" brought memories not
altogether pleasant She could not con.
troll her emotions, and 80 she retreated.
Chicago Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13

Boston mothers are making stand
against the overtaxing of girl pupils in
tho schools, A petition containing hun
dreds of names and asking that Greek
DO made elective instead of prescribed
was presented at q meeting Of the school
committee. A woman who found her
daughter breaking down In health from
overstudy at the Latin school origi.
mated the petition, which received the
signatures of many prominent men,
among them being educators, ministers,
lawyers and physicians. The mothers
are willing to have German substituted
for Greek, believing that the study Of
the modern language will tax the minds
of their daughters less and at the same
time be more useful. One Of the peti.
TONERS says: 1T certainly seems strange
that of the large number of girls who
enter the Latin school such small per.
centage ever graduate The course is too
hard. The girls cannot stand it They
cannot, or rather do not, exercise with
baseball and out Of door sports ss the
boys do. Some skeptics have raised the
point that our daughters break dow
because they go out oparties and to tn
theaters Wehave not found that to be
the case in single instance Many of
the mothers at the meetings have said,
Why, my daughter studies from four to
six hours day, and she doesn't sleep
nights. Unless any one wants to teach
the classical stndies Cerman and
French are much more useful to the
kgirls than the Greek which they have to
take now. boston Letter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13
women and Bank Accounts.

Mr.. Paul, president of the Gansevoort
bank Of New York, thinks that every
wife in the land should have bank ac-
count on her wedding day and some
thing, however small, deposited to her
credit by her father or husband Let
her pay her bills with checks. Let her
make them out for 49, SO as often as
they are required. A little banking is
the very best lesson in practical arith-
metic young woman can have. 1t
teaches her the real meaning of bust
ness When the check is returned, it is
a receipt, one of those things to which
few women attach Importance. There
are number of gentle depositors in the
goose market" bank, and President
Paul has an exaggerated tenderness for
them all. They do business on bust
ness principles he says, "and they are
womanly. What more can ! say in their
fayor?''
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13
REPORTING SPEECHES IN CONGRESS.
Stenographers Able to Make Big Money
During Debates In the Houses

Stenographers Able to Make Big Money
During Debates In the Houses.
1t is true that there are 20 or 80 more
members in congress than there were a
few years ago, but change has come
over the spirit Of debate. Long winded
speeches are rarer; men talk quicker and
say more. The incessant agitation of
the tariff has been an education in fig
ures, and if q man makes a wild state
ment he is promptly contradicted
A stenographer who can report the
house debate is at the top Of his profess
sion, and there is no more promotion for
him. The men who do this work earn
incomes that would make the average
professional man turn green with envy,
for when congress is not in session they
are in demand at the highest figures to
report the most important matters
There was man in Washington once,
good many years ago, who through
bad habits had lost every faculty he had
except that of writing shorthand not
only as fast as people could talk, but as
fast as they could think. In his inter-
walls of sobriety he could make money
hand over fist as house stenographer.
He generally kept fairly sober during
the session Of congress, but as soon as it
was over he would deliberately drink
himself into insensibility.
His services were so much in demand
that men who knew his powers and
wanted his services would come to
Washington, bring him out of his fit Of
dissipation, get him sobered up, take
him off to the scene of action and watch
him like hawk while the case-gen-
orally great lawsuit-lasted Then. as
soon as it was over, he would go back
to his evil ways. But as long as he lived
he could write shorthand, and as long
as he lived he made q fine income.
There is a superstition that every tariff
bill calls for the death Of one Of the
house stenographers. The Mckinley bill,
the Morrison bill, both had their vic
Tins, and if man has headache now
among the stenographers they all look
blue and feel black. Boston Transcript.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13

The movement for an international
conference set on foot by the United
Textile workers of Great Britain may
result in much good. It is coming to
be understood that the more friendly
terms the people of different nations can
be on the better it is for the prosperity
Of all. War to the knife and deadly
rivalry between two competing railways
or business firms result in loss, often
ruin to both. The law is the same for
the individual workers of those nations.
Different circumstances and conditions
cause different wage ratesand hours of
labor in two countries, as in England
and America, but that is really no rea-
son why the textile workers of England
and America should be at swords points.
Both may thrive or suffer in their own
country and still not be enemies. They
will be much better off as friends. This
the human race begins to understand.
The international conference of textile
workers is an advance step in civiliza-
ton. Its meetings will be occupied in
discussing wages, hours of work, child
labor and the best method of promoting
international federation.