The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-24

Algona, Ia, Sept. 29.-This has been
a day of sorrow for Kossuth county
Nineteen funerals were held and others
will come tomorrow. The death list
complete is as follows:
Robert Stephenson
Mrs. George Bever and child
George Holman.
Jacob Dodgeman, Fort Dodge.
Mrs. French and two children.
Child of Albert Baker.
William Sweeps, boy and girl.
Claus Eden and child.
Moses Caster and wife
Tweed's mother and two children.
RockwelTs baby.
At least six more will die.
The injured are reported as 80 in
number, as follows:
Mrs. Robert Stevenson.
Mrs. Carl Barrick.
Carl Barrick: may die.
Four other children in same family.
George Beavers infant child and
adopted boy.
Hans Schenck: VIII probably die.
Mrs. Myron Schenck and child.
Mrs. George Holman and four chill
dren.
Mrs. Claus Eden; cannot live.
William Ferguson, wife and child.
Mrs. Peterson, skull fractured.
Mrs. Samuel Peterson, both arms
and legs broken.
P. T. Ferguson and family, all slight
ly injured.
Tom Weed, severely hurt.
Alexander Tweed's wife and five
children. y
Mrs Rockwell, badly hurt.
J. Eden very badly hurt.
Mrs. f. Meyers
Thomas F. Brittons a farmer near
Wesley, is reported missing and pre-
sumed to be. killed.
Scenes of Wild Grief.
Professor A J. Lilly, of Northern
Iowa Normal school, came in from
Gamer and reports thirteen dead in
Ellington township, north of Gamer,
twelve near Manley,- Ellington town.
ship, and sixteen north of Britt.
Collins for the dead are piled up at
every station and scenes of the widest
grief are being enacted. The storm, as
witnessed from this place, was one of
Understandable grandeur. A funnel-shaped
cloud of inky blackness swept along to
the northeast, :, Illuminated by almost
continuous flashes of lightning and
continuous. The opera house was
| packed with people to witness a play,
| and a panic was almost caused by the
warning elements.
| Robert Stevenson. living about four
miles north of Whittemore was the first
victim. He was hit in several places
and was fatally injured. His grove
| looked as if it had been moved down
with a scythe.
,;,oTys 1,0, oy, No
| Durant place, was made into kindling
wood in an instant and all of the four
teen occupants but two children were
! injured. Mrs. Barrick was hurt in the
back by timber falling and her spine
so injured that her body and lower
limbs were paralyzed. A 6-year-old boy
named Charles Lee was hit in the
head and will die. The house of Fred
Pompe was completely demolished, but
the wreck unhurt. The force of tbs
wind was such that barbed wire was
stripped from the posts. At George Hol-
mans the roof of his house went, leav-
ing the walls standing, and the whole
family was carried up from between the
walls and away about thirty rods, one
of the children being killed.
| PeriIous Rides in Air.
| c. w. Ferguson's family was carried
some distance through the air and al
but one landed in a hedge. The baby
went a little farther, and was found
seated on a piece of the roof. The wife
of Samuel Peterson had her skull cut
open in two places and some exposed
parts of her head were literally packed
with sand, plaster, hair and grass.
| Particulars are coming in which in.
dicate that half the horrors of the cy.
| clone have not been told
| The scene of desolation was visited
all day by great crowds, all available
| conveyances being chartered. The de-
struction of property will not be less
than 100000. Most of the farmers are
well-to-do, with snug bank accounts
but number were renters and lost
everything, some of them losing theil
| families
The permanently crippled will make
a long and sorrowful list
The wires are down and news is hard
to get.