The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-09-24
SWEPT by A TORNADO.
Disastrous Effects of It's Visit in
Iowa and Minnesota.
TERRIBLE WORK OF THE WIND.

Funnel shnp Cloud which Carried
Everything Before 1.-THE Loss Of Life
and Property Not Vet Fully Known,
but WIN be Very Heavy.
ST PAUL, Sept. "a by a tornado that
swept through this state and Iowa at least
fifty lives were wiped out and thousands
of dollars worth Of property was wrecked.
The storm assumed cyclouic character
west Of northern Iowa in Palo Alto OF
Clay county, extending eastward through
Kossuth and Hancock counties, north
east through Cerro Gordo, Worth and
Mitchell counties into Minnesota, con
tiuuing through Mower and Olmstead
counties and spending its force in Win
ona county without leaving Minnesota
Reports from Iowa show that Emmetts
burg and the surrounding country sut-
fered severely, and that several were
killed and many seriously injured. In
Kossuth county many dwellings were
blown down, and two deaths are reported
Parts of Hancock county were also devas-
tated, and three deaths are reported neal
Brett. North Cerro Gordo was struck
and several people are missing there.
Malby and Plymouth were in the track of
the wind
In Minnesota three people were killed
at Leroy, aud the whole eastern part of
the town was badly damaged, the loss be
ing fully $3.50, 900. The tornado struck Le-
roy from the southeast. The storm first
struck the Milwaukee depot there de-
molishing it. J. f. Trask's two story
store was crushed in, causing loss of
$1,000. Three elevators and three ware
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molished. The Union Opera house fell
in on a dancing party and two dead
bodies were taken out During the storm
fire broke out destroying a hotel and
three stores. Eighteen people who sought
shelter in one of the demolished houses
were severly hurt and one woman will die.
Lowther, a small town near Leroy, is
wiped out of existence. Spring Valley
suffers heavy losses, and three were killed
and forty or fifty badly injured there. The
storm then passed in a northeasterly di-
rectiou crossing the Root river and strik-
ing north of Preston, through the county
Of Fillmore north of Rushford, and into
Winona county, where it struck the little
village of Homer, four miles south Of
| Winona destroying several houses Heavy
winds are reported from other parts of the
| state out of the line of the tornado
| George W. Beavers, of Algona, Ia, had
| Just returned from the county fair with
his wife and three children when the tor
| nado struck the house and demolished it
| completely. Tho whole family was buried
| in the ruins A loaded freight car stand
| ing on the side track at the Algona sta
tion was set in motion by the wind and
ran out on the main track and down the
| grade east for about mile, where it
came into collision with a heavily loaded
coal train, Engineer John Humphrey
and Fireman Charles McEldoon and the
brakemen jumped The engineer and
fireman were very seriously injured.
The tornado struck the COtter residence,
three miles northeast of Usage, Ia, de
molishing the house and farm buildings.
At the same place Mrs p. Lonergan's
use was raZed, and she was blown sew
e al rods into hay lot, where she was
picked up dead, Her daughter was badly
injured. 1t destroyed p X. Herbert's
| dwelling, killing Mrs. Herbert and two
children, and then struck F. Perry's house,
| killing his daughter Anna, and it is
thought fatally iujuring several others.
At Burt, Ia., it is definitely known tina {
eight people were killed and several in
iured and large number of farm houses
and barns were bl pwn down and de
stroyed.
Burr Oak, la. "a village four miles north
east of Usage, was destroyed. Thirteen
farm b uses in the vicinity were totally
demolished. even fences and stumps OF
trees being blown away and uprooted
North of Mason City, Ia, four persons
were battered to death by falling timbers
and nine badly injured are not expected
to live At the farm of David Haddow
the house was lifted in the air over grove
of trees, landed in a cornfield, then swept
back against the trees, smashing it to bits
and killing Haddow and his wife. A lad
l5 years old was blown three-fourths of a
mile away, He still lives.
At the farm of d. f. McKercher, three
miles west of Manley, his l2-year-old sol
and his hired man, Louis Graygaald, wer,
killed.
Three miles north of Wesley, Kossutl
/ county, J. Bingham's house was over
turned and set afre The inmates had
narrow escape There were total o
fourteen killed in the vicinity Of Masor
City so far as heard from
The storm struck near Crystal Lake
i At Britt, Hancock county, two persons
are known to have been killed and sew
eral were seriously injured.
FUNNEL SHAPED CLOUD.
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