The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-09-27
AROUND ALTOONA.
The Dead Number a Score and the Injured
Twice as Many.


Twice as Many.
ALTOONA, Ia, Sept. 24.-The cyclone
of Friday night caused great loss Of life
in Kossuth county. The dead number
at least score and the injured twice
that number. The death list Of the
county is as follows:
ROBERT STEVENSON.
Mrs GEORGE BoOvERs AND CHILD.
GEORGE HOLMAN's CHILD.
JACOB DINGMAN of Fort Dodge.
MRS FRED FRENCH AND Two CHILDREN.
CHILD OF ALBERT BAKEN
WILLIAM SwEPPE AND Boy AND GIRL,
CLAUSEDON'S CHILD.
MOSES CARTER AND WIFE
THOMAS TwEED's MOTHER AND Two
CHILDREN.
ROCKwELLs BABY.
Of the injured at least six will die,
- Many Fatalities Elsewhere.
Professor A. J. Lilly of the Northern
Iowa normal school came in from Gar
.ner and reports 10 dead in Ellington
township, north of Garner, IL near
Manly junction and IL north of Britt.
Collins for the dead are piled up at
every station and scenes of the widest
grief are enacted. The storm, as wit
messed from this place, was one Of in
describable grandeur. Funnel-shaped
clouds Of inky blackness swept along to
the northeast, Illuminated by almost
continuous flashes of lightning. The
roar Of thunder was deep and continu-
Gus, The opera house was packed with
people to witness popular play and
almost panic was occasioned by
The War of the Elements.
Robert Stevenson, living four miles
north of Whittemore, was the first vic
tim. His grove looked like it was
moved down by scythe. Calvin Bar
rick's house, on the Henry Durant
place, was made into kindling wood in
an instant and all the IA occupants, ex-
cept two children, were injured. Mrs.
Barrick was hit in the back with tim
Der and her spine was SO injured that
her body and lower limbs are paralyzed.
A 6-year.old boy, Charles Lee, was hit
on the head and will die. The house Of
Fred Pompe was completely demolished
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.
At George Holman's the roof Of the
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. M. w. Fer
guson's family was carried some dist.
ance through the air and all but: one
of them landed in a willow hedge. The
baby went a little farther and was
found seated on 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. Par
ticulars are coming in all the tim
which indicates that
Half of the Terrors
of the cyclone is not told. The seen
of desolation was visited all day b,
great crowds, every available convey
ance being chartered. The destruction
of property will not be less than 800
600. Most of the farmers are we'll
do, with snug bank accounts, and ott
erA are wealthy, but numbers Of tn
victims are renters who lost everything
The permanently crippled will make
long and sorrowful list. The wire
were down much of the time and new
was hard to get or to send.
Wind Destroys Swedish Church.
SPENCER, Ia, Sept. M.-The Swedis
church, 10 miles southwest Of here, W,
blown to atoms and several farm hous
were blown down by the tornado. \