Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-27
Death Dealing Wind.
MORE THAN FIFTY PEOPLE KILL-
ED IN IONA AND MINNIE
sofa BY A CYCLONE.
Whole Villages Wrecked by the Terri
HE St0rm-It M0wed a Swath
300 Miles Long in the
Northwest.

Latest reports are to the effect
that fully fifty lives we're lost in the
cyclone which swept over Iowa and
Minnesota on Friday night, Sept.21.
: The number injured will go into
the hundreds, while the property
loss Will reach an enormous figure.
The path of the storm was a mar
row strip of country 200 miles long.
In its wake are ruined towns and
devastated farms.
Starting about ten miles south of
Spencer in Northwestern Iowa, the
storm at 5 O'Clock began its work of
destruction. Taking everything be-
fore it, it swept across Iowa just
north of Emmettsburg and Algona,
! wiping out the little town of Cylin-
der, but mostly iniuring the country
districts.
After passing by Mason City and
running the country northwest OF
Usage, it bore off to the northeast,
crossing the Minnesota line and
soon after 10 O'Clock wrecked the
little town of Leroy, where a bad
fire added to the destruction. Spring
Valley was right in the path of the
cyclone and suffered severely.
Turning again to the east, the
little towns of Homer and Lowther
were badly damaged.
All along the path of the storm
the Geographic service has been
completely wrecked. 1t was a
cyclone of wind, hail and rain. Re-
ports from points below, reached by
telegraph, tell the story of the fury.
The followingi is list of the locali'
ties where the fatalities occurred:
Algona, To-, twenty.six are re.
ported dead.
Near Usage, To-, five are dead
and one fatally injured.
Five are dead at Spring Valley.
MINI.
Three dead and one dying a
Leroy, MINI.
Other points report fatalities.
some of which, however, are includ
ed in this summary.
The towns damaged or destroyed
are:
In Iowa: Cylinder, Burt, Fores'
City and Manley Junction.
In Minnesota: Leroy, Sprins
Valley, Dodge Center, Homer anC
Lowther.
In Wisconsin: Marshland.
NINETY KILLED.
MASON CITY, la. Sept. 24.-It i!
still impossible to give complete
figures of the number of dead an(
injured in the great tornado of Fri
day night, but it is almost certain
that Saturday nights estimate Q
ninety dead was not overdrawn.
In Kossuth county the death lis
numbered nineteen, eleven of tn,
victims being children. These wer'
buried yesterday. The injured
numbered thirty'nine, of whoa
seven will probably die.
In Ellington township; Hancocl
county, north of Garner and nea
Marley, are twenty-five dead, ant
north of Britt sixteen more deat
are reported.
The family of G. w. Fergus wer,
carried through The air and deposit
ed in a hedge. The baby was fount
on a piece of the roof, uniniured
The others were badly hurt.
Particulars are coming in all tn,
time, which indicate that half of th,
terrors of the storm have not beer
told. The scene of desolation wa!
visited all day by great crowds, al
available eonveyances being chart
cred.
Most Of the farmers were well t
do, with snug bank accounts, bu
numbers of the victims who wer,
renters lost everything. The per
manently crippled will make a Ions
list.
The sufferers about Leroy, Mimi.
are destitute. The loss will exceed
100000. Thirty families are IL
want and many business men hav,
lost their all. Money is badly need
ed. The local relief committee il
doing ali in its power, which il
limited.
i b. b. Tureman is confined to hi