The morning call., 1894-09-24
HORRORS NOT HALF TOLD.
Dwellings Reduced to Splinters
by the Wind.
ARE BLOWN AWAY.
From Various Sections of Kossuth
County, Iowa, Come Stories of
Terrible Destruction.

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Nineteen funerals were held and others
will come tomorrow. The dead list COM
plete is as follows:
Robert Stevenson.
Mrs. George Beavers child.
George Holman's child.
Jacob Dingnan, Fort Dodge.
Mrs. George French, two children.
Child of Albert Baker.
William Sweppe's boy and girl.
Claussensen and child.
Moses Caster and wife.
Tweed's mother and two children.
RockwelPs baby.
At least six more will die.
The injured are reported as thirty-nine
in number. as follows:
Mrs. Robert Stevenson.
Mrs. Carl Bsrrick.
Carl Barrick, may die.
-Four other chiliren in the same family.
George Beavers infant child and
adopted boy, Horace Scnenck, will prob
ably die.
Mrs. Myron Schenck and child
Mrs. George Holman and four children.
Mrs. Clausensen, cannot live.
William Ferguson, wife aud child.
Mrs. Peter Peterson, skull fractured.
Mrs. Swan Peterson, both arms and legs
broken.
P. T. Ferguson and family. all slightly
injured.
Tom Tweed, severely hurt.
Alexander Tweed's wife and fye chill.
dreD.
Mrs. Rockwell, badly hurt.
j. Eden. very badly hnr,
Mrs. +. Meyers.
Thomas T. Britton, a farmer near Wes-
ley. reported missing and presumed TO be
killed.
Professor A. L. Lilly of the Northern
Iowa Normal School came in from Garner
and reports thirteen dead at Ellington
township, north OF Garner, twelve near
Manley. lington Township, and sixteen
north of Britt.
COffins ior 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 indescri ba ble
grandeur. A funnel-shaped cloud of inky
blackness swept along to the northeast
| illuminated by almost continuous flashes
of lightning. and the roar of thunder was
deep and continuous. The opera-house
was packed with people to witness a play
and panic was almost 0ccasioned by the
warning elements.
Robert Stevenson. living about four
miles north of Whittemore, was the first
victim. He was hit in several places and
fatally injured. His grove looked as if it
mad been moved down with scythe.
Carl BarrIck's house, on the Henry
Durant place. was turned into kindllng-
wood In an instant and all OF the fourteen
occupants but two children were Injured.
Mrs. Barrick was hurt in the back bv
flying timber and so badly injured that
her limbs were paralyZed. A six-year-old
boy named Charles Lee was hit on the
head aud will die. Ths house of Fred
Pompe was completely demolished. but
his wife and tlve children came ont 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 his house went, leaving the walls
standing. The whole family was carried
up from between the walls and away
about thirty rods. one of the children
being killed.
G. w. Ferguson's family was carried
some distance through the air and all but
one landed in hedge. The baby went a
little farther and was found seated on a
piece of the roof. The wife of Swan Peter
son 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 Indicate
half the horrors of the cyclone have not
been told. The scene of desolation was
visited all day by great crowds, all avail
able conveyances being chartered.
The destruction of property will not be
less than 100000. Most of the farmers
were well TO do. with snug bank accounts.
but number were renters and lose eyery-
thi' G. some of them losing their families.
The permanently crippled will make a
long list. The wires are down and news
is hard to get.