The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-23
NEAR ALTOONA.
Twcnty-six Reported Dead and Thir-
y-Nin Injured.

ty-Nine Injured
ALTOONA, Ia, Sept. "a tornado passed
through this county about 8 o'clock last
night. Twenty-six people are known to
have been killed and thirty-nine injured.
several Of them fatally. The little town of
Cylinder. twenty miles west of this place.
on the Milwaukee road, it is reported. was
literally swept off the face of the earth.
About twenty-five miles north of that place
a family named GouIden, four in number,
was killed. The town of Whitemore, twelve
miles west of Algona. was unframed. but
Robert Stevenson, living four miles north,
va killed and his wife probably fatally
Injured. Eighteen people who sought shell
tor in the house of the Durant place were
more or less hurt, and one woman will
probably die. Thew were going home from
the county fair. A little further on four
teen others were huddled into the Begetmair
house. Herbert Carrick was badly hurt and
his wife was probably fatally injured. Chas.
Lee and wife and five children were very
badly hurt. The wife and children of Fred
Pompe, in Fenton township, were in the
house, which was completely wrecked, but
they were covered up by the falling wall
and not one of them was hurt. The horse
barn was blown away. but the five horses
In it were unframed.
George w. Beavers, living three miles
north of Algona, had just come home from
the fair. He got into the house with his
wife and two children and an adopted son,
and was just getting down in the cellar
when the tornado struck the house. com
pletely demolishing it. The whole
family was covered with the ruins
about four rods into the road. Beavers
had fha hakt, -, III - =. =. F, =
tian Dau, his father-in-law. for help. HIS
wife was just dying when he returned. and
his little girl gasped Papa, papa" and ex-
PRED. The wreck here was complete.
hotnlng remaining of the handsome house
and barn.
more complete picture Of desolation. TWO
immense barns and two houses were CON
verfed i1to kindling wood Schenck's wife
found were under a heavy oak beam. Both
were hurt. and Mrs. Schenck was uncon-
Bcious. Horace Schenck was covered nm
with some lumber. He had a severe scaID
wound and was injured in the back. His
condition is serious. and as he is seventy
xnree years old his recovery is doubtful.
This was one of the places that was sur
rounded by a large grove and orchard.
The trees are all blown down. The kitch-
en- clock was in a wreck with a sewing
machine and the hands pointed TO ten
minutes past & A willow hedge running
nort9 ard south near the Schenck home
49, 4AN4 A0A VI AOQoC4lOil luI0l-
ture, mattresses. bedding and milk cans.
carried through ii from Beavers's place. a
mile west. Joseph ~Thompson's house was
Quilted n the walls are in a swaying
condition. His barn went 10 pieces and
five horses were buried in it. 1t took till
2 O'Clock this morning TO dig them out.
East of the river. in Plumcreek county.
the house of George Holman was carried
thirty yards and dropped with such force
as to wreck it. In it were Mr.. Homan.
wife and six children. One of the chill
dren was Killed outright, four were Injured,
and Mr.. Holman was seriously hurt. An
old man named Bingaman. a mile nsrth
OF Romans, was killed. Seven persons
We're killed northeast of this place, in
Guiding a man and Wife, names unknown;
William Sweeper and two children and an
infant child OF the Clausedens.
Orders are coming in 20 the undertakers
for collins. A relief mi has al
ready been organized. but there is appar-
emily no restitution. The country swept
IS a arming section, with great barns
filled TO the ~rafters with hay. The packed
conditions Of the barns saved the stock.
There is hardly any loss Of stock.
A report just received from Wesley,
twelve miles east. states that there were
thirteen dead bodies found there. Seven
OF these are included in the foregoing re-
mort