Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-09-29
TORN BY TORNADOES.

seventy-Five Persons Killed In Iowa and
Minnesota and n Much Larger Number
Injured by the Late Widespread ana
Devastating Cyclone - iIeartrendinE
Scenes In Many Sections--Once Happy
Families Rendered Homeless.
Fort DODGE, Ia, Sept. 23.--Seventy-
five persons are believed to have lost
their lives in the cyclone which
wrought death and destruction over
such wide extended territory Friday
night; the injured are numbered by
hundreds, and the property loss will
reach well up into the thousands. The
devastated country lies in the south
ern part of Minnesota and the north
ern part of Iowa, and extends from the
western to the eastern boundaries OF
these states.
The storm started a few miles west
of Emmettsburg, in Palo Alto county,
la. In Iowa it went through the
counties of Kossuth, Hancock, Winnie
bago, Cerro Gordo, Worth, Floyd,
Mitchell, Chckasaw and Howard.
Leaving Iowa it went through the
counties of Meyer, Fillmore and
Winona. In all Of these counties seri-
GUS damage is reported. Houses were
taken bodily from their foundations
and trees were lifted by their roots.
Many miraculous escapes are reported
where houses were carried from one
place to another without injuring the
nc r.
were exceptions.
The town of Emmcttsburg, neal
which the cyclone started, was very
fortunate in escaping, as the terribl,
hurricane grazed the outer edge of the
town. Several persons We're killed just
outside the town and several Others
were severely injured.
The towns through which the cy
clone passed after leaving Emmetts
burg, so far as reported, are Ellington
Burgen, Iayfeld, Newton, Tomplsins
Buffalo, Ruthvcn, Usage, Algona
Cresco, Burt, Plum Creek and Lowther
all in Iowa; and Waseca, Leroy, Spring
Valley and Homer, in Minnesota.
While the damage through these
small places is very great, it is ligh
in comparison with that done through
out the country districts. 1t is, o
course. impossible at this time to sa.
! what the property loss will be, but i
is very great. The loss of life is esti
| mated to be in the neighborhood o
seventyfive persons.
: The cases of death are widely scat
tered, being reported i'll ones and two
+ throughout the county, but the larges
l concentrated destruction seems t
have been at Algona, where tiftee
, were killed and twice that number il
: iured Ia the county south (kossutl
/ thirty in all were killed and fifteen il
jured.
= At Usage nine were killed and tiftee
injured. Several of the injured one
e in Usage will probably die.
> At Spring Valley. in Minnesota. iiy
: were killed and many injured. il th
storm had reached there u half hor
. sooner a large number would hay
" been killed, as the theater buildis
:, was destroyed just after large AZ
u dience had dispersed.
:. The scenes in many sections d,
! heartrending. Parents are grievir
y for children who were Killed, and chi
., dren are moaning the losses OF parent
: Many families are without roof
= shelter them, who have always befo
n had happy homes and necessary coi
!, forts. Some of them are able to I
y build and to stand the loss, but Il
y. majority are not. Some of them. ev,
- so late as two weeks ago, sent the
savings to help out the fire sufferers
Wisconsin, and to-day they are in wal
} themselves