Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-24
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 ALGoNA. Ia. Sept. -i-- Particulars are coming in all the tin.c which indicate that half Of tho terrnrs nf the cyclone have not been told. T h. >Ccar CG drsO!atlun was visited all day by grnt crowds. every available conVcyancc bVing chartered The devastation 10 property will not bc less than $l JIn uuI. Mos. uf the farmers were we'll tu to. with snug bank ac- counts, and others wcrc wealthy, but numbers of the victims who were renters lost everything. somc oven losing their families. The permanently crippled will mako n long and sOrrowful list
 The wirrs are down. and much of the time nows Is hard to get or send.
 Sunday was n day of sorrow for kossuth county. Nineteen funerals wero held. and others will occur today. The death list in the county Is as follows
 Robert stevenson. Mrs. George Bea- yer's child, George Hoan's child. Jacob Dingan of Fort Dodge, Mrs Frcd French and two children, child of Abort Baker, William Sweppe's hoy and girl, a Claus endon child. Moses Castor and wife, Thomas Twced's mother and two chil. Iren, Rockwells baby.
 At least six more will die Tho injured arc reported as go in number. as follows:
 Mrs. Robert stevenson, Mrs. Carl Bar rack, may die: Carl Barrack, Barrack child, three other children in the samo family, George Beavers infant child and adopted buy. Horace =. Schenck, will probably Gie; Mrs. Myron Schenck and child, Mrs George Holman and four children. Mrs Clausendon. cannot live. w NJ. F rguson. wife and child. Mrs Peter Peterson, skull fractured; Mrs Swan Peterson. both arms and both legs 1 broken F. T. Ferguson and family, all slightly injured, Tom Tweed, severely hurt; Alex Tweed wife and five children; | Mrs. Rockwell, badly hurt; J. Eden, very badly hurt; Mrs. r. Myers.
 Thomas Britton, farmer living near Wesley, is reported missing and Is pre- stunned to have been killed.
 Professor \. J. Lilly of Northern Iowa | Normal school camo in from Garner and reports l3 dead in Ellingtowu township, north of Garn.r. and 12 near Manley, Ellington township, 16 miles north of Britt.
 Collins for the dead nre piled up at ev. cry station, and scenes of the widest grief are being enacted.
 The storm, as witnessed from this place, was ono of indescribable grandeur. A fun mel shaped cloud of inky blackness swept ! along to the northeast, illuminated by almost continuous flashes of lightning, | and the roar of thunder was deop ana con tinuous The opera house was packed with people to witness popular play, | and a panic was almost occasioned by tho warning clements.
 Robert Stevenson, living about foul mics north of Whittemore, was the frs victim He was hit in several places anC was fatally injured. His grove looked al though 1t had been moved down by scythe. Calvin Barrick's house on tn, Henry Durant place was made into kin ding wood in m instant, and all of the l. Mrs Barrick was hurt In the back by fly ing timber, and her spine was so injuret that her body and lower limbs were para lyzed A 6-year old boy named Charlie Leo was hit on tho head and will die.
 The house of Fred Poinpe was com pletely demolished, but his wife and flv children came out of the wreck unhurt The forco Of tho wind was such that barb ed wiro was stripped from posts.
 At George Holman's the roof of his hous went. leaving tho walls standing and tn whole family was carried up from bc tween the walls and away about so rods one Of tho children being killed. NJ. " Furgeson's family was carried somo dis tance through the air. and all but on landed in n willow hedge. The baby wen a littIe farther and was found seated on piece of tho roof The wife of Swan Pc tsrson had her skull cut open in tw places, and some exposed parts of her hea were literally packed with sand, pla,tel hair and grass. na