Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-24
SAD DAY FOR KOSSUTH.
Nineteen Funerals Held and Still
More to Come.
DEAD IN ELLINGTON
List Of the Dead and
Injured So Far as Known-Thir-
ty-nine of the Latter-Many OF
Them Seriously Hurt.

ALGoNA, Iowa, September 23.-This
has been day Of sorrow for Kossuth
county, nineteen funerals were held and
others will follow tom orrow. The
death list in the county is as follows:
Robert Stevenson, Mrs. George
Beavers child, George Folman's child,
Jacob Dlgman, Fort Dodge; Mrs. Fred
French and two children, child OF
Albert Baker, William Sweppes, boy
and girl, Clausendon child, Moses Car
ter and wife, Thomas Tweed's mother
and two children, kockwell's baby.
At least six more will die.
The injured are reported as thirty
nine in number, as follows:
Mrs Robert Stevens, Mrs. Carl Bar
rick, may die; Carl Barrick, Barrick's
boy, three other children in same fam
lily, George Beavers infant child and
adopted boy. Horace Schenck, will prob
ably die; Mrs. Myron Schenck and child,
Mrs George Holman and four children,
Mrs. Clausendon, cannot live; VIM. Fer
guson, wife and child, Mrs. Peter Peter
son, skull fractured; Mrs. Swan,
Peterson, both arms and both legs
broken; p T. Ferguson and family, all
slightly injured; Tom Sweed, severely
hurt; Alex Tweed's wife aud FIVE chill
dreu; Mrs. Rockwell, badly hurt; j.
Eden. very badly hurt, Mrs. +. Meyers.
| Thomas Britton, farmer near Wesley,
is reported missing, and presumed 10
be killed. Prof. 4. j. Lilly, OF North
ern Iowa Normal School, came in from
Gardner and reports thirteen dead in
Ellington township.
CoFFINs FOR THE DEAD
are piled up at every staton, and scenes
of the widest grief are being enacted.
! The storm as witnessed from this place
was one OF indescribable grandeur. A
funnel-shaped cloud OF inkY blackness
swept along TO the northeast illumi-
mated by almost continual flashes OF
| lightning and roar OF thunder,
that was deep and continuous. The
| Opera House was packed with people TO
witness a popular play, and panic was
| almost cree tee bV she warriug elements,
| Robert Stevenson, living about four
| miles north of Whittomore was the first
victim He was hit in several places
| and was fatally injured. His grove
looked as though il had been moved
down by a scythe. Calvin Barrick's
| nj.
made into knding wood ia an
instant, and all OF the fourteen
occupants, but two children, were in
iured. Mrs. Barrick was hurt in the
| back by timber and her spine was so in
jured that her body and lower limbs
were paralyzsd. A 6-year-old boy
| named Charles Lee was hit on the head
and will die. The house OF Fred
| Pomps was completely demolished, but
| his wife and five children came out 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,
and the whole family was carried up
| from between the walls and away about
! thirty rods, one OF the children being
killed. NJ. w. Ferguson's family was
carried some distance through the air,
and all but one landed in willow
| hedge. The baby went a little farther,
and was found seated on piece OF the
| roof. The wife OF Swan Paterson 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 all the
time, which indicated that half Of the
terrors OF the cyclone had not been
| told. The scene Of desOlation was Wis
tied all day by great crowds, every
| available conveyance being chartered.
| The devastation OF property will
not be less than 500, 900. Most
OF the farmers were well-to- do,
| with snug bank accounts, and
others were wealthy, but numbers OF
the victims who were renters lost
everything, some OF them losing their
families The permanently crippled
will make long and sOrrowiul list.
The wires are down much Of the time,
and news is hard TO get or send.
N DESTITUTE CONDITION.
ST. PAUL, MINI. September ga
LEROY, MINI, special 10 the Pioneer
| Press says
The cycloLe sufferers are 10 very
| destitute condition. The loss will ex-
| ceed SlOO. 600. Thirty families are en-
tirely destitute, and many business men
have lost their all. Money IS badly
| needed. Three thousand sightseers
we're here to-day. The local relief COM
mittee is doing all in their power, which
| Il ifrrifed