Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-26
Village Of Feguson, Nine Miles From Mar
shalltown. Visited by Terrible Storm.
TWO KILLED OUTRIGHT AND TWO FATALLY INJURED
Hotel. Depot. Several Residences and Other Buildings
Demolished.
List Numbers Thirteen and the Property Loss Will Be Heavy
storm Corner Of the Town and Did But Slight
Damage Elsewhere - The Detala

was another inmate OF the hotel at the
time. His right leg was terribly crushed
just above the ankle by falling timbers,
and he was otherwise injured. There is
some doubt as to his recovery. Anton
Hessen, the only other person in the
hotel besides those mentioned. escaped
from the wreckage with a dislocated
shoulder.
Across the street from the hotel was
the grain Office and cribs OF L. B. Beale
& Co. The Office and cribs were demol-
ished and the wreckage was scattered
for half mile.
North OF the hotel the storm practi-5
|cally wrecked the Milwaukee depot and
the four inmates thereof had mlracu-
lous escapes. Agent w. II. Robinson
and wife We're in their apartments on
the second floor. The roof was blown
into an adjoining pasture. the windows
and doors were torn out and Mr. and
Mrs. Robinson were covered with
wreckage. Several large tinlbers fell
into the room in which they were and
probably saved their lives protecting
them as they did from the brick from
the falling chimney. Mr.. Robinshon was
hit on the head and was severely
bruised. while Mrs. Robinson was in
ljured about the chest. With them at
the time was Jasper hickey, 3 photo
IgrapheT. who was bruised about the
head.
James Mullan, the night operator on
duty, was brown violently against the
liwall of the Office when the storm swept
thru the building, and was considerably
bruised, tho not seriously injured. a
section hand named Taylor was caught
Iout in the storm and was slightly in
jured.
OTHER PROPERTY LOSS.
Sixteen freight and fiat cars standing
lin the railway yards were blown from
Z Z the tracks and some OF them We're re-
duced 10 spIlnters and twisted iron
4 One of the water tanks OF the company
was unroofed and twisted. But four oi
4 the cars in the yards at the time were
slleft on the tracks, and In one of these
!. twenty or twenty-five men Of the con-
4 struction gang employed near Fergu-
s'on were housed for the night. The
cars on both sides of the one in which
were were tipped over and partially
A wrecked. This car was partially pro-
sI5tected by the grain warehouse, which
was full of grain at the time and re-
sisted the storm, which seemed to lift al
4 this point. Had the warehouse been
wrecked the men would undoubtedly
! have been crushed under the debris anc
4 grain. The house Of G. w. Wills wal
4 owed from it's foundation and numerou:
sheds and outbuildinEs We're wrecked.
! One of the peculiar freaks of the storm
& wasstile blowing in of the front door o
! the store OF Seth Smith. while the Ben
y
:. blown out.
Another freak of the storm was the
s killing OF a COW in a lot adjoining thu
: hotel and the carrying away of an
other COW ard a horse that were in tn,
same lot. When the T.-R. reporter lef
q Ferguson at noon neither the horse MOI
! COW had been found.
. North and south OF Ferguson tn,
8 trace. No damage was done to til,
s southwest and but little damage re
!. suited directly in Its path to the cas-
3 near Pickering. several sheds and out
: buildings were demolished. but beyon,
r. that the storm seemed to spend its fore
I or to raise.
n RELIEF FROM TAMA.
i reached the Milwaukee officials spe
i, cial train bearing DR.. Allen, the com
: pany physician at Tama, DR.. Thomp
a son. DR.. Corns and others was dis
= patched from Tama and reached Fer
S guson at 10 o'clock. The physicians o
+ once gave their attention to the In
& jured. They found the people ef tn
3, village dazed by the catastrophe and |
n great need of assistance. Some Of til
o physicians remained until today an
70 are doing all in their power for the sui
8 ferers. Another relief train was dis
n patched from Perry, the division head
s quarters of the road. and Superlntend
i ent Earling came on a specit
y train from Marion. The .rac
cleared in "a short time {
t the wreckage and there was little dc
yIlay to traffic. Superintendent Earlin
v lplaces the company's loss in property 9
y So 900, which is very conservative fie
% lure. The property Is being repaired q
fast as a large force of men can pus
r. the work. sas
It LOSS FALLS HEAVI1,
IS Mr.. Lovelady loses everything in tt
r. Iway OF property that ne owned. even
the clothing of himself and family an
" several hundred dollars In book q,
ID counts. He came to Ferguson sewers
t. months ago from Perry, where he WE
s. engaged In the train service Of the Mi
Is waukee. "A subscription paper was ,
lie ionce started and $50 were raised ror II
Is benefit A subscription will also
IN taken In this city for the Loyelady fan
mi lily and others who lost their all.
,r Peter Olson, who was former reH
dent of Marshalltown. lost not only h
nlhome and furniture. but his carpe
e. weaving machinerysas well.
err The hotel property was former
- lowned by Deputy Sheriff Cal Hutso
lg Land only las. Saturday he sold the san
ID to James Filler. The building was Va
arIued at $500 and was insured for 81 II
,ul Nj Keevan had NO Insurance on
o. property which q . tetai loss.
N. Hptson. ins scoinp pAny with q -
ri ii representa tive soeS TIE Ase
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