The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-27
FELL UPON IOWA
,,,pEE TORNADOES WITHIN
VWENTY-FOUR HOURS
KILLED SIX, INJURED OTHERS.
GREAT PROPERTY Loss WAS ALSO
CAUSED.

school for Feeble Minded Was
struck by One of the StOrms-An
The Buildings Were Damaged-Be-
ing on IA Rise, They Were a Mark.
Negro Settlement Was Struck.
Heavy Loss to Property at South
nesNOines Many Buildings Were
Damaged.
DesMoines, IA, May 26.-Iowa has
been storm-svept for the past twenty
four hours. Three tornadoes, two last
night and one tonight, resulted in the
loss of six lives, the fatal injury of
three persons and the serious injury of
q score Of people, beside great prop
erty loss.
The dead at Glenwood:
Maggie Biettner of Adasa, Ia, aged
II years.
Hazel Wright of Adasa, Ia, aged 10
years.
Near Buxton-Georgia Buckley, Her
bert Rhodes.
At South DesMoines-Russel A.
Knauff, aged 30 years; Floyd Knauff,
his eight months old son.
The Iniured-At Glenwood: Mary Eek
ert Anna Delaney, Myrtle Dickinson,
Eta Newton, Harrison Johnson.
Near Observation-Disclosures Rhodes. IA
tall Mollie Rhodes, fatal; Eliza Blake
ly, fatal Amply and Minnie Blakely;
Seward, Lucy, George and Addison
Rhodes; Buddie Reashy, Mary Walker.
At South DesMoines-Mrs. Knauff,
bruised and cut; Mrs. Margaret Bos-
ton, skull injured by falling brick;
Charles McNutt, hurt by flying tree
limbs; Mrs. John Mccoy, breast and
head cut by flying glass.
Inmates OF School.
The victims at Glenwood were all
inmates of the school for the feeble
minded.
The tornado struck the girls dormi-
tory. The roof was torn off and with
a terrible crash fell back again upon
the wrecked building. All the build
ings of the group, including the hos
pital, dormitory, boys building, Gus
todians building, farm cottages and
the boiler room were more or less dam
aged by the storm. The superlntend-
ent estimates that the loss will be at
least $4,000. There is no insurance.
The buildings of the institution are
situated on slight rise and were a
mark for the heavy wind which swept
down on the structure with terrible
fury. The boiler room, including some
fine machinery lately installed, is
wrecked. The eleven girls who were
injured are being cared for in the
hospital which is intact.
The tornado near Buxton struck be-
fore noon near what is known as
Number Ten Junction, a mining settle
ment. All the victims were colored. The
storm came from the southwest and
the destructive wind seemed to de-
scend suddenly from a great bank of
Clouds which was sweeping toward
the northwest. The houses occupied
by the Rhodes and Blakely families
were smashed to kndling wood.
The Victims Were Negroes.
The tornado struck South DesMoines
at dark tonight. 1t came from the
south, but after the greater part of the
destruction was wrought, it veered &c
the northwest as it approached the
junction of the DesMoines and Rae
coon rivers. The property damage in
South DesMoines and vicinity will
reach $780, The Knauff home and
the Christian Church We're wrecked
and about forty other buildings were
damaged.
About the same time what was APP
parently another storm struck the
packing house section of town, mile
to the northeast of the scene of the
South DesMoines disaster. Many build
ings were damaged.