Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
EXTENT OF CALAMITY IN SOUTH
WESTERN IOWA INCREASED BY
LATE REPORTS.
SCORES OF FARM BUILDINGS
lEVELED OVER WIDE AREA
From Starting Point - Widespread
DAMAGE in Vicinity Of Iowa Falls,
Williams and Other Places in Central
Iowa-kensett Narrowly Escapes.
pecial to Times-Repuhlican.

| Council Bluffs, March 26.-Now that
sufficient time has elapsed for sane
view of the calamity which befell
southwestern Iowa Sunday simuita-
neously with Omaha, the public is sur
prised that contrary to general result
| first estimates of the extent of the
destruction of life and property was
! under estimated rather than overesti-
mated. The fact is the people were so
stunned by the magnitude and extent
| of the calamity as to be utterly IN
able TO sense il correctly.
Uncertainty increased the feeling Of
horror. Telephone and telegraph wires
We're down completely. Newspaper Of
fees. police stations and fire stations
We're besieged with demands for news
OF the disaster. Finally people sans
hats and with little clothing on,
reached the center OF the city and
brought the first information Of the
extent of the storm. Ambulances
carrying doctors, surgeons and under
takers on the same wide ride thru the
inhy darkness. hurried away. People
We're actually numb with fear and
talked in whispers and when the first
ambulance had returned carrying the
bodies of four dead. the first word
came from Omaha telling of the great
loss Of life there and answering calls
for help she Council Bluffs fire depart
men- raced away 10 the Nebraska side.
School for Deaf Just Missed.
The escape OF The Iowa School for
the Deaf is little shor, OF miraculous
Tor the storm just missed it, big
residence directly across the street be-
ing destroyed and two occupants
killed A street car which neared the
school outran the storm, the occupants
escaping injury by lying flat upon the
floor.
a singular feature Of the storm was
the heavy coating Of red bricklike dus;
which settled over peoples clothing
and windows after the storm and for
miles in every direction. An ambu
lance driver and newspaper man not
ICED q man walking in the mud atcired
hailed him with: Say why don't YOU
go home and get some clothes on o.
The storm victim. for such he proved
70 BE- dolefully and meekly replied that
| he hadn't any home and he hadn't any
| clothes, Similar incidents occurred foz
| tWentyfour hours.
| Al the home of Mr.. and Mrs John
I Schultz, where there was 3 family Of
! six, the house was literally destroyed
over their heads as they chung 70 each
other in q corner and not one Of them
received scratch a mile away Mr.
/! Schultz parents were both killed No
writer can adequately depict nor ca +
I any photograph prorray anything like a
t-1e or Intelligent idea Of the devasta-
) tfon wroaght. In the country. where.
tfos ,esg stretches, every sign of flab.-
tatieI VAS wiped away the loneliness
and desoIati9n Is Intensified. Property
loss win surely in the three counties
! OF Po,tawattaInie. Mills and Harrison.
aggregate $3.50. 90, The damage TO
property IN W-eodDsne alone is fully
S350.Ooo.
Scores of Farm Buildings Wrecked
About Defiance and Glenwood scores
I Of farm homes and barns were de-
stroyed. Al Gienwood Clyde Merritt
(, was killed just as ne and his mother
and sister were entering a cyclone Gel
lar being hir by hying timber. Al he
! DonneNy Brothers farm in Mills coun-
| y, Mr.. and Mrs. George Shane were
J literaly blown thru The windows and
! their household goods went the same
! way. They were absolutely sacked on,
| Of the building By the terrific suction
but the building in this case was rot
! badly damaged. Two school houses II
| Mills county were blown away. and one
| fire new school house was destroyed
near Council Bluffs.
| Some IDEA can be gained Of the ex-
tent q the property loss by lis, OF
| losers thus far known: IN NILS coun
" here are thee losses. those being
named having either lost their home OF
| barn or both: Morg Alexander, E'a-
! Eaton, Dick Wilson, Ben Price. Clar-
ence Tanderpood, Henry Williams
James Mickelwait. Fred Reasoner. 4
3. Sawyer, A. B. Donneily. J. NJ. Miller
5. a. Pratt, Milo Adams, Delft Fisher
John Severn, Claude Brooks. Near De-
iance these farm homes were wrecked
or partly damaged. Tom Nooen, a. a
Hulsebus, Fletcher Muller. y. P. Mill
ers. Dan Quinn, John Hartman. a
Gail, Manila, Buck Grove and Mas
sena extensive damage was done also
In one of the wrecked stores at Wood
bine the storm sucked the goods from
the front TO the rear OF the building
piling them all up. Several people il
| Mills and Pottawattamie counties ar
missing.
At Henderson, Mills county, the hom