Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-25
DEAD AND MANNED
N 1ORNkDO'S PATH
TWENTY FATALITIES IN COUN-
Gil BLUFFS AND VI
CINlTY.
FIVE DEAD AND MANY HURT
IN STORM NEAR GLENWOOc
Two Deaths in Harrison County and
Thousands Of Dollars in Property
Destroyed over Wide Area of South
western Portion Of State - Havoc
oecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Council Bluffs. March 25.-Appaling.
The strongest words in the possibility
Of man fails to describe the fearful
destruction wrought by Sunday even
lngs storm in southwestern Iowa.
passed had seen every succeeding hour
increasing the death list and adding to
the horrors OF the living.
Nearly twenty are dead in and near
Council Bluffs.
Five are dead near Glenwood.
Everywhere are injured and turnout
the entire country are spCts-black
places-where the storm simply swept
everything off the face OF the earth
Lack of means of communication
served to heighten the misery and I'M
certainty OF il all. and almost before
the refrain of Easter anthems had died
away came the mingled agonizing
means OF the injured and the sorrow
ing
AT Lake Manawa the storm swept the
eastern half of the resort. making
clean line OF GsIuarhatiun. The bowl
ing alley, shooting gallery and similar
stands We're swept away, together with
the old Ben Marks sporting place,
building of considerable size. Several
cottages here We're also destroyed. but
so far as known no one was killed
Freaks Of the Storm.
Freak stories are accommodating. A
farm hand whose name could not be
learned but Of whom reliab Bile witnesses
told, has his head shaved clean of hair
and escaped uninjured otherwise.
A section of the Great Western steel
viaduct near town was twisted out as
if it We're a pile of matches.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Rice were found
almost nude, 100 yards from their home,
, dead.
One of the most thrilling stories of
escape was that of the Nielsen family
living on the old McGorkan place just
south Of the old Green packing house
! When the first shock of the storm
struck the old brick house in which
I they were living, Mr.. Nielsen handed
the baby to his wife and hurried out
of the door on the north side of the
place. While pulling the door closed
behind him, the entire structure seemed
TO collapse and was carried in all direc-
! tons
Nielsen dropped to the ground pull
! ing his wife and child with him and
escaped injury except for two bricks
which dropped on his back. These in
juries proved 20 be slight.
When the worst of the storm was
over. Mr.. Nielsen climbed to his feet
10 find that the only portion Of the
I house left was the door, the knob of
which he had in his hand when the
| house was blown to pieces Bricks were
etrewn a half mile in all directions and
| the furniture and clothes had disap-
peared entirely.
Several Dead at Weston.
! At Weston, where two women were
| Killed, the storm crushed several build
! ings as tho they We're egg shells. Mrs.
| Lon Thomas, who was killed here, was
! burned to a crisp. The house was set
on fire in some manner after it had
| been wrecked. A Mrs. Swinderman here
was also killed. Thomas mana ged TO
crawl to q corn cribe. He will die and
SO will their son. Practically all of the
farm buildings were destroyed here
Just as fast as telephone communica-
! ton has been opened to outside points
! it served TO reveal some new horror
The railroads were simply put out Of
! business and not wheel turned all
! Sunday night and when trains began
! operating today II was by the block
I system and by tagging them over the
! lines from station to station.
! On -ne Wabash near Silver City the
! storm hit a passenger train and lifted
| the LOGON olive bodily from the track
| but did not injure any other part OF
| the train and the passengers received
| opI-- a severe fright