Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-06-07
The Cyclone.

O'Clock the cltlZtIs OF Inc Naley
noticed that there were strange dis
turbances in the c.auos to the south
west aud west, at times accompanied
by a low. murmRring sound-too dis
tant to be plainly distinct, and yet
unmistakabie. This was the more re-
markable as only q very light breeze
overwhelmingly sufficient to agitate
the leaves on the trees. Here Nature
was in her gentler mood and smiled
upon mountain and field, happydweli'
ing and growing crop. But Havoc
reigned i'll other sections OF our little
county, and ere the evening passed
we learned that our friends and
neirhbors to the north and west had
been subjected to the terrors of tine
dreaded cyclone. Through the aid of
a friend, who visited the locality OF
the disaster, near Munger, the
following details are given, but no
doubt many occurrences and incidents
remain untold.
The writer's Investigations We're
near Munger, partly in the edge OF
Reynolds county and neal by in Iron
county.
| The cyclone WIS seen approaching
| for more than twenty minutes by AL
} bert Light and others near Munger.
They described its appearance az k
the smoke Of a locomotive, extending
into the air Tor some distance. The
= large end OF the spiral leaning ahead
: and the small end, or tail, as they
t called it. whipping this way ana that
and taking everything in its path it
was estimated by observers that the
e the storm was not moving faster than
five miles an hour.
= The first place where damage was
= done, that the writer saw, was at Al
U bert Lights. His house, Il Of the
!, best in that locality, was carried bodily
q into the air to the height OF 100 feet,
: and then orr to shreds. On a point
of a mountain nearly half mile away,
in the path Of the storm, could be
=, seen a large quantity OF lumber from
this house.
/. Alonzo Lights house stood a short
distance from his fathers, (Aiber'
Light and was also carried into tht
! air for about a hundred yards ant
then dashed to pieces on the ground
"a The sills were imbedded several fee
i, in the grou3d and brick from thu
!. chimney were carried by the force O
=. the impactfor a hundred yards, Tines
Ia people lost practically everything II
a. the way of household goods, but the
lives were spared, and while all the'
fowls were killed, their stock escaped
= The direct path of the storm, from
:. here, ore through what is known a
' Tiefenauer Hollow, where the hous
Of "Uncle' John Hurt was completes
- DESTROYED and he and his wife lo'
>, their lives. Two daughters and the
". children were visiting here and e.
-. capped with bruises,
The next place where serious dan
age was dolre Was the home of Il
Misses Jerusha aud Esther Shrul
r. The elderly ladies were sitting..in the
~ home, a substantial log house. and III
one log was LETT upon another, al
they were left sitting on the hoo
with scarcely a scratch. Their hous'
hold goods also escaped being de
j., troyed.
Not SO fortunate wastheir neishbc
Mr.. Mund~-"Fritz,' as he is known
most of us. When the storm bur
upon his place Fritz was not at HON
but his wife and family were Their
and all of them suffered severeI
One daughter, Il years old, was XIII
instantly, and another, 9years old, W
81 SO seriously injured that she has O
ifs, ly a slight fighting chance of recover
'u"' Mrs. Mund is very seriously injure
We also the baby; but they will reeov'
'l'h Everything they had in the wo'
heu was destroyed, but their land, a
Oh. crops were injured greatly.
tea' Neighbors and friends have be
''fs' very kind to the stricken ones, a
a"S everything possible is being done
' them.
Words cannot begin to express
he' horrors of this storm or the havoc
y has wrought, and one can scarcely
VI" lieve the evidence of his own eyes.
Immense quantities of timber w
blown down and roads obstruct
. :" and in order to fully appreciate
l"p situation IA visit to the scene m
actually be made.
'e' Passing enthusiastically from NJ
SUI" ger, the cyclone next struck Seine
w"s erviIle about 1880 P. NJ, where We
A'ch houses and q large hotel build
nus were demolished. The only per
ION there fatally injured was \
lap' Sarah Nicholson. Upon the appre
oes's OF the storm, she ran from
ftcr- homo r. tho ca,,,r NJ tho hotel. VIII
. was or "a number of her neighbors had
. 'or for safety. There she was stric
VIM on the head by n large stone and
10 u stantly killed. Her dwelling esc'
destruction and is left standing
the surrounding ruins, The tim