Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-05-23
TUESDAYS TORNADO
KILLED EIGHTEEN
And Travels Eastward to Boone
And Other Iowa Cities

And Travels Eastward to Boone
And Other Iowa Cities
About three o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon a tornado visited Arcadia,
Maple River Junction and other
points north of Audubon, leaving
death and destruction in it's wake.
A tornado that 'roared like a
hundred mogul engines" according
to eye witnesses, ripped the south
east corner off Boone at 400 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon. killiig six, prob
ably fatally injuring six others and
less seriously injuring scores
Property damage is estimated at
half million dollars. The big 4G-
stall roundhouse, which is a part of
the great Northwestern shops at
Boone, is partly ruined. The rail
shop of the same plant is mass of
brick and twisted steel.
For the width of path running
north and east from Jackson street,
where the storm entered Boone, al
most every structure that stood be-
fore the storm was leveled
The Eleanor Moore hospital is
crammed with injured, and the ov-
erflow has been accommodated in
private homes. The homeless. esti-
mated at $50, fill all hotels. North
western main line traffic is com
pletely demoralized, and trains on
the Fort Dodge and Southern inter
urban have been cancelled until fur
Their orders.
Late yesterday afternoon the 18th
death in the tornadoes which swept
Iowa Tuesday evening. was reported
from Hardin county. The death of a
man named Jameson at Steamboat
Rock. was reported from Hubbard,
which was the center of a devastat-
ed area in which property loss will
exceed 100000. North of Eldora
bridges across the Iowa river were
torn away and the loss to farm
property is heavy. The path of the
storm in Hardin county is about 23
miles long. At White Pleasant,
church and twenty-five other build
ings were demolished.
The north half of Iowa was at the
mercy Tuesday evening of roaring,
twisting windstorms that took life
toll of at least seventeen persons,
ruined great section of cities and
towns at widely separated points. in
jured scores of men and women, and
tore growing crops out of the fields.
Latest reports divide the death
list of Tuesdays tornadoes as fol-
lows
Boone-Mrs. Frank Roberts, Jas.
Bills, Albert Daniels. Ernest Linquist
maging total of six.
Newton-George Reid
Denison-Emmett Ehling.
Near Carroll-Joseph Drinks and
his one-year old daughter.
Churdan-J. G. Zener and an un-
identified farm hand.
Near Eldora-Henry Finster.
Chelsea--Frank Koulepek.
Near Harcourt-- - Andersen
Walker-Mrs. VIM. Ossman.
Dubuque-Henry Liddle
Apparently these deaths resulted
from numerous tornadoes that rose,
swept eastward varying distances.
and dived down again. war map
of storm damage seems to indicate
at least four different storms, two
of which were of unexampled fury
The most vicious of these storms
rose in the southeast cor
ner of Boone county and travelled
1t was this twister that
ruined a corner of the town of Boone
Story City, in the northeast corner
of Story county, seems to have been
nearly in this storms path and there
are unconfirmed reports of Sc sJus
damage there.
The storm struck four miles north
west of Carroll. Joseph Drinks and
his little one year old babe were in
stantly killed when their residence
tOppled over on them, crushing out
their lives. Mrs. Drinks and two
other children were seriously injur-
ed and are now in the hospital. John
Hoffman and Anna SwartZ. employ
ed on the Drinks farm, which lies
one mile north and one mile west Of
Maple River, were also badly injured
and were brought to the hospital.
Five farm houses adjacent to the
Drinks farm were completely de-
strOyed, as were all out buildings
and fences on the places. On the
Frank Dickman farm, half mile
northeast of the Drinks farm, but
one small barn remained in position.
Mr.. Dickman saw the storm ap-
and sought shelter in a.
cave. which probably saved his life.
Trees were stripped of thei. limbs
and twisted off; cattle, horses, hogs
and chickens were killed and MAIN
ed, and the desolation that marks the
path of the storm beggars descrip-
ton. Some idea of the force of the
winds may be gained with the know
ledge that the school house just east
of the Drinks farm was picked up
and carrid over one hundred feet and
dumped, mass of broken and splin-
tered debris in the public highway
The Catholic church and many res
licences and outbuildings at Arcadia
were destroyed. Fortunately no lives
were lost at that point, so far as we
have been able to learn. Mrs. Peter