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Show A TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH from Council Bluffs, dated June 11 states as follow. A terrible tornado swept through the southeastern part of Pottawattomie county last evening. The cyclone is described by eyewitnesses as something awful. The track of the storm was about half a mile in width and swept everything before it; demolishing farm houses, barns and other buildings, and carrying some of them bodily for hundreds of feet, then dashing them to the ground in pieces. There were from fifteen to twenty persons killed outright and many wounded, while others can not be found. Those known to have been killed were Jesse Osler, wife and two children; Wm. [William] Pace wife and two children killed and another child fatally injured. Alex Osler, wife and child were carried in the air almost one hundred feet and seriously injured, the child fatally. A hired man employed by latter, name unknown, was killed. Six or eight other persons were carried away and have not been found. The scene after the storm had spent its fury is described as heartrending in the extreme. Not a house in the track of the tornado was left standing. |