| Show NEARLY N E A A HUNDRED DEAD tho the cyclone lit in iowa much 0 than As first POUT fout la in july 7 seventy four p dead at least five more to dio aud and a hundred injured is I 1 s tho the r re of a q oudoue that skirted at qu I 1 i ax bt mud and with awful results at pomeroy last night at the th latter place forty forts eight eit 0 lit zu ar zuo o dmd dead eight VV are mortally mortal ally lv 1 injured U w and oner on er 1 hundred and live five bloda of demolished N 6 rani al ining but kind lio two hundred fei milies am having lost all bus ms inas blocks me aro badly damaged and tho the now a drug dru storo stem and are completely domol do mol ashod tho th lors lc s 1 iu u pomery will mch MAO all is chaos the there tho ri douts still alive art am in a laced con and R I 1 s a very to get tho storm esino camo from th emst UA lid did t rrt nei wy ank m ila tally li me vitally I 1 au cae disint ds int un A a nann amount of damage was done one to crops and the path of tho storm is ia strewn with the carcasses of animals and in every direction thore there is nothing but wreck and ruin immediately asior tho storm passed the cries and moans of the injured and dying heart heartrending and willing ones bogan began the iho work 0 of f rescue their work was SiC sickening honing as people wore found literally literal lv torn to pieces some with their logs or arma drawn others suffering from terrible wounds with their lifo oozing try ny of the dead are so BO disfigured that thoy they are unrecognizable the alie old post postoffice fico office was turned into a morgue and at otia one time contained twenty six bodies good Tom plara hall and the hotels were jurod into hospitals whore every was made to tho the unfortunates tho storm wiped wit communication with the world and ed INI Maste asterson raon started for help ho he was stopped by a bridge being being washed out and in to ford was nearly drowned ho hailed a special train bearing officials of the illinois illino i s central and they backed to manson sent for assist and proceeded dod help to pomeroy another train with physicians and othor other help followed shortly and soon the work of relief at Porn pomeroy was in pro progress gross A train loft here with nurses boldi bedding tig food and coffins this morning and the interment of the dead was commenced this afternoon A relief committee has been established I 1 in Po pomery and all contributions contribution and offerings aro are received with gratitude many remarkable escapes crochron are chronicled A year old babe was found on the out outskirts shirts of tho the ruins ou entirely di vested of clothing and uninsured M F mullen and family and five neighbors saved thoms themselves elvos by gol going i ng into a cyclone oy clone cave but their homes were completely demolished many doad dead were found long di stances distances from their residences and houses lia had I 1 boards daiv on en through them by the force of tho wind tho dreos treos in tho the path of tho the storm wm were stripped devenot even of the bark and nothing escaped injure pomer was a thriving town of 1000 inhabitants thell chelist i st of dead is till incomplete r reports are coming 1 in i rt f from rora the country and tho the number of dead will swell to at least al eighty tonight to night tho the scenes metud pomery aro am heartrending in the old post postoffice office building bodies boaks are being gathered mid and friends come cine to identify them thein the scene is I 1 s beyond tho tha power of tho the most graphic pen to P picture lc tum some wi bodies I 1 es im aro lite literacy raly torn in in two others othera with aith pieces of I 1 board m rd thrust through them with their heads mashed smashed s limbs torn off aud aad soma soni oare aro so idly disfigured that thai on onla r by clothing or soule trinket tho woula wounded ded are being i well cared caal for 1 iu u tho the different hot elud who ar an portunato tortu natO enal enough h to j v have homes spared have haro opened choln to the injury and till all ayal that I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 num ri g au d the th tei y st medical attend ane ma do 1 being fidao I 1 for them the pr will miu amount A I 1 to salt laie |
