Terrible Kansas and Iowa Tornado Toll Tops City Losses
The cyclone smashed towns from Iowa to Missouri with unroofed houses, drowned victims, and hundreds injured. Grinnell reports twenty-two dead and over a hundred wounded, with total property losses rising toward 250000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary’s Academy
Ida Golden
Abchie
MecLanathan
Thikcity
Carrollton
Republican Valley
Kansas Pacific
Kansas Central
Missouri River
Kansas Cry
Fowler Brothers
Cooper-Shop
Western Paint
Thomas Maddern
Howel
Rosedale
William Reese
Fred Howell
Wyandotte
Kansas River
Durling
Kansas City
St. Lovuts
St. Louis
Great Iowa Tornado Death Toll Climbs in Des Moines Appeal
A Des Moines Register appeal details the Iowa cyclone devastation with 64 confirmed dead and 500 wounded, many critically, across Grinnell Malcolm Mount Pleasant and surrounding areas. It cites 3800 destroyed homes, 1,500 homeless, and losses possibly reaching 33 million, urging nationwide relief and funds to aid the stricken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Grinnell
Malcolm
Mount Pleasant
Burlington
Story
Boone
Boone County
Garden Prairie
Ames
Nevada
Story County
Kellogg
Jasper County
Grinnell and
Malcom
Brooklyn
Vownship
Poweshick County
Brighton
Washington County
Sit, Pleasant
Henry County
Associated Press
Des Moines Register
United States
Iowa
Amea
South English
Keokuk County
New England
Town College
Graneth
Three Girls Die After Poison Pact in Danville Boarding House
Three girls aged seventeen, sixteen, and fourteen at a Danville boarding house took arsenic in a joint act amid personal distress and servant hardships. Allie Mills and Emma Oglesby died after hours of agony. Mary Jones survived after medical care. Family ties described as pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danvillé
Allie Mills
Emma Oglesby
Mary Jones
Miss Mills
Mills
Oglesby
Jones
Illinois Items Chronicle Broad Wave of Local Misfortunes
A narrative of drownings, fatal accidents, and public notices from Illinois towns. Alexander Ehert drowns on a Cairo coal fleet, farm losses from dogs in Fayette County, a guilty verdict in a Chicago real estate conspiracy, multiple deaths from accidents and illness, and storm damage across Metropolis, Moline, and surrounding counties. Weather, oil finds, pension arrears, and floodquarters at Mount Carmel and Rock Island add to the austere rural to urban tally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Alexander Ehert
Cairo
Wheatland Township
Fayette County
E. A. Trask
Chicago
Perry Henderson
Rock Island County
Lexington
McLean County
American Woolen-Mill Company
Barry
Pike County
Metropolis
Massac County
Jennie Walker
Paducah
Hudson
Walker
Braner Block
Empire
Riverside Flouring
McCartney
Litchfield
Montgomery County
Rock River
Moline
C.C. Brown
Springfield
Maria Davis
Mount Carmel
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Marshalltown
Iowa Congregational College
Kelly
Chicago & Northwestern
Deacon Ford
Mr. Lewis
Dacon Clements
Eva Morton
Henry Pitman
Hattie
Harry
Pitman
Abbie Agard
Cornell Chase
Storm Lake
Susie Bayer
Bayer
Iowa Central
Marshall Town
John Deignan
Rock Island
Barbour
Charles Fry
Rock Island Road
James Phipps
Donahue
Alonzo Willespie
Beatty
Des Mores
Register
Seo
A. A. Foster
Mrs. Foster
Foster
H. C. Pitman
Arthur
Charlies
College
East College
Iowa Central Railroad
J. W. Chamberlain
R. N. Scott
C. W. Hobart
Hy McConnell
President Magoun
Wilson Ellis
J. M. Ross
Henry Spaulding
Mr. Kimball
Kimball & Merrill
A. J. Preston
Attorney Dunn
G. B. Grinnell
Graham
James Hanlan
Philip Clendenning
Henry James
Marcus Wightman
William Cullison
W. Neally
Mr. Hofter
A. E. Reinfred
G. H. Stevens
E. Griswold
James
Florida
Chicago Times
Des Moines * Register
Illinois State News
Dwight Wheaton
Bloomington
One O'Neil
Alton
James C. Lemon
Danville
Freddie
Baker Daniels
Jacksonville
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific
Frank Spence
McLean Station
Alton Road
Vincennes
Ilinois
Hepoldt Blus
Adam Patkabitz
John Bull
Smil's
Dr.john Bull
John J. Smith
Louisville
Smith
Main St
Louisville, KY
Perry Davis
Burns
Scald
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
Boston
Mass
Bangor
F. L. Pond
Aurora, Kane Co
Parsons
E. Roth & Bro
New Oxford, Pa
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