Death And Destruction

Reporte from the cyclone oí Saturday are more and more startlmg. GrinnelJ, Iowa, seems to have suffered werse than did SU Louis, Kansas City and Leavenworth. The storm was about half a mile wide and 25 miles in lrngth, exteudiug five miles northwest and 20 miles southeast of the city. The value of property destroyed b estimated at $600,000. A DEEP EOAR first attracted the attention of the people who bïw a huee funnel-shaped cloud sweeping toward the uorthweBt portion of ihe town. It moveá with frighttul velocity. The house and barn of A. A. Foster were first attacked and leveled, Mr. and Mrs. Foster and their two children being blown 30 yards and landing 'i a heap of debrie, alive but badly bruised. Mr. Fittman's house was then crushad and tbe fainily buried in the ruine, and an old gentleman named Lewis and hiB wife, living near by, were killed. The tornado then pursued a zigzag eourse to the northern portion of the city, where the flnest residenöes were located, and af ter these were destroyed it turned toward the Iowa college, tke oldest and best endowed instttution in the state. There were three buildings. That on the west side was couverted into a heap of latb, piaster and brokeu limbere, burying beneatti it eight studente, all of whom were takeu out In a, disibled condition and one subsequeutly died. The east college, a five story brick, was unroofed and seriously damaged by a fire which broke out at ones. A freight train on the Iowa Central road, near by, was blown from the track and the conductor and brakeman killed. As the storm approached sume sought refugeincellars and escapsd injury, houses being lifted from their foundations intact. Among the killed are Deacon Ford, wife and servant; Mr. Lewte and wife; Deacon Clement' two children; Henry Pittmann's two children, Hattle and Harry, and Mr. Pitman probably fatally injured; Miss Abbie Agard, photographic artist; Oornell Chase and B. C. Ctiase of Stoim Lake; Susie Bajer, dauKhter of a dry goods merchant, nnd mother, Mra. Biyer; alsohis bod, fatally in jurad; Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Totter, Mr. Cullisonand herrooth er, Mrs. Alexander's twocliildren; Mre. Huif and cbild, Georgo Terry's baby; Terry not ex pected to live; Bingham Burkett, student of Montezuina, Madison Howard's boy, a lady frnm Cedar Rapids, visiting at Bayer's. Henry Moore, a brakeman on the Iowa Central railroad, of Marshalltown; John Doiprnan, conductor of the Rock Island freight; a traveling man V. J. Barbour of Chicago; Mr. James, wife and two daughterB and two other persons, living four milas northwest of the city are dead. At Malcom, Ia., the storm passed over the town at 9:30 in tha eveuing, destroyed the Gazette office, five leading business nousas, two churchee, and about on-third of the dwel lings. Seven dead bodies have been found, including those ol C. H. Wheeler, MrB. Meytres, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. O. Meyers. Amoua the miraculous escapes reported íb that of a man and bis son who were blowü ato a well. The father climbad up, puBhing the ctild be fore him. Guiteau will probably be hang this month as the writ of babeas corpus is denied. LATEE FROM THE T0RN4U0. In the track of the one storm through lows, which is traced 150 miles through the very bes, part of the state, 500 persons are found seriously hurt and 69 already duad. Th Iobs of property will aggregate Bvme i3.COO.00, witu Httle or no insurance. Iowa college, with its 4DU students, ishomeleES, with a total loss of $75, tXK). The storm was clearly of electric origin, and, indeed, m3y bo descrioed as having beun electricity itself. In various places it took up in its greater spirals or f uunels, uouses 1,000 fet bigha and carried large flocks oL cattlt1 thiough the air for tbousands of leetaad ed them down dead in heaps. Mauy thousaud cattle, horses, bogs and other aciinals now iie in the track of the tornado, already rotting, and adding in the hot weather, the horror of putrefaction. Johnson's Harvester Works in Brockport, N. Y., burn at a loss of half a million dollars with some tour hundred men out of employ nimt. The printers barely escaped witu theirlives froin the Herald building-, Montreal, visited with a $40,000 fire. Schroeders' planing mili, Toledo, O., sufTered by fire 25,000 loes. The Oakland Pier, San Francisco, by fire in a ware house lost s f B8.000. At Hoboken 300 Longshoremen aro on a strike, 200 in New York, depots are closed, and freight seriously interfered with. Former membersof the union in Cleveland are beginning t3 work at the rolling milis. In Chicago 8,500 brick makers demand increase of wages.