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Pomeroy, IA Tornado, Jun 1893

The following is the list of the known killed:
MRS. MARIA ADAMS,
A. FORCHE,
A. J. WILKINSON,
HENRY GEIKE,
MRS. TILLIE JOHNSON,
MRS. C. R. GEORGE,
LENA KIEFER (aged 10),
W. ARNOLD and wife,
old MR. and MRS. HULET,
MRS. DAHLGREN,
MRS. ANDERSON,
MRS. TALBERT,
ROY BANKS (aged 8),
SILAS RUSHTON,
J. P. LUNDGREN,
old MR. DILLEMUTH,
OLLIE LUNDGRE,
BESSIE BANKS (aged 17),
MRS. M. QUINLAN,
BABY QUINLAN,
J. M. O'BRIEN,
ALLIE MAXWELL,
OLLIE FROST (aged 18), EZRA O. DAVY,
BENJAMIN DAVY,
BABY DAHLGREN,
GROVER BLACK,
GEORGE BLACK,
SAMUEL MAZWELL,
RICHARD GEORGE,
MRS. B. J. HARLOWE, two children of John Beckley kiled[sic] three miles east of town.

LIST OF THE INJURED.

Names of About Sixty Who Are Under the Care of Doctors.

A partial list of the injured is given as follows: Mrs. Ruston, both legs broken; Bessie Pope's baby, shoulder broken; Gust Yelm and wife, seriously injured; Minnie Storks, left arm broken, head and face cut; T. J. Bownell, bruised; A. Forche, aged 10, leg broken; F. Forche, left arm broken; P. Weigeroff, head cut; M. Randoll, badly bruised; Edith Maxwell, leg broken and head cut; Lillie Keefer, head cut; G. A. Stewart, left arm broken; Mrs. G. A. Stewart, head cut and back hurt; Nellie Frost, back hurt; Ira Stewart, head and face cut; J. L. Dallon, leg broken; Mr. Randall, lower jaw broken; Mrs. Fitzgerald, bruised; J. Willer, hurt in chest; Mrs. A. G. Blomberg and two children, head and faces cut and bruised; Mary Solderstrom, left arm broken; Linde Olsen, right arm broken; Olman Gurl, head badly cut; Mrs. J. P. Lungren, internally injured; Adam Salzman, back and head hurt; Mrs. Salzman, back and shoulders bruised; A. J. WILKINSON, legs broken (died during the afternoon); J. E. Wilkinson, chest hurt; Mrs. G. Iky, head, back and limbs bruised; Ada Guy, side and shoulders hurt; Bertha Davey, head, face and body bruised; George Guy, head cut; Mrs. John Davey, badly bruised (not expected to live); Ludwig Lullaneder, crushed; John Reese and family, badly injured; J. C. Scheipses, head cut; Miss Troup, of Storm Lake, left arm broken; J. W. Anderson, wife and baby, badly injured; Tom Harmon, left arm and legs broken; Nick Frost, badly bruised; Mrs. Harmon, left arm cut; John Kuplance and wife, head and ribs crushed; C. U. Kuplance, skull crushed; Mrs. John Drummend, head cut; George Drummer, ear cut off; Gust Linder, wife and child, hurt badly; Bridget Ryan, head hurt; Henry Milton's two boys, badly injured; Anna Simon, shoulder crushed; Sam Maxwell, boy, badly hurt; D. M. O'BRIEN, died during the afternoon. Several that were injured died last evening; names could not be learned.

Davenport Daily Leader, Davenport, IA 9 Jun 1893
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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