SWEPT BY STORM.

TWISTER STRIKES A SMALL TOWN IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

EIGHT PERSONS WERE KILLED.

AND MANY MORE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN INJURED -- EVERYTHING IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO WAS DESTROYED -- THE BODIES OF THE KILLED HAD THE CLOTHING STRIPPED FROM THEM.

Gary, S.D., Aug, 16. -- A terrific wind and hailstorm running from northeast to southwest, struck Mortz Siding, about five miles west of this place. Everything in the path of the storm, was swept away. Eight people lie dead here and others are known to have been killed.
Thousands of dollars worth of property and destroyed and many cattle and sheep were killed.
The storm skirted one mile northeast of HUTCHINSON'S farm and struck his house, driving it through the barn. The Northwestern railroad track is torn up for some distance, telegraph poles and snow fences are down. The wounded are being taken to Canby.
One farmer had 200 acres of wheat in the shock and it was taken up by the wind and no trace of the crop is left.
The dead are found on the prairie with their bodies badly mangled and clothing nearly stripped from them.
The clouds met at a point about eight miles northeast of Gary, attained a rotary motion with the tail of the cloud descending to the earth. Where ever it touched everything was destroyed.

Portsmouth Daily Times Ohio 1898-08-16
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!