Mortz Siding, SD Tornado Damage, Aug 1898

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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EIGHT PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND OTHERS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN KILLED.

THE BODIES WERE BADLY MANGLED.

TWO HUNDRED ACRES OF WHEAT IN SHOCK ON ONE FARM SWEPT AWAY BY THE WIND.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS' WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED AND MANY CATTLE AND SHEEP KILLED -- RAILROAD TRACK TORN UP AND FENCES BLOWN DOWN.

Gary, S.D., Aug. 16. -- A terrific wind and hail storm running from northeast to southwest, struck Mortz Siding, about five miles west of here, Monday. Everything in the path of the storm was swept away. Eight people lie dead here and others are known to have been killed.
The dead are:
JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, farmer, wife, two daughters and grandchild.
CARL JEGLUM, Blanchardsville, Wis.
ALBERT KILLION, home in Milwaukee.
CHARLES EBALL, a farmer, who was reading with his wife and children when the storm came. Searching parties are out after his wife and children.
Thousands of dollars worth of property are destroyed and many cattle and sheep were killed.

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