Avoca, Iowa Tornado
May
1, 1899
Cyclone Near Avoca
A cyclone passed three miles east of Avoca at
6 o'clock Sunday evening going in a southerly
direction. At Avoca two houses in the
outskirts of the town were demolished.
The Chief Reporter, Perry, IA 4 May 1899
Omaha, May 1.--Severe storms caused
large damage yesterday throughout Nebraska and
Iowa. A cyclone passed twenty miles south
of Atlantic, Ia., last night and destroyed two
houses in Avoca.....
The storm also struck Oakland, four miles
south of Avoca. Many houses and barns were
blown down, stock was killed. Between
Avoca and Oakland telegraph and telephone poles
were prostrated, and communication cut off for
several house. Trees three inches in
diameter were either twisted off or torn up by
the roots. The wind was accompanied by
rain. Avoca is a station on the Rock
Island, thirty miles east of Council Bluffs.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 2 May
1899
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