Cherokee, Iowa Tornado
July
6, 1893
FONDA, Iowa, July 7--One of the most
dreadful calamities in the history of the state
visited this section last evening in the shape
of a devastating cyclone. Owing to the
demoralized conditions of telegraph wires it is
impossible as yet to get all the details. As far
as can be learned the cyclone started southwest
of there at about seven o'clock last evening. It
swept almost due east leveling everything in its
path for a width of a thousand yards, killing
and maiming the inhabitants in the tons and
thickly populated farming districts. The loss of
life is known to be very great, though actual
details are far from full. The loss of property
is beyond estimation. ...
Two women were killed and several injured six
miles south of Cherokee. ... The names of the
injured near Cherokee are
Mrs. Lesler and
Mrs. Monyneau. Mrs. Herscham,
living south of
this place, was in confinement at the time and
was blown away.
The city of Cherokee which, however,
experienced only a heavy rain and hail store.
Some hailstones were as large as turkey eggs.
To show the velocity of the wind, and iron
cylinder in a threshing machine was torn out and
carried twenty rods.
The
Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 7 Jul 1893
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