Algona, la,, September 22.—Twenty-six
persons are reported killed in Kossuth
county, anil thirty-nine injured, some fa
tally, while the greater part of the town
of Cylinder, twenty miles west, was badly
damaged by th*- storm, which swept over
' ties section of the country last night.
North of Cylinder the family of Alix Goul
dtn, four in number, were killed.
At Whitemore, ten miles west of here.
Robert Stephenson was killed and ills wife
vs fatally hurt. The village was not
<1 imaged. Nearly a score of persons sought
refuge in n house on the Durant place.
Ail were more or less hurt, and one woman
■a HI die.
Near here Carl Barrlck was injured
slightly and his wife fatally injured. One
of ,’harles Lee’s children is dead and Mrs.
Lee is badly hurt.
Th*- wife and children of Fred Hompe, in
Fenton township, were in their house, which
was completely wrecked, but they were
cct-red by Die fallnig timbers and not one
of them was hurt.
George W. Beaver, living three miles
north of Algona, had just got home from
th* fair and entered the house with his
wife and two children and adopted boy.
wh* n the cyclone struck the house ami de
nioli-hed it. Beaver had his baby in his
arms, and with it he mad- his way north
to the house of Christian Dau, his father
in-law. for aid. His wife was just dying
w h n he returned, and his little girl soon
afterwards expired.
Myton Sch-nck, wife anil child were car
ried one hundred feet, and when found were
lying on a heavy oak beam. Both were
hurt and Mrs. Schenck was unconscious.
