Sunday, June 30, 2013

Tornado in Iowa

A fierce tornado passed through the Southern portion of our State on the 15th inst., doing considerable damage to property, and severely injuring some persons, though no lives were lost.  Its effects were visible so far as we have learned, in Ringgold and [Mahaska] counties.  It seems to have taken a northeasterly course and descended to the earth in the counties above mentioned.  Indianapolis, in the last named county, suffered considerably, a number of buildings being destroyed, including the village church.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 2, 1862, p. 2

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