The Iowa Tornado.

This newspaper describes a tornado as it tore a path from Dakota to Lake Michigan in Iowa. In its wake, the tornado caused the death of sixty-nine people and injured five hundred with one hundred fatally wounded. These numbers would likely have been higher nowadays due to the suburban communities that use the spaces known for tornadoes. A constant thread here is the severity of night tornadoes, which cause more deaths due to unawareness. This newspaper notes that the lack of cellars in many buildings was the driving force in the fatality rates, while buildings with cellars had less fatality.