From the "Story of The Storm" written by F. W. Sprague in 1893. On the evening of July 6, 1893, there passed through one of the most beautiful and productive sections of fair and fertile Iowa a tornado which destroyed more lives and property than any other like visitation of which western history contains any record. The Pomeroy tornado--- so-called from the fact that its greatest work of destruction was wrought at the town of Pomeroy - swept over a strip of country about fifty-five miles in length, starting at a point some three miles northwest of Quimby, in Cherokee county, traveling in a course a little south of east, and ending a short distance east of Pomeroy, in Calhoun county, and the main track of the storm averaging only about one thousand feet in width. I have added the first half of this book to the Calhoun county web site. I was not able to get the whole book copied before sending it back to the library, so if you have the book and would like to contribute to the web site, please let me know. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacalhou/story.html Cyndi Hailey Vertrees CC Calhoun County hailey4053@bak.rr.com