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John Peter Lundgren

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John Peter Lundgren

Birth
Jönköpings län, Sweden
Death
6 Jul 1893 (aged 59)
Calhoun County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Pomeroy, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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He died in the Great Pomeroy Tornado.
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Fort Dodge, Ia., July 8 -- Details of Thursday night's storm continue to reach here. It is known that 74 persons were killed along the track of the cyclone. Forty-two are dead at Pomeroy, and about 100 injured. It is impossible to obtain a list of the injured.

DEAD. The following is a partial list of the dead in this vicinity: Mrs. Bessie Banks, Mrs. Dahlgren, Mrs. Neary, Thomas Harmand, Andrew J. Wilkinson, John Anderson, Mr. Hughitt, Mr. & Mrs. Silas Buston, Mr. & Mrs. Neiting & son, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Benjamin Davis, Miss Lillie Kiefer, Roy Banks, Miss Frost, Mr. & Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Marie Adams, Mrs. Harlan of Maine who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lovejoy, Mrs. C.R. George, Banker E.O. Davis, Miss Ollie Ludgren, Miss Katie Davy, Mrs. O'Brien & child, Mrs. H.G. Harlowe, Mrs. Tabert, Two children of John Beckley, Mrs. Dilwith, J.P. Lundgren, Silas Weston, Mr. Hewlett & wife, A. Forkey, Henry Geilke, Mrs. Quinlan (her baby and Miss Allie Maxwell probably fatally hurt), Miss Tillie Johnson, Baby Dahlgren, Grover Black (18), George Black (7), Della Black (11), Samuel Maxwell, Richard George, and a boy unknown.

source: Richland Shield & Banner (Mansfield, Richland, Ohio): 15 July 1893

Wife:
Daughter: Olga I. Lundgren also died 1893
He died in the Great Pomeroy Tornado.
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Fort Dodge, Ia., July 8 -- Details of Thursday night's storm continue to reach here. It is known that 74 persons were killed along the track of the cyclone. Forty-two are dead at Pomeroy, and about 100 injured. It is impossible to obtain a list of the injured.

DEAD. The following is a partial list of the dead in this vicinity: Mrs. Bessie Banks, Mrs. Dahlgren, Mrs. Neary, Thomas Harmand, Andrew J. Wilkinson, John Anderson, Mr. Hughitt, Mr. & Mrs. Silas Buston, Mr. & Mrs. Neiting & son, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Benjamin Davis, Miss Lillie Kiefer, Roy Banks, Miss Frost, Mr. & Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Marie Adams, Mrs. Harlan of Maine who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lovejoy, Mrs. C.R. George, Banker E.O. Davis, Miss Ollie Ludgren, Miss Katie Davy, Mrs. O'Brien & child, Mrs. H.G. Harlowe, Mrs. Tabert, Two children of John Beckley, Mrs. Dilwith, J.P. Lundgren, Silas Weston, Mr. Hewlett & wife, A. Forkey, Henry Geilke, Mrs. Quinlan (her baby and Miss Allie Maxwell probably fatally hurt), Miss Tillie Johnson, Baby Dahlgren, Grover Black (18), George Black (7), Della Black (11), Samuel Maxwell, Richard George, and a boy unknown.

source: Richland Shield & Banner (Mansfield, Richland, Ohio): 15 July 1893

Wife:
Daughter: Olga I. Lundgren also died 1893

Bio by: scottsheat



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