The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-08
SCORES OF VICTIMS.
A Cyclone in Iowa Leaves Death
in It's Wake.
School Houses and Residences Swept from
the Face of the Earth-HRlf a Dozen
Towns Suffer from the TOrnadO's
Fury More Than Fifty
Persons Killed.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, May 4.-Sioux county
was devastated by terrific cyclone
yesterday afternoon. The storm came
from the northwest and struck Sioux
Center, small town forty-fve miles
north of this point, at 4 o'clock. Tele.
graphic reports from the scene of the
storm are very meager, the wires being
down, but it is understood that con.
siderable number were killed and in,
jured.
Dispatches from Sioux Center at $3.50
last evening stated that three school
houses and at least twenty residences
and barns near that place were swept
away At the school, two teachers and
three pupils were killed and many in.
jured Two women were found dead
about o'clock, not far from the point
where one of the school buildings
stood.
Later reports say that ten were killed
at Doom and three at Perkins Thir.
teen dead have been brought into Sioux
Center. The tornado jumped forty-five
miles northeast to Sibley, Osceola
county. Five are reported killed there.
Physicians have already set out from
Hull, Orange City and Sioux Center,
but are meeting with every conceivable
obstacle in their efforts to reach the
scene of the storm.
Late last evening news was received
from Sibley to the effect that storm
struck there at 5 p. m, destroying the
house of John Watterson, killing Mrs.
Watterson and injuring Mr.. Watterson
and his son.
Word was received from Sioux Cen
ter at II o'clock last night that Miss
Anna Marsden was among the killed.
She was a teacher at what was known
as the Coombs school house seven miles
north of Sioux Center. Fully one-halt
of her pupils are said to have been
killed or injured. The parents of many
of the children escaped the storm and
are nearly frantic with anxiety to learn
whether their title ones are dead or
alive.
The towns which suffered were Per-
kins, Sibley, Doom, Hull and Sioux
Center. Sioux Center and Hull were
grazed only by the edge of the storm
and no fatalities are reported from
either of them. The number of killed
at Doom is now stated at ten. Four or
five will probably cover the deaths at
Sibley. AT Perkins the loss of life is
said to have been very large, probably
not less than thirty or forty. This,
with the number killed on farms about
the county, must bring the number up
to nearly rs or 10O
The deaths near Sioux Center, of
which there is certain evidence thus
far, are those of Mrs. John Roster,
Mrs. Post, Miss Anna Marsden, George
Marsden, child of A. Urhoff, two chill
dren of L. b. Coombs, Miss Mamie Hag-
gle and five brothers, j. Jameson and
two Roster children.
Sioux FALLS, s. d., May Rain fell
in torrents yesterday afternoon. The
suburbs suffered badly. A bridge over
the Sioux river, just west of town, was
blown over The big mansion of Mad
anne Doyle was unroofed. Two build
ings connected with the Sioux Falls
carriage works were demolished The
roof was taken off the Chain mortic-
ing works and oatmeal mill. Many
small buildings were blown away en-
tirely, while large ones were moved
from their foundations. There was a
regular cloud-burst twenty miles ncrth
and an immense rise in the river is
looked for. The Sioux at Del Rapids is
running over the Milwaukee tracks
and Skunk creek is also high and food
inc farms in its course.