The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-10
IOWA CYCLONE.
The Vicinity of Sioux Center Devastated By
a Tornado-Ten Persons Killed.

The Vicinity of Sioux Center Devastated by
TOrnado-Ten Persons Killed.
Sioux CITY, Ia, April "A tornado
swept through a thickly settled dis
trict Fear Sioux Center yesterday after
noon doing great damage to property
and killing many persons.
The tornado formed about 3 miles
northeast of Ireton and swept north
east over a district about Ii miles
long. 1t first struck the ground south
west of Sioux Center and from there to
Perkins not a building in its path was
left standing. The latter part of its
course took the form of an elongated
letter IS" crossing the railroad track
twice and for miles it seems to have
gone straight up the track of the rail-
way. Those who saw it at Perkins be-
Eeved it rose or was dissipated at that
point
The four schoolhouses where school
was il session were entirely wiped
from the face of the earth, not a YES
tige being left except a few rocks to
mark where they stood. The school
children and teachers were carried
from quarter TO a half mile,
where they were found, some dead
and others badly mangled. At
the schoolhouse where George Mars
den was teaching not vestige of the
building remains, and Marsden was
found some distance away in a field
dead, together with two scholars. Two
little girls of John Roster, belonging
to the same school, were found cling
ing together where they had been
driven. into a wire fence, covered
with mud, and are expected to die.
Both legs of two sons of c. II. Haggie.
Those known to be dead or missing
are: Mrs. John Kerster and child, near
Sioux Center; Anna Marsden, teacher
in Coombs school, near IretOn; George
Marsden, brother of Anna, teacher in
another school near Ireton; Mrs. Post.
Rudolph Schwrenefeger, aged 81. killed
by lightning; Peter Simmer. killed in
his house by lightning: two children OF
T. B. Coombs, Mrs. John Waterman,
a child of A. Verhoff. John Patterson,
William Ludrichs, Mrs. W. r. Smith,
G. F. Balling, Mrs. Herman Bellkemps
and two children, Anna Hoisington,
Bertha Doonberg, II. q. Neiderfratk,
NJ. F. Hovt, J. Jameson.
A Later Report-Ten Killed.
Sioux CITY, Ia, May 6.-Order is
coming out of chaos in the narrow dis
trict of Sioux county, which was swept
by the tornado on Friday afternoon.
Prompt aid has made the survivors of
the devastated country as comforta bic
as possible: nearly all the dead are
now buried and none of the in
jured now living are thought to
be fatally hurt. A press rep
resentative, who went all over the
ground swept by the storm, says s1O,-
600 will cover the property damage,
including houses, barns, outbuildings
and fences In few places are the
crops seriously damaged, for grain
was not up far enough to be killed or
lodged by the wind, and the principal
injury in the fields was by the plaster
ing of mud they received.
This mud shower" was prominent
part of the phenomenal storm, but it
seems that the power of the wind
simply scooped up the black, wet earth
from the surface in several places and
distributed it over other fields The
correct list of dead numbers ten, as has
already been stated. None have died
since Saturday. About twenty persons
were injured in Sioux county.