Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-05-10

the following:
At Sioux Center and Vicinity.
John Marsden, Miss Anna Marsden,
Mrs. John Roster, Alice Roster, aged S;
Miss Tillie Maggie, Babe of Mrs. L.
Wynia, Mrs. Annie Postma, Jacob Jan
sen, Tewnes Verhof, aged 4; Maurice
McCoOmbs, aged 4; Babe of w. Nlesma,
Mrs. X. Waner and babe, A. Barblin,
Mrs. l.. E. Ost, Mrs. ]. Post, A. NJ. Per-
~, Mrs. +. S. Fieldcamp, Mrs. Charles
Mrs. l.. Maretie and babe, l.. d. Ever
etts, John Frize, Ii. Dcboor.
At S:blcy.
Mrs. John Waterman, Mrs. NJ. Black
burn, Mrs. Herman Belknap.
At Laurcns.
Peter Simmer.
At Sutherland.
Rudolph Schwordtfeger.
At Creston.
Everett Arnold.
Many Fatally Injured.
The fatally injured are:
II. Roster, aged 3; Minta McCoombs,
Lucia McCoOmbs, Mrs. l.. Wynia, J. De-
boor, Hattie Roster, Willie, Jennie and
Grace Ccrumman Maggie, Gertic, Jennie
and Jimmie Welbard, Jennie and Eddie
Brown, Ben Pry, John Herman, Henry
Haggie, Mrs. James Warie.
The greatest loss of life is in Sioux
County, between Ireton, on the Hawardeu
branch of the Chicago and Northwest
ern, and Sioux Center, on the
Sioux City and Northern. 1t was
tol l. IL Al
cents. The children of tender years out
numbered all others in the mortality list,
and that of those fatally injured. Upon
the edge of plowed road two little ones
lay, their hands clasped together, their
bodies torn and mangled. Beyond them
in the roadway the leaves of an arithme-
tic fluttered in the breeze Still further
on and close to the McCoombs homestead
was battered dinner bucket and nearby
q reader turned back to the page where
the old lines ran, This IS Il cat; is this
cat!" In the wrecked school houses
little feet protruded from plaster and
broken boards. Sun bonnets lay in the
pastures yellow with butter cups. In
one chid's hand was clasped the broken
slate and in anOther's reward of merit
card given but half an hour before by
the teacher, dead, also face downward
in the furrow of Il distant field. From
Sioux Center to Perkins and from Per-
kins to Hull and George and Ashton there
was the wall in the close of the spring
afternoon of children, not dead, but dy-
ing, children with limbs torn apart, chill
dren who had been carried over forty
acre fields and hurled into bitches, chill
dead or beyond the aid of human help.
Death Visits Schoolhouses.
About ) o'clock in the afternoon black
clouds, with green fringes, appeared west
of Orange City and five miles northeast
Of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
way. From the black mass, nine miles
west of Orange City, rs near as could be
estimated, tentacles dropped, and at last
a high, round ball, which appeared to
strike the ground, rebounded and then
touched again, just as football wages be-
tween goal and goal. Conductor Halan,
on train No. 10 of the Chicago and North
western east-bound, saw the bounding
mass Of wind and electricity, as did also
his brakeman, w. L. Dobson. This train
and its valuable contents just escaped
destruction.
Annie Marsden, young girl from Bos-
cobel, Wis, had dismissed her twenty
pupils when she saw the approach of the
storm. 1t was already $3.50 in the after
noon She was conducting her second
term of school and two miles beyond her
on the same section line her brother was
conducting n county school. She boarded
at the farmhouse Of l. McCoombs, the
wealthiest farmer in the district. His
home was quarter of mile distant
from the school. Four of his children
were taught by her When she sent the
other children home the four were fright
ened and refused to leave. Annie Mars
den stood in the center of the little white
school house and drew the four children,
whose ages ranged from TO Ii, about her
and waited. An instant later the cyclone
was upon the school house and the five
hapless beings within. In less time than
1t takes for watch to tick the seconds
of minute the teacher and one child
were dead and two others fatally injured.
The school house and its rock foundation
was swept out of existence. At the Hag-
gle school house. where George Marsden,
brother of Annie, was teaching, not n
vestige of the school house remained and
Mr.. Marsden was found some distance
away in a field, dead, together with two
pupils.
On the McCoombs homestead every
building was destroyed but the house.
There was not seeded crop in his fields
worth q picayune, and the honest accu-
mutations of lifetime swept away by a