The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-05-09

mn" An~H inmates Killed or Injured
Towns and Farmhouses Destroyed-A
Trail OF Ruin and Devastation
Retarded.
Sioux CRY, Ia, May 4.-Two hum
dred persons were killed by cyclone
that swept through Sioux county from
northeast to southeast an hour before
sunset to-day. The territory devas-
tated is as rich and populous as
any in Iowa, but as the storm main
ly kept clear Of the railroad tracks
and telegraph lines II win be many
hours before the extent of the ruin is
known or list Of the victims can be
compiled.
The first reports were received by
the Sioux City & Northern railway
from their agent at Sioux Center. The
dispatch read:
Cyclone passed three miles north
east OF here. School house near town
blown down; teacher killed and sew
eral children killed and injured; exact
number and names have not yet been
learned. The whole country in the
track Of the storm devastated. Sioux
City e. Northern tracks between Per-
kins and Doom were washed ont Tor
several miles"
Dispatches from Sioux Center at $50
p. m said 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.
One man who arrived In Sioux Cen
ter late in the evening reported that
his house was blown away and his
family killed. He himself escaped
He says at least a hundred people
must have been killed
Parties have been sent out from
Hull, Sioux Center and Orange City,
neighboring towns, but their work is
being carried on in total darkness and
in the midst of tremendous wind and
rain storm. IL is consequently pro-
crossing slowly. A number Of bodies
have already been recovered, although
the exact number cannot be learned.
Every one is violently excited and def
mite accounts cannot be obtained.
II is said that Perkins, small town
between Sioux Center and Doom, was
directly in the path Of the storm and
was almost entirely wiped out.
Later reports say that ten were
killed at Doom and three at Perkins.
Thirteen dead have been brought into
Sioux Center.
The tornado jumped forty-five miles
northeast TO Sibley, OsceOla county.
Five are reported killed there. Physi-
clans have already set out from Hull,
Orange City and Sioux Center, but are
meeting with every conceivable obsta-
Gle in their efforts TO reach the scene
Of the storm.
Help has been refused from here.
but If the same character of reports
continue to come in, train may be
| sent OuNs
Late last evening news was received
from Sibley 20 the effect that a storm
struck there at p. m. destroying the
house Of John Watterson, killing Mrs.
Watterson and injuring Watterson
and his son.
No names can yet be learned OF the
people injured about Sioux Center and
Perkins.
The Sioux City & Northern train,
which arrived at 10 o'clock last even
ing brought several passen gers who
witnessed the storm They reported
that thirteen dead had been brought
in at 9 D. m. 1t is estimated that fifty
people must have been killed. The
Northern train barely escaped q
smash-up in q washout near Doom, but
was stopped by section men before Il
passed upon the dangerous territory.
Timely Discovery Averts Wreck.
MADRID, Ia, May "A terrific rain
and wind storm passed over this sec
ton of the state yesterday afternoon
A dozen freight cars on siding OF the
Milwaukee roadswere blown out ont
the main track, where they were found
by the switching crew in time to aver'
a wreck.