The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-06
THE IOWA CYCLONE.
The First Dispatches Not ovsrdrawn-rh
Fatalities.

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The flrst Dispatches Not ovsrdrnwu-rhe
Fatalities
SIOUX CRY, Ia, May l5.-The wind.
storm which passed over northwestern
Iowa and sou,hea,tern South Oak osa
late Friday afternoon left death and
desolation in its path. The property
loss was immense. but the loss OF life
can s!ill be only estimated. Tho storm
appears to have been true cyclone, in
places, ard In others, even where dam
age WAS considerable. was not moro than
a gale OF wind, with severe hail and
rain. The severest cyclone had its
conrse for twelve or fifteen miles in
Sioux county. The same storm, or an
other ono. touched a. sibley and did
great damage there. al
In South Dakota. even where there
was severe destruction. there appears
to have been no real cyclone. The Sioux
county cyclone appears to have origin
atcd near Ireton, and to have travelled
northeast to point on the Sioux City
& Northern road, one aud one.half
miles north oil Sioux Center. Then it
took the course OF letter IS" crossing
the track twice. and for two milcs it
seems to havo formed straight up the
track OF the railway. II struck the
town OF Perkins from tho southwest,
and those who saw it thcre believed 1t
rose or WAS dissipated at tho point, but
it is possible that tho same awful cloud
continued in its tortuous course, and
aiterward struck Sibley. From Sioux
Center and other points in Sioux coun-
ty estimates come tina: no less than fifty
had been killed. and two or three times
rs many injured. As the path Of de-
struction. wa, almost altogether in the
county, definite information is difficult
to get Twenty.si1 people are known to
have been killed. The liat OF injured is
very long.
Following is correct list of the
killed. so far as has been learned: Mrs.
John Roster and two children. Mrs.
Post, Miss AMMO Marsden, George
Marsdeu, child OF W. Verhooi. two chill
dren OF L. B. Coombs, Mrs. G. B. Ost.
Mrs. L. Marotie and baby, two children
OF R. ]. Smith, A. NJ. Perry, L. D.
Everctts. all near Sioux Center; John
Freise. NJ. Barkburn, Roseburg brothers,
John Waterman, Of Siblcy; A. II.
Berry, OF Hawarden.
Among the wounded are: Nina
Coombs, Jennie Coombs, Luelia Coombs.
Nellie Coombs, A. NJ. Perry, two chill.
dren OF r. J.. Smith, Mrs. L. Warie and
baby, two sons Of 4. DeBor, John
Haggic. Norman Haggic. Matilda Hag-
gle, Horny uaggic, three children OF
Mrs. kostor, four daughters OF L. De-
WORT.
List Of killed at other points: Mrs.
Herman Bolkamp, one.half mile east Of
sibley, by lightning; Rudolph Schwordt-
icger, near Superlaud. by lightning;
Peter Simmer, near Laurens. Iowa, by
lightning.
Tho children are still missing from
tho uaGgiu school house, four miles
north OF Sioux Center. They arc thought
to have been killed.
A pitiful foa,uro OF tho disaster Is tho
number Of youthful lives lost. Throo
school houses near Sioux Center wcro
destroyed whilo school was in progress,
and at each ono from three to ton chill.
drcn wore killed or injured. Many OF
tho children wore carried from quarter
to half milo before thoy aIightod.
Two little daughters Of John Costor, II
farmer uear Sioux Center, were Picked
up as they wero leaving tho school
house, and dashed into wire fence,
where both woro killed. Tho parents
OF many OF tho children escaped tho
storm, and arc nonrly frantic with
anxioiy to learn whether their li.tlo
one. arc doad or alive.
Mayor +. W. Robey hold special
meeting OF tho town council at o'clock
to-day, and tho aldermen woro made
rolef committee. Tho storoa haye all
closed, and Grape is visible ovorywlloro.
A public funeral was hold at 9 o'clock
and tho bodlcs Of Mrs. koster, Miss
Koater, Mrs. Post, Louis Vorhofl md
tho body OF a bady,intorred. 1t was the
sentiment Of the council thnt $4,000
would cover tho loss Of tho property.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., hundreds OF
small houses woro razod 10 tho ground,
and the loss OF property will DO i'm.
monae. No ono was reported killed, d.