The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-04
DEATH ROLL GROWING
Every Hour Brings Additional
Horrifying Details
Of the Death and DesOlatlOn
Wrought Last Night
IN THE STORM TRACK.
Number of Killed Estimated as
High as 300.
Many School Children Blown
Into Eternity.

Sioux Cry, May AT least fifty
two people are believed to have
been killed in the terrible cyclone
clone that passed over this part of Iowa
Some Dersons estimate the death roll as
between 200 and 300. but it is not bellev-
ed it will reach so high a figure NO
one as vet can tell how great the loss OF
life is. or how extensive the damage
until reports from the outlying districts
have been received. The telegraph
wires in this section are down and all
authentic information is hard to get.
Three school houses are known to have
been demolished, two teachers and several
pupils and nearly a score of others
killed and many buildings have peen
wrecked. Those known to be dead or
missing are:
GEORGE MARsDENs
ANNIE MARsDEN.
Mrs. KE0STRA.
The wounded are: Minnie Coombs,
bruised, will probably recover. Jennie
Coombs, badly bruised about the head
and face. Will recover Mrs. Herman
Belkamp, half mile east of Sibley, by
lightning. Rudolph Scwerdtfeger, near
OuD6Ildu0g Dy AAS ONOA OS%AA
mers, near Laurens, Ia, by lightning.
The injured: John Waterman and
son, Sibley; John Freys, Sibley; Ross
bury brothers, Sibley; Minla, Jennie and
Luella Coombs, Sibley; Nellie Coombs,
fatally, Sibley; Mrs. L Warie and baby,
Sibley: John, Henry and Matilda Hag
gle; l. DeVoort, Sibley; two sons of L.
Deboor, Sibley; two children of R. ].
Smith Sibley; a. NJ. Perry of Hawarden.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., hundreds of
small houses were razed to the ground,
and the loss on property will be i'm
mense. No one was reported killed,
although a number were seriously in
jured.
Lucelia Coombs, seriously injured;
Nellie Coombs. skull fractured, re-
covery doubtful; A NJ. Perry of Hawar-
den, arm broken and face bruised: two
children of R J. Smith, arms dis
located and bruised; Mrs. L Wa
RE and baby, seriously injured, re-
covery doubtful; two sons of T. Deboro;
John Haggie, bruised and internally in
jured; Herman Haggie, leg broken;
Matilda Haggie, seriously injured in
ternally; Henry Haggie, face cut and
bruised; three children of Mrs. Kostra
badly hurt-recovery doubtful; four
daughters of l. DeVoort, bones frac
tured and other injuries.
The list of fatalities will probably
reach thirty persons or over.
The following were killed at Sioux
Center, Ia:
MRs. JOHN ROSTER and two children
Mrs. POsTMA.
Miss ANNA MARsDEN, teacher.
GEO. MARsDEN, teacher.
CHILD of MIR. Verhoff.
Two CHILDREN of L. B. Coombs
Those badly injured: Miss Haggie and
four brothers, J. Jansen, two Roster
children and perhaps twenty five Others
List of killed at other points:
MRS. JOHN WATERMAN, Sibley.
A curious feature of the cyclone was
the accompaniment of electrical violence
and many deaths by lightning are re
ported.
The towns of Sioux Center. Ireton,
Orange City, Perkins, Boone, Hall Shell
don, Ashton, Sibley and Lemars were al
most directly in the path of the cyclone
The cyclone was followed by furou.
wind and rain storm, which had moi
abated at an early hour this morning.
Numerous victims were found lodged
in trees, where they had been hurled bv
the storm. Where had stood fine resi-
dences could be found nothing but a eel
lar hole, and in some cases a few twisted
tlmoers, while strewn all over the GROUND
were portions of the buildings and fur.
piture, bearing not the least semblance
to their original form and useless excep
for kindling.
Fields of sprouting grain are now bare
trees uprooted and all is desolation alone
the path of the cyclone.
A pitiful feature of the disaster is the
number of youthful lives crushed out by
the cruel wind Three school houses
near Sioux Center were DESTROYED. while
school was in progress, and at each one
from three to ten children were killed OF
injured. Many of the children were
carried from a quarter to a half mile be
lore they were dropped.
Two little daughters of John Roster.
farmer near Sioux Center. we're picked
up as they were leaving the schoo
mouse and dashed into wire fence AM
both were killed. Two sons of G. "a
maggie at the same school house ha,
thelr legs broken and received other in
lurles, from which they will die Mr.
Haggle's house is near the school on,
although he escaped his daughter wa
SO badly injured that she cannot live
AEe parents of many of the chiIdren as
capped the storm and are nearly franti
WIN anxiety to learn whether their littl
ones are dead or alive.
1t Struck ST. Joe.
ST JOE May 4-The cvcIona u,b;o
struck this section did mncb danoo-a !" = ~
property. In this CITY MANY small 5,,iIt
lngs were blown to nieces v-irdo1,.. .-Aio
several fine residences wera -J"s smasbsss : :
ra;- rnu contents of houses damaged b