The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-05
Two Score or More Injured, and All
Houses and Trees in Its Path
Leveled to the Ground.
ILLINOIS VILLAGE STRUCK
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED AND SEVERAL
BADLY HURT AT ST. CHARLES.
Stone Postofficc Building Blown Down
by Tornado-Severe Wfndstorms
at Many Other Points.

SIOUX CITY, Ia. May 4.-Fiftcen killed
and two score. more or less. injured is the
revised list OF the victims OF Friday nights
tornado which swept northwest Iowa Ten
of the dead and most of the injured lived
in the vicinity of Sioux Center. which
seems to have been the eliminating point
Of the tornado.
4 reporter went over the scene of the
storm to-day. Its path is almost as clear
ly cut as a wagon road and everything in
its route was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. houses.
trees. etc.. strewing the country for miles.
The killed in the vicinity OF Sioux Center
are:
GEORGE MARSDEN. teacher
MISS ANNA MARSDEN. teacher.
ALICE ROSTER, eight years old.
TEUN1S VERHOFF, four years old.
MRS. JOHN ROSTER.
MISS TILLIE HAGGIE.
MAURICE COMES, child.
MRS. BELLkAMP, of Sibley.
MRS. WATERMAN. of Slbley.
RUDOLPH SCHEv vERDLEEGRT, CT
Sutherland.
PETER SIMMER. OF Laurens.
The most seriously injured are:
JOHN WATERMAN and son, Of Sib-
JOHN FREYs: of sibley.
NJ. BLACKMORE, OF Sibley.
ROSSBURY BROTHERS. OF Sibley.
NINA, JENNIE and LUEI-LA
COOMBS, of Sioux Center
NELLIE COOMbs, fatally. Of Sioux Gen.
MRS. L. wARIE and BABY. of Sioux
JOHN HENRY and MATILDA HAGGIE.
l.. DEvORTS. of Sioux Center.
TWO SONS of T. DEBOOR, OF Sioux
TWO CHILDREN of r. ]. SMITH. OF
Sioux Center.
A. NJ. PERRY. of Hawsrden.
Citizens of Sioux Center are caring for
the injured and destitute. About thirty
farmhouses were wrecked altogether. The
property loss will be heavy. but it can
hardly be estimated at present. Much live
stock was killed. the prairie being strewn
with the carcasses of horses and cattle.
A dispatch from Sibley says the only per-
son killed in Osceola county was Mrs. John
Waterman, five miles west of Sibley. A
joist fell on her neck. She held her baby
in her arms. and the baby escaped injury.
John Waterman, her husband. was injured
i'm the breast and face seriously. William
Waterman, his son, had his right arm and
left shoulder broken. Charles Rosburg was
badly bruised. Henry Rosburg. his son.
was cut badly about the head. Mrs. Chas.
Rosburg was blown into tree but not Sc
riously hurt Herman, Albert, Otto and
Emma Rosburg were injured but not Sc
riously hurt Mrs. Fedkamp was not
killed, as reported last night. The Melcher
and Whitney schoolhouses were both
wrecked. Miss Marie Good. teacher Of the
Whitney school, closed it twenty minutes
before the storm struck. John Coughlin.
wife and ten children, were all saved by
taking refuge in tornado cave. They lost
their house, household goods. barn and had
a horse killed. The well pumps were
pulled out at Rosburg's and Freys. The
destruction i'm Osceola county was i'm the
western tier of townships. Wilburn's barns
were completely wrecked. The barns OF
Pushak Kruger Whitney. Heron. Black
more, Hamblin, Waterman and Littlechild
were wrecked. The houses of Waterman
and Rosburg were destroyed.
A curious feature of the storm was the
accompaniment of electrical violence, and
many deaths by lightning are reported.
The towns of Sioux Center Ireton, Orange
City, Perkins, Doom. Hull. Sheldon. Alton.
Ashton, Sibey and Lemars were almost di-
rectly in the path OF the tornado The
storm was followed by furious wind
and rain, which had not abated at an early
hour this morning. Numerous victims were
found lodged in trees, where they had been
hurled by the wind Where had stood fine
residences could he found nothing but
cellar hole and IN some cases rev
twisted timbers, while strewn all over the
ground were portions of buildings and fur
niture. bearing not the least semoiance or
their original form, and useless except for
kindling Fields of sprouting grain are
now bare, trees uprooted, and all Is DESC
lation along the path Of the storm.