The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-09

Sioux City, Iowa, May "a cyclone
passed through Northwestern Iowa
last evening, killing two or three u
dred people.
Dispatches are received here by the
Sioux City Il Northern Railroad COM
pany from their agent at Sioux Cen
ter, forty-five miles north, telling Of
Il terrible cyclone lea there in which
many people We're killed n injured
and much property destroyed. The
wires where the storm was were
blown down aud telegraph reports
are very meagcr. The first dispatch
received by the Northern road said
the cyclone passed three miles north
east of there at $3.50 p. H.. a school
house near town was destroyed,
teachers killed and a number of chill
dren killed and injured. Have not
yet bcen able TO learn exact number
and names. Whole country in the
path Of the storm Is devastated. Sioux
City 4 Northern tracks between
Perkins and Doom washed u for
several miles. Dispatches from
Sioux Center at $50 p. IN. say three
school houses and 1T least twenty res
licences and harms
Were Swept Away.
At the school houses two teachers and
three pupils were killed and many IN
jured. Two women We're found dead
about g O'Clock not far from the point
where n of the school buildings
stood. One man who arrived in Sioux
Center late in the evening reported
his house was blown away and his
family killed. He himself escaped.
and reports that at least two or three
hundred people must have been killed.
Parties have beer sent out from Hull.
Sioux Center and Orange City and
neighbOring towns. but their work is
progressing slowly. a number of
bodies have already bee recovered,
although the exact number Canno be
learned. Every one is violently eX-
cited and definite accounts cannot be
obtained. 1t is said Perkins. n small
town between Sioux Center and Doom,
was directly in the path of the storm
and was
Almost Entirely Wiped Out.
The wires leading to il are all down,
the railroad tracks are washed out
n the wagon roads cannot safely
be travelled over owing to the name
in which they were quilted by the
rain.
1t is consequently no easy matter
TO reach it. Physicians have already
been sen from Hull, Orange City and
Sioux Center, but are finding every
conceivable obstacle in their effort to
reach the scene Of the storm. Help
has been refused from here. but if the
same character of reports continue
to come in a train may be sent out.
No one SEEM to know exactly what
was the track Of the storm.
Definite reports are beginning TO
come in as to the path followed by
cyclone. The storm originated about
"A mile and a half south of Sioux
Center. 1t moved from there in a
nOrtheasterly direction and passed d.
rectly through Perkins, a small town
six miles north of Sioux Center. After
passing Perkins nothing was heard
Of any damage. Later, however,
news received from Sibley TO the eff
feet that a storm struck there about
q p. H.. destroying the house of John
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 X Northern train which arrived
at 10 O'Clock last evening brought ia
several passengers who witnessed the
storm. They reported thirteen dead
bodies had been brought into Sioux
Center at q o'clock. They estimated
100 people must have been killed. The
Northern train barely escaped a
smash-up at Doom, but vas stopped
by section men before it passed upon
the dangerous territory.