New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-06
rICTJvs or THE TORNADO BCEWD.

FUNERALS HELD ~ TIE MIDST OF ANOTHER
sronM \ VALLEY OF pEsorArloN
Alton Iowa May The funerals of the Victims
81 Friday, tornado werc he'd here today IN the
midst Of a terrific storm. Ia som" parts oi mo
country what remained after the big storm - .nst
week WAS ruined by to-day's blow. The valley OF
do,,h from Ire,,n +, sioux Centre. which nenr.y
u,rallcls the railroad track. vas crowded al ''F
WIN vehicles of every description. on aA SIDES
,hcre WAS nothing but wrcekage Dead horses.
cattle sheep chickens. articles u wearing apiaf"'
p,rt,ns 81 houses and barns. pieces OF wagons ana
farming implements AMI everything moNADl" ""1
,cai,crcd along the route. Al h" dead were "''''
n Sioux County to-day excepting me Mar'lrh
brothers and s.si'iT. "ho' bolieS were S''' -
their old home in W!sronsIn
Around sioux centre forty farmers ar" homeless
and ruined. anl appeals for aid have been H'n' ""'
10 man, adjoining cities by ia" auih'riil's' I"'
railroads reaching this I,rt 81 the country nave
ngre,-I 10 carry all rcllcf fre" Of charge.
Another death. that OF Mr.. Herman il"ym"n. wi'
r.uorf.l TO-DAY, The lIe,m,ns lvcd In Wccom"
townelIp Il few miles from Sioux Centre. When IN"
storm struck their homestead Mr. li"ymen "aS
sitting In chair near The window. The storm
Ifred the buildings aul carried them fully lo feet
into forest. where they dropped. Mr. lleyn'n
was picked up. fatally injured. and died late last
night; Snc was my years % age. %'ar here siN-
teen are dead ana fifteen injured child o. l.uih'r
McCombcr dc1 this morning Tn" VIE o. Jomis. s
found dead onc-qunrt.r Of "A mile from "heir th'
building stood Mrs Pls'nlan. who VAS visiting
the Kos'er- was aiso Killed.
John HaggcTs experience was terrible. ne WIS
away from home ana noticing the approaching
storm was returning with All possible haste When
he had reached a point 80 yards from ms h"''lt
the storm struck. He throw himself 70 th' Grou1i
and held to tree. He struck AT least a
hundred times by small pieces % wTeckhS' anu
while on the ground was covered with mul several
inches I'm thickness The storm passed over III
five minutes When he managed 10 gain his ic't
he could see nothing Of his home" excepting a mass
Of ruins. lie hurried forward. ana In "A shot uih'
was greeted by cries for help from the dll"r'h,
members OF his family. one of his boys was fouri
on the edge Of pile Of tnbcrs badly crushed.
He cannot recover His eldest daughter Lucy, was
cXtricatcd next. but She 100. was iaiilly lnJnr'i
His wife badly bruised. but her Injuries are
not dangerous. Haggcrs youngest son was atichl-
ing school half milc and when the storm
struck the builIing the boy, together with grcit
many OF the pupils. blown along with me
building Tor half mile When the sirnc'ur" struck
the ground young I.ngge- had on" leg broken above
the knee and was badly brilscI. He started 10
crawl home. however, but had covered only one
half of the distance when his strcngth fdii"d MN;
and he sank 10 the ground. Here his rather iound
him about hour later. and carried nm home
He Is In a critical condition.
In the district around the IIagger and Roster
The number Is reported from sioux Centre.
and between Perkins and Ashton twenty NV" fam
ilies have nothing LEFT. Altogether 800 families are
homeless the result Of the five minutes dcstruc-
tive work Of the tornado, The average OF the prop
crty tc each family is about 5000. II Is thus seen
that the financial loss IS large. and cannot easily
be repaired. IN many cases II VIII never be re-
paired by the present Of the lands. as seV-
cral OF them have already left the country. The
injured number 100 people.