The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-05-06
The Loss of Life in the Great
Storm Estimated at
Fifty.
OTHER ESTIMATES ARE HIGHER
Wires Demolished in All Direc-
tions, Making Details Diff
cult to Get.

but it is not believed it will reach so
high figure. No one as yet can tell
how great the loss Of life is, or how ex.
tensive the damage until reports from
the outlying districts have been re-
ceived. The telegraph wires in this
section are all down and authentic in
formation is hard to get. Three school
houses are known to have been demol-
ished, two teachers and several pupils
and nearly score of others killed and
many buildings have been wrecked.
Those known to be dead or missing
are:
Mamie =. Hagie and five brothers, killed
near Sioux Center.
Mrs John kerster near Sioux Center;
b child blown away and not yet found.
Anna Marsden, teacher in Coombs
school near Ireton.
George Marsden, brother to Anna,
teachsr is another school near 1reton.
Charles Marsden. killed near Sioux
Center.
Mrs. Post, killed near Sioux Center.
Rudolph Schwerdefger. aged 2l, killed
by lightning near Sutherland.
Peter Simmer, killed in his house near
La,rsns, by lightning.
Two children of l.. b. Coombs, killed
near Sioux Center.
Mrs John Waterman, killed near Sib-
ley.
Child of A. verhoff, killed near Sioux
Center.
John Patterson.
William Ludrichs.
Mrs. X. w. Smith.
g. +. Balling.
Mrs. Herman Bellkomps and two chill
dren.
Anna Hosington.
Bertha Doonburg.
= III. G.. Neiderfrank.
NJ. +. Hoyt.
j. Jameson.
Besides the above, number were
injured, some fatally.
A curious feature of the cyclone was
the accompaniment of electrical vio-
lence and many deaths by lightning
are reported.
The towns of Sioux Center, Ireton,
Orange City, Perkins, Doom, Hull,
Sheldon, Alton, Ashton, Sibley and
Lemars were almost directly in the
path of the cyclone. The cyclone was
followed by furious rain and wind
storm, which lasted all night. Numer-
Gus victims were
Foand Lodged in Trees
where they had been hurled by the
storm. Where had stood fine residences
could be found nothing but a cellar
hole and in some cases few twisted
timbers, while strewn all over the
ground were portions Of the buildings
and furniture bearing not the least SEM
blance to their original form and use
less except for kindiing. Fields Of
sprouting grain are now bare, trees up
rooted and
All Is Isolation
along the path of the cyclone. A pitt
full feature of the disaster is the num-
Der of young lifes crushed out by the
wind. Three schoolhouses near Sioux
Center were destroyed while school was
in progress and at each one from three
to ten children were killed or injured.
Two little daughters of John Roster, a
farmer hear Sioux Center, were picked
up as they were leaving the school.
house and dashed into a wire fence and
both were killed. Two sons Of G. H.
Haggie at the same school house had
their legs broken and received other
injuries which will prove fatal. Mr.
Haggie's house is near the school anC
although he escaped his daughter wa
SO badly injured that she cannot live.
Combination Cyclone and Tornado.
The storm, widespread as it was, ap
pears to have been a true cyclone in
places and in other parts Of its territory
partook more of the nature of tor.
nado, and in others even where damage
was considerable was not more than ,
gale of wind with severe hail and rain
The seyerest cyclone had its course TO
IL or 10 miles in Sioux county, tn
same storm or another one touched a
Sibley and did great damage there. II
South Dakota, even where there wa
severe destruction, there appears t.
have been no real cyclone with tn
swirling funnel shaped clouds. The
county cyclone pears to have
Originated at Ireton,
and to have travelled northeast to
point on the Sioux City and Norther
road, one and one-half miles north @
Sioux Center. Then it took course Q
an elongated letter 'S," crossing tn
track twice, and for two miles it seem
to have formed straight up the track Q
this railway until it struck the town G
Perkins from the southwest, and thos
who saw it there believed it rose or wa
dissipated at that point, but it is poss
BILE the same awful cloud continued it
tortuous course and afterward struc
Sibley. From Sioux Center and othe
places in Sioux county, estimates com
that no less than 20 have been kille
and two Or three times asm any injured
As the path Of dssrruc.on was almos