The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-04
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN IOWA.
ONE ESTIMATE PLACES THE LOSS
OF LIFE AS HIGH As 100.

BIOwing Down of n School House
Near Sioux Center and Many
other Pupils Injured-The Town of
Perkins Reported Nearly wiped
Our.
Sioux City May Sioux county was
devastated by a terrific cyclone this af-
ternoon. The storm came from the north
west and struck Sioux Center, a small
town forty-five miles north of this point,
at o'clock. Telegraphic reports are very
meager, the wires being down, but it is
understood that a considerable number
were killed and injured.
The first reports were received by the
Sioux City and Northern railroad from
their agent at Sioux Center. The dis
patch read: "a cyclone passed three miles
northwest of here. A school house
near town was blown down. A teacher
was killed, and several children were
killed and injured. The exact number and
names have not yet been learned. The
whole country in the track of the storm
was devastated. The Sioux City and
Northern tracks between Perkins and
Doom were washed out for several miles"
Dispatches from Sioux Centre, received
at $50 o'clock tonight. say that three
school houses and at least twenty resi-
dences and barns near that place were
swept away. At the school house two
teachers and three pupils were killed and
many injured. Two women were found
dead about 6 O'clock not far from the
point where the school house stood.
one man who arrived in Sioux Centre
late in the evening reported that his
house was blown away and his family
killed He himself escaped and says
that at least 100 people must have been
killed
Parties have been sent out from Hull,
Sioux Centre and Orange City, neighbor-
ing towns, but their work is being car
Tied on in total darkness and in the midst
of a tremendous wind and rain storm.
1t is consequently progressing slowly.
number of bodies have already been
recovered, although the exact number
cannot be learned. Every one is violently
excited and definite accounts cannot be
obtained.
1t is said that Perkins, small town be-
tween Sioux Centre and Doom, was direct
iy in the path of the storm and was al
ing to il are all down. The tracks are all
washed out and the roads cannot be safe
ly Travelled over, owing to the manner in
which they were quilted by the rain. 1t is
consequently no easy matter to reach 1t.
Physicians have already set out from
Hull, Orange City and Sioux Centre, but
are meeting with every conceivable Obsta-
Gle IN their effort to reach the scene of
the storm. Help has been refused, but if
the same character of reports continue to
come in train may be sent out
Late news was received from Sibley to
the effect that storm struck there at 5
p m, destroying the house of John Wat
terson, killing Mrs. Watterson and injur.
ing Mr.. Watterson and his son.
No names can yet be learned of the peo-
pie injured about Sioux Centre and Perk-
ins. The Sioux City and Northern train,
which arrived at 10 O'Clock this evening,
brought several passengers who witnessed
the storm. They reported that thirteen
n
at p. m. 1t is estimated that fifty people
must have been killed. The northern train
barely escaped a smash up in washout
near Doom, but it was stopped by the sec
ton men before it passed upon the dan
gerous territory.
Sioux City, May 3, 1850 p. m.-Later re-
ports say that ten were ere killed at Doom and
three. at Perkins, Thirteen dead have
been brought into Sioux Center.
The tornado jumped forty miles north
east to Sibley, Osceola county. Five are
The storm appears to have originated
one and half miles southwest of Sioux
Center. From there is moved across the
crossing the Sioux City and Northern
track about two miles north of Sioux
Center. About half mile beyond it seems
to have changed its course to the north
west and struck Perkins and Silbley.
Sioux Falls, May 3, 11:5O p. m.-Word
was received from Sioux Center at II
o'clock tonight that Miss Annie Mars
den was among the killed She was
teacher at what was known as the Cooms
SchOOlhouSe, seven miles north or Sioux
Center. Fully one-half of her pupils are
said to have been killed or injured, but
none of their names have yet been learned.
The parents of many Of the children es-
capped the storm, and are nearly frantic
with anxiety to learn whether their little
ones are dead or alive. Miss Marsden's
brother, who taught school two miles
north of the Coombs building, was also
killed
As nearly as can be learned, the towns
which suffered were Perkins, Sibley, Doom,
Hull and Sioux Center. Sioux Center and
Hull We're grazed only by the edge OF the
storm, and no fatalities are reported from
either of them.
The number killed at Doom is now stated
at ten. Four or five VIII propaply cover
the deaths at Sibley. At Perkins the loss
of life is said to have been very large,
probably not less than 80 or 40 This, with
the number killed on farms aDout the
country, must bring the number up TO
nearly rs or 100.
1t is dificuit to determine tonight what
the loss, of property Will amount 10, put
from all accounts it must be enormous.
Late tonight word was received that
TOUR school houses near SIOUX center
while school was in progress We're des-
troyed and at each one from three to
ten children were killed or injured. Many
OF the children We're carried from
quarter to a half mile before they We're
dropped. Two little daughters of John
Roster, a farmer near Sioux Center, were
picked up as they were leaving the school
both were killed. Two sons of c. II. Hag-
gle, at the same school house had their
legs broken and received other injuries
from which they will die. Mr.. Haggie's
house is near the school and although he
escaped, his daughter was so badly In
Jured that she cannot live.
The deaths near Sioux Center, of which
there is certain evidence thus far are
those of Mrs. John Roster, Mrs. Post,
Miss Annie Marsden, George Marsden, a
child of A. r. Hoff, two children of 1. B.
Coombs, Miss Mamie Haggie and five
brothers. ]. Jansen and the two Roster
children.
Sbley Ia, May BIN the vicinity of
this place a score of people lost their lives
during the cyclone, which swept down
from the north. The storm did not reach
here in its most furious form or the IA
tality must have been frghtful. 1t was
most violent half a mile east of town.
There the house of Herman Belnap was
completely demolished and Mrs. Belnap
and two children were killed.
A mile further on the storm struck the
dwelling of John Waterman, reducing
it to kipdling wood. Mrs. Waterman
was struck on the head by a flying
piece of joist and instantly killed. Her
husband was seriously hurt and William
Waterman's shoulders were crushed. Mrs.