Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-04
KILLED BY A CYCLONE.
Perhaps One Hundred Victims
 In Sioux County, Ia.
ONE TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT.

SchoOlhonses Wrecked and Teachers and | Pupils Killed Forty FarmhOuIes Bi"wn | Away-Doctors Hurried to the Scene. | MeaEer News of the Devastation. SIOUX CITY. Ia. May 4-D;spatches | were received hOre by tho Sioux City and Northern Railroad company from their | agent at Sioux Center. 45 miles north, telling of terrible cyclone near there, in which many people were killed and in jured and much property destroyed. Tho wires where the storm was were blown down, and telegraphic reports arc cOnse- quently very meager. The numher of dead is variuIIsly CStimat- ed at from 5O tn loo persons.
 The first disTatCh received by tho North ern road said the cyclone passed throe miles northeast of thcre \ schoOlhOuse nHar town was destroyed. the teachers killed and a number of children killed and injured
 The whole country in the path of the storm was devastated. The sioux City and Northern tracks bctwccn Perkins and Boone were washed out for several miles
 Dispatches from Sioux Center say three schOolhouscs and at least 20 residences and barns were swept away.
 At the schOolhouSes two teachers and three pupils were killed and many injur- ed. Two women were found dead not far from the point where one of the school buildings stood
 One man who arrived in Sioux Center late last evening reported that his house had been blown away and his family kill ed, He himself escaped and reports that at least 200 or 500 people must have been killed
 Dar.i,., Lo.-, b,,,, .-,,,s ,,,. s--,,, II,,u Sioux Center and Orange City. neighhor ing towns, hut their work is being carried on in total darkness in the midst of a tr, mendous wind and rainstorm. It is con sequently progressing slowly. A number of bodies have already been recovered, al though the exact number is not known.
 Perkins Almost Entirely Wiped Out.
 It is said that Perkins. a small town between Sioux Center and Doom, was ili- rectly in the p Ih of the storm and was almost wiped out Tho wires leading to it arH all down. The railroad tracks are washed out. and the wagon roads cannot safely be travelled owing to the manner in which they wcro gullied by the rain It is consequently no easy matter to roach it.
 Physicians have already set out from Hull. Orange City and sioux Center. but are finding every conceivable obstacle in
 
 Help has hccn refused from herc. but if the Samo character of rcports continue to come in n train may Do sent Ous, Definite reports arc just beginning to come in as to the path followed by the cyclone The storm originated about a milo and A half southwest of sioux Center. It m"ved from thero in n nOrtherly direc- tion, and passed directly through Perkins a small town six miles north of sioux Center
 Late last evening. however. news was received from Sihley tO the effect that q | storm struck thcrc about P, m. destroy ing the hOusc a. John Waiicrsun. Killing Mrs WattCrsUn and inju-ing Wattcrsun and his son.
 The sioux City and Northern train | which arrived at Iu o'clock last evening brought in several passengers who wit messed the storm They reported that lI dead bodies were brought into sioux Cen ter at 6 o'clVcE They e~tiInatcd that 5o | people must ha\o l'ren killed The Northern train harcly escaped n smaShup near DOon. but was stoprHl hy n section man before 1t passed '; -'u :!:o ,lIn gcrous territory, Tho death ro". 50 far as | known. k
 some of the Victims. Mrs. John Roster Mrs Post.
 l Miss Anna Marslen. | Charles MarS,len.
 GcUrgc MarStlCn.
 | A child of \. Nerhoft
 Two children of l. E Cocmbs Miss Name =. llaggis and five broth | CTS.
 | - .Iamison and two Roster children. The deaths wcrc all in the vicinity Oi Sioux Cen,Cr
 The nam ot tho few injured near Sib ley, whcre considerable damage was jionG by the storm. are unknown Besides John Watterson, who was killed by flying tim berS Herman BClknap. q farmer near S!b, Icy. was killed by lightning. and Mrh Frey and the RoSsberS brothers were had | ly hurt
 West Sioux Falls a suburb thrco mile. from here and very VrHtty. presents for. lorn appearance today Late Friday after noon a cyclone dropped to earth and after devastating a milo square went into the air again. Tho big iron bridEs was washeJ into the river, a big rosurt for questionable characters was unrooted and twisted, tht carriage works two buildings and lot completed buGgies Were wrecked
 The chain mortising works thrcs story building 2U0 ny - fCot. lust the whOlI third story. The oatmeal mill and water works pumphousr wrrc unr0Ofcd Barns trees six inches in diameter sheds wind mills, chimneys wore twisted and dem"l ished. The damage is placed at S1u, W1 A man named Thur is the only person hurt He sustained severe cut in th' facc and had his nose broken It raiue, torrents for some 70 minutes. about ar inch and a half of water falling in thai time Thcrc was some hail. but no dam age done by it.
 Secretary Grs.ham'. Condition.