Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-05-10
A CYCLONE IN IOWA
Path of the Storm Strewn With
Many Victims.
SWEPT EVERYTHING BEFORE II
Late Reports Are That FIFTY People Were
Killed And IA Town Compiete'S
Destroyed.

Sioux City, Iowa. May 3.-Dispatches
were received here by the Sioux CITY q
Northern Railway Company at 4;3o this
afternoon from their agent at sioux
Center, As miles northeast OF here, tell
ing of a terrible cyclone in which
number of people were killed ana IN
jured and much property destroyed
The wires where the storm was were
blown down and Geographic reports
are consequently very meagre.
The dispatch received by the company
said the cyclone passed three miles
northeast of there at 1850 p. m School-
houses near the town were destroyed
teachers killed and number OF emil
dren were killed and injured. The
whole country in the path OF the storm
was devastated. The Sioux CITY
Northern track between Perkins and
Doom was washed out for several miles.
Dispatches from Sioux Center at $3.50
%. m, say three schoolhouses and at
least twenty residences and barns were
swept away. At one schoolhouse two
teachers and one pupil were killed and
many injured. Two women were found
dead about o'clock not far from the
point where one of the school build
ings stood.
One man who arrived in Sioux Cen
ter late in the evening reported that
his house was blown away and his fam
lily killed. He reports that at least two
or three hundred people must nave
been killed. Parties have been sent out
from Hull, Sioux City and Orange City.
neighboring towns. but their work Is
being carried on In total darkness in
the midst of a tremendous wind and
rain storm.
DEAD BODIES FOUND.
A number of bodies have already been
recovered. although the exact number
can not be learned. Every one Is vio-
iently excited. and definite accounts
can not be obtained.
1t Is said that Perkins. small town
between Sioux Centre and Doom. was
directly in the path of the storm. and
was almost entirely wiped out. The
wires leading to II are all down. the
railroad tracks are washed out and the
wagon roads can not be safely travelled
owing to the manner in which they were
quilted by the rain. Physicians have
already been sent out from Hull, Orange
City and Sioux Centre. but are finding
every conceivable obstacle in their eff
fort to reach the scene of the storm.
FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED.
Later-The storm originated about @
mile and a half southwest of Sioux Cen
| tire. 1t moved from there in a north
easterly direction and passed directly
through Perkins, a small town si1
miles north of Sioux Centre. After pass
ing Perkins, nothing was heard of any
damage. Later in the evening howev
err, news was received from Sibley to thu
effect that a storm struck there about
p. m. destroying the house of Johi
Watterson, killing Mrs. Watterson ant
injuring Mr.. Watterson and his son.
No names can yet be learned of peopl
injured about Sioux Centre and Per
kins. The Sioux City & Northern train
which arrived at 10 o'clock this evening
} brought in several passengers who wit
messed the storm. They reported tina
10 dead bodies had been brought int
Sioux Centre. They estimated that
people must have been killed.
The death roll so far as now known |:
Mrs. John Roster.
} Mrs. Post.
Mrs. Anna Marsden.
Charles Marsden.
George Marsden.
A child of A. Verhoff.
Two children of l.. b. Coombs.
j Miss Mamie s. Haggin and five brotl
e ers.
n Jameson and two Roster children.
r These deaths were all in the vicini
), of Sioux Centre. and do not include MI
y Watterson, who was killed by fiyiI
h timber. Herman Belknap, a farmer ne
>. Sibley, who was killed by lightnin
!. Mrs. Fry and the Rossburg brother
:, who were badly hurt.