Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-05-09
PROBABLY 30 killed
Sioux County, Ia, Devas-
tated by a Cyclone.

A Number of Bodies Already Recov-
cred at Sioux Centre-Perkins Al
most Entirely Wiped Out School
Houses Wrecked and Teachers and
Pupils Killed.
Sioux City, Ia, May 4.-Sioux county
was devastated by terrific cyclone last
evening. The storm came from the
northwest and struck Sioux Centre, a
small town forty-five miles north of this
point at A o'clock. Telegraphic reports
from the scene of the storm are very
meagre, the wires being down, but 1t Is
known that considerable number were
killed and injured. The first reports
were received by the Sioux City & North.
ern railroad from their agent at Sioux
Centre. The dispatch read
"Cyclone passed three miles northwest
of here. School house near town blown
down, teacher killed and several children
killed and injured. Exact number and
names have not yet been learned Whole
country in the track of the storm devas-
tated. Sioux City & Northern tracks
between Perkins and Doom washed out
for several miles"
A press dispatch from Sioux Centre
says that at least twenty residences near
that place were swept away. At the
school house two teachers and three pu-
pills were killed and many injured Two
women were found dead not far from the
point where one of the school buildings
stood. One man who arrived in Sioux
('pptra thia nnrptn0 tad hat hie
house was blown away and his family
killed. lie alone escaped and says that
Mt least n hundred people must have been
killed.
aruies were sent out from Hull,
Sioux Centre and Orange City, ne hbor-
ing towns, but their work was carried OH
in total darkness and in the midst of a
tremendous wind and rain storm. A
number of bodies have been recovered
although the exact number cannot be
learned. Everyone is violently excited
and detailed accounts cannot be obtained.
The town of Perkins between Sioux
Centre and Doom was directly in the
path of the storm and was almost en-
tirely wiped out. The wires leading to
it are all down. The tracks are all
washed out and the roads cannot be safely
Travelled over owing to the manner in
which they were quilted by the rain. 1t
is consequently no easy matter to reach
1t. Physicians were sent from Hull,
Orange City and Sioux Centre They met
with every conceivable obstacle In their
effort to reach the scene of the storm.
The Sioux City & Northern train
brought several passengers who witnessed
the storm. They reported that twenty
dead had been brought in to Sioux Cen
30. ,,,iI dat, 10 t..I . I,at
fifty people must have been killed. The
Northern train barely escaped IL smash-up
in n wash-out near Doom, but was stopped
by sectionmen before it passed upon the
dangerous territory.
AS nearly rs can be learned the towns
which suffered We're Perkins, Sibley,
Doom, Hull and Sioux Centre. Sioux
Centre and Hull were grazed only by the
edge of the storm and no fatalities are re-
ported from either of them. The num-
Der of killed at Doom is now stated at
ten. -Four or five will probably cover
the deaths at Sibley. At Perkins the
loss of life is said to have been very
large, probably not less than 30 or 40
This, with the number killed on farm
about the country, must bring the mum
ber up to nearly 10 or 100 Many of the
killed were school children. Many OF
the children were carried from quarter
to half mile before they were dropped.
Two little daughters of John Costcr, IA
farmer near Sioux Centre, were picked
up as they were leaving the school house
and dashed into a wire fence and both
were killed.
Sioux Falls, S. D., May A cyclone
dropped into West Sioux Falls last even
ing and did $50, 900 damage to property.
A man named Arthur had his nose
broken, face cut and was otherwise in
jured. The carriage works, together
with hundred carriages, were wrecked.
The third story OF II large brick block
was torn off and several people narrowly
escaped being badly injured. Probably
n hundred houses, barns windmills and
trees and chimneys were scattered over
the path of the storm.
Redfeld, S. d., May AT this writ
ing returns are coming in showing that
within ten miles north of Rednuld
regular cyclone traversed toward Ash
ton, where it did much damage. The
opera house building, formerly the court
house, was blown out of shape. The
steeple of the Congregational church was
blown down, many houses unroofed
and barns destroyed The main street
of the city Is strewn with debris of de-
molished buildings.
Atchison, kas., May A violent
storm struck Atchinson. last night, and
rain came down in great torrents. The
Missouri Pacific telegraph wires are
down in northwestern Kansas and 1t is
believed that there has been cyclone in
that section.