The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-04
IT IS A SAD STORY
More Than Fifty People Reported
Killed By a Cyclone.
THIS WAS DOWN IN IOWA
Sioux Center Visited BY q Furious
Storm--Many Houses Were
Blown Down-The Par
ticulars Not Known.

Sioux City, Iowa, May s.-It is re-
ported that there has been a cycione at
Sioux Center. Iowa. 45 miles north Of
Sioux City. Fffty-two persons are
said to have been killed.
LeMars. Iowa, May "A cyclone
passed through Sioux county about 4
o'clock this afternoon. Near Sioux
Center, about rs miles north Of LeMars.
several farm buildings were destroyed
and a large number OF people killed.
Omaha, May ga special to the
Bee from Sioux City. Ia. says: Dis
patches were received here by the
Sioux City & Northern Railway COM
pany at 4:S0 o'clock this afternoon
from their agent at Sioux Center. 45
miles northeast of here, telling of a
terrible cyclone in which a number of
people were killed and injured, and
much property destroyed. The wires
where the storm was were blown down
and telegraphic reports are conse-
quently very meagre.
The dispatch received by the North
ern road said the cyclone passed three
miles northeast OF there at $3.50
O'Clock. School houses near the town
were destroyed, the teachers were kill
ed and a number of children were
killed and injured. The whole country
in the path of the storm was devas-
tated. The Sioux City & Northern
track between Perkins and Doom was
washed out for several miles.
Dispatches from Sioux Center at $3.50
d. m. say three school houses and at
least 20 residences and barns were
swept away. At the school houses two
teachers and three pupils were killed
and many injured. Two women were
found dead about o'clock not far
from the point where the school build
ings stood.
One man who arrived in Sioux Gen.
ter late in the evening reported his
house was blown away and his family
killed. He reports that at least 200
or 800 people must have been killed.
Parties have been sent out from Hull,
Sioux Center and Orange City. neigh
boring towns, but their work is be-
ing carried on in total darkness in
the midst of a tremendous wind and
rain storm. A number of bodies have
already been recovered, although the
exact number cannot be learned. Ev-
cry one is violently excited and def
mite accounts cannot be obtained.
1t is said Perkins, a small town be-
tween Sioux Center and Doom, was
directly in the path of the storm and
was almost entirely wiped out. The
wires leading to it are all down, the
tracks are washed out and the wagon
roads cannot safely be travelled owing
to the manner in which they were gull
lied by the rain. Physicians have al
ready been sent out from Hull, Orange
City and Sioux Center, but are find
ing every conceivable obstacle in their
effort to reach the scene of the storm.
The storm originated about a mile
and a half southwest of Sioux Center.
1t moved from there in a northwest
erly direction and passed directly
through Perkins, small town six
miles north of Sioux Center. After
passing Perkins nothing was heard of
any damage. Later in the evening,
however, news was received from Sib-
ley to the effect that a storm struck
there about p. m, destroying the
house of John Watterson, killing Mrs.
watterson and injuring Watterson
and his son. No names can yet be
learned of the people injured about
Sioux Center and Perkins.
The Sioux City e. Northern train
which arrived at 10 o'clock this even
ing brought in several passengers who
witnessed the storm. They reported
that 13 dead bodies had been brought
into Sioux Center. They estimated
that so people must have been killed
The death roll so far as now known
is: Mrs. John Roster. Mrs. Post. Miss
Anna Marsden. Charles Marsden.
George Marsden. child of A. Verhoff.
two children of l.. b. Coombs. Miss
Mamie S. Haggin and five brothers.
and Jameson and two Roster chill
dren. These deaths were all in the
vicinity of Sioux Center. Watterson.
who was killed by flying timbers. Her
man Belknap. farmer near Sibley.
was killed by lightning and Mrs. Frey
and the Rossburg brothers were badly
hurt.