The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-05-09
NORTHWESTERN IOWA VISITED
BY A TERRIBLE STORM-FIFTY
REPORTED KILLED.
BARNS AND RESIDENCES SWEPT
AWAY.
Telegraph Wires Blown Down and Rail
road Tracks Washed Away-Reports
From the Scene of the Disaster
Are Meagre

Omaha, May 3.-(Special)-A special
to the Bee from Sioux City, Iowa. saws
a dispatch was received here by the Sioux
City and Northern railroad company this
evening from their agent at Sioux Center,
10 miles north, telling of terrible cyclone
near there in which many people were
killed and injured and which much prop
erty was destroyed. The wires where
the storm was We're blown down and tel
egraph reports are consequently very mea-
gre. The first disDatch received by the
railroad says the cyclone passed three
miles northeast of there at p. M. A
school house was blown down and the
teacher and u number of children killed
the exact number not known. The whole
country in the track OF the storm is de-
wasted. Sioux City and Northern trains
between Perkins and Doone are washed
out for several miles. Dispatches from
Sioux Center at 30 p. IN. say three
school houses and at least 20 residences
and barns were swept away. AT the
school houses two teachers and three
pupils We're killed and many injured. Two
women were found dead about & O'Clock
near the point where one school building
had stood. One man who arrived in
Sioux Center late this evening reported
that his house was blown down. Parties
have been sent out from Hull, Sioux Cen
ter and Orange Center, towns near by,
but the work must be carried on in total
darkness in the midst of tremendous
rain storm. 1t is consequently progress
sing slowly. A number of bodies have
already been recovered although the eX-
act number can not be learned.
1t is said Perth, small town between
Sioux Center and Doone, was directly in
the path of the storm and was almost
entirely wiped out The wires leading
to it are all down. The railroad track
is washed out and wagon roads can not
be safely travelled over owing to the
manner in which they were quilted by
the rain. 1t lis consequently mo easy
matter to get the news of the disaster.
Help has been requested from here and
if the same character of reports continue
to come train may be sent out. NO one
seems to know exactly where the track
of the storm was.
Later-Defnite reports are beginning
TO come in as to the path followed by the
storm. The cyclone originated about q
mile and half southwest of Sioux Cen
ter. 1t moved from there in q northeast
erly direction and passed directly through
Perkins. Passed Perkins nothing was
heard of any damage. Late this even
ing. however news was received from
Sibey to the effect that a storm struck
there about p. M, destroying the house
of John Watterson, killing Mrs. Waiter
son and injurng Mr.. Watterson and his
son. No names can yet be learned of the
people injured at Sioux Center and Per-
kins.
The Sioux City and Northern train,
which arrived at 10 p. M, brought in sew
eral passengers who witnessed the storm.
They reported 13 dead bodies had been
brought into Sioux Center at O'Clock.
They estimated that 80 people must have
been killed. The Northern train barely
escaped a smash up near Doone. 1t was
stopped by section men before 1t passed
into the dangerous territory. The death
roll so far as known is:
Mrs. John Roster.
Mrs. Post.
Miss Annie Marsden.
Charles Marsden.
George Marsden.
A child of A. Verhoff.
1.-Two children of L. b. Coombs.
Miss Mamie S. Haggie and five brothers.
-. -. Jameson and two Foster chill
dren.
Their deaths were all in the vicinity of
Sioux Center.
The names of few injured near Sib-
ley, where much damage was done by
the storm are: A farmer near Sibley
was killed by lightning and Mrs Frey and
the Rosenburg brothers were badly hurt.