The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-05-09

ih"hlol 40 VIII remove all JDe
unpleasant and unnatural disagree
ments between the two countries
with regard to tariff legislation.
Why should England be more
unwilling to regulate our customs
dues than manage our foreign rela-
tions and to control our financial
policy?
"Keep an eye single to the glory
and renown and the imperishable
name you will leave to posterity by
achieving union of 1876, 10000 Of
English speaking people under the
benign and unselfish rule of the
British crown. Yours respectfully,
CIVILIAN NJ. STEWART
DEADLY TORNADO IN IOWA.
A tornado swept through a
thickly settled district near Sioux
Center about O'Clock May 3, killing
at least twenty three persons, many
of them children in their school
houses which were swept away,
fatally injuring at least ten other
persons and badly hurting thirty
more. At least forty farm houses
were also destroyed. The tornado
formed about three miles northeast
of 1reton and swept northeast over
district about fourteen miles long.
1t first struck the ground southwest
of Sioux Center and from there to
Perkins, not a building in its path
was left standing. The latter part
of its course took the form of an
elongated letter "S,n crossing the
railroad track twice and for two
miles it seems to have gone straight
up the track OF the railway. Those
who saw it at Perkins believed it
rose or was dissipated at that point.
The four school houses where
school was in session were wiped
entirely from the face of the earth,
not vestige being left except few
rocks to mark where they stood.
The school children and teachers
were carried from a quarter to a
halt mile, where they were found,
some dead and others badly man
gled. AT the school house where
George Marsden was teaching not a
vestige of the building remains, and
Marsden was found some distance
away in field dead, together with
two scholars. Two little girls of
John Roster belonging to the same
school were found clinging to-
gether where they had been
driven into a wire fence, covered
with mud, and are expected to die.
Both legs of two sons of G. II.
Haggie, belonging to the same
school, were broken and they were
internally injured. Haggie's house,
just west of the school house, was
entire ly destroyed. Haggie escaped
without any material injuries, but
his Oldest daughter was found lodged
in Tree where she had been hoisted
by the storm, and so seriously
injured that death is expected
momentarily, while two grown sons
who had come from the field at the
approach of the storm, were injured,
one seriously and the other fatally.
Annie Marsden, teacher, was killed
with several pupils, while other little
ones are missing and may have been
killed. AT the third school house
the teacher escaped, but three chill
dren are reported to have been
killed and seven injured. Many of
the children at all of the schools
were carried from quarter to half
a mile by the wind.
/ Wires were completely stripped
from the poles and some poles were
twisted from the ground. Horses,
cattle and vehicles were hurled
through the air like chaff and the
country for three quarters of a mile
wide by fifteen miles long is entirely
wrecked. The description of the
Haggie property and school could be
repeated at nearly every farm.
The tornado was followed by a
furious wind and rain storm which
lasted all night. Numerous victims
were found lodged in trees where
they had been hurled by the storm.
Where had stood fine residences
could be found nothing but cellar
hole and in some cases few twisted
timbers, while strewn all over the
ground were portions of the build
ings and furniture, bearing not the
least semblance to their original
form and useless except for kim
ding. Fields of sprouting grain are
now bare, trees uprooted and all is
desolation along tho path of the
cyclone.
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