Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-09
HUNDREDS KILLED

/ BY . FrightfUl Cyclone in Sioux County
IowatMany Schooihouses DemolIshes
| and Their Inmates Killed or Inbred
Towns and Farmhouses Destroyed-A
Trail of Ruin and Devastation-Rescu,
Retarded.
| Sioux CITY, Ia, May 1.-TWO hun
dred persons were killed by a cyclone
that swept through Sioux county from
| northeast to southeast an hour before
sunset to-day. The territory devas
tated Is as rich and populous az
any IN Iowa, but as the storm main.
| ly kept clear of the railroad tracks
and telegraph lines it will be many
hours before the extent of the ruin is
| known or list of the victims can be
compiled.
| The first reports were received by
the Sioux City & Northern railway
from their agent at Sioux Center. The
dispatch read:
| Cyclone passed three miles north
east OF here. School house near town
| blown down; teacher killed and sew
| eral children killed and injured; exact
| number and names have not yet been
| learned. The whole country in the
| track of the storm devastated. Sioux
| City & Northern tracks between Per-
| kins and Doom were washed out for
| several miles,
Dispatches from Sioux Center at $3.50
p. m. said that three school houses
| and at least twenty residences and
barns near that place were swept
| away. AT the school two teachers and
three pupils were killed and many in
jured. Two women were found dead
about 6 o'clock not far from the point
| where one of the school buildings
stood
One man who arrived in Sioux Gen.
ter late in the evening reported that
his house was blown away and his
family killed. He himself escaped.
He says at least hundred people
must have been killed.
Parties have been sent out from
Hull, Sioux Center and Orange CITY,
ghboring towns, but their work is
being carried on in otal darkness and
in the midst of a tremendous wind and
rain storm 1t is consequently pro-
crossing slowly. A number of bodies
have already been recovered, although
the exact number cannot be learned.
Every one is violently excited and def
mite accounts cannot be obtained.
1t is said that Perkins, a small town
between Sioux Center and Doom, was
directly in the path of the storm and
was almost entirely wiped out.
Later reports say that ten were
killed at Doom and three at Perkins.
Thirteen dead have been brought into
Sioux Center.
The tornado jumped forty-five miles
northeast to Sibley, Osceola county.
Five are reported killed there. Physi-
clans have already set out from Hull,
Orange City and Sioux Center, but are
meeting with every conceive BILE obsta-
Gle in their efforts to reach the scene
Of the storm.
Help has been refused from here,
but if the same character of reports
continue to come in, a train may be
sent out.
Late last evening news was received
from Sibley to the effect that storm
struck there at p. N. 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 & Northern train,
which arrived at 10 o'clock last even
ing brought several passen gers who
witnessed the storm. They reported
that thirteen dead had been brought
in at 6 p. m. 1t is estimated that fifty
people must have been killed. The
Northern train barely escaped a
smash-up in a washout near Doom, but
was stopped by section men before it
passed upon the dangerous territory.
A Timely Discovery Averts a Wreck.
Madrid, Ia, May "A terrific rain
and wind storm passed over this Sec
ton of the state yesterday afternoon.
A dozen freight cars on a siding of the
roadswere blown out ont
the main track. where they were found
by the switching crew in time to avert
a wreck.