The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-04
ANOTHER BIG CYCLONE.
This Time Tt Sweeps a Populated
Section Of Iowa,
DEATH LIST WILL BE VERY LARGE

IAepuTAh AnNS HdT cry meaEeTS NWihB 70 .
che Destruction of Telegraph Wires, but
1t Is Believed That at Least FIFTY Were
RiIIsd-Big Bridge Blown Away.
OMAHA, May A special from Sioux
City says Dispatches were received here
last evening from the Sioux City and
Northern railroad agent at Sioux Centre,
forty five miles north, telling of terrible
cyclone near there in which many people
were killed and injured and much prop
erty destroyed. The wires where the storm
was were blown down and telegraph re-
ports are consequently very meagre
The first dispatch received by the North
ern road said the cyclone passed three
miles northeast of there at 80 p. m. A
school house near town was destroyed,
teachers killed and number of children
killed and injured, but have not yet been
able to learn the exact number or names.
The whole country in the path Of storm is
devastated, and the Sioux City and North
ern tracks between Perkins and Boone
washed out for several miles. Later dis
patches from Sioux Centre say three school
houses and ut least twenty residences and
barns have been swept away. At the school
houses two teachers and three pupils 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 Centre late
last night reported his house was blown
away and his family killed. He himself
escaped, and reports that at least two or
three hundred people must have been
killed
Parties We're sent out from Hull, Sioux
Centre and Orange City, neighboring
towns, but their work was carried on in
total darkness in the midst Of tremend-
Gus wind and rain storm. 1t is conse-
quently progressing slowly. A number
of bodies have already been recovered,
although the exact number cannot be
learned.
The storm originated about mile and q
half southwest of Sioux Centre. 1t moved
from there in anortheasterly direction, and
passed directly through Perkins, g small
town six miles north of Sioux Centre.
Late last evening news was received from
Sibley to the effect that storm struck
there about & p. m, destroying the house
of Joseph Watterson, killing Mrs. Wat
terson and injuring Watterson and his
son. No names can yet be learned of the
people injured about Sioux Centre and
Perkins
The Sioux City and northern train,
which arrived at 10 o'clock last night
brought in several passengers who wit
messed the storm. They reported that
thirteen dead bodies had been brought in
to Sioux Centre at o'clock. They esti
mate that fifty people must have been
killed. The northern train barely escaped
a smashup near Doom, but was stopped by
| a section man before it passed upon thI
dangerous territory.
The death roll SO far as known is; Mrs
| John Roster, Mrs. Post, Miss Anna Mars
din, Charles Marsdin George Marsdin {
child of A. Verhoff two children of i. B
Coombs, Miss Mamie S, Haggie and five
| brothers. John Jameson and two kostei
| children
The deaths were all in the vicinity ot
I Sioux Centre The names Of a few in
l jured near Sibley, where considerable
! damage was done by the storm, arr
| known. Besides John Watterson, whC
was killed by flying timbers, Herman Bel
| KNAPP, 5. farmer near Sibley, was killed b!
! lightning, and Mrs. Frey and the Ross
! berg brothers were badly hurt.
The railroad tracks are washed out ant
i the wagon roads cannot safely be Travelled
owing to the manner in which they wer
quilted by the rain. 1t is consequently n
easy matter to reach the scene of the disas
ter Physicians have already set out iron
Hull, Orange City and Sioux Centre, bu
are finding every conceivable obstacle il
their effort to reach the scene of tn
storm