Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1898 — BLEW DOWN THE TENTS. [ARTICLE]

BLEW DOWN THE TENTS.

Mora Creates a Panic at a Circus in Blouz City, la.—One Man Kllledi | Many Persons Hart. Sioux City, la., June 25. —While the j Sells-Forepaugb ahow was in progress Friduy night a fierce windstorm blew down the tents. The scene which occurred ta indescribable. Thirty-two [ persons were injured. Adolph Hal- j versen, of Sioux City, died at the ( police station; a showman, said to , be Frank Reynolds, was badly hurt internally and It la believed will ■ die. Fortunately nearly all the ani- ! mals in the cages were already aboard the cars. The showmen acted like heroes during the panic, and aided in the rescue of women and children from perilous positions. The management places the loss at about SIO,OOO in damage to tents and paraphernalia.