Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-05-30
A TW|STfR IN IOWA
JASPER AND POLK COUNTIES
SWEPT BY \ CYCLONE.
six Towns We're Partially Destroyed
and Many People Killed and
Injured.

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killed, a score fatally injured and about 80
people seriously nurt is as near as can oe
estimated tonight the result OF the de-
structive tornado which swept portions o.
Iowa Illinois and Kansas last night. Tue
property loss is heavy, but accurate esti-
mates thus far are impossibilities.
The list Of killed stands as follows: Jas
per county Iowa, 10; Polk county, Iowa,
8; Rockford, 4; Elgin, Ill, /; North Nc
Gregor, Iowa, l., Durango. iowa, o. + fo't
Scott kaS., 2.
The storm wrought its greatest havoc
in Iowa, where the counties Of Polk ana
Jasper We're devastated by two tornadoes.
The loss of life was heaviest there, the Isl
of dead being as follows:
In Polk county near BonduraHt and San
ern:
Robert Bailey. Jr
Mrs. Robert Bailey.
Lizzie Bailey.
John Bailey.
Peter Bolenbaugh.
Mrs. Peter Boenbaugh.
Two grandchildren of the Bolenbau2hs.
John Maxwell, killed by lightning.
The following is the list of killed in JAS
per county:
Charles p. Hafien. Sr.
Charles r. Haflen Jr.
Susie Hafen.
Mike Hanen.
Molie Haf1en.
ClariSSa Dickey.
Martha Dickey
CHARLES Elkns.
Mrs. Shell
The following are among the seriously
injured, half of whom it is estimated may
die:
In Polk county-W. T. Stock, Mrs. A.
Edwards, Oliver Yates, two children OF
Edwards. Robert Bailey.
The injured in Jasper county are: Mrs.
Charles P Haflen and Willie P. Haflen. u
Eakins, Mrs. D. F,akins, Solomon Dickey
Mrs. Solomon D:ckey, Nellie Dickey, HaT
vey Pitcock, Mrs. Solomon Pitcock, Mrs
Harvey Ptcock, Monroe Osborne, Mrs
Monroe Osborne and child.
Origin of the Storm.
The storm originated near the town OF
Ankeny, % miles north Of Des Moines. As
near as can be ascertaned from those whC
saw the sight two clouds. one in tbs
northwest and one from the southwest
met, and then dropped down on the earth
and wrought their havoc on all that was
loose and fast. The storm moved north
eastward. Near the town of Bondurant Il
killed its first victims, the members Of the
Bailey family. The storm was seen from
Bondurant. 1t passed, going north of thg
town to Santiago. Along the course
fences, buildings, crops and trees wert
completely destroyed
Those who fed to caves were invariao,
saved, but so sudden was the approac
of the storm that many were una bl5
to find that shelter, though the cave
We're only a few rods away from them
Passing inward the storm struck Val
eria. The railroad bridge on the Chicago
Great Western was the first object j.
wrestled with. The bridge was complete
ly demolished and the rails We're TWISTED
and bent out of shape The town was
almost completely ruined. The buildings
We're demolished when they stood in the
full force Of the storm and those which
stood along the edges of the storm were
moved and twisted and in other ways in
jured.
The family of Charles P. Haflen seems
to have been the greatest sufferers neal
this point. Their home was literally
wiped out of existence, together with al
their possessions. An old man, holding Z
babe, was lifted up and dropped in az
adjoining field without the least injury
being done TO either him or the child.
Leaving the wrecked town the storm
moved forward, laying the country bare
wrecking houses and killing the inmates
Later in the evening a tornado seem!
to have struck near Manchester, in Del
aware county, although reports are still
very meager from there. The total los
of property is hard to estimate. TIL
buildings destroyed will aggregate from
100000 to 5000, ,000
Fortunately only one thickly populated
community, Valeria, was in its path.
Most Appalling Mt Durango.
The most appalling calamity occurret
at Durango a small hamlet on the Chi
cago Great Western, eight miles north
where five persons were drowned.
The dead at Durango are:
Brakeman James Griffin.
Four children Of Mrs. Clark, the rail
road station agent.
All Of them were drowned by the sweer
ing away of the depot, where they ha
taken refuge from the flood.
Besides the Clark family there wer
in the depot Peter Moss, James Dillor
Brakeman Griffin, Mrs. Clark's servan
May, Lindrick; F: Drawer, wife and tw
children. The little frame depot wa
lifted from it's foundation and hoate
into the main channel Of the river, q
yards below, and there struck a tree an
careened TO one side. AS the depot turne
over the lights went out and the creates
confusion prevailed. AS the depot career
ed Mr.. Griffin seized the Clark girl an
plunged into the flood, which eatende
from bluff to bluff, distance of half
mile The brakeman and child mist hal
met almost instant death. The oths
three children Of Mrs. Clark were on tt
side of the depot which went down, an
when it rose again minute later to col
tinue it's Journey down the stream. t
children were missing, James Dillon ar
=. Moss managed to catch the overhanE
ing branches of a tree, and here the
were discovered when a rescuing part
arrived
The others remained in the depot u
til it lodged against tree half mi
or so below the depot site
no nf
dren, girl years old, was found 80 yar'
below the tree where the depot lodge
The bodies Of Griffin and the girl he hs
attempted to rescue were found thr
miles down, lodged in the drift wood. III
body of the other child was seen in Il
food four miles down the river.
M a ru,.rn nI-,r ny GREAT EIAAI