The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-06-05
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DETAH ROLL IN MICHIGAN
iLLINOlS AND IOWA.
Nincty-six Lives Lost-Ti,irty-sis People In
Small Towns in the Vicinity OF Oxford.
Mich, kincd-Thirty-siS Victims az Flood
ard Tornado in lowe.
FLOODS IN IOWA.

FLOODS IN IOWA.
sixteen Bodies So Ear Recovered Iron
the Torrent at McGresor.
NORTH McGREGoR, Iowa, May 27.-
Sixteen bodies of victims Of the flooe
which swept through this place yes,
day have been recovered, and 1T is be.
ileved that at least fourteen more
persisted, for no trace OF that number
of people a be found
Johu Maloney and his wife and
chlid and graudchild were drowned
IN their homes. Mrs Morgan Burke
q her son and Lawrence Never and
his wife and five children were also
drowned. The bodies of these people
and those of john Goodlest. Mitchell
Havelto, John Lavotch, John Nichols
and Thomas Gerard have been recoy-
cred.
Two small streams unite at Bula
and Tow from that point 10 the Mis-
si>sippl. The food OF the two united
and swept everything. lumber yards.
houses aud cars, between Eula and
North McCregor into the Mississippi.
Ranning through McGresor is a small
stream bearing the historic name of
Bloody Run. This empties into the
Mississippi just below the town, but
after the cloudburst the run was un-
able to carry the immense Quantities
OF water and it overlooked It's banks
SO quickly that people were taken
completely by surprise aui buildings
IN the ravine along the stream were
a1 hafNro thoy, o1,,Jyl ,as
Many tram ps also camped along the
STREAMS n there is every reason to
believe thai several Of them have per.
ished.
The total damage to the property of
railroad alone is estimated ct Sla5, COO.
It Is stated by officials of the road now
here That 1t will be at least ten GAYS
before the company can resume oper-
alton OF its line running west from
McGregor.
In Michigan-Ortonville, Parkwood.
Thomas, North Oxford aud Mount
laid waste or badly damaged.
twenty-five dead about O~rtonville.
seven at Parkwood, FIVE at North Ok.
ford, two at Thomas. Scores injured.
many fatally; property losses $500, 900.
In lllinois-The ferryboat Rather.
me capslzed at Cairo and thirteen
ilves lost; four killed neal Rockford
and many injured; d killed at Elr;n
and one drowned at Galena; eleven in
3ured in Chicago suburbs. Property
losses very great.
Ia Iowa - Bondurant, Naleria.
Minge, Polk City and Slater partially
destroyed by a tornado and the inter
venlng country devastated; nineteen
people killed and scores injured. At
North McGregor at least sixteen peo-
pie drowned; many still missing. At
Durango, five drowned and great dam
6 done by flood; at New Hampton,
one killed and one fatally injured.
In ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF dollars
damage done in and about SPRING
teld by three wind storms.
CHICAGO, May 27.-Disastrous wind
storms and floods visited no less tnan
three States Sunday night, yesterday
q to-day, causing the deaths Of at
least ninety-six persons aud fatal in
Jnrles to many others, while scores
were more or less hurt, and over
900 damage done. When re-
ports can be received from the regions
Q the towns laid waste the death
LIST may be swelled to over 100.
The most disastrous storm was the
one which visited the region about
oxford, Mich. 1t was the first tornado
known in that section Of the
State. About Ortonyille. twenty-five
people We're killed; at Parkwood, seven
were kllled: at Thomas the dead nuu,-
Der two and at North Oxford fveliyes
were lost. Scores of people were in.
1ured and probably $500. 900 will not
cover the losses. The origin and end
OF the tornado are not d%istiactlv
marked.
In Iowa the latest reports from tho
devastated sections of Polk and Jas |
per counties indicate that nineteen
persons lost their lives, while many Of
injured will probably die. The
which swept through North q.
Gregor caused The drowning Of at
least sixteen people, whose bodies
haye been recovered. Fourteen are
still reported as missing. At Durango
i've persons were drowned, four Of
Them the children Of the station
agent. In other parts Of the State
snere was loss Of life aud OF property.
IN Illinois the storm caused four
at Rockford and two elsewhere.
while n Il suburb of Edison Park
eleyen people were injured. The
losses are estimated at
gaoo, ooc. a fierce wind storm visited
galro TINS morning. The ferryboat
hatnar,ne was caught at the mouth
pf the ono river and capsized, and at