The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-26
MANY PERSONS KILLED
The List Will Probably Reach
Half a Hundred.
SEVERAL COUNTIES LAID WASTE
In One Demolished House An Entire
Family of Seven Members Was
Found Dead in One
Room.

Marshalltown, Iowa, May 25.-Ihe
| villages of Valeria, Niingo and Santa
go, Jasper county, on the Chicago ana
Great Western railroad, between here
and Des Moines, were nearly wiped
from the face of the earth by cyclone
last night, and adjacent counties were
laid waste with considerable loss OF
life and great destruction OF railway
f! and other property
Reports received here as to the num-
Der of victims say fourteen were killed
at Valeria. five at AIingo, four in the
country a few miles west of Bon
| Dorart end three at Santiago. The
| names of some of the killed are: Mrs.
| Robt. Mailey and three children, ana
| two members of the same family were
| injured but may recover,
| At Santiago the following are known
| to have been killed: Mr.. and Mrs Bal
lenbaugh and grandchild,
| A terrible spectacle was presented
/ in one demolished house in Naleria.
| Seven members of a family named
| Failous. father, mother and five child
| rem. were found dead among the
| wreckage in one room. Two children
/ named Aikens. two ladies named
Dickey and Mrs. Osborn, were also
killed outright, and number of peo-
| pie III the village and the adjacent
county severely injured.
The following buildings were wreck
ed in Naleria: Chicago and Great
Western depot, one drug store. three
general stores, post-oiiice, Cathollc
church, one creamery, two blacksmith
| shops. and twenty-five dwellings,.
4 witness of the storm says the APP
preaching cloud looked like an inverted
beer bottle and dipped down at Val
eria with appalling suddenness and
frightful effect, t,wrenching off oak trees
two feet in diameter or pulling them
Iout by the roots as if they were weeds.
| The property loss is estimated at
over 100000. Later reports say a
man named Chas. Cadlin and his four
children were killed. His wife and
two sons are also badly injured, idhe
former probably fatally.
| The storm occurred between 0 and
10 O'Clock, accompanied by n deafen-
ing roar, deluge of rain and hail. Its
track was several miles in length and
from a quarter to half mile in width.
A great amount of live stock was killed
and the crops in the path of The storm
utterly destroyed. 1t is not likely the
railroad will be repaired so that traffic
can be resumed for several days. The
death list will probably aggregate
| twenty-five. as a number of persons
are still missing in addition 10 those
reported killed and injured.
The property loss is heavy, but ac-
curate estimates are thus far an inn
4 ha ted of 4 H.
tonight as.follows:
Jasper county, Ia, 10; Polk county,
Ia, 9; Rockford, ILL.,, A.; Elgin, H., /;
| North McGregor, Ia, II; Durango, Ia,
5; Fort Scott, Kan, 2.
The storm wrought it's greatest
| havoc in Iowa, where the counties of
Polk and Jasper were devastated by
two tornadoes. The loss of life was
heaviest there.
Manchester, Ia, May 25--A cyclone
| struck Manchester at about ten O'Clock
last night, leaving a track of six or
eight miles in length in ruins Mrs.
Ira Howl and VIM. Murray were seri-
ously injured.
Elma, Ia, May 25.-A terrific storm,
cyclonic in force, passed over here last
night. Buildings were unroofed, trees
| uprooted and out-houses smashed.
Telegraph and telephone poles and
wires were demolished and numerous
| business fronts were smashed in. The
town is almost lake. Hundreds of
dollars worth of damage was done but
no one was hurt. At Alta Vista, man
was killed and two children badly hurt.
indianapolis, Ind, May 25.-Indiana-
polls suffered from a severe wind and
rain storm during the early hours of
this morning. Two inches of rain fell
| and the streets were flooded.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 25.-A storm of
unusual severity struck Chicago at
2:15 O'Clock this morning. Easements
i'm the downtown districts were food
ed and considerable damage was done.
| During the short space of ten min
utes, from 2:20 to $3.50 o'clock nearly
an inch of water fell.
Elgin, Ill.,, May 25.-A tornado visi-
ted this section this morning. John
Keogh, engineer of the State Insane
Asylum, was killed by a falling chin
ney. The Elgin Sewing Machine and
Bicycle factory was blown down and
many farm buildings were leveled.
Rockford, ILL.,, May 25.-Four killed
and many injured, a number OF them
| fatally, is the result of the syclone
which swept through this section last
night at midnight, besides great loss
to property and the complete destruc-
tion of crops. Mrs. Godfrey Hill, liv-
Lin near Monroe, was beheaded while
going down into the cellar to escape
the storm. Her daughter, Elsie, was
also instantly killed and her husband,
who is prominent Grand Army man,
was dead from injuries received,