The Greenville times., 1896-05-27
| TORNADO IN IOWA
teeps over Polk, Storey and JAS
per Counties.
" PERSONS KILLED OR INJURED
|r.rihe Storm Of Wind and Rair
n Chicago and Vieinity-hany Bush
ness Easements Flooded by
the Heavy Downpour.

ness Easements rloo1co oy ,
the Heavy Downpour.
Death Dealing Tornado In Iowa.
bEs MoINEs, Ia, May 25.-The most
|rmlns reports are being received
e respecting the tornado which
bit over Story Polk and Jasper
mites, shortly after midnight Sun.
night. Owing TO the almost total
Istration of telegraph and telephone
res il Is not possible to verify the
borts that have bcea Received. but
Indications nre that the casualties
| reach 80 killed or injured. Four
b persons are reported killed in the
ee towns OF Valeria, Bondurant and
keny. The two latter towns are in
J CPolkl county, while Valeris is in
per county directly east. SO far
heard from Slater is the only town
Story county which suffered, but as
ire is no present means OF COM
ncation with that section there is
ry probability that the restoration
Geographic communication will
ing news Of disasters as yet unre-
rted. Nodetails have been received
m Slater further than the bare
tement that the whole town was de-
Dyed. The same report comes from
X city, this county,
LArER-A telephone message from
rwick says that courier Just in
Is that "a persons were killed at
bdurant, i've at Valeria and three
Ankeny,
Tho Situation Grows Worse.
DEs MONIES, Ia, May THE situa-
grows worse as authentic news
hes from the tornado district. At
leria it is known that Is persons
fe killed. Most Of those killed were
the depot of the Chicago Great
stern road, some OF them having
alighted from a train and others
Ping taken refuge there from the
b. The depot was entirely blown
pieces. The west-bound passenger
IN escaped but few minutes. Had
emaiaed at the station five minutes
ger the list of killed would have
tcub ed Y numbered scores.
dispatch from Santiago says the
rm was unprS cedented in its fury In
y section. Three miles west OF town
bouse was fled bodily from the
Nh, carried some distance aud thrown
he ground a shattered wreck. This
Ire family of occupants were killed,
roads are almost impossible from
Pris, fences, outbuildings and
inches o trees being swept together
thing has been heard from tn,
theastern end of the country. where
feared I. c storm caused the great
dam e..
messenger from Bondurant, who
w d at n'ne o'clock, says that r.
Scott, a prominent farmer, wa'
el, a so that u church at AnkenJ
bl'wn down and several persons
e hu It. The town of Granger wa;
| wreck d The number of farm
Pses wreck ID between Valera ant
pdurant is very heavy.
ha fol n,.,, L.. =. Ia II l. 4. ~ r.
injured, as far as learned, at Bon
|ant,
RS. Balle~and three children, two
cs east, are dead.
IT, Bailey so badly injured that h'
not recovered.
E. Scott, horribly crushed ant
despaired Of
eter Bolen Baugh, wife and child,
fantiago, dead.
harles Phelan and four children, at
eria, killed; bodies mutilated al
! beyond recognition.
m. Maxwell, of Elkhart township
ed.
RS Maxwell and two children, Sc
nsly injured.
wo houses wrecked near the line o
Ion 10 of Douglass township; fat
inmates unknown.
II. Woods, of Valeria, reports sii
ed there. Mr.. Woods store was de
llshed and contents scattered al
town, The second story, contain
lodge room, was set down in th'
pet intact, so that lodge meeting
ID be held in It tonight.
rimes and Grange were not strucl
the tornado. When first seen al
era the tornado consisted of tw'
nels' which united just after leav
there.
Another Report
oNDuRANT, Ia, May 25.-A death
ing cyclone swept over the north
ends of Polk and Jasper countie
|en o'clock Sunday night. Between
and 300 persons are reported killed
'ses were unroofed, trees torn u
the roots and hundreds of horses
Vie and hogs killed. THE dead her
rs Robert Bailey, aged SO.
lss Lizzie Bailey, aged ls.
ohn Bailey, aged s2.
Vhn Mitchell, struck by lightning
ID As.
INJURED.
ooert Bailey, splinter drove inside
die.
our Bailey children, all badly In
edi may recover.
ames Santon, bruised about head
ne storm formed west of this place
own OF 300 population, and swer