The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-26


The list of killed stands tonight as follows:
Jasper county. Iowa, 10; Polk county, Iowa.
9; Rockford, ILL.,, 4; Elgin, ILL.,, 1; North Nc
Gregor. TO-, II; Durango. TO-. 5; Fort Scott,
Kan. 2.
The storm wrought its greatest havoc in
Iowa. where the counties of Polk and Jasper
were devastated by two tornadoes. The loss
of life was heaviest there, the list of the dead
being as follows:
In Polk county, near Bondurant and San
tiago stations, on the Chicago Great Western:
Ecbert Bailie Jr., Mrs. Robert Bailie, Miss
Lizzie Bailie, John Bailie, Peter Bolenbaugh.
Mrs. Peter Bolenbaugh, two grandchildren of
the Bolenbaughs John MAXWELL killed by
lightning
Following is list of killed in Jasper coun-
~ Charles Phalen Sr., Charles Phalen Jr.,
Dannie Phalen, Susie Phalen, Mike Phalen,
Mollie Phalen, Clarrisa Dickie, Charles Eakins.
Mrs. Shell.
The following are among the seriously in
jured, half of whom it is estimated may die:
In Polk County-W. T. Scott, Mrs. A. L.
Edwards, hip broken; Oliver Yates, two chill
dren of Mrs. Edwards, Robert Bailie, fatally
injured. The injured In Jasper county are:
Mrs. Charles Phalen and Willie Phalen fatal
ly; Dugeakins, Mrs. Dugeakins, Solomon
Dickie, Nellie Dickie, Harvey Pitcock, Mrs.
roe Osborne and child.
The storm originated near the town of An
keny, ninety-fve miles north of Des Moines.
AS nearly as can be ascertafned from those
who saw the sight, two clouds, one from the
northwest and one from the southwest, met
and then dropped down on the earth and
wrought their havoc. The storm moved north
eastward. Near the town of Bondurant it
killed its first Victims the members of the
Baiie family. The storm was seen from
Bondurant. Many farmers, who had attended
the church services, had been unable to get
home before the storm, and their lives were
thus saved. The. track of the tornado at
this point was about a quarter of a mile
wide. 1t passed onward, going north Of the
town Of Santiago Along the course the
fences and buildings and crops and trees were
completely destroyed. In places the bark was
peeled from the trees, houses were lifted and
hurled down and broken into splinters the
cellars heaped full of mud and debris,
often partially covering those who had taken
refuge in them. Those who fed to caves
were invariably saved, but SO sudden was the
approach of the storm that many were una
BILE to find that shelter, though the caves were
only few rods away from them.
VALERA STRUCK.
Passing onward the storm struck Valeria.
The railroad bridge on the Chicago Great
Western was the first object it wrestled with.
The bridge completely demolished and
the rails were twisted and bent out of shape.
The town was almost completely ruined. The
buildings were 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
injured. school house was taken away
bodily and the fragments Of 1t have SO far
escaped discovery. The family Of Charles
Phelan seems to have been the greatest suf-
ferers near this point. His home was liter
ally wiped out of existence, together with all
their possessions. A pitiful story Is told Of
how two children tried to hold the door
against the storm until the house was lifted
up bodily. There were some strange pranks
played near this town. An old man, holding
a babe, was lifted up and placed in an ad-
Joining 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. One observer near
valeria who saw the storm and observed 1t
carefully, says that the cloud appeared to be
high balloon, dark green in color. with a
light streak In the center. 1t Travelled at
tremendous rate, tearing up the largest
trees by the roots or stripping them clean
of limbs and bark, driving posts into the
earth and twisting buildings in the edge OF
its track and first spattering the houses
close to it with mud and sand, stripping
hedges and licking the grass from the fields.
From Valeria the storm moved on, passing
near the town of Mingo At Ira the cloud did
it's last damage in Jasper county. Some OF
the spectators that saw the cloud say 1t was
divided, others that 1t was lifted upwards and
sped on in mid air with frightful noise. The
latter theory is probably the correct one.
Later in the evening tornado seems to
have struck near Manchester, in Delaware
county. although reports are still very meag-
er from there. 1t is possible that 1T was the
same storm, that is, that after travelling a
hundred and fifty miles in the air, 1t once
more dipped down to the earth and laid bare
a strip half a mile wide and six or eight miles
long There were serious disturbances in
Northeastern Iowa, and they may have been
in the wake of the same cloud, crossing the
Mississippi river in Clayton county. The
weather bureau Is attempting to trace the
progress of the storm as herein indicated.
The total loss of property is hard to esti-
mate. The crops, which were ruined, can be
replanted in many cases, the season is
comparativeIy early. The buildings destroyed
will aggregate from 100000 to 100000, fortu-
nately only one thickly populated community,
Valeria, being in its path.
CEDAR RAPIDS, TO-, May 25.-Reports> COM
ing in detail great damage by the storm in
Benton and Tama counties. Dysart and
Bairdstown were severely visited. Crops were
literally beaten into the ground by the heavy
hail.
Bishops Will Confer.
FARGO, N. D., May 25.-On the last day
of the Catholic laymen's second annual con-
vention, to be held here June and 8, the
bishops of the archdiocese Of ST. Paul will
hold an important conference Archbishop
ireland and Bishops McGolrick, Of Duluth;