The record-union., 1896-05-26

furniture. The house was torn to pieces,
the boards into splinters. They were
scattered so far that no trace can be
found save here and there for mile
east, pieces of the broken lumber. Trees
We're stripped of their bark and lett
standing. This was freak of the storm.
AT other places it would twist them off
or uproot them.
AT the Bailey place the members of
the family were blown a considerable
distance from the house. The bodies OF
the victims were found in the fields,
| where also We're distributed the bodies
of a dozen horses, a score of cattle and
hundred hogs that had occupied the
barns and other buildings on the place.
This was the experience of the fated
home of Peter Bolenbaugh, mile fur
ther west. What happened there will
never be known exactly. Nobody lives
to tell of it. Mr.. and Mrs. Bolenbaug7h,
both about 45 years of age, occupied
the nome with little boy. The house
was razed SO completely that no sign of
it can now be seen. The three inmates
were killed Mr.. Bolenbaugh had both
arms broken, his head crushed in, one
leg and several ribs injured, and his
I'tCh anu JAW DIOkGIl. IHe bOy anu
woman We're as badly hurt. They were
not found until 2 o'clock in the morn
ing.
AT Valeria, where the worst damage
was done, the storm struck first the
house of Charles Phelan, a wealthy
farmer on the edge of the town. There
were five in the house who were killed,
and two or three others will probably
die. One of the daughters heard the
roaring, and got up to rouse the rest
of the family. She slept in an upper
room. Before she could call to them
the storm was around the house. She
was pulled out of her room through an
| open window and carried back in the
| face of the storm about hundred feet,
where she was left on the ground un-
| hurt. She started to the house, to see
| it crumble to Splinters before her eyes.
| With it went the barns and sheds
around, and in another instant there
was the most awful scene of destruction
| that the storm left in it's wake. Five
| in the family were killed. Their bodies
were found in the plowed fields, where
| they were in fearfully mutilated condi-
tions and plastered with mud. Around
| them were the bodies of horses and hogs
and cattle
AT Valeria the depot of the Chicago
Great Western road was wrecked. The
wires were torn down from that place to
! Bondurant, and just east of Valeria the
storm did the most remarkable piece of
work. Just out of the town the rail-
road goes over high grade. The track
| for 200 feet was taken off this grade
and scattered, rails, ties and all, all over
the fields. Half a dozen rails were bent
/ into letter forms.
At Valeria the - iia4 / Catholic
| Churches We're totaIiy ,rec1ed About
a dozen bgsiness houses were blown to
pieces or partially wrecked. A large
part of the population of the town went
into the cyclone cave in the middle of
the place, and got in its shelter a few
seconds before the storm struck
The storm spent itself about three
miles northeast of this place but no..
| until it had killed one child at the home
| of Douglas Akin and fatally hurt an
| other, and wrecked the home of Solomon
| Dickey and probably fatally hurt Mr..
| Dickey and his sisters, Martha Dickey
and Mrs. Frank Shaw. The home of
William Osborne, in the same neighbor-
| hood, was destroyed and four members
of the family were fearfully hurt 1t is
expected at least two of them will die.
| As nearly a complete list of the dead
as could be had is as follows: James
Maxwell, struck by lightning north of
| Bondurant; Mrs. Robert Bailey. aged
| 60; Lizzie Bailey, aged 49, Joe Bailey,
aged -; John Bailey, aged 20; Mary
Bailey, aged IS; Peter Bolenbaugh. aged
| 80; Mrs Peter Bolenbaugh. aged 10:
Theopilus Milburn aged s; Charles Phe-
| Ian, aged 10; Susie Phelan. aged IS:
| Michael Phelan, aged s: Charles Phe-
Ian, Jr., aged ,; Nellie Phelan. aged ;
months; Dannie Phelan, aged II:
Martha Akin, infant child of Douglas
Akin.
The list Of seriously injured is not
complete, but it includes as those ex-
pected to die the following: John Yates.
| back broken; Teney Bailey, aged 49,:
Johnnie Bailey, aged u: Solomon and
Mrs. Solomon Dickey daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dickey, Robert Bailey. Mrs.
Charles Phelan and two daughters. two
children of Douglas Aiken, Mrs. Martha
| Dickey, Mrs. Shell, sister of Mrs
! Dickey; William Osborne and wife and
two children.
Aside from these there were many
minor injuries.
| FIFTEEN PEOPLE DROWNED.
| M'GREGOR Qa.), May 25-Words
are inadequate to fittingly describe the
scenes of desolation caused by last
| nights terrible cloudburst in historic
BLOODY Run. For ten miles west of this
place everything is in ruins. All the
afternoon threatening clouds were
! gathering, and about 1 o'clock this
morning the storm burst in its fury
soon deluging the valley. 1t swept all
before it. Fifteen people were drowned
as far as known The names of the
/ missing are: Mrs. John Maloney
four children of Lawrence Meyer, Mike
| Havick, John Livac and John Kattlec
Six bodies have been recovered and
identified as follows: Michael Maloney.
! Mrs. Burke and son. Mrs. Meyer and
! fiveyear-old son, and John Maloney
Some of the unfortunate victims are
, supposed to have been carried out into
/ the Mississippi River, into which the
Bloody Run empties at North Nc
/ Gregor.
! About ten miles of the track of the
/ Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road has been washed away A large
number of freight cars were standing
on the tracks in the west yards They
were piled in shapeless masses along
! the valley. The loss TO the railroad
company will probably reach 100000
| Happy homes with their human lives
We're torn away and hurled into the
black and rushing waters.
The station at Beulah, nine miles
west was washed away and the agent
and family barely escaped with their