Phoenix weekly herald., 1896-05-28
FATAL CYCLONE.
Many People Killed In Iowa Last
Night.
PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Many Towns In Iowa Visited by
the Storm Which Left
Ruins Behind.

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storm struck bard at Bondurant, fifteen
rHiles north of here. It is reported that
twenty-four persons were killed there
| The Valleria mining village, ebous six
teen miles west of Newton, was nearly
wiped ont OF existence by the cyclone
last night. Fourteen people were re-
\ ported killed.
Twenty three people are reported
dead as q result of the cyclone which
swept the northern part of Polk county
last night at IL O'Clock The towns
afflicted are Bopdurant, Valerie, San
siego and Ira. No telephonic or tele-
graphic communication has been esteb-
lished except with Bondurant, which
reports four deaths there in she Bailey
family with five of the same family SER
family and Mrs. Schell we're killed at
Valerie. At Santiago three were killed
in the Bolen enbaugh family. Between vs.
leria and Ira the death list is nine. A
special train has been started from Dee
-MoiDes with physicians on board. The
storm is said to have swept along the
line of the Great Western from Bondu-
rant to Marshalltown
a special from Elme, Iowa, says: A
terrific storm, cyclone in form, occurred
here last night. Many buildings were
unroofed and trees uprooted. Tele-
graph and telephone poles aud wires
were demolished, aud numerous busi-
ness fronts smashed in. The town is
almost lake. No one was hurt. At
Alta Vista a man was killed and two
children hurt.
A Manchester, Iowa special says: The
cyclone struck Manchester at 1 o'clock
this morning leaving track six or eight
miles long in ruins. Mrs. Ira Howland
and Wiliism Murray were seriously in
iuFed.
MARsRALTowN, Ia, May %. = The
Cyclone last night along the Chicago &
Great Western Railway, in Jasper
county, killed probably twenty-five
persons. It injured more than that
number The loss of property will
exceed 100000 Several miles of rail
road track has been practically destroy
ed.
MILWAUKEE, May 25.-A cloudourst
at North McGregor, Iowa, resulted in
great obstruction of property and prob
able loss of several lives. VOus body has
been recovered ia the debris A mile of
track OF she St.Paul R. r is under water
Bloody Run oveIfowed SO quickly that
people living in the ravine could not
save their property, and several persons
are reported missing.
MILWAUKEE, May 26.-Lster reports
from North McGregor, Iowa, relative to
the terrible havoc caused by the storm
and food of Sunday night, show the
destruction of vast interests of the st.
Paul road at that point as we'll as of the
little town, are about complete. TIE
total damage 30 the railroad property
alone is estimated at S125,OOO. The loss
of life will probably be found nearer 30
than 10
CHICAGO, May 25.-Iu the suburbs of
Edison Park, Norwood Park, Irving
Park and Evanswood nearly score of
buildings, two of them churches, were
demolished end hundreds of shade trees
uprooted in this mornings storm. The
rainfall amounted TO a cloudburst, the
precipitation being, according to the
weather bureau, l. 46 inches in ten
minutee, breaking ell the previous local
records.
ELGIN, ILL.,, May PA tornado visited
this section this morning. John Keogh.
Engineer of the State Insane Asylum
was killed by falling chimney. The
Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle Fac
tory was blown down and many farm
buildings levelled.
OXFORD. Mich. May 26-From re-
ports that continue to come in from sd-
jacent points the full force of the fierce
wind that swept this parb of Oakland
County is beginning to be appreciated.
Every where is deveetation@ Villages
that were yesterday the homes of con-
tented citlzsns are today desolate
Maimed and bruised fathers, mothers,
brothers and sisters mourn for those
who met death in the twisting, grind
ing, resistless wind.
The death roll 10 this vieinity msy
run up to the hundred mark. At Oak
wood, o hamlet fifty miles north OF
Oxford. having population of about
200. not house wae left standing.
The path of the storm was between
one-hais and three quarters of q mile
wide. Il extended 10 nearly a straight
course eastward for over thirty miles.
DETROIT, May 26 The total deaths
resulting from last nights cyclone in
Michigan reached SO THE afternoon with
reports from soma remote districts yet
to come. Several of the injured cannot
recover.
GUTHRIE. o T May 25 Meagre re-
ports Of a disastrous cyclone at the
Seminole country rasched here this
afternoon Several iives are lost and
many ranches devastated and thousands
of cattle have been killed and scat
tered.