Des Moines, Iowa, May 26. - Central Iowa...

Des Moines, Iowa, May 26. - Central Iowa was swept by a terrible cyclone attended by great loss of liLe last night. Bondurant and Valeria, on the Chicago Great Western railway, and the country surrounding suffered the greatest damage. The wires are working badly and it is hard to get particulars. It is reported that nine are dead at Valeria. The operator at Bondurant, where wires are just repaired, says there are twenty-four dead bodies in Bondurant from surrounding country and admage cannot be told at this time. Great damage t property and growing crops blown out of the ground. Four in the Bailie family at Bondurant were killed, and in the same family five were injured. One of these is not expected to live. Three in the Bolenbaugh family at Santiago, east of Bondurant were killed outright. At Valeria five were killed in the Phelan family. Between Valeria and Ira, fifteen miles northeast of Bondurant, nine are reported killed, but the names could not be obtained, as they lived in the country. Word comes from Colfax, the nearest point where telegraphie information may be sent, that the mother of Henry Schell, of Des Moines, was. killed. Charles Magee is reported dead at Valeria. The storm traveled through Polk county, striking no other towns as yet reported. A mile south of Ankeny a farmhouse and buildings was completely removed from their sites and the contents scattered for miles over the country. The family saw the storm coming and took refuge in their cyclone cave, so they were unhurt. Neither Polk City nor Slater, little towns on the edge of the storm, was harmed. A relief committee has been organized in this city, with Major Hoyt Sherman as chairman and Conrad Youngerman, chairman of finance committee. The committee will make personal investigation of what is wanted and will suppply all that is needed. It appears from latest information that the damage is more outside Bondurant than in the town. Bodies are rought there for identification. Early itis ínorning a man drove into the city rom Bondurant and ordered four coffins for persons killed by the cyclone ast night. He reported that six were killed at Valeria and that the storm moved in a northeasterly direction. DEATHS Ï.EAR ROCKFORD. One AVoman Reportecl to Have Been Be-" headed - Crops Ruined. Rockford, 111., May 26.- This section was last night visited by the severest wind, hail and rain storm experienced :or many years, doing great damage o property of all kinds, ruining crops, tilling several people and fatally injurng a number of others. The storm iroke about 11:30 o'clock and raged or over an hour with terrific fury. The ir was filled with balls of fire, flashes f lightning following each other with reat rapidity. Many houses in this ity and throughont the country were truck by lightning. In the northern art of the country there was a furious ownpour of hail, ruining growing rops and making country roads almost mpassable. The storm was most severe southeast f this city. At midnight a cyclone truck a mile south of Egan City, comletely demolishing the residence of Hrs. Isora Bird, killing that lady intantly. Hér two girls and two boys 'ere injured. The oldest girl had her rm broken in several places and sufered severe internal injuries. The oungest daughter is so badly injured ,hat recovery is not possible. Giant .rees were torn up and crops of all inds leveled. Davis Junction suffered heavily. Monoe Center was also in the path of the torm and several lives are reported ost. One woman is said to have been )eheaded and her head, it is reported, as not yet been found. The crippled ondition of the wires makes informaIon from the path of the storm difficult o obtain. Dr. Hildebrand, wife and daughter 'ere killed near Monroe Center and liss Rhinehart at Leaf River. DAMAGE AT ELGIN. Sewing Machin and Kk-ycle Factory lajnred - One Life I.o'U. Elgin, 111., May 26.- About 1 o'clock this morning a cyclone passed south of Elgin, taking in the southern extremity of this city, and sweeping away several places, with more ruins to be heard from. The factory of the Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle company, employing over 300 hands, and having over $60,000 worth of fine machinery, was badly injured. At the insane asylum John Keogh, engineer, who slept in the pumping station, was killed by the falling of the chimney. He was in bed. Williarn Bambrough, his fireman, escaped unhurt. Many farm houses and barns were blown down, and South Elgin suffered to some extent. Details have not been received. TWE1VB KEPORTED DROWNED. North Mcíiregor Swept by a Terrible Cloudburst. Milwaukee, May 26. - A cloudburst at North McGregor, Iowa, resulted in great destruction of property and ihe probable lo&E of several lives. One body haa fcecn recovered from the debris. A mile water and débríE quickly filie,', the low land, carrying away the telegraph office, covering all the company's tracks between the main town and North McGregor, where the roundhouse is located, the área biing about a mile in extent. On a branch üf the Mineral Point división of the St. Psul severa] washouts oceurred, delaying trains to and from Shullsburg. No ot'iar damage on its lines was reported. HAVOC IS CHICAGO SUBCRBS. Frame Buildings Blown Down and Many People Receive 81 lab t Injuries. Chicago, May 26. - Chicago and its surrounding suburbs reveled in a regular cyclone this rnonüng whlch treatOd the city considerately but played havoc in the outlying districts. Edison Park, Norwood Park, Irving Park and Ravenswood came in for a little more than an equitable share of the cyclone. Several people were hurt, some seriously, and nearly a score of buildings, two of them churches, were Uemolished. At Ravenswood there was hardly an ornamental shade tree intact and numerous weak strucU'.res were wrecked. At Edison Park, Irving Park and Norwood Park the scène was infinitely worse. At these places last night doors, window frames, roofs of houses and sections of sidewalk made tbe air heavy and clogged up the general breathing apparatus of the suburbs. The injured: Miss Reifenstahl, slight bvuises. Peter Fox, wife and child, seriously bruised. Mrs. Albert Sweetzer, arm broken and internally hurt. Mrs. James Hutchinson, badly bruised. Albert Danish, seriously cut and bruised. The structures demolisiied by the storm were- at Edison Parli: Residence of Albert Sweetzer, occupied by Albert Sweetzer, wife and three children. Residence of Albert Danish, occupied by Danish, blown across a field and broken to pieces. Residence of James Hutchinson, occupied by Mr. Hutchinson and family. Residence of Miss Reifenstahl, occupied by Miss Reifenstahl, Peter Fox and family. H. 4. Fayer's barn. i .House owned by ochneiaer, unoccupied. Mrs. Sammon's residence badly shat tered; trees blown down. Barns and fences on Murphy's stock farm demolished. Bradley's residence blown down; family cared for by neighbors. Barn at Alton's dairy demolished. M. Chofut's house tipped over on one side. School Committeeman McGinnes' home wrecked, At Norwood Park: G. H. Gouns' residence blown down; family all in bed when it happened; all were rescued. John Hohn's house blown down; total wreek; no one hurt. Germán Evangelical church blown down; total wreek. Home of A. Cookhouse tilted over. John Nelson's house overturned. A. G. Cullom's residence thtown from its foundation. Chris Stade's house partly blown away. At Irving Park: The Baptist church at Hunting avenue and Irving Park boulevard was the most pretentious structure to go down before the storm, and it was wrecked by lightning. Several residences were more or less seriously damaged by the wind and trees by the score were uprooted. At Ravenswood: Andy McDonald's circus was safely tented when the cyclone came along and ripped the canvas from the stakes, snapped the guy ropes and upset the animal cages. An elephant got loose and mixed with a lion, causing terror to seize the attendants. The animáis, instead of fighting, evinced friendship for each other, and the elephant was recaptured half an hour later. At Wilson avenue and East Ravenswood park the plate glass Windows in a drug store were blown up and thousands of feet of sidewalk went up In the air, coming back to earth in splinters. Shade trees, outhouses, etc, were demolished in all directions. At Summerdale: One house here was blown down, resulting in serlouï injuries to a woman who occupied it.