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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1896
Page
3
Reports detail devastating tornado activity near Chicago and across Michigan towns. Lifespan and property losses mount as families named Burke Moyers Moloney perish. Flooding and wreckage flood the Mississippi region while rescue efforts continue for survivors and missing children near Durango and Durango depot areas.
A severe storm near Des Moines intensified into a tornado destroying multiple towns including Valeria Bondurant Ankeny Slater and Polk City. Widespread damage to telegraph lines and railways halted traffic. Fatalities and injuries reported with several homes and depots leveled and missing residents feared dead.
Des Moines reports nineteen killed and many injured from the Veleria cyclone. In Polk County near Bondurant and San stations several named victims include Robert Bailie Jr, Mrs Hubert Bailie, Miss Lizzie Bailie, John Bailie, Peter Bolenbaugh and two Bolenbaugh grandchildren. Jasper County victims include Charles Phalen Sr and Jr, Dennie Phalen, Susie Phalen, Mike Phalen, Mollis Phalen, Clarissa Dickie, Martha Dickie, Charles Eakins and Mrs Shell. Several seriously injured reported, with some possibly fatally hurt.
A readable fragment lists individuals such as Mrs Phatin Willie Phalon Dag Eakins Mrs Dug Eakins Solomon Dickey Mrs Solomon Dickey Noble Dickey Harvey Pitcock Mrs Harvey Pitcosk Monroe Osborn and Mrs Monroe Osborn with child. The wording suggests a social or estate notice listing participants or residents.
A violent cyclone struck Clemens and surrounding townships in Michigan causing widespread destruction. Thom is wiped from the map while Metamora Oakland and others reported severe damage and injuries. Dozens of homes barns and telegraph poles were toppled with multiple fatalities listed across Orronello Oakwood and neighboring communities.
A severe cyclone swept through Illinois on Sunday night, killing four and injuring many, with extensive property loss and crop destruction across multiple towns. In Rockronp area Mrs Godfrey Hildebrand and her daughter Elal died. her husband grievously injured. Fires, flood and wreckage disrupted rail lines and churches were damaged. Chicago suburbs faced a cloudburst with widespread building demolitions and uprooted trees. A steamboat disaster near Ohio river caused thirteen drownings.
Michigan items report广 incendiary fires destroying homes and barns injuring families. a fatal house blaze hits Tilward street and nearby structures. Tax changes in liquor sales show revenue shifts. silver convention talk draws responses. Bank cashier hanged in effigy amid a bank shortfall accusation. Destructive storm causes damage in Bay City and Merritt Township with several deaths and farm losses. May Festival at Ann Arbor draws full houses. three hundred workers laid off at iron mines. Michigan crop notes cite uneven rainfall, Hessian fly damage to winter wheat, and ongoing planting in progress.
Doc Dutton of Whitewater captures a gray engin on Little Ranges bluffs with 7 feet 2 inch wingspan. Hugo Hill of Detroit mortgaged his entire stock for 68 839.65 dollars. A bitter case ended in Paw Paw circuit court with a 50 cent judgment and hefty costs, totaling about 300 dollars for the barrel. Ambrosa Bunnell, 66, died by self under poor health in Coldwater. Andrew Smith killed by a ground fall in Palma mine at Bessemer.
The United States Supreme Court issued decisions in the sugar bounty cases, affirming the lower court and upholding the bounty for sugar planters. It also ruled on the Horsa arms case, sustaining the neutrality law violation findings against Wiborg, Maced Johansen, and Peter Benson, with judgments reversed for the latter two. The Omaha Bridge case ruling was affirmed. The court adjourned until October next term and did not announce a California relief decision.
A young Chicago vagrant, Frank Torney, is accused of fatally shooting Hupman aboard a Lake Shore freight car near Huron. Torney demanded money and a watch. Hupman refused and was shot, dying within an hour as railroad men pursued the assailants. Other suspects named include Thomas O'Donnell and James Harris. Consumption relief offered by Shiloh's Cure is advertised by A. Hyde.
A giant iceberg drifted ashore near Amesbury Massachusetts on a calm May day. It grounded briefly at low tide and appeared as large as a church before drifting away with the setting sun. Hotel guests asked for blankets as temperatures plummeted and a cold morning followed.
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