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Killer tornado pulls Indiana toddler from home into field

SURVIVOR: Angel Babcock, 15 months, was sucked from her home by the killer tornado and dropped in a field. Her parents and 2 siblings died.

SURVIVOR: Angel Babcock, 15 months, was sucked from her home by the killer tornado and dropped in a field. Her parents and 2 siblings died. (WXYZ.com)

In a prairie-land miracle, a year-old girl survived a monster tornado — flying though the air and landing in a field after the vicious twister destroyed her home and killed her parents and siblings.

Blond, blue-eyed Angel Babcock, 15 months old, was in critical condition yesterday at a Louisville, Ky., hospital, cared for by doctors, nurses and members of her extended family.

She was the lone survivor of the twister that killed her parents, Joesph Babcock, 21, and Moriah Brough, 20. Her two siblings, Jaydon Babcock, 2, and Kendall Babcock, 2 months, were also found dead.

Neighbors said the family died as they prayed for deliverance from the monster winds that devastated parts of the South and Midwest on Friday.

How the little girl survived and came to lie in the field near her home in New Pekin, Ind., remained a mystery yesterday.

The body of Angel’s sister, Kendall, was found strapped in a car seat upside down, while brother Jaydon was found in the rubble of the family’s home, a family friend told WXYZ-TV. The children and their parents were the only people killed in their county.

Angel’s grandfather, Jack Bough said he and another daughter had raced to the family’s home once the deadly storm had passed.

“As we got closer and closer, the whole area was flattened,” Bough told the Louisville Courier-Journal.

“I kept saying, ‘Oh, my God! Oh, my God!’ I was breathing so hard. I couldn’t see my daughter’s trailer for nothing . . . it was gone,” he told the paper.

“We got out of the car and started hollering for her,” he said.

A neighbor, Marcia Lanham, said the child’s tragic father worked in a nearby sawmill owned by Lanham’s ex-husband and son.

Lanham said that as the funnel cloud bore down on the tiny community, another neighbor, Jason Miller, was injured as he tried coax the girl’s family into his bigger, double-wide mobile home.

The storm picked up Miller and tossed him and his own family around like rag dolls, Lanham said.

Miller, 31, survived with broken bones and was in stable condition yesterday at University Hospital in Louisville.

But he wasn’t able to save the toddler’s family.

“He’s a hero,” said Lanham, who sobbed as she told the story to The Post. “He went next door to bring them over, and they all got killed.”

Somehow, Angel got separated from her family — and ended up alone in the field.

Rescuers rushed her to a hospital in Salem, Ind. Doctors there sent her by helicopter to Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville.

Hospital Vice President Cis Gruebbel said it was unclear who had found her.

Bough said Angel is “in extremely critical condition. She’s had a lot of injuries to her head.”

At least 38 people are confirmed dead and thousands have been left homeless in the wake of the early-season outbreak of twisters that wiped at least two towns in Indiana off the map Friday.

Kentucky reports 19 deaths, followed by Indiana with 14, Ohio with 3 and Alabama with 1.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels toured what once was the town of Henryville, 35 miles from Louisville, and called the destruction “heartbreaking.”

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