By msnbc.com staff
A 14-month-old girl found in a field after Friday's tornadoes was clinging to life on Sunday, as details emerged about how her parents and two siblings lost their lives.
"She is in extremely critical condition," her grandfather Jack Brough told the Louisville Courier-Journal late Saturday. "She’s had a lot of injuries to her head. The doctors told us that the next 24-48 hours are very critical. I’m just asking everyone to pray for my granddaughter and for my family."
Angel Babcock's parents, Joe and Moriah, did not survive, nor did her brother Jaydon, 2 years, and sister Kendall, 2 months.
A neighbor said her boyfriend had tried to help the family leave their mobile home in New Pekin, Ind., for his larger one as the tornado bore down.
The boyfriend, Jason Miller, said he saw Angel's family lying face down in their hallway, holding hands and praying.
Before he could help them out, however, the tornado sucked him and the Babcocks out. Miller survived with several broken bones.
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Brough said he waited out the storm at his home, and then headed to his daughter's to see how they were.
"As we got closer and closer, the whole area was flattened," he told the 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."
Brough was then told of a little boy found in a field and a baby being carried away. He later learned the two were his grandchildren and went to a local hospital to identify them. There he was told that his daughter and her boyfriend were also dead.
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"They wanted me to identify Moriah and Joe, but I just couldn’t do it," he said.
"She was always happy and loved life," Brough said of his daughter. "Her entire life was about Joe and her children. She loved her kids; she was always with them."
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