hit. >> reporter: there wasn't a lot to the town of phil campbell to begin with. now there's even less. at least 26 dead here in a community of around 1,000. winds of up to 175 miles an hour destroyed nearly 100 homes. one of them was linda correll's. she was lying in bed when everything came crashing down. >> the wall came down on top of me. and then the other two floors came down. >> reporter: she escaped with just bumps and bruises. how did you get out? >> crawled and kicked and just got out the best way i could. mostly everything is busted and just turned into match sticks. >> reporter: after making sure her mother was safe, bonner helped pull victims' bodies from the rubble of other houses. >> it's unreal, the bodies that are everywhere, and they're still pulling bodies out. it's just -- it's all sad. >> reporter: when a small town like this one loses so many people, it's hard for residents not to know one of the dead or someone who is still missing. >> one of my neighbors across the street got killed, and then another neighbor right down here got killed. i d