Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
Terrific Hurricane in Wisconsin.

on rlday last, DrleI accOunI vi "hi0n
has been given by telegraph
GA fearful hurricane passed over a.
portion of this State during Friday night.
In this city the storm was severe, there
being for some hours one continuous fash
of lightning, with considerable rain.
AT Woodland. on the La Crosse Rail-
road, the station house was blown down,
cars blown from the track, and others set
in motion. The station master, Mr.. Fox,
while endeavoring to stop one train OF
freight cars set in motion by the wind,
was run over and killed. AT the time
the building was blown down, there
were some ten persons within, seven OF
whom were more or less injured and two
or three, our informant states, so severe
/ ly that fears are entertained they not
recover. A store near the depot was
blown down and man severely injured.
A messenger of the American Express
who was in Woodland at the time of the
hurricane passed, describes the scene as
terrific. All but three of the buildings
atthe station we're blown down, and freight
cars heavily baded were blown off the
track, and on level ground turned bottom
side IN. The cars that ran over Mr..
Fox were braked down solid, so that the
power used to start them must have been
great. When the messenger left on
Saturday, another of the Injured persons
was not expected to live through the
afternoon.
At the time ofthe hurricane there was
no rain, but, as it was in this city, one
almost continuous sheet of lightning,
which illumination made the scene ter
rible to witness.
Saturday noon a child about four years
Of age was missing and could not be found.
The child was taken out of its fathers
arms, and so suddenly that the father could
not retain his hold of it.
Woodland is a small station, numbering
about twenty houses. 1t is here that the
cars meet on the road, and two heavily
loaded trains had Just left. Indeed SC
near were they, that an instant before the
hurricane struck, the rumbling of the
+ wheels could be heard. One was going
! each way, and as the heavily loaded
: freight cars standing upon the track were
lifted up and carried distance Of fron
five to twenty rods, had the gale struck
I few moments sooner, the loss of life coulC
, not but have been terrible.
The telegraph Office was in the freigh
! depot, which was all blown down, leav
7 ing nothing but the platform. The in
e strnments -.,oro takrn of, severed from
S the wires, and carried a distance of fort,
: feet The operator, whose name our in
: formant did not know, was severely in
i iured. A Frenchman was taken up b
n the whirlwind ard carried a distance G
: one hundred feet, and only saved fror
e destruction by being cast against th
stump Of a tree. When the eating hous
b wat taken up three women were insid
e washing dishes. The house was LITE
n over their heads, and strange to say the
0 were not injured in the least. The pc;
f Office was in the south side of the depo
o and the following morning letters an
n, papers were found a distance of tw
r miles off. The tavern was nearly d.
lie molished. 1t was large sized buildin,
and when the wind struck, the uppt
l. story was taken off, and the brick of tt
S, chimneys came tumbling down. 1t W;
s, in this building that most of the injure
al ones received their wounds.
lie Woodland is laid level with the du:
lg the only things left standing being IL
Ia railroad water tank and one log hut.
it The little child spoken of above W;
De found next morning at a late hour,
e. the woods a quarter of a mile from Il
spot. The little one was out all nigI
ad but was slightly injured.
US To exhibit the great force of the win
b. it is stated that the end ola scanting fro
a some of the buildings was driven throus
n a hard wood stump, and so firmly imbe
~ ded that three men could not move it, al
Is three heavily loaded freight cars we
+ carried over the platform, two tracks, al
10 placed on the top of a wood pile abo
= eight.feet high.
AT Columbus, on the Watertown TO
80 the hurricane was scarcely less fearf
bo Everything was Frustrated, One m
l., was killed-a Mr.. Clark-his house /
49, ing demolished over his head. Fearl
o6 that more than ordinary storm W
dc coming, his sent his family into the C
Va lar, and while attempting to secure t
NJ doors and windows, the storm struck, a
in an instant the housa fell uDOn Them