Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-07-26
HOW 1T APPEARED.

Il The time at which the storm APP.
preached was so late that but few were
up andsof those who can give any ac-
count OF the appearance of things at
that time the most had been awakened
| by the storm, and their glimpses were
fragmentary and limited to such Sec
| tons OF the scene as were viewed by
flashes of the lightning. One party,
who saw the cloud some distance away
described it as black cloud with red
spots, while along the bottom was a
light las if some one was carrying a
lantern and showing the way And the
sound made was sissing sound as if
somebody had stuck red hot iron into
q tub of water.
Mr.. Crowell. of The firm of ID. Crowell
& Co., who lived over Pcarce's drug
store, was awakened by the storm and
looked out in time to see O'Neil's sa-
loon and Zimmer's carpenter-shop go.
Both buildings, according to Mr.. Crow
ellis view. appeared to have been
picked up in the air, the heaviest por-
tons dropped and the lighter sent fly
ing in every direction.
Mr.. John Fillbach is the caly one
who appears to have had a good look
at the cloud as it came from the south
west, and his description tallies with the
one given above. He was awakened by
his wife and went out on the landing
at the head of the stairs leading down
to the street. The cloud was then about
half mile away, but it was so light
says Mr.. Fillbach, "that did not think
it would amount to much.n He turned
and went in when the wind blew the
door open. He attempted to shut it but
found he couldn't do SO, and then the
house was lifted up by the wind and
dropped all in a moment, and before
any one could stir. Happily it did not
60 over, and the inmates turned out to
safer quarters. The building was prop
ed up in the morning but will have to
be torn down.
Mr.. Chas. Fox living adjoining, a
short distance to the west, was aroused
by the rafting of the elements and
graphically related his experience with
the storm as shown in his endeavor to
close door, which had blown in. Mr..
Fox thought the blow lasted minute
and half but it seemed as if it had
been a week. He heard the adjoining
building go, in which were his brother
and wife, and hurried down to their as
sistance, but before he could find them
they had worked out and gone over to
Mr.. Drury's as stated.
The amount of damage done, as near
as can be ascertained, is as follows
Drury building, occupied by Crowell
& Co., damage to building 800, to
stock about the same by water
John Fillbach's building and stock,
$4,000.
Fox building, occupied by Davy &
Thomas as furniture store, building ST.
200, stock $500.
Building occupied by Chas. Fox,
about $500.
Barn of United States Hotel, $50.
Drug store of DIR. Pearce, 1926.
Carpenter shop of d. thinner 5000.
Building occupied by o. O'Neil, as sa-
loon, building owned by Mike Schultz;
loss to building 81, 800, to stock and fix
lures 81 1000.
Ed. Beckerman, loss to house 500.
Goldthorp & Spang. paint-shop I'M
rooted, loss about 300.
| Lumber office of Henry Eastman,
whipped around the tank and left with
roof aid front gone, $75.
Carpenter shop, 500.
Depot building, $1,000.
Warehouse of Canterbury & Co.,
thrown across the track but not badly
damaged, $75.
This covers the loss in the village,
outside of some minor damage, such as
small out-buildings, lifted around or
unroofed. AS the above figures are
simply estimates made hastily, they are
likely to be increased somewhat by af-
ter calculations; but the loss, even as
stated, is quite severe one for a village
of two or three hundred inhabitants,
and where the buildings are none of
them very high-priced structures.
Seven buildings were totally wrecked,
and seven damaged more or less. Out
of the twenty-three persons who were
in the structures demolished, including
the Fillbach building, one was killed,
two seriously injured and six slightly
injured and bruised. All the injured,
THE HERALD correspondent was in