Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-26
OUR TORNADO.


this county. doing great damage at
Port Edwards, Barker town, the Ger
man settlement on the Four Mile creek
and to this city and Centralia.
There were few people in either
of these two cities who witnessed the
furious work of the winds that did
not seek place of safety. The eel
lar was made the principal retreat
Whether infdeI or christian seemed
to make but little difference, every
face wore and anxious look.
IN GRAND RAPIDS
a large number of sidewalks were blown
over and broken. One near Johnson's
on high street, another near Woods
drug store leading to the bridge, also
the walk between Hebert's gallery and
Miss Mullen's restaurant, and the walk
west Of f. L. Tibbits residence The
building on front street owned and
occupied by Mr.. G. A. Neeves as a
broker Office, was carried forward
about five feet and considerably dam
aged. 1t was thrown against Woods
drug store doing damage to Mr.. Wood
to the tune of 500 by breaking in
halt of the store front and knocking
patent medicine and ink bottles onto
the floor After the storm Walter
and Tom had fine time sweeping out
ink and medicine by the wholesale.
A glass door was blown from the ark
in the store to the floor and net bro
ken or injured in the least
r. Parrish & Bro. escaped with the
loss of one pane of glass. Two panes
of glass were broken out of SCOTS
restaurant. Hebert's gallery was rails
ed several feet and fell back to place
without injury. The Gardner brick
block sustained some damage. The
ornamental iron and brick work on the
front was blown off and the tin trim
mings received some injury.
Farther up street the vacant build
ing owned by Mrs. Roche sustained
damages by falling into the river,
breaking out the front and racking the
entire structure. It has since been
raised by VIM. Brown and is now in
it's former position.
John Arpin's store building had
four large lights of glass broken and
numberless other small mishaps occur
red. Lightning struck the court
house tower but resulted in no serious
damage. Shade trees without number
were broken throughout the city.
After a careful examination of our
city we found that our people were
more scared than hurt.
IN CENTRALIA,
those most roughly handled were Mr..
F. L. Tibbits and N. Gerard & Son.
Mr.. Tibbits lumber yard had the ap-
pearance of match factory the wind
having implied much of his lumber
and broken most of it into mere frag-
ments damaging him about $500.
Mr.. Gerard was more fortunate, their
loss will not exceed $50.
S. Preston found his new wagon
building which was in process of cree
ton leveled to the ground after the
storm had ceased.
A chimney was blown off the Com
mercial Hotel Numerous shade trees
were destroyed in the city.
ON THE FOUR MILE CREEK
it is reported desolate, sad looking
place to behold since the ravages of
the cyclone. 1t beggars description.
Saturday is Farmers day and many of
the boys were in this city during the
storm little dreaming of the desolation
they would find on reaching their
homes that evening. Many of them
found no homes on their return, their
houses, barns, fences and all having
been carried away and totally demol-
ished. Fortunately ne lives were lost
though a few persons were injured.
Among the sufferers are first
Mr.. VIM. Moll a young man who
has a wife and child had his dwelling
swept away taking them with it. The
woman was hurled out of bed with
her infant only three days old, into
heap of rubbish several rods away
and the debris of the house fell partly