The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-01
THE TORNADO

The following account OF the damage done
by the recent tornado in neighboring coun.
lies is taken from the Richmond Gazette:
Mrs. Smith. living near Hebron, was
PICKED up and carried several rods and
struck tree. She had her shoulder dis-
located and her jaw broken. The large barn
Of s. J. Nichols, in the town Of Linn, was
unroofed. moved his former residence, now
used as milk house, from its foundation,
nearly tipped it over blew the chimneys and
blinds from his new house, and wrenched it
so that the plaster is badly cracked. From
thence the storm proceeded to the farm Of
Levi Nichols, where it literally demolished
everything. Mr.. Nichols was sick in bed
when the storm came. Mrs. Nichols saw the
roof 20 from s. ]. Nichols barn, and,
calling to her husband to follow, caught her
two children and ran into the cellar, which
they barely reached when the house was
lifted from the foundation and they were
left with no shelter over their heads-but I'M
| injured. The house was carried some twenty
feet and left mass of kindling wood. It
had lost oil resemblance to house and was
Just mass of rubbish. The furniture was
smashed to pieces or carried away SO that
there was nothing left of what few minutes
before had been happy, comfortable home.
Between the house and barn was small
building which was left standing and unin-
Ijured, only where . few shingles were blown
off. The barn, which was built only few
years ago, and was one Of the best on the
prairie, was not moved from its foundations
as the house, but it was badly wrecked. We
saw sound pine timbers 12x12 which were
snapped off as if they had been pipe stems
A part of the roof lay in the field forty rods
away from the barn and the ground between
was covered with boards, timbers, farming
implements, hay, straw, etc. There were
two men, seven horses and number OF cat
tie in the barn at the time. The horses,
| cattle, and one man escaped injury. The
other man, whose name we understand was
John Fitzpatrick, was struck by q large tim
Der which was thrown across his chest and
probably killed instantly. Wind mills,
orchard and shade trees, fences, sheds, etc.,
were blown down, torn up and generally
scattered all over the farm. AT rough esti-
mate it seems to Us that the loss sustained
by the Nichols families cannot fall short of
$4,000.
James Grier was just putting out team
when he noticed the upheaval of the Nichols
barns, so he ran to his house and called to
his wife and child to 60 into the cellar, which
they did. He attempted to follow as quickly
as possible, but had only reached the head Of
the cellar stairs when the wind lifted the |
roof from the house. He suffered the usual |
loss Of wrecked barn and having his fences |
blown down and carried away. Henry
Earle's two barns were both swept away. |
Milton Balls barn was blown down and one
cow killed.
Continuing in its course the storm reached
the farms of Messrs. Kull, Hess and Strick.
land, on the Geneva road. at about the same
time. The large barn belonging to Mr..
was leyeled and the pieces were
in the road and all across the ad-
joining fields. The sheds, fences and trees
around Heiss' dwelling were fattened or
torn up and portion of the roof
Of the house was carried away. Kulps
barn was large, new one, and was left moth
ing but heap of ruins. His house stood on
The opposite side of the road In the path of
The storm, and although it still stands was
sadly wrecked by flying timbers from the
barn. The roof was gone and in the corner
we noticed large hole which was made by
! timber. Sheep and cattle were scattered
all over the country and
many of them killed.
The next place where the storm wrecked
It's fury was on the farm Of T. P. Richmond.
Here we found the most desolate sight of
The places visited. The large barn AMI ad-
Joining sheds were treated the same az all
The others had been-razed to the ground. Il
The house was moved on its foundation and |,
hn wnoR oYd 40 ~ nf tho cs1nc xunun ....l ,
ing through the air into Pell's lake. We
noticed an oak tree about four feet in diam
eter which was broken almost squarely of.
In the orchard, which was good one con-.
posed Of large trees, there is not single tree
left standing. They we're torn up by the
roots or broken of, and some OF them were
carried across the road and slough into the
lake. The space between the barns and
lake was covered with farming implements,
broken timbers. grain, hay, dead hogs and
sheep. which had been carried there by the
wind.
Some of the principal loses in Alden are
Mr.. Campbell, barn torn down, one horse
and two cows killed Mr.. Kingsley, house
barn 100 feet long blown 10 kim
ding wood, one horse and one COW killed I,
Mr.. Fred Bottamy's house and barn were
utterly destroyed. Mr.. B., family and q
hired man had started for The cellar. but
The house was struck before they reached it,
instantly killing the hired man and seriously
injuring Mr.. b., wife and little daughter.
Of the school-house in this neighborhood
here is nothing left but the foundation and
ioorsteps. The house was torn to atoms
Ind scattered to the northwest.
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