The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
A TERRIFIC STORM.
Large Amount orDamage Done at Vari
Gus Points.

Large Amount ofDamage Done at Nari
Gus Points.
Last Thursday afternoon and evening"
18th inst there was a terrific tornado III
The Northwest, which at some points seem,
I'd to be q cyclone. A large amount OF
property vas destroyed and some lives
lost.
At Oshkosh, Wis, the casualties as far as
knownare:
Robert Webster and child, cut and
bruised.
Mrs. Henry Hoffman, injured; will die.
Charles Cilices, leg broken.
Henry Pohlow, knee shattered.
Mrs. Austin Slattery, arm injured.
Mrs. Wright, head cut.
Henry HOirman's grocery store was liter.
ally turned inside out. His loss is So, 900.
X. Webster's house has disappeared. The
residences OF August Cargness, Frank
Schultz and Phillip Heinz were badly dam
aged. The house of Frank Marcus is at
present completely upside down, while
Charles Below, James Henkey, j. III. Todd,
g.. S. kaime, |. Last, Il. Sanders, /. KEEL
sey, Charles Mccoy, Mrs. Bent, John Viii
hanson and many others are all heavy
losers, their property being more or less de-
strOyed.
At Madison, Wis, tin was tornfr from every
portion Of the old north wing of the state
house, while over a hundred shade trees
were uprooted in the capitol park alone.
Minarets were blown off the library hail at
the state university, and went crashing
through the roof, while the spire of the
Presbyterian church was completely de
molshed. The elegant residence of Post
master General Villas was half ~unroOfed.
Two Chimneys fell through the roof of As
sociate Justice David Taylor's residence.
Windows were shattered in Chief Justice
Coles mansion, and large plate glass win.
dOws were broken in many business houses,
Dozens of tobacco sheds are known to be
on fire in the towns OF Dunkirk, Pleasant
Springs and elsewhere south. About Slough.
ton, the scene OF the great tbbacco ware.
house fire, tobacco sheds, houses and barns
were demolished and a large number o.
horses and cattle killed. But nowhere was
the storm more severe thar in Madison.
The damage down here will amount TO $780,
oOO or 0$40,O 600, and few tornado policies
are held. . p
At Waupacca, Wis, several small build
ings in the city were totally demolished.
No one was hurt. Reports from the town
OF Lind, near here Indicate a terrible storm
there. Nineteen barns and six houses were
more or less damaged.
NAb CliI NiJ w io'S Jlp Sboli III NC = II
to a cyclone. The fine brick residence OF
DR.. Garrett is sadly wrecked, and the frame
dwelling of Hon. A. Z. Blackman has also
suffered severely. The roofs were blown
from the city hall, the Heller block, and
from the building occupied Jointly by s.
Holmes as a grocery store and Potter Pail
mer as a meat market. The steeple on the
Baptist church was blown down, doing con-
siderable damage to the building, and the
Catholic church is completely Quilted, rs
the result OF a falling belfTy.
The storm appears TO have passed entire
ly across the state of Wisconsin d~iagonally
from north west to south east. At Plain
field the storm was the most terrific ever
seen. A large number OF buildings were
blown down or unroofed, and freight cars
were smashed into splinters. Port Edwards,
in wood county, had a planning mill, store
and five dwellings blown out OF existence,
lumber yards scattered to the winds
and other prope-ty injured. The
loss will aggregate $4,000. In Rock
county buildings suffered to quite
an extent, the principal damage being
to tobacco sheds. About Edgerton more
than 200 tobacco sheds were demolished.
Houses, barns and other buildings suffered
a like fate, and considerable live stock was
killed. at Whitewater, Neenah, Fall River
and Elroy the loss by lightning was par
ticularIy severe. At Dexteryille, Wood
county, the loss by Wind and lightning viii
not fall short of $4,000.
The damage at Oshkosh was 50 900, andin
the county $4,000,
At Rochester, Minnesota, there was great
alarm. While the battle OF the elements
was az it's worst the c~yclonic ~threatenings
gathered in a small funnel that passed
about four miles south OF the city, travers-
ing a narrow track from west-southwest to
east-northeast. There was considerable
loss OF property, but no lives.
At Winona, Mimi, and on the line OF the
Winona and st. Peter railroad, as far west
as Owatonna, the storm was severe and
property destroyed. The wild and angry
appearance OF the clouds during the fore
part of the storm, their peculiar greenish
hue afterward, the intensely brilliant cleo.
tricdl display, and the beautiful rainbow,
were the general theme OF conversation.
There was q copius rain storm IN north.
ern Iowa, almost flooding some sections,
but no damage from wind.