New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-15
ATEBRIF1C STORM.
Large Amount ofDamage Done at vari.
Gus Points.

Large Amount ofDamage Done at vari.
GUS Points.
Last Thursday afternoon and evening
Goth inst.) there was terrific tornado III
the Northwest, which at some points seem.
ed to be cyclone. A large amount OF
property was destroyed and some lives
lost.
At Oshkosh, Wis, the casualties as far aa
known are:
Robert Webster and child, cut and
bruised.
Mrs. Henry Hoffman, injured; viii die.
Charles Glices, leg broken.
Henry Pohlow, knee shattered.
Mrs. Austin Slattery, arm injured.
Mrs. Wright, head cut.
Henry Hoffman's grocery store was liter.
ally turned inside out His loss is So, 900
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. H. Todd,
G. S. Kaime, l. Last, E. Sanders, L. Kel.
sey, Charles Mccoy, Mrs. Bent, John Will
Hanson and many others are all heavy
losers, their property being more or less de-
stroyed.
At Madison, Wis, tinwas torn 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
the state university, and went crashing
through the roof, while the spire OF the
Presbyterian church was completely de,
mollshed. The elegant residence OF Post.
master General Villas was half unroofed
Two chlmneys 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
were demolished and large number oil
horses and cattle killed. But nowhere was
the storm more severe than in Madison
The damage down here will amount to $780,
600 or O$4O 900, and few tornado policies
are held.
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 terrible storm
there. Nineteen barns and six houses were
more or less damaged.
At Sparta, Wis, the storm developed in
to cyclone. The fine brick residence Of
DR.. Garrett is sadly wrecked, and the frame
dwelling OF Hon. A. E. Blackman has also
from the city hall, the Heller block. and
from the building occupied jointly by S.
Holmes as a grocery store and Potter Pal
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, az
the result OF a falling belfry
The storm appears to have passed entire.
ly across the state Of Wisconsin diagonally
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 planning MILL store
lumber yards scattered to the winds
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.
ticularly severe. At Dexterville, Wood
county, the loss by wind and lightning will
not fall short OF SIS 900.
The damage at Oshkosh was So, 900, and in
the county $4,000,
At Rochester, Minnesota, there was great
alarm. While the battle OF the elements
was at it's worst the cyclonic threateninge
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 cline 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
trical display, and the beautiful rainbow,
were the general theme OF conversation.
There was a copius rain storm in north,
ern Iowa, almost flooding some sections,
but no damage from wind.