River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-08-13
A DEAIH-pEALING GALE.
Cyclone Causes Much Destruction an
Ashland and washburn, VISA Circus
Tent Blown Down-Two Persons Killed
and Many Hurt-rornado In Iowa.

LEA r1-OEAEiN1 0ALCs
! A Cyclone Causes Much Destruction IN
Ashland and Washburn, visa Circus
Tent Blown Down-Two Persons Killed
and Many Hurt-Tornado In Iowa.
| ASHLAND, Wis, Aug. 10.-Ashland
/ and Washburn were struck by a terri.
BILE tornado Saturday afternoon about
$3.50 o'clock. Houses were blown down,
buildings unroofed and many vessels
/ driven ashore. At Washburn circus
tent was wrecked. Two people were
killed and fifty injured. The cyclone
came from the northwest, and was
sudden. Rain poured in torrents The
main business street was like river.
| The storm drove through the large
hotel, the Chequamegon, like a mill
race. Twenty yachts on the bay were
wrecked. Four men were picked up
off a eapsized sailboat after the storm.
The Swedish Lutheran church. the
Genery block, the Daily Press office,
the Ashland theater and Franklin
house were unroofed.
At Washburn, across the bay, Will
liams circus was in full blast when the
storm struck. Prof. Williams was GO
ing through an act with trained horses
when the tent fell The horses, wild
with fright. burst out through the fran
tic mass of people. Two little children
of George La Belle and an unknown
boy were taken out dead. They were
blown 800 feet. Miss Wilson's right
leg was broken. The depot was turned
into a hospital and the dead and
wounded carried there. 1t was ter
rible scene. Mothers were frantieally
looking for children and children
wandering about wounded and bleed
ing. The injured number at least
fifty. several of whom will die.
The wires are all down. Whole
blocks of business houses were torn
from their foundations and blown
down, injuring many people, The
Feustad building, just completed. was
totally demolished. Seven persons
were in the top story, but all except
one escaped without injury. The ami
mails of Williams circus escaped from
their cages An anaconda is still at large
and several other animals have not been
captured. The roof was torn off the
large Omaha elevator and considerable
grain spoiled by water The damage
i'm Washburn is estimated at $50, 900.
Tramways on the coal docks were de-
molished. The storm was similar to
that at Superior several weeks ago.
OrrUMwA, la, Aug. t0.-rhe terrible
heat of Sunday morning, which reached
80 degrees in the shade, was broken by
tornado which struck this city about
o'clock in the afternoon. The storm
in its full fury covered "a some
what limited area. Its course was
from the southwest toward the north
east. The first damage done by it
was at Humeston, where the wind was
most furious. Cars standing on the
Keolsuk q Western track were blown
off and the roof of the roundhouse was
lifted. At Corydon the Methodist
church and courthouse were damaged.
In this city the wind blew with great
violence, taking off the roof of a. ID.
Moss dry goods store, the roof of Har-
per & Mcintyre Co. S wholesale hard
ware house, the roof of A. +. peterson's
grocery store. damaging the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy round house,
overturning the scdffolding about
the coal palace and precipit;-t-
ing it on lot of telegraph and
telephone wires; uprooting great trees
all over the city, and demolishing barns
and other fragile outbuildings The
path OF the storm through the country
has been marked by the destruction of
corn and the demolition of grain in
stack. There was very little rain, and
the damage was wholly by wind
BLOOMFIELD. Ia, Aug. 10.-One of
the most destructive wind and rain
storms ever known in this section of
Iowa passed over Davis county Sunday
afternoon. Houses were unroofed,
fences blown down, besides much dam
age done To the fruit crop.
Dies MONIES, Ia, Aug. l0.-A terrific
tornado, accompanied by rain and
hail, passed through Decatur county
Sunday about II o'clock, doing much
damage. 1t was the worst storm
known in that section. Crops are
practically destroyed over large sec
ton of the country. Trees were blown
down and houseS unrOOfed