Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-22
DEATH In ITS BREATH.
Five Dead Bodies Taken Out of Wrecked
neutrality-suspicious. Strikes Superior.

Five Dead Bodies Taken Out of Wrecked
neutrality-suspicious. Strikes Superior.
SUPERIOR, Wis, July ia terrific
gale struck the city at O. clock yeste1-
day afternoon. Fifteen buildings were
wrecked. Five workmen were killed
and many hurt.
The storm struck the city at O'Clock,
and was the fercest electrical storm
ever known. The force of the storm
was spent along Third Street by the
water front. At the corner of Tower
Avenue was a small wooden structure
which was struck and utterly demol-
ished. Three blocks east of this point
was large three-story frame building
| In course of construction, and car
penters, painters and plasterers were
at work to the number of twenty
five when the storm came up. Boss
Carpenter Gross called to his men to-
get out of the building and twelve Of
them jumped from the windows. The.
structure did not move a foot from it's
foundation. It simply flattened out as
though by terrible blow from above.
Three timers on the roof remained
where they were, and escaped serious
injury, though the fall was thirty eight
feet. Those known to be killed are:
HERMAN ROUsSEY, plasterer.
JOHN LAUR, painter.
JOHN SCHOFIELD. plaSterer.
CHARLES LUCIUS, lather.
One man unidentified.
Five others are unaccOunted for and
are believed to have been killed. The
injured are:
JOHN LONG, legs broken and back in
jurcd; will probably die.
JOHN BROWN, both legs broken.
WILLIAM TEMPLE, internal injuries.
ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF KELLOGG, arm
broken and back injured.
Hundreds saw the catastrophe and
the work Of rescue began at once. The
ruins stood not six feet above the ground
and the roof seemed to cover the whole.
greatly retarding the work of rescue. It
was an hour before the first body was.
recovered. Wives and children of the
buried men tore frantically at the broken
timbers in vain efforts to find their
loved ones beneath, and the police had
to carry many women away by force be-
fore the fire departm ent could work.
The wind injured the union depotand
out causing further fatalities so far as
known. Lightning struck and partly
destroyed the Unitarian church and
Central Park school and the Fisher
House. A steamer in the harbor was
also struck, but not much damaged.
On the south shore of Lake Superior a
water spout formed and drove east
ward, doing no damage as far as report
ed. The principal loss was incurred by
the wreckage of improved machinery
on the Silver Creek q Morris Compa-
ny's dock. The Company will lose $780,
600; other losses aggregate about $780,
000.
Among those in the building vas
Michael Quirk, lather from Mlwau-
kee. He had his back and legs bruised
badly. He will live. Lauer came here
recently. He leaves a wife and child
3 days old. Lucius, Iaborer, is an
other among the dead. Schofeld "a plas-.
terer, taken out two hours after, pinned
between two ioists, received internal
injuries and had his legs bruised. John
Brown, boy of Is, had a leg broken
Several others sustained injuries The
Ohio Coal Company sustained 81 900
damage to the hosting ap-
paratus. Five bulldogs in the,
Steel Plant division we're blown down.
The loss is $500. The Unitarian Church
was struck by lightning and damaged
by lightning. A boarding house in the,
East End was blown down. The dam
age is s., 900. The inmates escaped I'M