The true northerner., 1898-05-25
HAVOC IN THE WAKE
OF the Cyclone That Trayersed
Wisconsin, illinois and Iowa
Last Wednesday.
LISTS OF TIE DEAD NOW COMING IN

Frightful Work Done i'm Parts of Wiscon-
sin Train of Freight Cars Torn tn
SpIinters-More Than "a Dozen Dead In
OgIe County, IIis.-Poor House Wrecked
and Three Killed at savanna Iowa's
Dead Roll Includes Two Families.
Milwaukee. May 2O.-A special from
Rhinelander, Wis, says: The tornado
which visited this section Wednesday
night devastated everything in its path.
AT Pennington, eleven miles east on the
500 road, the wind swept everything
before it. The station, round house, no.
tel and dwellings were destroyed, and
huge cars of coal picked up bodily and
thrown from the track list of the
killed and injured as far as known is
as follows: Killed-John Fosburg. sec
tion foreman: f.. c. Beckman, car re-
pairer Those receiving serious in
juries are as follows: T. J. Wettiver.
conductor, head cut. hand broken and
back injured; Mrs. Charles Hickey,
four-inch cut in head. ankle sprained
and arm Bruised John II. kibler, tee-
graph operator. head badly cut. shoul-
der bruised. ankle laserated; John Nc
Donald, section hand ribs broken, face
bruised, injured internally. An engin-
eer and fireman, both badly hurt, were
taken to Minneapolis.
Freak IL Played with Train.
The night operator was i'm the station
building when the storm struck it and
had a narrow escape. A train Of loaded
freight cars standing on the sidetrack
at Pennington was literally demolished,
the storm seeming to have taken the
time TO go the entire length of it, tear
ing the cars from their heavy trucks
and breaking them into splinters. The
pine forest about the town was laid as
low as standing wheat in a rain storm,
covering the railroad tracks with timber
and various debris, requiring derricks
to remove II.
Destroys IA Logging Camp.
The school house i'm the town Of Peli-
can was destroyed and several build
ings were unroofed. In the town OF
Berlin the sawmil Of Curtis q Yale
was unroofed and lumber scattered half
q mile distant At Granite Heights
David Finn's sawmill was wrecked and
the roof carried across the Wisconsin
river. The path of the storm extended
from 200 TO 500 feet in width. Three
men, George Christy, John Dickman and
w. j. EmTey were brought down from
Camp Ruth near Harshaw, where the
camp of the Alexander Stewart Lumber
company was destroyed and George
Martell of TOmahawk, was killed.
George Christy is very badly injured
and can scarcely recover. Dickman,
whose home is at Stevens Point, is also
seriously injured. Empeys injuries are
not considered serious
Marked by Death and DesolatiOn.
Rib Falls, Wis. May 20.-Death and
desolation mark the path Of the storm
through this village Wednesday night.
The dead are: Fred Hanke. aged 90:
Mrs. Fred Hanke. aged 81; Albert
Hanke aged -: Fred Hanke, Jr, aged
Il; Fred Webber, aged 10. Oto Hanke
was seriously injured, and is not ex-
pected TO recover. He was cut on the
head and injured internally. Others in
jured were w. Webber. shoulder
broken: A. Lentz. cut on head. The wind
Travelled in a northwesterly direction,
sweeping everything in it's path and de-
stroying the farm buildings of w Web
ber, +. Hise, +. Ureker, II. Schlebber,
+. Hanke, A. Hanke, C.. Radiant, II.
LentZ and A. Lentz. The German
Lutheran school building was reduced
to kindl!ng wood and the German Luth-
eran church was carried a long distance.