Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-06-15
ELEMENTS ON A TEAR
Western Wisconsin Has Disastrous Expe-
rience with Windstorm.
NEW RICHMOND BADLY WRECKED
From Two to Five Hundred People Re-
ported Killed and Injured-The Storm
Passes In the Vicinity of Hudson-Wat-
erspout Plows Up the Waters of Lake
st. Croix-An Awful Downpour.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, June 1.-TWO
Lugert, travelling man of st. Paul,
who drove from New Richmond to
Roberts and Eau Claire and Chippewa
Falls for medical aid, state that tor
nado struck New Richmond tonight
and that from $50 to 500 people were
killed or seriously injured.
MILWAUKEE, June ia dispatch
received here at 2 o'clock this morning
from Jewett Mills announces the ar
rival there of the Wisconsin Central
train. A Mr.. Cutter, in the employ of
the Central, sent dispatch to the local
officers of the road, saying that the
town of New Richmond was gone
south of the Highway bridge and that
the estimated number of killed will
reach $50.
Many of the houses, Mr.. Cutter
states, were consumed by fire after the
cyclone. Many people were killed, he
says, while attending the circus, which
was showing there.
MINNEAPOLIS, June ia special
to the Tribune from Saltwater, Mimi,
says:
This was terrible night for New
Richmond, the village being almost
wiped out of existence by one of the
most severe cyclones that ever visited
that locality. 1t carried ruin and death
in its path and at this hour it is i'm
possible to give even a partial list Of
those who are seriously injured. 1t
is thought many are dead.
The news of the disaster was brought
here by ]. A. Carroll, travelling man
from Portage, Wis, who was stopping
at the Nicollet house in New Richmond
He saw the funnel-shaped cloud as it
came up the principal street and took
refuge in the basement in the hotel,
which was completely wrecked, to-
gether with many principal business
houses. In the terrible rain which
followed Mr.. Carroll and his comrades
succeeded in recovering the proprie-
tor, Charles McKennOn, wife and one
child from the debris, and they also
removed the laundry girl, who was
probably fatally injured. They also
removed two men named Barrett and
Newall, who were severely injured.
Mr.. Carroll drove to Saltwater by
team for relief and the train, with
doctors, will leave here at 1915 a. m.
Mr.. Carroll further says that fire
followed the cyclone and that what
was left is being consumed by fire.
Many people are doubtless killed and
the damage will run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
A special to the Tribune from Burk-
hardt, Wis, says:
A messenger has reached here from
New Richmond and has teiegraphed
from here for doctors and help, saying
thot Io+
that a large number were killed and
wounded. The railroad officials have
endeavOred to get out special train.
but on account of the several wash
outs are unable to do so and the doc
tors and many others are now driving
across the country as fast as horses
can safely carry them. These travel
ing men. who drove from River Falls
to Hudson, We're struck by the storm
and the rig was torn to pieces, the
one named Vollman having one of his
legs broken.
MILWAUKEE,. Juno IA message
was received at the Wisconsin Centrai
offices here late last night from Stevens
Point from A. R. Hornaday. division
superintendent of the Wisconsin Cen
trail at that point, as follows: 1T
commenced to rain on the st. Paul di-
vision at about p. m. and the wires
went down west of Jewett Mills at 7:30.
At S:45 We got a message from Rober-
son of the Omaha via Marshall that
cyclone struck New Richmond about
1870, killing and wounding from $50 to
500 people We have started a special
out from Irvine, leaving at 10 o'clock.
with surgeons and to pick up what
other surgeons they can between there
and New Richmond.
MINNEAPOLIS. June ia special
to the Times from North Wisconsin
Junction, Wis. says: A cyclone and
cloudburst struck just east of Hudson
last night, doing considerable damage
to property. The cyclone was first
observed at Hudson coming I'D Lake
st. CroiX. 1t passed first to the east
of the town and maintained a north
easterly direction across the tracks of
the Omaha road a mile northeast of
North Wisconsin Junction, destroying
the wires. unrOofing houses. barns,
outbuildings, haystacks. etc all along
it's path. 1t is rumOred that Mrs. Dave
Hefferon, living north of Burkhardt
was killed. The rain and wind were
very severe. The full extent of the
damage cannot be known before day
light.