Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-08
SWEPT GRANT COUNTY
Wild Winds Play Sad Havoc With
Windnlills, Houses and
Barns, Etc.

n cent barn, a large hay shed and ma
: chinery shed were pile of shapeles
i ruins broken boards, splinteret
], timbers, pieces of roof and sides, doors
and oupolas piled in hopeless confu
] sion. Fortunately there were ami.
I mails in the barn except some calves
/ and they luckily hudded in corne,
OF the basement where nothing heavy
fell and were protected by a piece OF
! side which fell so as to lean over them.
Inside of the barn was sort of gran
airy. This now sits at the bottom Of
the basement nine feet below its form.
or position and is the only part retain
ing the semblance of a building. The
wind came from the southwest and
carried the wreck hundreds of feet.
moving as with sickle through a
little grove of evergreen trees four or
hve hundred feet away. The house
directly east of the barn suffered no
injury save the blowing away of a
good sized patch of its shingled root.
Mr.. Walton took some views of this
wreck and then we passed on, over
some OF the worst road in America to
Gray's mill. There we found the re-
mains of small barn scattered pro-
miscuously around. Proceeding on
our way over the hills westward we
found further evidences of hard blow
| ing. Hundreds of trees were broken
and uprooted. On one of the streams
leading to Grant we found house oc-
cupied by John Mccartney, his wife
and six children with the upper story
gone slick and clean. The kitchen
which was kind of annex to the main
log part was total wreck. Mr.. Nc
CARNEY was cheerful, however, and
had begun to repair the damage while
a group of young McCartneys frolick-
ed gaily on some bedding drying on
the grass.
From this point we drove directly
home and by the time we had arrived
there stories of other distinctions
were numerous. No doubt many
items have escaped us but here il
a list as we have it: John Divall's
barn on Platte moved off of foundation
and wall broken; Geo. Garthwaite OF
Little Grant, machine shed unroofed:
Roy Oates of Little Grant, barn blown
down; Frank Hall of North Lancaster,
shed unroofed; John Rowden of North
Lancaster, windmill down; Chas Boz
rah, barn unroofed; Walter Hickin,
barn unroofed; Dan Baxter of Mt Ida,
Windmill down; Chris Greebe of North
Beetown, windmill down; Wallace
Richie, windmill blown TO pieces; r.
Duncalf ST.. of North Lancaster, wind
mill blown to pieces.
The wind played sad havoc at Flora
One end of Tom Hudson's saloon and
restaurant was blown out and his
house was badly twisted One mem
Der of his household; Miss Alice Cooley
Of Lancaster who is teaching at Flora
and boarding at Hudson's had one
bone in her forearm broken i'm the
scrimmage. Some of those fine old
trees in the bottom where picknickers
love to rest were blown down or
stripped of their limbs.
Fennimore suffered seriously, VIM.
Rogers alone being injured to the
amount of three or four thousand
dollars. The wind and storm there is
described as a tornado funnel on its
side rolling over and over. 1t came
from the southwest and first struck
the race track buildings. The stalls
along the north side were demolished
The large amphitheatre was hurled to
the ground and smashed into kindling
wood; the judges stand was blown
down; the art hall was carried fifty or
sixty feet and smashed all to pieces.
Sandlebach's high board fence was
blown down and pieces ..of it blown
against his house. VIM. Rogers cat
tie shed and hay shed, down town,
blown down and end OF barn blown
out Cohen's feed mill was unroofed
and the smoke stack toppled over;
Books barn picked up and set down
in Armstrong; lot and then rolled
over; Parry's barn twisted and buggy
shed and chicken house demolished;
Curtis chicken house and smoke house
blown down; Billy Earl's chicken
house picked up and set down over
a tree one hundred yards away.
About one-third of the roof OF Hinn's
store was taken off; Blanchard's lum-
Der yard was scattered all over the
road and railway right of way; VIM.
Bohl's stable was turned over and
horse inside hung by its halter so that
only its hind feet rested on the floor.
1t was not injured though. An old
landmark down town, a cottonwood
tree 9 feet in circumference, was
blown down. East of the village VIM.
Rogers cattle sheds were DESTROYED
ard his big barn unroofed and the
south end blown out. A score OF
trees there were uprooted.
South of Lancaster Dan'l Aupperle
had corn crib unroofed, Fred Aup-
perle and Aug. Kohlenberg had sheds
demolished and further south in the
Jordan neighborhood considerable
damage was done.
Louis Briel of Liberty had stables
and windmill destroyed. Henry Hal
fertY of north Lancaster lost his wind
mill, Register Tuflley's windmill like
wise blew over, John Wenzers house
on Platte was unroofed, Walter Tay-
lor's barn near Patch Grove was
blown over and John Davis barn east
Of Patch Grove is wreck. In this
barn were boy and horse but both
escaped unhurt though well covered
with straw and rubbish. Geo. Kemper
was driving near Sitter; he had his
buggy overturned and his team ran
away. G. +. Dickinson and III. w.
Brown drove from Bagley to Lancas-
ter Monday morning and report so
many trees down in the vicinity Of
BagIey that it was with difficulty they
got through.
Reports from Iowa indicate that the
storm did the same kind of damage