The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-21
CYCLONE
WORKS RUIN
IN SHEYDOYCAN
Wisconsin City Is Struck By
A Storm Which Does
100000 Damage.
BUILDINGS ARE WRECKED

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. pa special
from Sheboygan, Wis, says:
A terrific windstorm struck the city
this afternoon. The storm came very
suddenly from the north. Eight large
buildings were completely wrecked and
200 small houses were blown down. The
loss will be more than $500, COO.
At noon it was as dark as night and
intensely hot. A few moments before
o'clock the storm broke, increasing
in force until a tornado was blowing
Persons were thrown down and fences
and signs hurled hundreds of feet. The
storm ragged for some minutes and
passed off to the south. The storm
started in the western part of the city,
near the cemetery, and swept down on
to the south side and off into the lake.
1t was two miles wide and wrecked
everything in it's path.
Done In Ten Minutes.
All was over in ten minutes. although
it seemed hours 70 the panic-stricken
people. The roof of the large ware
house of Crocker company was blown
off and thrown against the large fac
tory. The building was wrecked and a
large stock of chairs was left without
protection from the rain, which fell in
torrents.
The street car barns were wrecked
and street cars We're smashed TO pieces.
The electric wires were all blown down.
The roof of the malt, house of the
Keneid-Schriever Brewing company
was lifted off of the building. carried
over $50 yards and thrown into the
street. 1t was carried over the huge
ventilatOrs of the brewery.
The American Folding Bed COM
panys plant was demolished and the
sheds in the Simball & Sons brick
yards were blown down and the debris
scattered in every direction.
Church Steep1e Blown Down.
The storm struck the South Side
Lutheran church and the Steeple was
blown down on 10 two residences.
smashing in the roofs. The Fourth
ward school, a beautiful building, was
completely wrecked. one side and the
front being blown in, causing the roof
to fall and crushing the floors down
into the cellar.
The plant of the Gutenberg & Son
neman company was partially wrecked
Several freight cars standing on the
Northwestern railroad tracks were
blown over on their sides.
That no one was killed seems almost
a miracle The wind wrecked building
after building with the greatest rapid
! ity, and there was little warning of the
/ approach of the storm. The people in
! every case were out Of their homes be-
| fore the storm struck. and those who
were struck by living debris were only
/ slightly injured. In the factories the
employees were in many cases bruised
| and cut from wreckage.
Miracle In an Escape.
The 5-year-old son of Mrs. Thoma:
! Ttkins had a remarkable escape. The
house was torn into shreds and scat
| tered about in the roadway. What
| was left of the house was only about
! three or four timbers where the build
! ing stood. The child was buried in the
| ruins, and, when found, was standing
in the corner, with timber piled in from
/ of him in such a manner as to shield
/ him. and he escaped with only bruises
Four boxcars in the Chicago anC
Northwestern yard were carried off the
| track and stood straight on end. Some
of the bricks from the Croker Chail
company warehouse were thrown with
| such force against the adjoining build
/ ings that they passed through the side:
of the buildings, and yet no one Wa.
| injured.
Other portions OF the building Of thu
Croker Chair company were torn {,
pieces. There is scarcely a whole pan,
of glass left in the tornado district
Telephone, electric light and trolle.
wires and poles are torn down, and +;
street car has not run n the city sine
| the storm struck. Sidewalks and tree
| were carried away like chaff
The principal sufferer is the Crocke
| Chair company, .'B" factory, roof anC
top floor carried away, stock badl,
! damaged. Loss. S250, 900.