The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-08-25
MANY SnE1ofeAn
HOUSES WRECKED
Wisconsin Town Struck BY q Severe
Wind Storm Yesterday
afternoon.
OVER 200 BUILDINGS BLOWN DOWN
Most OF Them Small structures.-,
Total I.oss WiIl he About
$8UO,OOO--No Lives
Were Lost.

WIS, mug. 50.
rife windstorm struck this city yes
terday afternoon. The storm came
very suddenly fiomsthe north.
Eight large buildings were wrecked,
and 200 small horses were blown
down. The loss Will be upwards OF
100000. The storm ragged for some
minutes and passed off to the south
1t was two miles wide and wrecked
everything in its path. The roof Of
the large warehouse of the crockery
company was blown OF and thrown
against the factory. The building was
wrecked and the large stock of chairs
was left without protection from tho
rain which fell in torrents. The street
cur barns We're wrecked ind the street
cars were smashed to pieces. The
electric wires were all blown down.
The roof of the malt house OF the
Konrad Schrier Brewing company was
lifted from the building, carried over.
$50 yards aud thrown into the street
The American Folding Bed COM
pany's plant was demolished.
The storm struck the South Side
Lutheran church, and the steeple wa'
blown down on to two residences
smashing in the roofs. The Fourth
ward school house, a beautiful build
ing, wal completely wrecked.
That no one was killed seems al
most a miracle. The wind wrecked
building after building with thu
greatest rapidity, and there WIS lit
tie warning of the approach OF ths
storm. The people in every case were
out OF their houses before the storm
struck, and %those who were struck
by flying debris were only slightly In
jured. In the factories the employer
were in many cases cut and bruised
from wreckage.
The citizens are now figuring theil
losses. Telephone communications
with the neighboring places in the
county were cut OFF. At the plant Of
the electric light company two smoke
stacks were blown down, one of which
tore the w~iressthnt pass from the
building to feed the city, and last
night the city was in complete dark
ness.
The principal losses are:
Croker Chair company, "B" factory
roof and top floor carried away, stock
badly damaged. Loss, $780, 900.
%Sheboygan Electric Light Plant and
Street Railway company, electric
plant crippled, street cars, barns
$4,000; wires and poles, electric line
torn down, $4,000.
Gutenberg s. ~Sorpenann, boiler man
ufacturers, works demolished, $4,000
.scheir Brewing company, roof of
$1,000.
Lutheran church, $4,000.
Third ward school, $1,000. Is.
Many other buildings were more OF
less damaged.
The 5-year-old son of Mr.. aud Mrs
Thomas Atkins had a remarkable es'
cape. The house was torn into shredl
and scattered about in the roadway
What was left OF the house was only
about three feet OF debris where thu
buildings stood. Under this the child
was buried, and, when found wa.
standing in q corAer with timber piled
In front OF him in such a manner az
to shield him, and he escaped witt
only bruises.
Henry Tillmun, whose home is O
the top of n hill near the plant of the
Crocker Chair company, where the
roof was torn of, saw the storm ap.
pronch. lie said:
.My wife called me to the window
and told me to look at a rolling md
turning mass of greenish black cloud,
that were sweeping down on US from
the northwest. 1t came like a aasi
and went as quick, and the havoc ,yas
done. 1t was nearly as dark as night
and / could not see what was going
on in the binding flashes of lightning
and downpour OF rain, but l felt my
house break in pieces and heard the
crash of my neighbours. 1t was blown
to pieces. In almost an instant it was
all over, and l saw by the havoc that
n tornado had passed this way"
This was the first tornado in the
history Of sheboygan, it having al
ways been claimed that the city was
too far out OIL q point of land In the
luke to be visited by such a storm.