Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-07-07
paralyzed. He was later removed
this city and is now recovering.

Luis city anu Is HOW I6SONCHAnS.
A gas main recently laid on Warrel
street was nearly uncovered, the loos
dirt being washed out for distance Q
several hundred feet.
John Mullen living on Warren stree
found about 100 spring chickens
drowned in his yard next morning
They were all blooded varieties th'
settings for which cost him considerable,
money.
Workmen had just completed th'
stone walls for a new residence OF
Warren street, between Eighth ant
Ninth and the mortar was washed on
between the stones, allowing half o.
the wall to crumble.
IN TOWN OF FRANKFORT.
The town of Frankfort evidently suf
fered according to the following rts
ceived from S. III. Sehooley, resident
of that town:
This town was visited by one of the
worst rain and hail storms last night
ever known by the oldest settlers. Road
beds were washed away, bridges and
culverts washed out, trees blown across
the highways, fences on low lands
carried away, hay that had been cut
carried over on neighboring farms, hail
stones as large as hens eggs fell, travel
on the roads is practically at a stand
still, and the damage to crops is enough
to cause farmers to look blue. The
town will be at great expense repair
ing bridges. The Athens cream station
did not ruL next day because the man
in charge could not cross the creeks,
and Mr.. Drown was not able to make
his delivery of mail. Lightning struck
in a number of places, but 10 serious
damage was DONE"
TWO DEATHS.
The passing of the storm left death
in its wake and proved fatal to two
members of families living west of here.
In each case the victim was killed in
stantly and both occurred when the
elements were at their great
est fury.
Carl Kragenbrink, farmer living
in the town of Vein, three miles and a
half north of Edgar, together with two
sons and two daughters were, that af-
ternoon, working in hay field. Shortly
before the supper hour there were
signs of an impending storm and they
started for home. The father, the
daughter and one son walked in the
highway, while one son, Herman,
boy of about eighteen, started for home
through the field. When they were
nearing home the storm broke and,
with it came incessant flashes of light
ming. One of them knocked the party
of their feet and when the father and
children accompanying him regained
their senses, they saw Herman lying
in the field. They FASTENED to him but
life was extinct, death appearing to
have been instantaneous.
Frank Myszka and family living on a
farm two miles southwest of Ponia-
towski missed their twelve-year- old
son, John, in the evening, after the
first visitation of the storm. They in
augurated search which resulted in
finding the boy dead. The father was
working that afternoon in field, har.
vesting his crop of clover. The mother
was also absent from home and the boy
was left playing about the house. When
the parents assembled for their even
ing meal the boy was nowhere to be
seen, and fearing that something had
happened to him the parents searched
for him. The family had once lived in
an old log cabin, but this was deserted
when the new house had been built
and had been used only as a store house
since. Going to this they found the
boy lying on the floor just inside the
door. There were no marks of any
kind on his body, nor were there any
evidences of damage to the building,
but there is no doubt but what death
resulted from the lightning. 1t is
presumed that instead of going to the
house to seek shelter he entered this
building, and had just stepped inside
the doorway when stricken down.