Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-13
TORNADO TAKES LIFE.
ST. CHARLES. MINI, RAZED AND
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED.
Widespread Destruction Of Pronertv
Is Reported from the Northwestern
states-TweIsc Perish in Waters of
Green Bay.

Inc little town of ST. Charles, in Wi
nota County, Mimi, was practically
wiped out by tornado which struck it
at 2:30 Saturday afternoon Seven oeo-
pie were killed and twenty-cight iniur-
ed, many of them seriously. The entire
main street of the town was literally
wiped out. hardly a business place being
left standing. Forty-two residences also
were DESTROYED and the total property
damage is estimated at 100000
The day had been abnomally sultry for
the season of the year, and during the
morning there had been showers of rain.
accompanied by htful gusts Of wind. To
ward noon the SKY became heavily over
cast, but indications OF a tornado were
entirely lacking. This being Saturday.
the country people from the surrounding
farms had gathered ia large numbers in
the main streets to do their customary
shopping. AT 2:30 the storm cloud was
seen approaching from the southwest.
and there was an immediate scram-
bic for places of safety. The tor
nado struck the town from the southwest
quarter and made a clean sweep through
it, following almost entirely the line of
the main street, and devastating build
ings on either side Then the residences
further back from the BUSINESS center
were struck and many of them blown
completely away.
The stoim seems to have followed
very closely the boundary line between
Minnesota and Iowa and damage to farm
buildings and grain stacks, with injury
to human beings and death to live stock
is reported from several points in that
locality.
Two boys, sons of Stephen Matter,
were killed at St Cloud, Mimi, while
seeking refuge from the storm. They
had taken shelter beneath a string of
cars on the railway siding and 4 switch
ing crew backed another string of cars
upon them, killing them instantly.
The taii end of the cyclone struck Du-
luth and caused much damage to prop
erty, blowing down several buildings and
wrecking many boats in 1ie harbor. No
one was injured. 1t is reported that
many of the mines of the Mesaba range
were flooded by the extraordinarily
heavy rain.
Deaths in Wisconsin,.
A terrific windstorm, approaching a
cyclone, swept over Wisconsin, causing
death and destruction At Independence
two persons Were killed. thee fatally in
jured and n score of others badly hurt.
At Eagle Valley the Reformed Church
was demolished and houses on the prairie
were swept away.
At Racine trees were blown down, also
electric light and telephone wires, and
half of the city left in total darkness.
Carl Larson, painter. 50 years old,
was electrocuted on State street. He
ran into a telephone wire on the side
walk, charged with electricity. Specta-
tors knocked the wire from his hands
with q board. lie was taken to a hos
pital unconscious and will not live.
Thomas Galroth was killed and two
men injured by the demolition of farm
house at Trempealeau
Baraboo reports a cloud burst more
severe than was ever known III that sec
ton this afternoon lasting three hours.
Fully four inches of water fell. Many
buildings and wind mills were blown
down, cellars flooded and several wash
outs reported.
A tornado which struck Blain and AL
mond killed five persons near Sheridan,
Wis. and blew down twenty buildings
as near as can be ascertained. In field
81, 100 in money was picked up, appar-
emily having been blown there by the
storm.
Twelve Perish Ia Green Bay.
During a furious gale that swept over
Lake Michigan just at dark the steamer
Erie L. Hackley went down off Green
island and twelve persons were drowned.
l,.;CN oil ,.c~,A
on pieces Of wreckage, were rescued the
next morning by the steamer Sheboygan
of the Goodrich l.le and taken to Fish
Creek The Hackley left Menominee for
Egg Harbor about an hour before the
coming of the storm. The day had been
hot and muggy, with hardly a breath
of air stirring. As the sun went down
the storm clouds commenced to gather
and there were un1nistakable signs of
coming tempest. Suddenly, from out the
northeast. furious blast swept the lake,
causing the Inflated vessel to careen I'M
til the sails almost touched che water. AS
the craft righted itself everyone on board
rushed on deck. Then came "a second
blast, stronger than tie first, capsizing
the vesseI and sending il to the lotion.
Houses Are LsveIed.
A cyclone, accompanied by rain and
hail, visited the vicinity near Neponset,
ILL.,, doing much damage to farm build
ings and crops. The houses of Charles
Turnbull and Thomas Murphy were lev
eled to the ground. Peter Johnson's res
idence was blown thirty feet eff its foun-
dations. The path of the storm was
forty rods wide and touched at several
points in Bureau, Stark and Henry coun-
ties.
During a heavy thunderstorm at Mar
tinsville Ind, lightning struck Hiram
Pearcy's barn. three miles east immedi
ately killing John Slough, a 1T-year-old
farmland, and horse in the barn.
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