Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-05
HAVOC BY STORM AND FLOOD.
Wind and Rain Canse Great Damage
and DEATH

and Death.
Twenty-Five lives are known to have
been lost, while fears are entertained
that more than twice that number per
ished in tornado that swept the ceun-
try twenty miles north of Carruthers-
vile, No.. Sunday night. The property
loss is estimated at $4,000. The body
of Wesley Miller, a wealthy planter,
was found 200 yards from his house,
which was demolished by the storm. FIT
teen hundred dollars in bills was found
scattered about near the body. Eight
other bodies We're found near wrecked
homes. The tornado swept clear path
300 yards wide, destroying everything IN
its course.
While the sudden drop in temperature
relieved the food situation N the vicinity
of Chicago and northern IlliI ois, reports
from adjacent States Indicate that there
has been little or no abatement e the
severity of the inundation. Nsarly halt
OF Indiana was practically submerged
Sunday and hundreds of families forced
to abandon their homes.
In Michigan the severity of the unpre-
cedented floods is most acutely felt in
the vicinity OF Grand Rapids and the
towns along the Grand river, which for
three days has been flowing in n stream
several hundred yards wider than its
customary channel.
At Indianapolis Sunday night large
areas Of the resident district were COW
cred with water, Hundreds of families
were driven from their homes, street car
service paralyzed, and all the suburban
towns completely cut off, with the White
river which subsidized somewhat early
Monday morning, rising at night at the
rate of two inches an hour. Fall creek,
which runs through the northern sec
ton of the city, broke its banks, and
poured stream five feet high out upon
thickly settled district. The police
force were guarding the various bridges,
plotting the people over, and warning
them in various ways, and the resident
companies of the State National Guard
were called out to assist the police. One
of the large and substantial bridges over
the river broke loose and was swept
away.
1t is estimated that at least half of
the State OF Indiana is under water,
while nearly all of it is suffering from
the effects. Anderson and Marion are
the other points of most desperate emer-
gency. At Anderson 800 families have
beer housed in the old armory, after be
ing driven from their homes, and at Ma
lion the same number of families have
been cared for by more fortunate resi-
dents. Portland and Vincennes report
losses of 100000 each for the towns and
their contiguous territories, and at the
former place two men were drowned.
Thirty bridges were carried away in
Knox County. The Noblesville water
works plant is six feet under water, and
a railroad bridge has been carried away
with a loss OF four lives. Fort Wayne,
Terre Haute, Wabash, Logansport La
fayette, Richmond-in fact, nearly ali
the principal cities 9nd towns OF the
State-report food situations equal to OF
exceeding the worst previously recorded
with the situation hourly growing worse.
Several cities are in darkness, water
having quenched the fires of the electric
light and power plantz. and many in
dustries have been forced 70 shut down.
The loss to farmers, especially in the
bottoms, is very heavy.
The Wabash, White and other small
er streams are devastating thousands of
acres in southern Indiana, and at many
points are five to ten miles wide. The
Ohio rose fifteen feet Sunday night and
inundated Lawrenceburg and other por-
tons of Dearborn County. At Wabash
City, miles Of bottom land are flooded
and hundreds of homes depopulated.