Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-04-06
HAVOC BY STORM AND FLOOD.
Wind and Rain Cause Great Damage
and Death.

Wind and Rain Cause Great Damage
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 coun-
try twenty miles north Of Carruthers-
vile, Mo-, 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 Fiji
teen hundred dollars in bills was found
scattered about near the body. Eight
other bodies were found near wrecked
homes. The tornado swept clear path
800 yards wide, destroying everything in
its course.
While the sudden drop in temperature
relieved the food situation in the vicinity
of Chicago and northern Illinois, reports
from adjacent States indicate hat there
has been little CIR no abatement in the
severity of the inundation. Nearly half
of Indiana was practically submerged
Sunday and hundreds Of families forced
TO abandon their homes
In Michigan the severity of the UMPIRE
cedented foods 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 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 It's banks, and
poured a 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 ii is suffering from
the effects. Anderson and Marion are
the other points Of most desperate emer-
gency. At Anderson 800 families have
been housed in the old armory, after be-
ing driven from their homes, aud at Ma
Iion the same number Of families have
been cared for by more fortunate resi-
dents. Portland and Nincennes report
losses of 100000 each for the towns and
their contiguous territories, aud at the
former place two men We're drowned.
Thirty bridges were carried away IN
Knox County The Nobesville water
works plant Is six feet under water. and
a railroad bridge has been carried away
with loss OF four lives. Fort Wayne,
Terre Haute, Wabash. Loganspnrt, La
the principal cities and 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 quenehed the fires Of the electric
/ light and power plants, and many in
/ dustries have been forced to shut down.
| The loss to farmers, especially IN the
bottoms. is very heavy.
The Wabash, White and other small
/ err streams are devastating thousands of
acres in southern Indiana. and at many
! points ere five TO ten miles wide The
! Ohio rose fifteen feet Sunday night and
inundated Lawrencebarg and other por-
tons of Dearborn County. At Wabash
City, miles Of bottom land are flooded
and hundreds Of homes depo?ulated.