The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-14
STORM SPREADS
DEATH AND ruin
CYCLONES CAUSE ENORMOUS
DAMAGE IN SEVERAL NEAR.
BY STATES.
EIGHT KNOWN TO Be DEAD
LIST OF VICTIMS INCREASES AND
STORIES OF DEVASTATION
MULTIPLY.
EIGHT KNOWN TO Be DEAD

COlIdrS worth OF property DlOWn away,
briefly summarizes the let's of the
storm which on Wednes :ay devasta-
ted sections of Minnesota, Iowa and
Wisconsin, and last hit wrought
havoc in Michigan and Kansas. There
were two separate storms Wednesday,
n in Southern Minnesota and West
ern Wisconsin and another in the
northern part of Minnesota, which
also swept over into Wisconsin.
The Dead:
Near %Stoddard, Wis. Halvor j.
Halvorson.
Near Caledonia, Minn-Mrs. Peter
Meyers and two children.
Near North Branch. Minu-Mr.
Engdahl, Sr., and Andrew H. Olson,
the latter killed by lightning.
Near Plainwell, Mich.-AleXanGer
Ferguson, killed by lightning, and w.
West, killed by wreckage of barn.
Terrible Ruin Wrought.
Fortunately, the storm did not strike
any large towns, but the devastation
wrought in the rich farming country
through which they passed, is said to
be terrible. Crops are ruined and sub
stantial brick and frame dwelling
houses and barns were literally blown
into fragments AID scattered f"r hun
dreds of yaTus about the country.
Sunrise Escacee Dla.5ter.
Sunrise, Mimi, n Il tie town Of 500
inhabitants, about whose safety much
anxiety was felr last night, escaped
uninjured. The storm devastated the
country three niles from town. but
did not hit the village. The large new
frame house of William Stems was
blown to kindling wood and Stevens
and his wife seriously hurt, but not
fatally injured.
Scores of Buildings Wrecked.
North Branch, Mimi, June 9.-The
reports from the scene of destruction
wrought by the cyclone passing east
of here Wednesday afternoon are COM
ing in very slowly on account Of dam
age to the telephone wires.
More than a score OF farmers have
lost their homes and outbIildlngs.
1t is hard to give an estimate of the
loss caused by the cyclone ut present,
but it will have been ruined, even to
the grass. so ~nnlete was the work
of destruction
Three Dead Near la Crosse.
La Crosse, Wis, June 9.-The loss
of three lives and terrible damage re-
sulting from Wednesday nights Cy-
clone in he farming country between
Caledonia and Freeburg, Mimi. where
a wide strip several miles long were
laid to waste, became known yester-
day. The farm of Peter Meyer was de.
vastated and his wif2 and two chill
dren were killed. Meyer escaped seri-
Gus injury. The residence of c. T.
Inglott was also destroyed and all the
members of his large family are in the
hospital except the father. The prop
erty of L. T. Kruger was blown away
with the exception Of his house. At
least a score of persons were injured
in that vicinity.
List of Injured Crows.
The known injured list near Stod-
dard has been increased TO eleven.
Damage at Ch%aseburg, Coon Valley
and Niroqua was small, but at Leon
many buildings were blown down.
The farming country where the
storm spent its fury is almost entire
ly ruined and the property and crop
loss will be extremely heavy. Teie-
phone and telegraph communication is
still hampered.
Iowa Suffers Heavily.
DEBORAH, Iowa. June 9.-Between 4
and 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon a
cyclone ~"ssed over a section of Win
nesheik Junty, doing much damage
and injuring a number of people. Re-
ports of the storm did not reach here
until yesterday, when it was learned
that within a radius of a few miles of
Locust. a p%ostoffice twelve miles north,
not less than $4,000 damages had re-
suited.
Kansas Town Wiped Out.
Hillsboro, Kan, June 9.-The town
| Of Goessel, near here, was practically
destroyed by a tornado early yester-
day. About eighty persons were in
jured. The tornado laid wastd a strip
200 wides wide. Several stores and
twelve residences were demolished
and every residence in town was DAM
aged.
Man Killed in Michigan.
Plainwell, Mich, June 9.-Sweeping
a path n mile and a quarter wide for
a distance Of three miles early last
night a tornado that struck the vii
lagos Of Martin and Monteith, re-
spectively six and four miles north Of
here, killed William West, a farm la
borer, aged ffty.four, seriously injured
several others and did much damage
to stack and farm buildings and up
| rooted q number OF large orchards.