Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-09
TERRIFIC Wind
SWEEPS CITIES
WINoNA AND SOUTHERN MINNIE.
sofa is THE SCENE OF
DEVASTATION. Y

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DEVASTATION. \ \
Buildings Unroofed, Cars are Stopped
and Telephone Lines Blown Down.
Damage in the City is Over One
Hundred Thousand.
Minneapolis, Aug. Z. Following
twenty-four hours of severe electrical
storms in various parts of Wisconsin
and Minnesota, terrific wind and rain
swept down on portions Of Minnesota,
Iowa and Wisconsin late yesterday
afternoon, doing immense damage to
crops and buildings. Several persons
are reported to have been hurt, though
only one death was reported up to q
late hour last night.
W1nona was tho worst sufferer from
which accurate information could be
obtained, though no lives were report
ed lost, and rs far as was known last
last night nobody was seriously In
tured. The damage there was over
$100, 600.
Bridges were ruined by the storm,
and the rain in some instances amounts
ed almost to cloudburst. Cars were
blown from the tracks, and near
Kiester, Mimi, it was reported that q
herd OF fifty cattle was lifted bodily
from the ground and carried into an
adjoining pasture.
Winona, Mimi, Aug. 7.-Entomb-
ed in almost absolute darkness Vino
ma last night was staggering under
the effects of the most disastrous
wind storm ever experienced in the
city's history. No lives are reported
lost and as far as is known nobody
was seriously injured, but the damage
within the city limits will amount to
over 500, 600.
Wires are down in every direction,
trees are splintered or uprooted and
buildings wholly or partially unroof.
cd and In some cases completely de-
molished, telephone and telegraphio
communication are all but impossible
and electric light and street car SER
vice are entirely done away with.
During the storm rain fell in tor
rents, the precipitation being estima-
ted at close to three inches. Some
of the principal buildings in the city
were wholly or partially unroofed,
among these being:
Bay State mill and elevator.
Winona opera house.
Laird-Norton old mill.
Empire sash mill.
International Harvester company's
ware house.
Joseph Leicht's press building.
Many smaller buildings were I'M
rooted or otherwise partially wrecked,
hundreds of chimneys were blown
down and the smokestacks were
leyeled at the Sehroth & Aherns
plant, Elevator G Of the Western
Elevator company and the Bay State
FIGURING mill.
The track Of the Chicago Burling-
ton & Quincy road on the bridge be-
bsae,a <etevs.-@l 2 sst yJ1l;;.sesaa.-s,zsaaa
''stub'' train to East Winona had to
be abandoned for the nrg1ft: r,--
bridge itself does not appear to have
suffered seriously.
Two cars Of a Green Bay passenger
train were blown into the ditch be-
tween here and Marshland, but no
body was injured.
La Crosse, Wis.,, Aug. IA cloud.
burst, lasting quarter Of an hour
tonight washed out the tracks and
telegraph lines and tied up all the
tra1ic ON the Chicago, Milwaukee s
st. Paul and the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy roads. The worst wash
outs are reported at Richmond on ths
River division of the Milwaukee roat
and near Pepin on the Lacrosse df
vision Of the Burlington. Furthe
washouts are feared, as the wire
were down early, shutting off com
munication.
Hester, Mimi, Aug. 7.--Followinl
d heavy hailstorm, cyclone forme'
two miles west of here at 8 p. m
yesterday and took a south and east
erly course and laid waste strip Q
country from three to ten rods wild
and twelve miles long.
Saltwater, Aug. during sc
we're electrical and rain storm tina
swept this city yesterday light
| ming struck and set fire to a larg
hay barn, one of a large group on tn
Oak Glen farm, owned by David I
| Staples. The building and fifty fly
tons OF hay was consumed. The los
is 81, 500, partly covered by insuranc,
1 Preston, Mimi, Aug. 7.-Lightnin
struck the Norwegian Luthern chure
/ here during severe electrical storm
| ABOUT the same time barn belon
ing to Isaac Ward, ten miles cas-
was burned, with hay, grain, thrt
| horses and the machinery used on
4 half-section farm. The church W,
damaged about $500.
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