Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-05
DEAD;
DOzENSHURT
IN SEVERE
STORM
Hurricane Sweeps Western
Wisconsin; Towns Wiped
Out Dwellings Demolished
Growing Crops Beaten Down,
WIRES FRUSTRATED
IN ALL SECTIONS

Impossible to SeSure Full
Details Of Catastrophe,
| lBy Morning journal special Leased Wire
ST Paul. July At Is now believed
| that at least fifteen lives were lost
! In the severe storms which swept oven
a portion of western Wisconsin LAS
evening. Numerous other persons
were injured and much damage "a
| farm property and 70 dwelling houses
| Is reported According To reports re-
ceived here the little town of Oak
dale, on the Milwaukee road near
Camp Douglas was entirely wiped out
out -Four persons are reported 20
have been killed there. At Grand
Rapids Wis there are said To be i've
dead as q result of the storm. hu,
cOmmunicaI Ion has not been cstab-
lished Wth this place and the extent
Of thet calamity cannot be ascertained.
The list of dead and injured so far
as known follows:
The Dead
At Oakda4e;
MIR. AND MRS JOHN DAME.
TWO OTHERS, whose names have
not been learned.
At MillstoWn.
MRS. JASPER FEoFF AND ~.
FAINT.
ANDREW BAUMEL
Near Warrens.
TWO CHILDREN OF JOSEPH
BuCkNER.
Al keet5yille:
LYMAN a. CHARLES.
Near GillesVllo.
MRS. AUGUST BEYERS.
SON OF AUGUST BEN ERS
The Injured.
Two children of Jasper Fefum.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Butler.
william Butteriield, Of Oakdale, IA
tally.
Daughter of oscar Frieke. register
of deeds Of clark county, visiting at
Lyman A. Charles home, badly I'M
iured.
6ustave Stuke telegraph operator
at the Union siding
otto Dalgord, watchman at the
Union siding.
Miss T. NJ. Larson. of Greenwood,
WIS probably fatally Several child
ren who We're visiting at the home pt
Lyman Charles
Family Of August Boyer. All more
on less injured.
Elsie WeiscL music teacher, Neills-
Vile badly hurt.
Mrs. Harry Warren. Oakdale, seri-
ously.
Mrs. A. y. Maltby oakdale. seri-
ously
Mr.. and MIS- Pentiss. near Tomah.
seriously
John nm. q farm hand.
Miss Weiscl WAS driving horse and
buggy along he road when the storm
struck her. The vehicle and horses
were blown away and have not beeA
found. Miss Meiscl was blown into
the top of q tree from which she was
rescued In am unconscious condition.
Many farm houses and outbuildings
in the neighborhoud uf NrillsVille We're
destroyed and much stock was Killed.
Wires were prostratcd IN all direc-
tions and il has been difficult TO learn
details of the story The district
school near Waucns was blown away
and summer resort near Tomah sur /
fcred much damage.
Most of those Killed COR injured were
caught in the ruins of their falling /
houses and crushed by the heavy tim |
Jcrs.
At the home of Lyman Charles near
Ncill4ville, "a social gathering was in I
progress when tine storm struck tho I
house. The host WIs caught in the +
ruins of his house and fatally iniur q. I
dying while being taken 90 hospital I
one Of his guests HI-u was ptuba- z
1ly fatally injured. while several 9th I
trS were severely hunt The teie- I
graph companies have been WORKING .
lurd an daN Goo restore Communication J.
with the storm district hut have only I
partially succeeded. No rnmmunlra-
ion has been established with Grand I
Rapids where the storm victims are
.aid 90 be- numerous. btkdalr, which /
- reported a- ,utirrll demolished. was
town oft $50 iuhubilauf-
The storm WAS headed nlrertly Tor
bnf just north ~ the city
liVidrd and passed sifuuu it. spend
ug it- fury on thc farming cpumuu-
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