Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-11-16
Cyclone kills 8
IN WISCONSIN
MANY INJURED AND PROPERTY
LOSS NEAR 100000 IN
ROCK COUNTY.
THREE ARE DEAD IN MICHIGAN
Damaged Homes and Scattered Pro.
duce Reported-Live Stock SUIT
fers-Young Bride Killed In
Wreck Of Home.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. 13.-Splintered
hmbers, broken furniture. crumbled
rock and plaster, scattered farm pro-
duce and dead farm animals littering
the ground over an area a quarter of
. mile in width and miles in length,
Indicate the tremendous force with
which southern Wisconsin's worst cy-
elone cut swath through Rock coun-
~, killing eight persons, injuring many
more and doing damage to the extent
of nearly million dollars. +
OF the injured, one, Albert Schmidt,
Il. years old, near Hanover, will die.
His father and two sisters are dead.
Bensyl Korbin also may die.
The Dead.
! Anton Schmidt. IS years old, Han
over, blown from barn and killed in.
SANITY.
Alice Schmidt, 10 years old, daugh.
ter of Anton Schmidt, blown across the
road and found nearly buried in Q
held. ;. - I'll, i
Reggie Schmidt. II years old, sister
her sisters body.
Helen Austin, s years old, Milton,
instantly killed.
Mrs. John Crowder, who lived be-
tween Brodhead and Arfordville. I'D ii,
Mrs. Elizabeth Proede, who resided
between Brodhead and Orfordville. /,
Leo Len1ts,,' Is years old, Hanover,
blown from barn and instantly killed.
Amy Korbin, years old, two miles
north Of GAINESVILLE, Instantly killed
when house was demolished.
Cyclone Was Twister.
The cyclone was Of the "twister"
variety. It originated in the vicinity
Of Orfordville, IL miles southwest of
Evansville, travelled northeast for sew
eral miles and then turned to the east,
missing this city by a narrow margin.
its force was spent near Milton. The
greatest damage was done near the
point of origin and at Milton.
The cyclone was accompanied by a
driving rain. There had been high
wind all day and this continued
throughout the night The cyclone
lasted only few minutes. Although
1t occurred at about the middle of the
afternoon it was dark as night. The
binding downpour made search for
the dead and dying terrible task.
Alice Schmidt, who kept house for
her father, and her younger sister,
we're in the house when the cyclone
struck. The bodies were blown across
the road, the house being demolished
over their heads. Their necks we're
broken, skulls fractured and it required
two men to pull the half-buried bodies
from the ground. Anton Schmidt, the
father, and tramp, were in the barn.
The tramp, who was not injured, says
Schmidt was blown through the barn
door. His body was found in the hog
yard. The boy was buried in the debris
Ind received internal injuries.
Mrs Elizabeth Proede, bride Of a
lew months, was instantly killed when
the house was carried away. Her hus.
band stood in the barn door and saw
the house carried away and discovered
the body of his bride after the cyclone
passed. The Proedes lived near Or
tordville
The Storm Elsewhere.
Chicago-Terrific cyclones prevail
ent over Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois
and Indiana, destroying total of Ia
lives, the drowning of six persons al
Lake Soshonong and the probable de
struction of six or more lives on Lake
Michigan, are the chief features of the
storm which ravaged the country from
the upper Canadian border to the Ohio
river and from the Rocky mountains t
the Pennsylvania line. Immense prop
erty damage was done over a vast area
Houses we're blown down, trees up
rooted, tobacco and other crops de
Btroyed and there was heavy loss O.
livestock.
In the larger cities plate glass win
dows were smashed in by falling sign!
and the force Of the wind, chimney
were toppled over and the cloudburst.
I flooded cellars and warehouse base
4 ments.
e, Following 4 day Of unusual warmth
I record for % years in Chicago an.
vicinity, where the temperature wen
to 74.2 above, there was drop Of s.
degrees in "a hours. In Chicago on
man was Frustrated, By, heat and, t,w,
were frozen to death inside Of q hours
Three were killed BY a cyclone a
owosso,, Mich, two at Easton, III, on
1t Belvidere, Ill; four injured, one "a
tally, at Virginia, ILL.,; two killed an
Z alf-dozen injured in Chicago an
vicinity.
ANOTHER DEER HUNTER KlLLEE