The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-13
WORST OF THE STATE
Some Freaks Of the Storm Which Lit.
tered the Ground With Dead
Animals and
TImbers.

crumbled rock and plaster, scattered
farm produce and dead farm animals
littcring the ground for an area of a
quarter of mile in width and twen-
ty miles in length indicate the tre-
mendous force with which Southern
Wisconsin's worst cyclone swept a
path through Rock County, killing
eight persons, injuring many more
and doing damage to the extent of
nearly $1,00O,O00
One of the injured, Albert Schmidt
of near Hanover, IA years old, will
die. His father and two sisters are
dead. At least one more may die.
Tho dead:
ANTON SCHMIDT, 55 years old.
Hanover, was blown from barn and
killed instantly.
4 ALICE SCHMIDT, eighteen-year-old
daughter of Anton Schmidt, blown
across the road and found nearly bur-
led in field
REGGIE SCHMIDT, IA years old
sister of Alice Schmidt; found dead
beside her sisters body.
HELEN AUSTIN. years old, Nil
ton, instantly killed.
: MRS. JOHN CRoWDER, who lived
| between Broadhead and Orfordville
MRS. ELIZABETH PROEDE, resid
: ed between Broadhead and Oxford
vile.
: LEO LENTZ, 16 years old, Hanover
' blown from barn and instantly killed
3 AMY KERBIN, 8 years old, two
' miles north of GAINESVILLE; instantl,
4 killed when her home was demolish
I ed.
Among the injured were the follow
. ing:
Albert Schmidt, fourteen years old
5 may die.
Penzyl Kerbin; condition reported
y serious.
j, Mrs. Alfred Austin. Milton; Gu
i about the face, chest and side. Prot
v ably will recover.
y Mrs. Caroline Schaeffer. "a year
/ old. Hanover; face bruised and bac
l. hurt; condition serious.
Mrs. Louis Lehman, 26 years old
r injured internally.
5, Wire service was demoralized an
1t it was today that details of the c,
t. clone were obtained. Saturday nigf
the mercury dropped nearly to zero
1T The cyclone was of the "twistel
70 variety. 1t originated in the vicinit
Is Of Orfordville, twelve miles sout
Is west travelling northeast for sever
ID miles, and then turned to the eas
missing GAINESVILLE by narrow ma
d gin. It's force was spent near Milto
ss The greatest damage was done nei
IS the point or origin and at Milton
is The cyclone was accompanied by
IN driving rain. There had been hii
I'd wind all day Saturday, and this co
tinued throughout the night tt
is cyclone lasted only a few minute
~ Although it occurred about the M
e. die of the afternoon it was dark
m night The binding downpour ma
is search for the dead and dying t.
i'll riblo task
sc OF the Schmidt family there is or
one survivor, Albert, a 14-year {
boy. Alice Schmidt and her young
sister were in the house when {
- cyclone struck, and their bodies we
+ blown across the road, the house
ing demolished.
na Anton Schmidt, the father. and
tramp were in the barn. The tral
who was not injured, says SchIn
MS was blown through the barn door. !
of body was found in the yard.
~ Mrs. Elizabeth Proede, bride o.
few months, was instantly Kill
I'd when the house was carried aw
he Her husband was in the barn and
ur- covered the body of his wife after
We cyclone passed. The Proedes Ii,
tie near Orfordville.
tin Lea Lentz, 16 years old, Y
rt. blown from new barn which he Y
Ter helping to build for James Little.
miles northeast of Hanover. His ia
ng er, Theodore Lentz, who was a
on working on the barn, was uninjure
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