The searchlight., 1911-11-17
5 DEAD IN Wis,
MANY INJURED AND PROPERTY
LOSS NEAR 100000 IN
ROCK COUNTY.
STORMS ARE DISASTROUS
Damaged Homes and Scattered Pro.
duee Reported-Live Stock sus-
fers-Young Bride Killed In
Wreck Of Home.

Janesville, Wisconsin. - Splintered
timbers. broken furniture. crumbled
rock and plaster, scattered farm pro-
duce and dead farm animals iittering
the ground over an area a quarter OF
a mile in width and miles In length,
Indicate the tremendous force with
which southern Wisconsin's worst cy-
clone cut a swath through Rock coun-
ty, killing eight persons, injuring many
more and doing damage to the extent
Of nearly a million dollars.
OF the injured. one, Albert Schmidt,
II years old. near Hanover. will die.
His father and two sisters are dead.
Bensyl Korbin also may die.
The Dead.
Anton Schmidt, So years old. Han
oyerblown from barn and killed in
stantly.
Alice Schmidt. IS years old, daugh-
ter OF Anton Schmidt, blown across the
road and found nearly buried in
field
Reggie Schmidt. II years old. sister
of Alice Schmidt. found dead beside
her sisters body.
Helen Austin, years old. Milton,
instantly killed.
Mrs. John Crowder. who lived be-
tween Brodhead and Ariordville.
Mrs. Elizabeth Proedc. who resided
between Brodhead and Orfordville.
Leo Lentz, 16 years old, Hanover,
blown from barn and instantly killed.
Amy Korbin, years old, two miles
north of Janesville, instantly killed
when house was demolished.
Cyclone Was Twister.
The cyclone was OF the "twister"
/ variety. IL originated in the vicinity
of Orfordville. 12 miles southwest of
| Janesville. 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 a high
wind all day and this continued
| throughout the night. The cyclone
lasted only a few minutes. Although
| IL occurred at about the middle of the
| afternoon Ii was dark as night. The
! binding downpour made search for
! the dead and dying a terrible task.
Alice Schmidt, who kept house for
her father, and her younger sister,
were in the house when the cyclone
struck. The bodies We're blown across
the road. the house being demolished
over their heads. Their necks were
broken. skulls fractured and II required
two men to pull the half-buried bodies
from the ground. Anton Schmidt, the
father. and a 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
and received internal injuries.
Mrs. Elizabeth Proede. a bride OF a
few 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
fordville.
The Storm Elsewhere.
Chicago.-Terrifc cyclones prevail
ent over Wisconsin. Michigan, Illinois
and Indiana, destroying a total of II
lives, the drowning of six persons a
Lake Soshonong and the probable de
struction OF six or more lives on Lake
Michigan. are the chief features of tht
storm which ravagcd the country from
the upper Canadian border to the Ohio
| river and from the Rocky mountains Il
the Pennsylvania line. Immense prop
erty damage was done over vast area
Houses were blown down. trees up
rooted. tobacco and other crops de
stroyed 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 cloudbursti
flooded cellars and warehouse base
ments.
Following a day of unusual warmth
a record for 90 years in Chicago anC
vicinity. where the temperature wen
to 74.2 above. there was a drop of g.
degrees in "a hours. In Chicago on,
man was prostrated by heat and tw'
we're frozen to death inside of "a hours
Three We're killed by a cyclone a
Owosso. Mich. two at Easton, ILL.,, on
at Belvidere. ILL.,; four injured. one fa
tally. at Virginia. ILL.,; two killed an,
a half-dozen injured In Chicago an,
vicinity.