The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-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 Reproductive Stock Suf-
fers-Young Bride Killed in
Wreck of Home.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov. 14-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 W~isconsin'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.
Ia years old, near Hanover, will die
His father and two sisters are dead.
Bensyl Korbin also may die.
The Dead.
Anton Schmidt, 55 years old, Han
over, blown 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 a
field.
Reggie Schmidt, IA years old, sister
of Alice Schmidt, found dead beside
her sisters body.
Helen Austin, 5 years old, Milton,
instantly killed.
Mrs. John CroWder, who lived be-
tween B~rodhead and ~ArfordvilIe.
Mrs. Elizabeth Proede, who resided
between Brodhead and Orfordville.
Leo Lentz, 16 years old, Hanover,
blown from barn and instantly killed.
Amy Korbin, s years old, two miles
north of GAINESVILLE, instantly killed
when house was demolished.
Cyclone Vas Twister.
The cyclone was of the "twister"
variety. 1t originated in the vicinity
of Orfordville, IL miles southwest Of
GAINESVILLE, travelled northeast for sew
eral miles and then turned to the east,
missing this city by a narrow margin.
It's force was spent near Milton. The
greatest damage was lone near the
point of origin and at Milton.
The cyclone was accompanied by q
driving rain. There had been a high
wind all day and this continued
throughout the night. The cyclone,
lasted only a few minutes. Although
it occurred at about the middle of the
afternoon it 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 were blown across
the road, the house being demolished
| nxyn thatr L4AI- uNLN.. --.1- $500
broken, skulls fractured and it 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 q
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.-Terriic cyclones prevail
ent over Wisconsin. Michigan, Illinois
and Indiana, destroying a total of IA
lives, the drowning of six persons az
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 to
the Pennsylvania line. Immense prop
erty damage was done over a vast area.
Houses were blown down. trees up
rooted, tobacco and other crops de-
stroyed and there was heavy loss OF
livestock.
In the larger cities plate glass win
dows were smashed in by falling signs
and the force of the wind, chimneys
were toppled owe and the c%loudbursts
flooded cellars and warehouse base
ments.
Following a day of unusual warmth,
a record for % years in Chicago and
vicinity, where the temperature went
to 74.2 above, there was a drop of Ga
degrees in "a hours. In Chicago one
man was Frustrated by heat and two
were frozen 20 death inside of "a hours.
Three were killed by a cyclone at
Owosso, Mich, two at Easton, ILL.,, one
at B~elvidere, H.; four injured, one ia
tally. at Virginia, H.; two killed and
a ~half-dozen injured in Chicago and
vicinity.