Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-06-06
SERIOUS DAMAGE
BY MAY STORM
Southwest Section of Coun-
ty Visited BY Rain
and Hail.
LOGANVILLE CATTLE LOST
Bridges In Vicinity of Bear
Valley and Sandusky
In Unsafe Condition.
LOGANv|LLE CATTLE LOST
(Spring Green News.)

On the afternoon of May 2S, heavy
rain and hail storm flooded aud laid
waste Bear Creek and Honey Creek
valleys. Sandusky was the point of
attack, for there two storms, coming
from opposite directions, met and the
downpour of rain and hail lasted just
an hour and ten minutes. The deluge
divided and was distributed down
Bear Creek and Honey Greek.
Crops on the ridge were beaten down
by the hail and the fields were badly
washed by the rain.
At Loganville the mill dam went
out and there, also, five cattle were
drowned, being caught in the flood
with fences and driftwood and all
together tangled with bridge.
There is rumor that one man in
Bear Valley lost twenty-five head of
cattle. One horse belonging to VIM.
Wolf, who lives In the town of Wash
ington, just across the Bear Greek line,
was lost.
None of the bridges between SAM
dusky and Bear Valley are in safe
condition, and the big iron bridges at
the mill and the Winterburn bridge
are washed out.
At White Mound the " ater rushed
down the valley in wall five feet
himh ond fnrtu rods Uila oe
stock, fences and everything in its
path. The cement bridge near the
White Mound postoffice was under
mined, though it was not damaged
to any great extent, and with some
filling in will be as good as ever.
At the O'Malley place in the White
Mound valley, the cattle rushed to
the highest point in the pasture and
they were just able to keep their noses
above water.
Clemens Ring, on the old George
Morgan place, was the greatest suffer
er from the storm. His place was
surrounded by water and his fences
are all down.
J. B. Bauer was at White Mound
with the stage when the storm came
and was OBJ ,iged to take roundabout
way to get home. One man he told
of rode horseback into "a pasture to cut
the wires and let the stock out, and
the water was so deep that he was
wet to the hips. Mr.. Bauer also saw
the flood strike yearling, which it
bowled over and over until it struck
the road. Here it regained it's feet
and swan out of danger.
Further down Honey Creek, in the
Lodde's mill district, tho hail beat the
leaves from the trees and in places it
washed and lodged in piles two feet
deep.
1t is difficult to estimate the amount
of the damage. The towns of Bear
Creek, Washington and Westfield
seem to be the greatest losers, as they
lost several thousand dollars in bridges
alone, aside from the damage to
roads. individuals here, also, were
the worst losers. Mrs. Fargen's house,
in the town of Bear Greek, was moved
four inches on its foundation, and two
days saving of wood, which had been
split and piled up, was washed away.
The keegan farm is covered with
debris. In the A[cCarville valley the
farmers had plowed to the creek and
the land, as deep as it had been
plowed was taken with the flood.
This was the case, too, in the JOS.
Ward and the Fargen valleys, where
the farmers suffered most from wash.
ing.
Near Sandusky a school teacher,
Miss Edith Frasier, received two
severe lightning shocks. The children
ran to U. T. Prouty's home and he took
the teacher from the school house to
his home where she was cared for.
The young lady was unconscious and
was unable to get TO her boarding place
until six O'Clock in the evening. One
of the pupils was also shocked by the
lightning.