Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-07-02
FIVE DEATHS. !.
RESULT Of
STORM
Dan Casey Barn North OF
Reeds burg Destroyed
Sheep and Cattle Lost.
CFrom Thursdays Datly.)

From Thursdays Datly.)
The storm, which did so much dam
age in Baraboo yesterday morning
swept over South Dakota, Minnesota,
and the greater share Of Wisconsin.
Five deaths are reported in Wisconsin
as the toll of the tornado.
Fairfield.
On the Rollo Cooley farm the wind
blew down a buggy shed and corn
crib.
At the Minor Brown farm a windmill
was twisted, barn door and shade trees
were blown down.
Grant Powell lost two thirds of his
orchard.
Fred Flynn's windmill was twisted.
A windmill at John Mackey's was
twisted, barn blown from its foundation,
and number of apple trees destroyed.
Shade trees and fence at Edmund
Calyert's were blown down.
B. Cummings's machine shed, hog
house and shade trees were blown
down.
At Theodore Herwig's trees and ma
chine shed were blown down.
John Sullivan of Delton had the east
end of barn blown in and the west end
blown out.
Reedsburg
Dan Casey, who lives some seven or
eight miles north of Reedsburg lost
his big barn which was completely de-
molished. Thirteen sheep and two
COWS were killed by the falling timbers
but the horses which were tied to the
managers in the basement of the barn
were unharmed. The barn was about
40x9O feet and was one of the largest
in the neighborhood. 1t is said that the
foundation was badly damaged. No in
surance.
On the Hemingway farm in Winfield
several buildings were unroofed, at
Gus Kleeber's machine shed was hit
and a number of apple trees blown
down. At Earl Crakers small barn
was blow to pieces and some other
damage. At the William Hays farm
in Dellona the barn was lifted from its
foundation, the windmill wrecked and
playthings made of other outbuildings
LaVaIIe
The barn on the Podunk farm near
LaValle was blown down. Also the
barn of John Coughlin. Charles Will
kenson's new barn which has just been
put up and was 36x1O0 feet was blown
TO pieces. At Ben Darrows all of his
buildings except the house were blown
down.
EIroy
Several buildings in Elroy were bad
ly damaged. Part of the roof was
blown off of the roundhouse.
Portage Suffers.
Thousands of dollars of damage was
done in the vicinity of Portage. The
fact that the majority of buildings in
Portage are of brick and stone mat erial
cut down the damage materially. Shade
trees were uprooted. All the principle
resident streets of the city suffered
damage to it's shade trees and boule-
wards.
Sixteen towers of the Wisconsin
Power company were blown down.
rIan Killed at Lacrosse.
Ralph Quigley, asleep in barn at
Ii Crosse, was killed when the build
ing was blown down. Property dam
age in the city is estimated at $25, 600.
Oshkosh Death.
William Zuebke grasped fallen live
wire and was instantly killed.
Wausau.
Two were killed, three fatally in
jured and seventeen hurt several of
them seriously, when the house and
barn of Micheal Kurtzweil, in the town
of Emmett, Marathon county, were
blown down by the cyclone The dead
are Lawrence Salzmann, II, and the
two year old child of Kurtzweil
Lineman is Electrocuted.
Indirectly the disturbance was re-
sponsible for the less OF life IN Mil
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