The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-30
CASUALTIES IN STORM

| Walter Saudek, Iineman, eIectrocut-
ed by live wire at Milwaukee.
Ralph Quigley caught in falling
building and instantly killed at La
Crosse.
William Zuebke grasped fallen live
wire and was instantly killed at Osh-
kosh.
Mrs. Edward Lietzke probably was
fatally injured when home was
wrecked at Watertown.
Mrs. w. Grabinski and Mrs. Norman
Carroll badly injured by flying glass
at Fond du Lac.
Mildred koppIin, II years old, ia
tally injured by wind hurled joist at
| Green Lake.
| Lawrence SaIzman, 27 years old; l.
year-oId child of Michael kucnmavek
and Arthur Quade killed when new
barn at Emmett is blown down at EN-
met, Marathon county. Mrs. Michael
kuchmavek and 3-year-oId daughter;
Mrs. Boucha ard Carl Wanda fatally
injured.
Fred koppIin fatally injured while
trying TO rescue his injured daughter
from wrecked home at Green Lake.
Milwaukee, June 25.-Five known
dead, nine known to be fatally injured
and an additional list of injured run
ming from the lowest estimate of ten
to the highest, twenty-five, and a finan-
cial loss running close to the million
mark is the toll of the tornado which
swept Wisconsin early Wednesday
morning
! Wednesday night it was known that
the state had suffered a gigantic loss
! which in many ways cannot be est1-
mated, and that the terrific wind
! storm which followed the heat of
! Wednesday had left death and suffer
ing in its wake.
The peaceful farming community
surrounding this village of Halder,
in Marathon county, probably will be
| found to have borne the brunt of the
storm. The latest reports from the
village, say that already three are
dead, five are dying and twenty are
more or less seriously injured
Many Killed and Dying.
| The list of dead and fatally injured
there, is as follows:
LAWRENCE SALZMAN, 27 years
old, instantly killed.
| ONE YEAR OLD CHILD of Mich
ael Kuchmavek, instantly killed.
ARTHUR QUADE, instantly killed
! MRS. - BCUCHA, dying from
| injuries.
CARL WANDA, dying from internal
| injuries.
MRS. M. KUCHMAVEK, fatally in
! jured.
THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER
| of Mrs Kuchmavek, dying from in
| juries.
Death Hats Revelry.
Death and injury came to the little
| town while it was in the midst of
revelry. Seventy-fiye men, women
and children had gathered at the
home of Michael Kuchmavek to at
| tend a wedding dance which was Civ
en- in new barn to celebrate the
completion of the building. Kuch-
mavek's daughter had become the
4 bride of Wilhelm Manifke of Milwau-
kee on Tuesday
A dance was in progress and the
musicians stationed on an improvised
platform at one end of the building
were bent over their musical instru-
ments when the tornado struck the
| building
Wind Crushes Building.
The wind crushed the barn and a
surrounding building as though they
were made of paper, and left a shape
less mass, in which the injured were
struggling.
1t was five hours later when the
three bodies of the dead had been
removed and the injured had been
| taken from the demolished barn.
| 1t is feared that more bodies will be
| found, as there are several known
! to be missing.
Fatally Injuries Bride.
The. daughter of Kuchmavek, who
was the bride at the wedding festiv-
ties, was among those fatally injured
The force of the tornado carried her
| out OF the barn when the building
was demolished and she was found
at daylight, unconscious and lying
in the woods nearby. Her mother
and a baby sister are among the ia
tally injured, while another sister,
an infant in arms, is among the dead.
Postal Robbers Fooled.
Glenwood City.-Four yeggs at
tempted to blow the safe in the post
office at Wheeler, and had drilled
hole near the combination and insert