Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-02
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
In WISCONSIN STORM
Three Wedding Guests Meet Death at En-.
met, Marathon County, When Barn Is
Demolished in State
Estimated Over Million.


an infant in arms, is among the dead.
Two Killed at Milan.
Two people were killed and several
others seriously injured at Milan. Mar
athon county, as the result OF the cy-
clone. The known dead are William
Schaade, an old man, and his 4-year-
old granddaughter. The Schaade home
located on the outskirts of Milan. was
demolished. The two were instantly
killed and seven others seriously in
jured. A peculiar freak of the storm
was displayed when the house and
barn of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wienandt
were picked up and carried away. The
Wienandt family was asleep when the
house was hit and the entire building
lifted in the air. They escaped with
minor bruises.
Fatalities at Green Lake.
Green Lake is another village
which will add names to the list Of
dead. Two persons, a father and
daughter, are badly injured and prob
ably will die.
In the story of the disaster at
Green Lake, which will tell of fl
nancial loss running up into the
thousands, the heroism of the man
who is dying will be prominent He
is Fred Koplin, who is a victim of
tuberculosis and was sleeping in an
outdoor cottage near his home when
the storm came. His wife and
daughter, Mildred, were sleeping in
the house
The house was picked up and
thrown over the fraiI cottage, which
was crushed to the ground A heavy
timber pinioned the child, and then
Koplin, in frenzy of effort to rescue
her, started hemorrhage which
which probably will result in his
death.
The estimate of the loss of prop
erty at Green Lake is 100000. The
county buildings and more than forty
houses were unroofed, and hundreds
of smaller buildings were demolished.
Appleton Loss 100000.
1t is estimated that 100000 worth
of damage was done in the vicinity
of Appleton by the storm. Barns
through all sections of the county
are down and a number of houses
wrecked and cattle killed The Outa-
game county asylum suffered a loss
of $4,000, losing three barns, corn
cribs and slaughter house.
One Dead at Oshkosh.
A tornado which swept from east
to west and west to east from the
village of Omro through the northern
limits of Oshkosh cost about $4,000
worth Of damage.
The destruction at Omro included
number of buildings and trees. In
Oshkosh the barns and bleachers of
the baseball park at the county fair
grounds were blown down across the
road and several houses were
smashed.
William Zubke, aged SIS, was in
stantly killed at Oshkosh when he
touched live wire blown down by
the storm
WatertoWn Woman Hurt.
Mrs. Edward Lietzke was probably
fatally injured at WATERFOWL. Her
home was blown over and she was
badly cut by a flying sheet of glass
from neighboring house The storm
cleared path about six hundred
feet wide through the northern end
of WATERFOWL, and extended far into
the country on both sides. Persons
driving in from the stricken terri
tory tell of many houses and barns
having been blown from their foun-
dations with heavy loss of livestock
and trees.
Portage Suffers Seriously.
Thousands of dollars of damage
was done in the vicinity of Portage.
The fact that the majority of build
ings of Portage are of brick and stone
material cut down the damage ma
terially. Shade trees, some three feet
in diameter, were uprooted. Sixteen
towers of the Wisconsin Power COM
pany were blown down.