The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-06-17

900 was sustained as the result Of
the terrific rain and windstorm that
swept through the state Saturday
night.
The Dead in Wisconsin.
MRS. ]. c. FINLEY, Ferryville.
WILLIAM SHEHAN, Ferryville.
ROSE FINLEY, Ferryville.
JOHN FINLEY, year old, Ferry
Vile.
CHARLES M'MANUs, 1 year old,
Ferryyille.
MRS, JOHN DALEY, Atlanta,
killed at Ferryville.
UNIDENTIFIED LABORER, Fer
ryville.
JOHN SHOEMAN, Reedsburg.
CHRIST. PETERSON, Racine.
MICHAEL RYAN, Racine.
Many cities were completely iso
lated when telegraph and telephone
wires were down and the full extent
OF the storms toll was not realized
until the service was repaired and
dispatches sent from neighboring
towns.
Family Wiped Out.
At Ferryyille almost an entire
family was wiped out The farm
house of John Finley was torn from
its foundation and ripped to pieces,
his mother, infant son end two sis
ters being killed. Finley himself
sustained two broken legs and is so
badly injured that he may die. Two
miles from the Finley place an I'M
known farm laborer and a child were
killed Five persons are reported
dead in Lansing, la.
At Reedsburg, John Shoeman was
killed and eight persons hurt. Eight
houses were swept to the ground.
An eight mile strip from a point
two miles east of Ferryyille to a
point ten miles east, near the village
of Seneca, was swept clear and every
farmhouse was wrecked or damaged.
Perish in Farmhouse.
The storm was at its worst at the
farm house of James Finley, where
his mother, son and two sisters, one
of whom had just come home on
visit, were killed. Finley himself
sustained two broken legs, and his
wife is seriously injured.
The McManus child was killed,
four miles east of the Finley farm,
and its mother is so badly injured 1t
is feared she will die
Besides the ten killed, thirty were
injured, several of whom are in hos
pitfalls in La Crosse in serious condi-
ton.
Reedsburs Hit Hard
Reedsburg Wis, June 15.-One
injured. eight residences and numer-
Gus barns were RACED, cattle killed
and scores of trees uprooted in a ter
rife windstorm which swept over this
district Of the state late Saturday and
caused damage estimated at SIS, 900.
William Shoeman, a stationary en-
ginecr, was crushed TO death when
the wind swept his residence off its
foundation and buried him in the
wreckage His wife and baby. who
were in the cellar, escaped uniniured,
although the woman is Frustrated
by the shock.
Homes Demolished
Herbert Gardner, his wife and
three children, all were badly bruis-
cd when the wind RACED their home
The house was swept completely off
its foundation.
Six other houses were partly de-
being carried a block and deposited
i'm an empty field Most of the occu-
pants escaped uninjured
TWO miles from Reedsburg, the
farmhouse and barn Of Louis Behn-
Ike were wrecked. three cattle and
two horses being killed The far
mer and his family escaped
The windstorm was the most Sc
we're ever experienced in this section
pf the state. Trees, barns and tele-
graph poles and wires are down in
all parts of the county.
Two Killed at Racine.
Racine, June ID While running
in the binding rain Christ, Peterson
was struck by iitney bus and died
a few minutes later. Ryan, circus
cmpoye, was run down and killed
by one OF the circus trains as It was
leaving the city