The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-06-18
TORNADO CAUSES HEAVY DAM
AGE IN WESTERN PART
OF THE STATE.
FERRYvILLE is HARD HIT
Seven Dead in This Village, One at
Reedsburg and Two at Racine
Loss Estimated About
100000.

Lid SIoSSe, June l0.-ElSnC per-
sons lost their lives throughout Wis
consin, more than fifty were hurt,
several so seriously that they will
die, and damage estimated at $780,
600 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,
Ferryville.
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 Ferryville 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 and two sis
tiers 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 child were
killed. Five persons are reported
dead in Lansing, Ia. -
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 Ferryville 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 it's worst at the
farm house of James Finley, where
his mother, son and two sisters, one
of whom had just come home on a
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 Finle, farm,
and it's mother is so badly injured it
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.
Reedsburg Hit Hard.
Reedsburg Wis, June 15.-One
man was killed, eight persons were
injured, eight residences and numer-
Gus barns were razed, cattle killed
and scores of trees uprooted in ter
rife windstorm which swept over this
district of the state late Saturday and
caused damage estimated at $4,000.
William Shoeman, stationary en-
gineer, was crushed to death when
the wind swept his residence off its
and buried him in the
wreckage. His wife and baby, who
were in the cellar, escaped uninjured,
although the woman is Frustrated
by the shock
Homes Demolished.
Herbert Gardner, his wife and
three children, all were badly bruis-
ed when the wind RACED their home.
The house was swept completely of,
it's foundation.
Six other houses were partly de-
molished by storm, the roof of one
being carried block and deposited
in an empty field. Most of the occu-
pants escaped uninjured.
Two miles from Reedsburg, the
farmhouse and barn of Louis Behn-
Ike we're 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
Of the state. Trees, barns and tele-
graph poles and wires re down in
Ill parts of the county.
Two Killed at Racine.
Racine, June 15.-While running
n the binding rain, Christ. Peterson
was struck by jitney bus and died
1 few minutes later. Ryan, a circus
employe, was run down and killed
by one of the circus trains as 1t was
eaving the city.