The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-23
ONE KILLED, Others
INJURED in CYCLONE
MANY DWELLINGS AND BARNS
TORN DOWN IN VIENNA
AND VICINITY.
Girl HAS BACK BROKEN
MADISON MAN DESCRIBES PROG
RESS OF STORM-RAIN
AND HAIL HERE.

noon visited Vienna and vicinity,
about fifty-five miles north of Mad
ison. While sweeping a compare
lively narrow path, the hurricane
practically devastated the territory
over which it travelled.
Dead and Injured.
The boy killed was the son of a
farmer named Hanson, living a mile
from Vienna.
The injured are:
Mr.. Hanson, badly bruised.
Hanson boy, ribs broken.
Hanson girl, badly bruised.
Mr.. Groves, farmer, both legs
broken.
Groves boy, arm broken and badly
bruised.
Servant girl at Groves farm. back
broken.
Oscar Hexom, son of Claus Hexom,
monument dealer at Fifth street and
VanEps avenue, was an eye witness
to the tornado. MIR. Hexom was in
Vienna in connection with his ia
theirs business. Following his re-
turn to the city this morning, Mr..
Hexom gave a vivid description of
the winds havoc.
Mr.. Hexom described a funnel
shaped cloud moving III of the
northwest, which came in the wake
of a heavy rainstorm. The cloud
travelled slowly, and its recurring
clippings" to the earth were plainly
visible TO Mr.. Hexom. who was re-
turning TO town from a cemetery
nearby. The Madison man told that
the atmosphere seemed to have as
sumed a milky color, with the APP
proach of the rumble of the wind.
The cyclone struck at the edge of
the town and then suddenly turned
and passed away in a northeasterly
direction.
In Vienna the wind struck and all
but ruined the palatial residence of
A. M. Song, president of the First
National bank there. The roof and
porches were carried away.
Blown Against Barn.
At the Hanson home, m mile
from Vienna, where one boy was
killed, and the father and another
boy and a girl were hurt. the dwell
ing house and a barn were destroyed.
Mr.. Hanson and one of his sons saw
the storm coming. and were trying to
reach the inside of the barn, when
the wind hurled the boy against the
building with such force that he is
thought to have been almost instant
ly killed. Mr.. Hanson was painfully
hurt. The other Hanson boy sus-
tanned broken ribs, and the girl was
badly bruised.
The house and barn of Mr.. Groves,
four miles from Vienna, were also
blown down. Mr.. Groves had both
his legs broken. and was removed TO
a hospital at Watertown for treat
ment. A servant girl at the Groves
home had her back broken, and is
not expected to live. A boy there
was picked up by the wind and car
ried a distance of about forty rods,
but escaped with a broken arm and
severe bruises.
A number of small buildings in
Vienna were demolished, Reports
from Watertown, about twenty miles
northeast of Vienna. are to the effect
that a wind and rain storm visited
that city last evening. but that no
serious damage was done there.
Another storm Strikes Here.
Early reports reaching Madison
this morning to the effect that the
wind had destroyed buildings In the
northern part of Lake county, proved
to be foundationless.
Following an extremely humid
forenoon, which gave place, at about
/ O'Clock to a dry, hot wind from the
south, a heavy rainstorm, accompa-
MED by hail and brilliant displays of
lightning. visited Madison shortly
before 7 O'Clock last evening. The
storm clouds, which looked menacing
came out of the southwest. No dam
age was done here. Campers at Lake
Madison said today that the clouds
undoubtedly carried considerable
wind. but that ii was too high to
cause damage. Campers told that
they could plainly hear the roar of
the wind above them.
The storm did some damage to
local telegraph and telephone wires,
it was said al the offices of the COM
panies here today. The trouble will
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lance messages, ii is said.
Vagaries of Tornado.
The cyclone in the vicinity of vi
emma tore out a path about twenty
yards wide. Mr.. Hexom told. Grow
ing grain seemed to have been torn
from its roots, and fences were re-
duced almost to splinters.
A peculiar coincidence of the
storm was that quite a few people
in Vienna did not even know that
anything unusual had happened, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hexom. Two men
who were butchering a cow in a
slaughter house at the edge of town,
came out of the building after the
cyclone had passed and were sur
prised TO see things torn up a short
distance away. Until they emerged
from the slaughter house, they told,
they had no notion hat the section
had been visited by wen a high wind.
A buggy which they had left stand
ing a few yards from the building
was not overturned, while a few rods