Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-05-29
TEN LIVES LOST IN
WISCONSIN STORM
TORNADO IN SOUTHERN PART OF
THE STATE BRINGS DEATH
AND DESTRUCTION.
LONE ROCK Is HIT HARDEST
Village of 500 Population in RichIand
County Practically obIiterated.
Dead and Injured Are Carried
Long Distance by Wind.

Madison, Wis, May %. Ten per-
sons are believed TO be dead, at least
fifty injured and more than 100000
in property damage resulted from the
tornado which swept Iowa, Richland,
Sank and Dane counties last night.
Lone Rock, on the line between Iowa
and Richland counties, was hardest hit
by the storm. Half of the village, of
700 inhabitants, was raZed, six per
sons are known to be dead and thirty
injured.
Houses in the direct path of the
storm were carried for miles and the
wreckage strewn over tie countryside.
Several of the dead and injured also
were picked up great distances from
their homes.
The known dead so far are:
p. c. PITKIN, Line Rock. editor
Tri-County Review.
FERDINAND BUELOW, farmer,
Honey Greek, Cauk county.
- YANKE, farmer, Honey Creek
TWO CHILDREN of Mrs. Patrick,
Lone Rock
UNIDENTIFIED BOY, Lone Rock.
ALOlS BECK, 5 years old, Plain.
Roofs We're torn from several houses
and barns in the towns of Troy, Honey
Greek and Prairie du Sac. No dam
age was done in the village of Prairie
du Sac. Sank City was battered some
what but no serious damage inflicted.
Two children of a Mrs. Patrick,
widow, of Lone Rock, were killed out
right, and two others of her family
of five were injured, one perhaps fatal
ly Another unidentified boy in Lone
Rock was killed. making a total of
five casualties in Lone Rock.
Editor =. c, Pitkin of the Tri-County
Review was killed in the collapse of
the Lone Rock bank building. He was
fleeing from the building when the
stairway gave way.
The intensity of the storm was
shown at Lone Rock when ten refrig-
orator cars which were standing on a
side track were hurled seventy-feet
from the tracks by the wind.
Spring Green escaped storm damage
entirely, the force of the tornado being
centered north and west of that viii
lage. The little village of Plain, north
of Spring Green, suffered a severe bat
tering. The new $4,000 St. Luke's
Catholic church, the largest in Sank
county, half mile from Plain, was
wrecked, as was also the priests resi-
dence. Two farm dwellings between
Plain and Spring Green were blown
to pieces. One of them was he home
| of Alois Beck. His little son, years
old, was killed by flying debris.
The rural towns of Blue Mounds
and Springdale suffered severely in
property loss. At Springdale on the
George Farmon farm a barn was de-
molished and four horses belonging
TO tenant killed. Barns and other
buildings in Blue Mounds were con-
siderably damaged
Baraboo reports that a cloudburst
and tornado that swept over Sank
county leveled hundreds of buildings,
killing live stock ard running crops in
many sections. The damage will run
into many thousands.
The One Hundred Sixty-frst artil-
ieIy was caught IN the tornado at Poy-
nette, north of Madison. All tents
were blown down. but no serious inju-
ries TO the men were reported. VIII
lage homes, churches and schoolhous-
es were opened TO the men. The Poy-
nette electric light plant was Gemol.
ished. the depot unroofed and several
stores badly damaged.
The storm did not affect Mt. Horeb
seriously. 1t passed west and north
of Dodgeville. causing no damage to
that city, however. Farms suffered
severely in spots throughout north
western Iowa county.
Madison was in darkness for more
than three hours during one of the
worst wind, electrlca land rain storms
that ever visited the city.