Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-23

The new barn of H. G.. Mertzke was
blown down and cattle were killed. -
At the home of Max Hagar small
buildings were damaged.
There was slight damage at the
home of E. " Alexander.
FAIR GROUND FENCE DOWN
The fence was blown down on the
west side of the fair ground, and trees
were laid low along Eighth street.
The city remained in darkness all
night and those who required illumi-
nation resorted to lanterns, candles
and lamps. Repairs were started
early today
IN GREENFIELD
On the Benjamin Simonds place,
now the home of Lynn Schults, the
windmill is down and other damage
done
Carl Wichern reports his windmill
down and part of barn roof gone.
A. Fry reports some damage to his
buildings and others on the way to
BarabOo.
ALONG THE kILBOURN ROAD
W. R. Edmonds, who owns and
drives the Kilbourn stage, reports the
barns on the Meyers and Schanke
farms down. Small buildings on the
Simonds place are wrecked and the
woodshed at the schoolhouse is down.
WORST IN FAIRFIELD
Fairfield never had such a severe
storm. Buildings are down every
where and in the southern part of the
town scarcely a siIo or windmill re-
mains standing.
Grant Hackett's barn is damaged
Barn of Norris Wilcox is down.
Buildings of Bishop Wilcox are
damaged.
End of Rollo Cobleigh's barn is
caved in.
On the Davenport-Weirich place
buildings were damaged.
Two barns are down on the William
H. Millner place; also silo.
Frank Baxter has silo down
Considerable damage at the George
Clark place.
Roof of barn and machine shed
wrecked at Albert Techs place.
Earl Battles has barn down.
Damage to property of Jerome
Parks.
Damage to barn at home Of Earl
Thomas.
w T. Loomis has tin roof off.
Small damage to property of Ben
Holt
Glen Porter has small loss.
Fred Getchell's barn is fiat.
Eugene Cushmans barn is a wreck
Mrs. Thomas Lusby's barn is gone
At the Frank Thomas place a COW
was killed and others hurt when the
building went.
A timber from the Thomas barn
killed a horse for Byron Day on the
next farm.
Erwin Bump has a damaged barn.
The house is so wrecked by the wind
that lot of plastering fell The chin
ney went.
Munroe Bump-barn down.
Mrs. Manford Bump-windmill down.
E. R. Thomas has damaged build
ings.
Part of a shed went clear over the
c. Caffisch house.
Cars were damaged for H. r. Thorn
as and Perry Thomas when the wind
wrecked the garage.
NEAR THE CEMETERY
The William Allen barn is down.
The Albert Templin barn is fiat.
Buildings down at the A. L. Feltz
place.
There was damage at the Charles
Randall farm.
A barn for Joe Harris went down.
Many Of the white light globes on
top of the iron posts in Baraboo were
blown Off and broken.
was broken off and precipitated to the
ground.
STREWN A BLOCK
At the Louis Prothero home in the
eastern part of the city the wagon
shed and corn crib we're strewn for
about a block.
RIVER is HIGH
The Baraboo river is high. On Tues
day an effort was being made to keep
the stream within dykes at the Binder
farms near the Lower Narrows. but
the flood went over the top during the
night. Land sowed to spring wheat
has been flooded. The water is run
ming over the highway at the Johnson
and Butterfield bridges in Greenfield.
SAUK PRAIRIE
The storm on Tuesday evening
caused much damage on Sank Prairie,
but no buildings went down as far as
known here. Wires are down and in
formation is difficult to obtain The
losses include:
Silo down for Alexander Steuber.
Silo down for Harry Groth
Windmill down for J. L. HILL
L. O. Kindschi has a wrecked wind
mill and the cupalo is gone from barn.
A machine shed on the Charles Wat