Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-23
RAIN AND HAIL CAME
DOWN In A DELUGE
No Residences Seriously Damaged
and No Lives Lost---Trees by
the Hundred Are Leveled

tory of this region came on tuesday
evening about o'clock. The wind
blew a gale, rain and hail fell. The
damage will reach many thousand dol
lars, largely to barns and stock in the
neighborhoOd of the city. Fields are
badly washed and the Baraboo river is
high.
SKILLET CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD
At the home of Willis Ryan more or
less damage was done to the barn.
Five COWS were killed at the home
of Otto Baer when the barn was blown
down.
At the home of Mrs j. E. Baer the
barn was blown over, also the silO and
windmill The cattle were not in the
barn. but two horses had narrow es-
cape. The timbers came very near
crushing them. The windmill was the
third to be blown down on the farm,
and another means of raising water
will now be provided.
Barns on the Robert KOenig and
Miller places were also struck by the
wind.
ON NORTH FREEDOM ROAD
West of the city along the paved
road to North Freedom, several
pIaces were visited. On the Seeker
place, owned by j. S. Palmer and oc-
cupied by Bruce Trussell, the barn
was leveled killing COW and injuring
other stock. A horse owned by Frank
Series at the same farm was prob
ably fatally injured.
On one of the w. C. Rodgers farms,
the one to the south of the main road,
the barn was leveled. A horse was
killed.
On the u Won VALID place the silo
came down.
On the Fed Bisch place, owned by
former Sheriff w C. Hill. North Free,
dom, nine trees were leveled.
The barn on the Frank Whitman
place is down. This makes the second
one to be wrecked on this farm. The
place is not occupied.
The grove of trees at the Lewis w.
Towers home on the bank of the Bara-
boo river was struck by a twister.
They came down in all directions.
The N c. Crawley barn was slight
ly damaged.
The Mike Bisch barn was moved. A
few days ago it was slightly damaged,
and this had just been repaired.
STREETS BLOCKED
In places the streets and roads were
blocked with fallen trees until the OBJ
structions could be removed.
BARABoO IN DARKNESS
Light for BarabOo comes largely
from Prairie du Sac, where the big
pOwerhOuse over the Wisconsin river
is located. The lighting system is pro-
Vided with an automatic circuit break
er and when the load becomes too
heavy the switch flies out and dark
ness results. This occurred several
times on account of so many fallen
trees. Finally the power from Prairie
du Sac failed and an attempt was
made to use the steam plant here, but
so many wires we're down that it was
impossible to keep the current going
There was a live wire down at the
corner of Ash and Sixth streets.
TELEPHONES PARALYZED
The Telephone systems in Baraboo
and region roundabout were paralyzed
by the storm. Poles were broken off,
and in some places nearly every wire
was severed by falling trees. 1t will
take a number of days to restore sys-
TENS to normal conditions.
IN THE THIRD WARD
At the Arson Harvey home at 700
Walnut street trees were blown down,
knocking two chimneys from the
house.
An apple tree was blown from a
field about 1z5 feet and struck the
Rudolph Sommer house at 721 Walnut,
making a hole in the side of the house.
A telephone pole was also laid on the
SOmmer porch and a chimney taken
off the house.
The Charles Learman barn at 215
Lake street was taken about half a
block and hit the Charles Jorg home
knocking the porch off and damaging
the inside of the house. There was
nothing left of the barn but kindling
wood. The Jorg family was in the
cellar
The tin roof was taken from the H.
H. Coates home at 332 Elm street and
taken across the street about half
block away. 1t fell in the street. The
furniture was badly drenched with
water.
A chair from the porch of Mrs. Bar
bara Keller at FOL Walnut street was
carried across the road to the Fred
Rudy home, where it went through
window into the bed room.
Many trees were blown down on
Lake street.
SOUTH OF TOWN
At the Charles Huber place south
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