Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-06-01
SEVEN KILLED BY
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 22.-Seven per-
sons are dead, at least fifty injured and
more than 100000 in property DAM
age 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 RACED, 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 the 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, Lone Rock. editor
Tri-County Review.
FERDINAND BUELOW, farmer.
Honey Creek, Cauk county.
MARTIN YANKER, farmer, Honey
Greek.
MRS. WILLIAM WRIGHT, 60, Lone
Rock.
CLARA HATTERY, 10, Lone Rock.
DONALD HATTERY, z, Lone Rock.
JOHN BECK, years old, Plain.
Roofs were torn from several houses
and barns in the towns of Troy, Honey
Creek 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.
Editor P. 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.
Lone Rock has issued an appeal to
her sister Wisconsin cities and villages
for help. Funds are sadly needed to
buy food and clothing for the scores
OF homeless and injured, according to
G. A. Gunderson, chairman of the re.
lief committee.
At Lone Rock, the damage is $780,.
600; Big Hollow, $4,000; village of
Plain, 100000; farms near Plain, $780,.
600; Irish Valley, $4,000; Denzer and
Leland more than 100000.
The intensity of the storm was
shown at Lone Rock when ten refrig-
orator cars which were standing on
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 vii
lage. The little village of Plain, north
of Spring Green. suffered 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 the home
of Alois Beck. His little son, 5 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 barn was de-
molished aud four horses belonging
to a tenant killed. Barns and other
buildings in Blue Mounds were con-
siderably damaged.
and tornado that swept over Sank
county leveied hundreds of buildings,
killing live stock and running crops in
many sections.
The One Hundred Sixty-first artil-
lery was caught in TIE tornado at Poy-
nette, north of Madison. All tents
were blown down, but no serious inju-
ries to the men were reported. VII
lage homes, churches and schoolhous.
es were opened to the men. The Poy-
nette electric light plant was demol-
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.