Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-03-08
STORM
LOSS IN
MILLIONS
Story of Disaster
Wrought by Ice
and SLeet

Stories OF the recent big Storm
said to be the worst in years, are
coming in from recently icebound
areas in northeastern Wisconsin.
Without doubt the property loss will
run far into the millions. The Sunday
Milwaukee Journal devoted a section
to the storm, showing with graphic
pictures the havoc created. Falling
wires blocked the main street at Kill
bourne Neenah-Menasha was cut off
from the world for three days and the
sole means of communication was a
temporary wireless outfit erected in
the Bergstrom Paper Co. The Neenah
Daily News, deprived of light and
power, got out a special storm edi
ton on a job press. The paper was
four pages. 6X9 inches. A Milwaukee
road engine jumped the tracks two
miles north of Chiffon. At Little
Chute a Northwestern engine jumped
the rails and three Len were hurt.
Terrific damage was done to trees
and wires at Berlin. North Of Kau
kauna interurban tracks were frozen
in solid ice. Streets at Fond du Lac
were blocked by storm. Fallen wires
and trees blocked streets at BarabOO.
Beautiful old shade trees on Law
renee college campus at Appleton
were split asunder by the weight Of
ice and ruined. The flooded streets
at Sneboygan turned the city into
Venice, the only possible means OF
travel being by boat. Ice hung from
two TO two and One-half inches thick
on wires in the storm u-e and actual
photographs of the phenomena were
taken freak of the storm was
evidenced in Vernon county where
valleys were untouched by ice but
did get a terrible baptism of water.
A few degrees higher temperature n
valleys prevented ice from forming
and feeble farm telephon lines went
through the storm safely The
streams rose rapidly from water
pouring down from the hillsides but
the frozen ground prevented soil
washing and the classic kickapOo
and other streams after reaching al
most to the high water mark OF 1907,
fell as rapidly as they arose. All
bridges went through the storm but
the damage to Vernon county trees
was terrlttlc.
The Wisconsin Telephone Co. as
a heavy loser in the recent storm
but has pluckily set about at once re-
storing service on it's mangled lines.
The storm area conferred in the Fox
river valley, extending from Shehoy-
gan south and east, .le MISSISSIPPI
west and Green Bay and Lake Michi-
gan on the north. officials placed the
damage to their lines in the state at
$4,000, 900. Storm hazards on lines
in the Bell system are insured by an
enormous sinking fund-ample to
provide for the most severe disturb
ances. Funds of this nature are
something Independent telephone con
Germs lack sadly. They generally find
out their error when great storm
wipes out the lines and having spent
their money on dividends have no
money for replaceme.is-in fact go
bankrupt
With losses to orchards, shade and
forest trees, damage to roads when
the ice meIUs, and losses OF every
kind, many place the total loss at
S15,OOO.O0O, while others believe the
loss will go to $30,00O,OO0.
During the recent high water at
Darlington a carp weighing three
pounds was caught on Main street IN
that city The food reached rec
ord high water mark-l2 nches,
higher than ever before. a new
lumber wagon was carried away from
in front OF a garage and down stream
in q
and 21b feet thick were left in the
ward Of a man who ordinarily is high
above the river.
All the linemen in the state and
number from adjacent state have
been pressed into service in north
eastern Wisconsin where thousands
of noles and hundrecs of thousands
of miles of wire on telephone and
electric power lines were completely
wrecked in the recent storm. Car
loads of materials have been rushed
10 the storm swept district and temp
iorarv service is under way. 1t Will
he months before the nnes are in as
good a condition as they were durlns
the recent sleet.
That the sleet storm was more IN
tense in Richland county than IN
Grant is shown by the report OF the
IRichland Center Democrat which
jsavs that ice formed upon everything
exposed. Irreparable damage was
done on ridges and uplands where
the unusual weight broke down trees
limbs. telephone poles and wires.
Orchards in many places were prac-
tically ruined and timber has peeh II
reparabIy damaged
Estate of Robert Jordan, deceased.
State of Wisconsin. County Court Of
Cn,,+ COuntv-Tn Probate.