Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-14
TORNADOES KILL
6 IN WISCONSIN
Three Storms Strike Four
Counties in Central
Part of State.

Eau Claire, visa trio of lorna
does sweeping through four central
western counties of Wisconsin IN the
late afternoon of August Z, lett ID
their wake death list of six, scores
of injured and property damage Whlcn
may, reach $1,000,000.
Wire communication with the dew
astated area was destroyed and COM
prehensive surveys of the wreckage
in Trempealeau, Jackson and Ch1ppe-
wa counties, which bore the brunt OF
the destruction, were difficult.
The list of dead includes:
William Rerg, so, near Bloomer,
fatally injured in the collapse of his
barn
Alice Garwin, 8, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Garwin, whose home col
fapsed at Black River Falls.
George Nash, so, farmer near Black
River Falls, caught in his barn when
it was wrecked
Percy Walter, sailor, home on fur
Tough, crushed in his home at
Bloomer
julius Baglien, Is, Osseo, killed
while descending to the cellar of his
home
Richard Secora, go, farmer living
near New Auburn, whose neck was
broken when the wind picked him up
and dashed him against a fence.
The first tornado struck in northern
Trempealeau county, sweeping down
upon Osseo about $50 p. M, demol-
fishing several homes and farm build
ings and exhausing itself near North
field in Jackson county.
About half hour later the second
tornado appeared in Jackson county
and swept past the outskirts of Black
River Falls, leaving death and destruc-
ton in it's path.
At 8 p. m. the third tornado came
out of Barron county, sweeping into
Chippewa county and wreaking it's
most destructive vengeance in the
vicinity of Bloomer, stopping Is miles
short of the thriving industrial cities
of Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire.
Canning Plant Destroyed
The pea canning plant of Armour q
Co., at Boomer, was destroyed. Mrs.
Jean Berg, an employee of the factory,
is missing and workmen are search
ing debris of the wreckage fearful
that she may have been killed. The
entire force of 100 employees was at
work when the factory was hit by the
tornado.
Ii is the second tornado experience
the central western counties of Wis
consin have experienced in two years.
Barron, Rice Lake, Cumberland and
Chetek, all in Barron county, escaped
the worst fury of the tornado, but
some damage was reported from Rice
Lake and Chetek, principally to trees
and smaller buildings, and heavy rain
and hail fell at all of those points.
Many Homes Wrecked
Among those injured at Black River
Falls were Mrs. Lewis Darwin, and
Mrs. George Cleveland, as, both OF
Black River Falls, who were pinned
beneath falling timbers when their
homes collapsed, and Mrs. Louis Hal
vorson, who was seriously burned at
Osseo when the wind overturned the
stove at her home.
Several residences were wrecked at
Black River Falls by the furious wind,
together with the plant of the Jackson
Box Co. Mrs. Lewis Darwin and her
little daughter, 8, were caught in the
oe I,
lapsed. The child was dead when res
cuers found her under the debris, and
the mother was taken to a hospital
in a serious condition.
The Eau Claire-La Crosse bus was
disectlyNin the path of the storm, but
escaped unchanged and was able to
continue its journey to La Crosse,
with passengers walking at many
points where the road was blocked by
fallen trees and wires.
When the tornado first appeared
near New Auburn, Charles Zeibell,
farmer, living two miles from there,
hustled his wife and three children
into his automobile and drove away
from the funnel-shaped cloud. He
speeded to a neighbours home several
miles to the east and just managed to
avoid the twister. When he returned
after the storm, he found every build
ing on his farm had been shattered
to splinters.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. R. Resch and their
three children narrowly escaped seri-
GUS injury or death when, seeing the
twister cloud coming, they sought
refuge in the cellar of their home at
Boomer. The wind tore the place
from its foundation, carried it up in
the air. and then set it down on it's
roof
Highway No. II, which runs into
Osseo. was practically shut to traffic.
Telephone and telegraph poles were
strewn across this highway, making
any vehicular traffic impossible.