Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-09-24
Sundays Storm Levels Buildings and DESTROYS
Summer Home Property on Lakes Nearby
Loss Over $2OOOOOOO.

Inc Toll OF Sundays terrific storm which struck the
village Of Three Lakes, ten miles south of Eagle River
is killed and several injured bv flvno debris The
killed and injured are
Vincent Zebrosk l3 year old lad. Injured nv blow in
head; died following morning
Edmund Klimasewski, II years old; leg broken
Walter Karowicz, As years old; arm broken.
Several more were slightly injured by the tornado
and many had narrow escapes from totterng buildings
and flying particles during the few minutes the twster
lasted The storm struck the village from the south
west and lasted about four minutes It pursued north
easterly course the south shore of Town Line
lake, leveng the hardwood point owned by L. A. Bishop
and Angus McDonald then Planting Ground lake
destroying all the south shore line where Dr. Millers
home is located From there it swung straight
across the southeast bay to the Indianapolis Club
wrecking a boat house, following the shore north
short ways and then the timber Island lake
Jumping the lake it struck the point of hardwood
shore owned by Blue Ribbon Point resort leveng that
massive tract of timber to tree From there it seems
to have lifted jumped Seven Mile Butternu and Frank
lin lakes and again struck over near Alvin and the Pine
river on Highway 55.
Coming into Three Lakes from the southwest the
storm area quite wide 1t leveed all of the
rack swamp between the village and Thunder lake and
extended in width enough to take in part of the Gagen
residence in the southwest part of town to point
north for several blocks eveing the home of Harlow
sczki which located at the end of the main
street in the west end of the village After wrecking
this house the wind wrecked every building the
street until it to the M. w. A. hall and the lum-
dance hall torn to bits nothing being left but the
concrete walls and basement Across the street where
the lumber sheds were it eveled them to the ground
scattering building material to the four winds
Crossing the railroad track it carried away the south
end of the depot the Of the Barker Epler gar
age and barn belonging to Bert Louk. In the barn
tied in stall. 1t found uninured after
the storm, but without building it, the barn
having been lifted from it's foundation. Across the
street the store building owned by McNinch torn
completely away from the adjoining building and moth
ing but the floor and the east wall remained. Every
building both sides of the street east to the bank
damaged, especially those occupied by Han
sens shoe shop and the barber shop and residence
Neu's store badly wrecked also, but his home adj
joining escaped the brunt of the tornado Across the
street the two story building occupied by F. H Dobbs
& Sons totally destroyed. The lower floor filed
with general merchandise groceries and hardware
entirely demolished by the upper floor crushing it, The
upper floor occupied by the Dobbs family but they
luckily away from home at the time of the storm
The Peoples State Bank Building lost it's plate glass
fronts and the old portion of the Locy Hotel badly
wrecked All of the buildings the south side of
this street east to the churches damaged The