Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01

roof blown off of the house. Fred
Header. house, all other buildings de-
molished, son, Thomas. injured.
Frank Broemer, house and barn
damaged; fine standing timber leveled-
Charles Freenook, barn down, vim
dows smashed in the house and fur
niture inside demolished. Richard
Biddle, barn and, silos blown down.
louise unchanged outside, but ali fur
niture inside wrecked. Peter BiddleI
barn and silos down, furniture in
house wrecked. Frank Mortimer.
barn wrecked.
Several houses were unroofed on the
outskirts of La Crosse, it was reported
and many trees were uprooted in the
residence district.
Communication with towns in Tay-
lor county was cut off. 500 line re-
ported miles of its telegraph poles
down.
Dispatches from Ashland state that
six persons were killed and eight In
jured by cyclone which swept path
800 feet wide down the valley of the
Marengo river. The greatest fury OF
the storm was felt in the vicinity OF
Sanborn. Everything in the path Of
the twister was destroyed.
1t is reported from Rhinelander
that in a tornado which swept over
the eastern part of Oneida county last
night three persons were killed and
several were injured. The dead are
Mr. and Mrs John Grimes, visitors
from Indiana, who were crushed under
the wreckage of their farm home near
Starks, and Vincent Zebroush, 13
years old, of Three Lakes.
The box factory of the Rhinelander
Box and Lumber company, mile
southeast of here, was partly demol-
ished, sections of the plant being car
ried nearly mile.
Village Raced; 8 Killed
At Three Lakes, twenty-five miles
east of Rhinelander, the storm did
damage estimated at 100000. The
village was practically destroyed.
The main street, where several stores,
garages and two hotels are situated,
was in direct path of the storm and
was laid fiat Every building and
home in town was damaged. a.
Eagle River, the county seat of Villas
county, is also reported to have been
hit by the storm, but the amount Of
damage can not be ascertained here.
Many summer cottages at lakes near
to Rhinelander were destroyed.
Two small children are dead, the
mother is dying, and six other persons
were injured as the result of a cyclone
that passed between Couderay and
bennington. Carried 400 feet when
their home was struck by the twister,
the two children of Mrs. Joe Patricia
were killed, while the mother is not
expected to live. She is suffering
with two broken legs and injuries to
her arms and body.
Lifts Water From Lake
A cyclone swept over Lake Chetek
little more than an hour hour be-
fore a tornado struck near Thorp
where several persons were reported
killed, and blew down barns, smaller
buildings, trees and caused consider
able damage along the lake front
among the cottages. Big swaths were
cut through the forests that bound
in that region. The cyclone missed
the village of Chetek by two miles.
Wayne Plummer and Walter Meara
of Chetek were out in boat on Lake
Chetek, shooting ducks when they saw
the twister coming. They pulled for
the shore, ran through the woods into
some shrubbery, lay down and seized
hold of the roots while the cyclone
passed over them. The twister lifted
a great volume of water out Of the
lake and dumped it over them. They
found their boat far up on the shore
afterwards.
Relief Measures Begun
Relief measures for the stricken
farmers have been started by various
people and organizations.
A number of funds have been start
ed to assist the ruined farmers to
prepare for the winter. A pitiful fu-
ture is apparently in store for many
of the farmers who, without houses
or shelter for stock, with crops, grain
and hay destroyed and strewn to the
winds, will be forced to face the
freezing winters of northern Wiscon-