The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-17
NEAR TORNADO
STRIKES COUNTY
Storm Cuts Wide Path
Through County and
Does Big Damage.
HOUSE BLOWN OVER
Woman Hurt When Wind Hits
House - Chicago Car Is
Smashed On Highway.

The most severe as well as the most
sudden freak storm that visited Ke-
nosha county this year struck this vi
cinity shortly after three o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon and was over in
twenty minutes. But in that twenty
minutes considerable damage was
done. Throughout the county today
reports were coming in telling of the
broken fences, the fallen poles, the
wires down, the damage done to crops,
and the injuries to livestock that were
caught in the open pastures when the
storm broke.
In the city the brunt of the storm
was not felt so strongly as at points
westward, but there was enough of
the storm here to do several hundreds
Of dollars worth of damage.
In the county today farmers were
making survey of their fields to see
how much damage was done to crops.
There was no way to indicate the total
damages here today but it is expected
that they will run into the thousands
of dollars in the county.
Wind Picks Up Car.
The most serious of the accidents
reported as a result of the terrific
wind that came along with the rain
and hail was that in which Frank
Danish, 1045 Noble street, Chicago,
driving Flint sedan, and his family
figured. They were driving south on
the Lake Shore road about two miles
north of the city limits when the
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Mrs. Danish, sister-in-law, Mrs. Ar
thur Danish, and her thirteen-year-
old daughter, Mary The wind picked
up the car and threw it over on it's
side tossing it completely off the high
way and missing a telephone post by
six inches. The entire side of the car
was smashed and when the wind left
it it was facing in the opposite direc-
ton from which it had been going.
Not. one of the occupants of the car
was scratched and all were taken to a
house nearby until the storm was over.
Power is Cut OFF.
The greatest damage aside from the
actual loss caused by the storm itself
came when all electrical power was
shut off coming into the city. Damage
to the power plant of the Wisconsin
Gas and Electric company at their
power transmission plant south of
the Case Works in Racine caused a
temporary halt in operations there,
and as result power was curtailed
here. For an hour all machinery OPP
Grated by power furnished by the
company was at a standstill.
This condition hit particularly the
theaters of the city, which were in
darkness for an hour during the mat
inee performances.
Elsewhere in the city the damage
did not go to considerable proportions,
but when the storm had cleared there
was considerable debris in the streets
to be cleared. The city engineering
department reported today that the
sewer system of the city was equal to
the occasion and no report of clogged
sewers was received.
One small house in Kenosha county
apparently suffered from getting the
end of the whip of the twister which
struck Burlington. As the wind shot
down over a stretch Of interrupted
prairie fats, it caught up little
house on Balm avenue, northwest of
the city, and threw it over.
The feat was witnessed by Fred
Konard, who has house nearby. He
hurried over, and found Mrs. John
Stovill caught in the somersaulted
house, injured. She appeared to- be
unconscious He carried her over to
neighbor, and his brother, Albert
Konard, notified the police and asked
them to locate John Stovill, who was
believed to be employed at the Nash
foundry. Sergeant Kirsch on desk du-
ty at the police Office was unable to
make the connection, as no one of the
name was known at the foundry. In
the meantime the woman recovered
consciousness and it is believed that
she will reco from the shock of
her experience