Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-09-23
DAMAGED BY CYCLONES
Two Distinct Twisters Strike
Observation-Disclosures Line
Territory Saturday Night.

CAAASOA O0LGAAOy ANAShNs
Two days lacking a year this sec
ton Of the lake region suffered
from a cyclone. On September 21st,
1924 Three Lakes was leveled by a
terrific wind storm in which thous-
ands Of dollars loss resulted to
property and one life lost. Last
Saturday evening, September 18th,
two cyclones joined forces III the
west end Of the county and did
much damage west of Land o
Lakes and on Lac VieuX Desert
lake east of that village.
Tracing the one twister, it start
eel levelng trees at Bent's Camp
eleven miles west of Land O. Lakes.
Many of the trees along the lake
shore grounds were uprooted; the
boats blown into the lake. end one
portable cottage unroofed. Then it
jumped along doing minor damage
until it struck earth again about
mile east Of highway 70 on the Lac
Vieux Desert road where it en-
countered another twister coming
from the Tamarack district where
it had broken many trees down on
the Fred Engelbrecht farm on Lake
Clare on its way to Lac Vieux De
sert.
Here the two joined forces and
dipped and bounded along slightly
southeast until the dam on Lac
Vieux Desert lake was reached.
Trees were taken along the bank
and near Jeff Hendersons camping
grounds and residence, missing his
place and another home by short
distance. At the dam it wrecked
the barn owned by F. c. Porter and
then travelled a half mile past the
Patterson place to A. Sbarbora's
summer home situated in the dense
hardwood. Dipping down it wrecked
most of the big timber around the
buildings but did no damage to the
structures.
Then it jumped several blocks to
the Sylvester Caskey resort grounds
and leveled most of his trees and
again did practically no damage to
the buildings. Here among the
trees, big maple and birch, were
parked two cars. After the storm
they were found uninjured but
buried among the tops and bodies
of the fallen trees. 1t took some
time to chop them out.
MIR. CAROLS summer home is
couple blocks distant from Caskeys
in an easterly direction. After
piling all Of Caskey's boats up in a
heap and not damaging them, it
lifted over to the Carroll summer
home. A portion of the roof from
a new boat house and pavilion
which had just been finished, was
torn off and thrown back up the
hill in the face of the storm. One
cottage was ripped on an end by
big maple but the damage is slight,
All three places base their heaviest
loss in the timber surrounding
their homes and standing on
the grounds. Caskey had recently
purchased a hardwood tract be-
tween his cottages and the high
way in order to preserve the timber
growth from the logger who owned
it. This tract is practically a
SHAMELESS.
After finishing the Carroll home
and grounds, the storms divided.
One shot across the lake in a north
crly direction toward the old Indian
village taking with it the tops of
trees and distributed them miles
away. The other started south to-
ward Phelps, but distance of two
miles from that village turned east
and passed over Long and Sand
lakes, coming down again on high
way 55 south of the village of Al
vim. Here it laid waste the stand
ing timber clear over to the village
of Tipler distance of a dozen
miles. 1t is stated that near high
way So where there is a logging
company working, several men
were injured.
AT Camp Vudesare, f. G. Porters
resort the people were sitting on
the porches of the cabins and did
not know that two cyclones were
creating destruction but short
distance south of them, scarcely
over a couple blocks away. Beyond
arroll's home is Edgewater Beach
resort, Hillside resort and Maple
Grove resort and many private
homes. None of these knew of any
damage until the following morn
ing. c.. A. Render and party OF
Phelps sportsmen who had been