| Show CYCLONE WORKS RUIN IN Wisconsin City Is Struck By ByA y yA A Storm Does Damage ARE W E KEI II I Ii i I I Wis Aug special fr from m Sheboygan Wis says saysA I A terrific win struck the cIty thIs afternoon The storm came ver very suddenly from the north la large buildings were completely tely wrecked wreck d and small houses were blown down The loss will nill be more than At noon It was vas as darkas dark as nIght and intensely hot haL A few moments before 1 the storm broke increasing In force u til a tornado was blowing P Persons were thrown wn down and fences and signs hurled hundreds of feet The storm raged for some minutes and passed off to th the south The storm started In the western part of the city near th the cemetery and swept down on onto onto to the south side and oft off into the lake lakeIt lakeIt It was two miles wide wid and wrecked everything in its path I Done DOIle In Ten Minutes All was over in although It seemed hours to the people The roof of the large ware warehouse are house of Crocker com company pan was blown om and thrown against the larg fac factory tory The buildIng was wrecked and a large stock of chairs was left without protection from the raIn which fell feli in torrents The street car barns bans were wrecked and street cars were smashed to pieces The were all blown down The roof of the malt mah house of the Brewing company compan was lifted off of the building carried over yards and thrown into the street It was carried over er the huge ventilators of at the jewery The American Folding bolding Bed com corn plant w wa demolished and the sheds In the Simbal Sons brIck brIckyards brickyards yards were blown down and the debris scattered in eY every IY direction Ch Church ch Steeple Blown low Dow Down The storm struck tie South Side te Lutheran church and the steeple was blown down on to two residences smashing in the roofs Te The Fourth ward school a beautiful building was completely wrecked weck d one side and the front being blow blown In cusing causing the roof to fal fall and crushing the floors down Into the celar cellar The plant of the Son neman company was was partially wrecked Sever Several freight cars standing on the Northwestern railroad tracks were blown over on their sides That no one was killed seems almost a a mircle miracle The wind wrecked building after bunding building with the greatest rapid rapidity rapidity ity and ther there was as little warning of te teI the approach of the storm The he people in I every case were out of their homes be fore storm and those who were struck by flying debris were o only h slightly factories the employees were in many case cases bruised and cut from e Miracle In an Escape The son of Mrs rs Thomas had a remarkable escape The houseas house was torn into shreds and scat scattered a out Inthe in the roadway What at was let left of te the was only about three or four timbers where the buld build lug ing stood The child wa was burled buried In the ruins and when found wa ivas standing In the corner with ln in front of him in such a manner mannet a a to shIeld him and he escaped with only bruises Four boxcar boxcars in the Chicago and Northwestern yard rard were carried of off the track and stood straight on end en Some a of the he brck bricks fOn from the Crocker Croeker Char Chair company warehouse Were tere thrown wih with such force against the build buildings ing ings that th they pa passed through the sides o ov te the buildings and yet o one was lurd Other portions of the building of the Crocker Chair company were torn to pieces Tere There Is scarcely a whole pane of gla glass left in the tornado Telephone elec electric fic light Sand and toley trolley wIres and roles oles nrc e tor torn down and a street car ha has not run u n the since the Sidewalks nd te trees were cred carried awa away like Uke caf chaff The l sur Is the Crocker Chair factory top foor carrl d away tock stock b badly d Ls |
