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Show WISCONSIN TOWNS SUITER, Railroad Train Just Eseapes Plunging Plung-ing Into Washout. LiA CROSSE, Wis., June 6. One man. H. J. HalvosDn, was fatally hurt, live wero seriously injured, and ten buildings were leveled by n tornado near Stoddard, Wls tonignL The rnlns swept over La Crosae. Teh others Injured arc: Injured. MRS. CHAS. SCHECIC, hip broken. CARL SCHICCK, cruslind by timber. WM. JONES, concussion of the hralo. MRS. LOUIS SCHECIC .find infunt child, may die. J VIA US ORANICE, Internal Injuries. Several others nro more or lc3s seriously seri-ously hurt. Wires All Down. The hurricane centered apparently ono and one-half miles enst of Stoddard, Vernon Ver-non county. It passed up Coon Valley and Mormon Coulee, striking Stoddurd and Brlnkman most hraIly. Telephone communication is crippled and telegraph wires uro down toward tho south. In La Crosse there was much damage, though no person was injured. Washouts are reported on the railroads In this vicinity. A windstorm also did damage at Leon, Wis. Train Has Narrow Escape. A bridge on tho Chicago. Burlington & Qulncy railroad near Stoddard wis carried car-ried out, and a Burlington passenger train, carrying 200 passengers, was flagged at tho brink of the gap by a farmer named Miller and many lives were saved. Many farms aro reported to be completely com-pletely devastated. |