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Show OAKDALE, WIS., IS . SWEPT l TORNADO Three Fatalities aud Much Damage to Property; Town Nearly Wiped Out. LA CROSSE, Wis.. July 4. Reports from the district east of La Crosse, which was swept by a tornado last nlghts show at least two persons to have been killed and one fatally Injured at Oakdale and that the damage was much greater than first reported. Tho dead are. Mr. and Mrs. John Dame of Oakdale. Mrs. Wllllnm Butterfleld of the same place Is fatally Injured. Tho storm was most severe in the vicinity vi-cinity of Oakdale on the Milwaukee road, and Warrens Mill and Millstone, on the Omaha railroad. Oakdale, with a population pop-ulation of 500, was almost swept awny, onlv one building, the station of the St. Paul railroad, being left standing. Every Ev-ery building in tiio village, and for some distance north and south, was either torn down or damaged, and a number of persons in addition to tho3e above mentioned men-tioned are reported to be seriously Injured. In-jured. Tho full effect of the storm was felt first nt Millstone. Traveling south. It struck Warrens Mills, where buildings wore torn down and a number of people hurt. Tho crops were completely ruined and farm buildings torn down In a line across tho country to Oakdale, where the whole town was torn to pieces. Continuing south from Oakdale, a strip of country south and onst of Tomah was luld bare by the storm. Rescuing and searching- parties wore sent out from Tomah, Black River Falls, Camp Douglas and other towns In tho vicinity of the path of the tornado, but the number of casualties has not beon reported from all sections, wlre3 being down and communication being possible onlv bv train. All wires aro down east of "Tomah. In many places poles being snapped off close to the ground. West and osuth of Elroy, the tornado did a great deal of damage, and for some time both the Milwaukee and Northwestern Northwest-ern railroads were without wire service and trains were obliged to proceed on slow orders. , Damngo Is also reported at Marsh Cut, Tunnel, and other points In tho dl3trict affected. It. will bo twenty-four hours before the complete list of casualties Is obtainable |