Show A TERRIBLE TORNADO IN WISCONSIN the lac LaU lacrosse la crosse rosse republican publican jRe of july contains a detailed account of the destructive tornado at viroqua vernon county wisconsin which laid a whole village in ruins and was attended with terrible loss of life from the appeal for assistance issued by the committee in behalf of the sufferers we learn that the whirlwind of the of june swept through the county of vernon in a course courso from west to east uprooting trees destroying crops sweeping away fences barns and dwelling houses until it reached viroqua the county seat where its greatest fury was spent s ent the republicans de account count of the iest Sest destruction destruction ruction at this point says about 4 in the afternoon san gry looking clouds approached each other from the north and south and met ata at a short distance west of the village the people watched the threatening events with deep solicitude when those two forces came in ill contact they whirled off at it a tangent and moved in an easterly direction and passed through the very he heart a rt of the beautiful village carrying death destruction and danged danger r in their progress in a moment about a 0 ut buildings were demolished and scattered to the winds seventeen persons killed and about onehundred one hundred men women and children injured the hurricane continued eastward in its course and arld it is yet unknown where its havoc ceased for several miles east of viroqua it destroyed everything every overy thing in its course the total destruction of property is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars |