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Show SEVERESTOHM iS j mm east THIRTEEN KNOWN DEAD IN TERRIFIC TER-RIFIC WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA MIN-NESOTA TORNADO Many Are Left Homeless As Storm Crosses Over States Destroying Property and Lives as It Traveled Ashland, Wis. Six persons were killed and seven were reported injured in-jured on farms near Sanborn, a village vil-lage twelve miles south of Asiand, in a tornado, which cut a narrow path through Marengo valley from Lake Namakagen northward to a point near this city. Many farm buildings were reported totally destroyed in incomplete reports re-ports available. Medical attention was sent to the country surrounding Sanborn from Ashland and several of the injured were taken to hos-pitals. Property damage was reported as amounting to thousands of dollars, but no accurate ac-curate checks was available. Owing to lack of communication with the afflicted area, it is expected that reports of the additional damage dam-age with possible injuries and deaths will be reported later. Thorp, Wis. Five known dead, two others reported killed and between twelve and fourteen injured besides a monetary loss is the toll of a tornado tor-nado which struck this section of the state last Sunday. Although the number of injured was reported as between twelve and fourteen, this figure is expected to be swelled as additional reports are made after wire communication is reestablished. re-established. Milwaukee, Wis. One man was killed, several others were rescued from a foundering yacht in the harbor, har-bor, and windows were broken, wire blown down and trees uprooted by a thirty-six miles gale which swept Milwaukee and vicinity. The disturbance, due to storm areas," which was created by a tornado that killed several persons and injured in-jured scores of others' in the vicinity vicin-ity of Chippewa Falls, Wis., caused a temperature drop here of 21 degrees within an hour. The fatality in the Milwaukee district dis-trict was due to the breaking of a high tension power wire on the Green Bay road a few blocks north of the city limits'. Ralph Oberheier, 45, was electrocuted when he came in contact with the wire. |