Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-06-07 | Page 1 | Brave Farmer Saves Limited

BRAVE FARMER SAVES LIMITED Stops Passe Passenger gel Train Tain Within I 4 Trains Train's Length of Un- Un bridged Chasm CYCLONE IN WISCONSIN Briel llon lIu e nt at Stoddard Crumbles Killing One Man and P Fatally Injuring Four 11 0 Others La Ia Cro Crosse e. e Wis June fi Time Tho Tho palatial pala- pala lial new daylight limited of or the time Burlington Bur Bur- ur- ur lington route was saved ve from Crom dashing lashIng Its Us burden of or two hundred souls souis to certain certain tam tain death loath at Coon Comm creek twelve miles south of or here hoze as n a result of a c cyclone cl ne and tile the destruction of or a bridge tonight ht by William Miller a a. farmer When hen the cyclone struck a a. mile and a halt hair below Stoddard fifteen miles south of or here it a L span of or the time bridge tort fort forty feet feel IOU feet lect long was torn up and hurled Into a marsh Millers Miller's home honic which stood on oil a hillside near neal th tile bridge was demolished Miller saw the tho destroyed bridge and knew the tile limited was sas overdue overdue overdue over over- due and amI started down the time track through the time storm The rime train was making up time at the rate of or fifty miles mUes an an hour am and Miller heard hearl the tile shriek or of orl he time the whistle in ill the instance distance I t He hall 10 io lantern but he search search- h bt 11 t o h i I Ali t tc c cr YA YAL L L Ira lO gh t n 1 11 ln Ien th m Jig f rov te the hue pa passengers the time terrible scene cene or or of devastation Passengers els el's who reached here hele b by walking around the time wrecked oll bridge Je M say the time entire country Is a tangled mass of uproot uprooted d trees some till three feet In diameter mingled with the time wreckage of oC farmhouses h fences etc etl It Is reported that heavy damage was also done at Coon Comm Valley II e Chaseburg Wis Vis and at Ileno Heno Minn The rho cy cyclone cyclone cyclone cy- cy clone swept up Coon Comm ulle Valley dO doing great damage amage to the tue entire community Fourteen 1 farmhouses es are reported destroyed destroyed de tie- In Jim tho the vicinity of Stoddard