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Show IN PATHJFTORNADO HOMES ARE SHATTERED BY FORCE OF WIND, AND EIGHT MEET UNTIMELY DEATH. Hurrlcsne In Wisconsin Causes Loss of Million and Brings Sorrow to Many Homes In Its Twenty-Mile Twenty-Mile Course. Janesvllle, Wis. A tornado which swept over Hock county, Sunday af tertioon, caused the death of eight persons, the Injury of many more, and a property loss which will reach a million mil-lion dollars. Splintered timbers, broken furnl, ture. crumbled rock and plaster, at: tered farm produce and dead farm ani-ma's ani-ma's littering the ground over an area a quarter of a mile wide and twenty miles long Indicate the tremendous force of the storm. The tornado originated In the vicinity vicin-ity of Orfordvllle, twelve miles southwest south-west of Jancsville, traveled northeast for several miles and then turned to the east, mining this city by a nar row margin. Its force was spent near Milton. The greatest damage was done near the point of origin and ut Milton. Of the Schmidt family, residing three-quarters of a mile from Han over, there 1st only one survivor. He la Albert Schmidt, a fourteen year-old boy. Physicians say he cannot recover. re-cover. Alice Schmidt and her young er sister were In the hoiwe when tho storm struck. Their bodies were blown acrona the road, the house be-Ing be-Ing demolished. Anton Schmidt, father of Albert, and a tramp were In the barn. The tramp, who was not Injured, In-jured, snys Schmidt whs blown through the barn door. Ills body was found In the yard. The boy was burled In the debris and received internal in-ternal injuries Mrs. Elizabeth Proede, a bride of a few month, was Instantly killed when the house was carried away. Her husband was In the barn and dlsiov-ered dlsiov-ered the body after the storm patthed Leo Lentz, sixteen years old. wns blown from a new barn which he was helping build, six miles northeast of Hanover. His father, Theodore Lentz, who was also working on the barn, was uninjured. Near Milton there was one death, Helen Atmtln. five years old. daughter of Alfred Austin, a farmer. Three oth ers were In the house when the tornado tor-nado struck It. |