Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — CYCLONES KILL SEVENTY. [ARTICLE]

CYCLONES KILL SEVENTY.

Devastation Wrought in Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin. Killed. Injured. Rockford. 11l ••■l2 100 Freeport, 11l 3 30 Princeton, 111 1 Sheffield, 111 • 3 Dubuque, 10wa...... • .26 200 Wausau. Wis ....." 5 25 Antigo, Wi5....... 3 30 Rhinelander, Wis 17 00 Battle. Creek, Mleh 1 ... Ardmore, I. T/ 2 10 Total .70 455 Cyclones which whirled over vast tracts in lowa, Illinois and Wisconsin early Monday evening killed, it is now reported, alxmt seventy persons. The names of all of them could not be ascertained, as in every instance the damage was wrought in farming or village districts aiul telephone and telegraph connection in the afflicted sections was badly broken. The list of those injured will never be complete, only a few of the more serious eases being reported by name. A careful estimate fixes the number injured at about 450. Such havoc was wrought upon farm buildings, out of door stocks and orchards and upon live stock that the money loss, in wide belts of territory, in several cases clear across counties, will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The damage was so great and widespread and means of communication so interrupted that it will be some time before accurate estimates can be made.