Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — WIND STORM IN WISCONSIN [ARTICLE]

WIND STORM IN WISCONSIN

Farm Houses, Barns and Other Buildings Suffer Severe Damage. FIVE INCHES OF RAIN IN lOWA Webster City Is Flooded, Boatmen Taking Occupants from SecondStory Windows—Bridges Washed • Away and Crops are Ruined. A terrific wind storm swept across the southern part of Wisconsin, ing through Janesville, Beloit, Pewaukee, Menominie Falls, Granville, and North Milwaukee, doing damage everywhere to crops, farmhouses, barns, and other outbuildings. The storm lashed Pewaukee lake furiously, and, as a large number of boats were -out, it is believed some fatalities may have occurred there. At Beloit a large number of outhouses were blown down and a number of roofs damaged. At Janesville St. Patrick’s church was struck by lightning, the damage not being reported. At Pewaukee trees, barns, and several outaoUses were blown down, the bowling alley and large tents at Waukesha beach being demolished. „

On Pewaukee lake a couple In a rowboat were blown across the lake, making their way safely to shore, through the shallow water. The last ■boat from across the lake was the 'Waukesha, and this reported large quantities of driftwood on the lake, withnsne sailboat with a party reported missing. At North Milwaukee the damage amounted to above $7,000, the sheds •of the Wausau lumber company being blown down, and about one-third of the stock of lumber being scattered to unknown parts. Two barns were lifted from their foundations and blown nearly a block, one barn with six horses being carried that distance, with no injury to the horses.

FLOODS IN lOWA.

Nearly Five Inches of Rain Falls at Webster City. A fall of rain amounting to 4.75 Inches fell in Webster City, lowa. The eastern part of the city is all under water. The rise was so sudden that <no household goods were saved. Boat crews saved household effects in the upper stories. Thirty wagon bridges are out. A mile of the Northwestern’s main line of track is threatened with a washout. The rain has practically made the corn crop a failure in Hamiilton county. Small grains may yet yield half a crop. Hailstorms in Nebraska. Reports from Nebraska show that heavy rains have done much damage to wheat in the shock and oats. Hail etorms devastating small streaks of country are reported from the vicinities of York, Geneva, Blue Hill, Grana Island, Elm Creek, Hastings, and Harvard. The Nemaha river is out of its banks, and all lowlands in the eastern part of the state have been flooded. Wheat in some localities has begun to sprout in the shock. Rain in Kansas. A heavy rain, amounting at Anthony almost to a cloudburst, fell over ten counties in central Kansas. It •will delay harvest.

WAR CLAIM WARRANTS.

Secretary of the Treasury Issues Checks for $3,218,584. Washington dispatch: The treasury •department has issued warrants in favor of the states of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan, Vermont and Ohio, Aggregating $3,218,584. These warrants cover the claims of these states lor expenses incident to raising and etfu.pping troops during the civil war, recently allowed by the comptroller of the treasury and for which congress made the necessary appropriation. The amounts which are being paid the several states are as follows: Illinois, *1,006,129; Indiana, $635,869; lowa, *465,417; Michigan, $382,167; Vermont, $280;453; Ohio, 458,659. It is anticipated that several other states which have claims similar to those already allowed will file them with the comptroller asking for favorable action.