Clear Lake, Iowa Tornado
August 6, 1907
Clear Lake, Hanlontown and Lake Mills are
Hit
Mason City, Ia., Aug. 7. -- Clear
Lake,
Hanlontown and Lake Mills were visited by
cyclones Tuesday evening, doing much damage.
Many barns and farm houses were destroyed....
At Clear Lake the daughter of
G. E. Rice was probably fatally hurt
by flying boards of the cottage, which was blown
to pieces. There were three distinct
cyclones, all coming from the northeast.
Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens
Point, WI 7 Aug 1907
DAMAGE BY STORM
Lives are Lost and Crops in Many Places are
Ruined
Twenty-five lives are reported to have been lost
and property damaged to the amount of $500,000
in a tornado which swept over the southern part
of Minnesota, northern Iowa, the southwestern
end of Wisconsin and a part of Illinois.
Dispatches tell of death in almost every point
were the tornado struck....
Shipping at Clear Lake and many cottages were
destroyed.
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