Elroy, Wisconsin Tornado
July
3, 1907
TORNADO
Sweeps Over Wisconsin Thursday Night
Killing Twenty-One
Cut a Swath from a Rod to a Mile Wide and 100
Miles Long
Houses, Barns and Crops Swept Away Causing
Farmers Great Damage
St. Paul, Minn, July 5. -- Twenty one
are now known to have been killed in a tornado
which swept a path 100 miles in length from a
mile to a few rods width through the counties of
central Wisconsin Thursday night.
Details of the damage done by the tornado are
still coming in very slowly and it is believed
the death list will be somewhat larger when all
points visited by the tornado are heard from.
In addition to those killed a score or more
people were injured, some of them so seriously
that their recovery is doubtful. The
property damage has not been accurately
estimated, but undoubtedly will be more than
$100,000.
The tornado passed five miles to the south of
Elroy, through a rich farming country,
destroying houses and barns and sweeping the
crops, and many farfers [farmers] in this
vicinity lost everything they possessed.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, Bismarck, ND 6
Jul 1907
St. Paul, July 6. -- Twenty-one
persons are reported to have been killed in the
tornado which swept a path 100 miles long and
mile to a few rods in width through Western
Wisconsin....
The following deaths are reported near Elroy,
Wis, Mrs Ole Wetley,
three children of Ole
Nass, crushed beneath home,
Mr. Gulick Thompson, Ole
Brown.
The tornado passed five miles south of Elroy
through a rich farming country, destroying
houses and barns and sweeping crops and farm
animals...
Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, PA 6
Jul 1907
The railroad station at Tunnel Siding on the
Omaha railroad near Elroy Wis was demolished and
the telegraph operator is reported fatally hurt
and a watchman badly injured. All wires
are down and it is difficult to obtain details.
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Fort
Wayne, IN 4 Jul 1907
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