Ferryville, Wisconsin Tornado
June
11, 1915
Twelve killed in storm.
Furious Wind Sweeps Over Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Iowa.
La Crosse, Wis. --- Twelve persons are
reported dead in the storm which swept over
western Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and
Iowa Saturday night. Seven are said to have lost
their lives near Ferryville, Wis., and five near
Lansing, Iowa.
An eight mile strip from a point two miles east
of Ferryville to a point ten miles east, near
the village of Seneca, was swept clear and every
farm house was wrecked or damaged. The storm was
at its worst at the farm house of JAMES FINLEY,
where his mother, son and two sisters, one of
whom had just come home on a visit, were killed.
Carbon County Utah 1915-06-18
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
Ferryville, near La Crosse, was the hardest hit. Eight persons were
killed, and eighteen injured there.
The known dead to date are:
At Ferryville -- William Sheehan, Mrs. J. C. Finley; Rose Finley; John
Leppert; Genevieve McManus, infant daughter of Tim Finley; nine-year-old
daughter of Leppert, unidentified man.
[The tornado] formed three and a half miles north of Ferryville, followed the
river for eight miles, then turned east and swept across the country midway
between Ferryville and Lynxville. The Finley home was torn to bits and the
pieces carried four miles. The body of a baby was found more than a mile
from the place.
Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln, NE 14 Jun 1915
The cyclone gathered on the Mississippi river and followed its course until
it struck Ferryville and then went east over Linxville covering an eight mile
stretch. Eight were killed and eighteen badly injured at Ferryville and
the little village has been entirely wiped off the map. The force of the
cyclone can best be understood from the statement that the body of a baby was
hurled a distance of a mile from Ferryville.
Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, WI 14 Jun 1915
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