Green Lake, Wisconsin Tornado
July
4, 1873
TERRIFIC STORM.
Various Sections Visited by a Terrible
Tornado--Twenty Persons Drowned in Green Lake,
Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, July 5.--The terrible storm which
swept over Wisconsin yesterday proved very
disastrous to pleasure parties. At Green Lake,
Wis., a number of pleasure seekers were on the
lake when the storm struck them, capsized the
boats, and twenty souls were sent to eternity.
The following are the only names that could be
obtained: McRUSH
and daughter, from Berlin, Wis.:
JENNIE ALLEN,
a child of MR.
ALLEN: MRS. A. P. CARMAN, MRS. GEO. HARDING, MR.
BAXWELL, wife and child, and
MRS. JOHN BAIN.
Further particulars will be given as soon
as the lines work.
Later.--A terrible storm broke upon this city at
noon, yesterday, while the Fourth of July
festivities were in full blast, and out
beautiful bay covered with yachts and small
boats filled with pleasure seekers. The yacht
Lone Star was capsized, and some narrowly
escaped drowning. Trees were uprooted, signs
flags and awnings dancing in the air, while loud
peals of thunder and flashes of lightning
followed in rapid succession. The storm passed
over in half an hour, without loss of life, but
this morning sad news reached us from Green
lake, a beautiful sheet of water near Ripon,
already famous as a summer resort. The yacht
P. B. Harshaw capsized, and the following,
cut of a party of 20 on board, were lost:
MRS. A. P. CARMAN,
of Dartford;
MRS. M. C. RUSSELL and daughter, of
Berlin; JENNIE OLIN,
of Dartford; MRS. GEO.
HARDING and child, and
REV. MR. ALLEN
of Dartford. A rowboat also capsized and
the occupants, WM.
BEEXHEIM, wife and child, and
MRS. JOHN BAIRD, of Dartford, were
all drowned.
The Grand Traverse Herald, Traverse City,
MI 10 July 1873
Transcribed by Audrey. Thank you,
Audrey!
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