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Tornado at Wisconsin. 
(April, 
were killed, one injured, the remaining escaping without 
injury. The school record was found next day over sixty 
miles distant. 
At about three quarters of a mile from the township of 
Waldwick the barn and blacksmith shop of Stephen Terrell 
were razed to the foundation. A waggon and threshing 
machine and many other farm implements were broken, a 
corn cultivator was carried twenty-five rods and completely 
demolished. Mr. Terrell’s house, near the centre of the 
storm’s path and in a very exposed position, was scarcely 
injured. Seeing the storm coming some distance across the 
prairie, Mr. Terrell hurried his family into an embankment 
cellar, remaining outside himself until it was but a short 
distance away. He described the cloud as reaching to the 
ground, the lower part so black and opaque that nothing 
could be seen within it, while at a height of 200 or 300 feet 
the air appeared to be filled with trees, rails, boards, hay, 
leaves, and other debris, all rapidly whirling, and shooting 
upward and downward in terrible commotion. 
The storm passed into the township of Primrose. The 
house and outbuildings of M. Obermbt were swept away. 
The house was torn to pieces and scattered to the south and 
south-east. Mr. Obermbt and seven children were in the 
house at the time, and were thrown into the yard with the 
flying fragments of the house. One boy, fifteen years of 
age, was carried about fifteen rods nearly south into a 
ravine. Although the ground was so thickly strewn with 
the ruins as to be literally covered for 100 yards to the south 
and south-east, no one of these eight persons was seriously 
injured. The farm waggon before the storm stood six rods 
east of the house. After the storm it was in ruins twelve 
rods west of the house. Fifty rods south of Obermbt’s, 
where a granary was being built, a waggon loaded with 
lumber was broken to pieces. One wheel was carried a 
quarter of a mile diredtly east, and another a mile and a 
quarter in the same direction. 
Nearly half a mile east of Obermbt’s the house and out- 
buildings of J. Osmonson were destroyed. Mr. Osmonson 
seeing that a severe storm was approaching, left the field 
where he was at work, that he might not get wet. Becom- 
ing somewhat alarmed at the roaring, the continuous 
lightning and thunder, and the very threatening aspedt of 
the sky, he waited at the stable only long enough to unhar- 
ness one horse, hurried into the house and told his wife they 
must hasten to the cellar. A boy of fourteen years and a 
girl of eight got into the cellar, and Mrs. O., with an infant 
