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Twister Hits Northwest Wisconsin
Leaving 29 Dead And 100 Injured
MENOMONIE, Wis., UP) — A
hula-swaying tornado with the j
slap of a bullwhip snarled across
Northwestern Wisconsin last
night, leaving a mounting toll of
at least 29 dead and more than
100 injured.
Scattering everything before it
like a straw broom in a chicken
coop, the vicious twister un
leashed its full fury on the small
town of Colfax.
Houses were smashed, trees
splintered and some buildings
pulverized as the cruel storm,
carrying torrents of rain, skirted
the edge of the Colfax business
district.
Bodies of eleven persons were
recovered from the debris there.
Another 35 residents of the com
munity of 1,000 were hurt.
In its sweep out of the north
west, the tornado annihilated a
construction crew’s trailer camp
and obliterated several farms.
It spun across four counties be
fore blowing itself out southeast
of Eau Claire.
Rural areas near Menomonie
and Chippewa Falls were hard
hit.
A northside residential dis
trict in Colfax, with several new
homes lining the street, was all
but wiped out. Some hopes
were reduced to piles of debris
atop their foundations. Others
were just blown away.
Automobiles, twisted into gro
tesque shapes, were tossed like
toys. Some became part of the
wrecked homes.
Communications and power
was knocked out in Colfax forc
ing rescuers to make farm-by
farm visits to check for casual
ties and damage.
After its destructive touch
down in Colfax’ northside, the
twister skipped the business dis
trict to maul homes on the com
munity’s southside.
One relief worker said “just
ten minute is all it took.” The
blowing rain that accompanied
the blow “come down the street
like a wave,” she said.
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A Skiing Record
For June 1, 1958
By OLAF HALVERSON
| Inspired to do something a lit
tle different, I set out Sunday
afternoon with a pair of skis
which I carried across the tun
dra out to Gold Hill located one
mile east of Nome. There I
found sufficient snow on the
leeward side of the winter’s pre
vailing winds to do some skiing.
It was the latest that I had ever
skied since it was the first day
of June.
Pleasant memories of my ad
ventures with my seven foot skis
flashed across my mind. They
had served me well for twenty
one years over numerous hills
and mountains throughout Alaska.
For a small sum of nine dollars,
they had been purchased from the
Northern Commercial Store at
Bethel, Alaska in 1937, where
I was teaching school. The Es
kimos at Bethel saw me do more
skating than skiing on the Kus- .
koqwim River so they gave me
an Eskimo name meaning “The
Skating Man.”
My skiing adventures date
back to the time that I was six
years old and began skiing on
the snowbanks of the Snake
River at Warren, Minnesota.
Skiing perhaps has been tradi
tional to all my relatives because
both of my parents came from
Telemark, Norway, the home of
the world’s most famous skiers.
On July 4, 1955, I set another
late record in skating because,
at six o’clock in the morning, I
was doing,f some figure eights
backwards on a layer of ice
four feet thick in Bourbon Creek.
The ice had accumulated from
numerous overflows during the
winter and it took most of the
summer to melt the glaciated ice.
Thus comes to a close a season
of adventure on the ice and snow
of Nome.
Francis Sheppard Passes
Away At Mt. Village
Francis T. Sheppard, wife of
of George Sheppard of Mt. Vil
lage, known to her friends as
“Skip”, passed away at her
home .on May 28th.
Mrs. Sheppard was born at
Wrangell, Alaska and became a
registered nurse at Elizabeth,
N. J.
She served at the Mountain
Village hospital where she met
and married George Sheppard
24 years ago.
She was a well-known ham
operator for many years.
Her husband and two daugh
ters, Joan Sheppard of Seattle
and Mrs. Lawrence O’Gara,
Yuma, Arizona and a son Paul
survive her.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
□ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M.
Norvin V. Lewis, Sec.
Meet/ 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Joe Kroninger
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon