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    1. [DUNN] Menomonie Tornado 1930
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wolbert, Haines, Kaiser Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1561 Message Board Post: Tornadoes Play Leap Frog In Minnesota and Wisconsin - Scores Injured Taken from the Hutchinson News, Hutchinson Kansas, Saturday June 14, 1930, Page 1. Menomonie excerpts: Four persons died near Menomonie, Wis., and a man was killed at Randolph, Minn... a score were hurt around Menomonie; twelve were injured at Eau Claire, Wis., with scattered casualties in other sections of the two States. A preliminary estimate placed the damage at Eau Claire and Menomonie at more than $580,000. The dead: Charles Wolbert, 32, ice company operator near Menomonie. Mrs. Wolbert, 38. Louis Haines, 25, employed by Wolbert. Mrs. Carl Kaiser, 19, killed on the Wolbert farm. Eighteen persons were taken to a Menomonie hospital. The storm circled three-fourths of the way around Menomonie and damage was confined to rural territory. On the Wolbert farm, three miles west of Menomonie, the house was leveled and the barn unroofed. There four persons were killed.

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