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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A ruined barn and farm destroyed by a tornado that hit Oregon, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | A boy standing in the midsts of the ruins of the Dreher Farm after it was hit by a tornado. |
| Date: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Debris scattered all over the Osterson Farm after it was hit by a tornado. |
| Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. The Anderson house chimney was damaged, and the trees surrounding it were uprooted. |
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| Description: | Group of men and women looking at the debris of a building, possibly a house, destroyed by a tornado. Wreckage of an automobile on the left. |
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| Description: | Horton House at Highlander after a tornado. A tractor is pulling away a fallen tree. |
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| Description: | A pile of scrap remains from Horton House at Highlander after being hit by a tornado. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Men preparing newly arrived and unloaded McCormick-Deering relief tractors near railroad tracks. The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to drag metal pieces from a "tri-state tornado" damaged residential area. The trees along the street have bro... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of rescuers and onlookers standing among the wreckage in the wake of a cyclone. Bare trees, horses, houses, and a church steeple are in the bac... |
| Date: | 06 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of New Richmond after the tornado hit on June 12, 1899. Many people are gathered around the railroad tracks and a few others are seen among t... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | View of debris, perhaps from tornado damage in the business district of New Richmond. A group of onlookers investigate the damage. Caption on stereograph r... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed men survey piles of debris left in the wake of a tornado. Part of the wall of a brick building is in the background. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Men, one of whom is holding an umbrella, stand looking at a tree that has been stripped of its bark by a tornado. It also appears to be embedded with a pie... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view toward the horizon over a bridge on a river of the widespread destruction left in the wake of a tornado. Destroyed houses litter the scene an... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A hooded woman sitting on the remnants of a house. As the amount of debris and barren landscape can attest, the area around her had been leveled by a torna... |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A man works to clear debris in the aftermath of a tornado. Other men, women and children are gathered nearby. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Still smoldering fires and wreckage amidst debris left in the wake of a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | A firetruck with its hose hanging into the water is surrounded by debris and other wreckage left from a tornado. |
| Date: | 06 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over water, perhaps Hatfield Lake, of damage to houses and property caused by a tornado. Groups of people are scattered throughout the town. |
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