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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Boy standing among the wreckage of various farm structures and implements apparently after a wind storm or tornado. |
| Date: | 07 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Storm damage in front of cottages at Edwards Park. For London & Lancashire Ins. Co. |
| Date: | 07 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Car wrecked by falling tree, Edwards Park. The tree has been removed from the car and sawed into pieces. |
| Date: | 07 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Car, wrecked by falling tree, parked next to a house at Edwards Park. The tree has been removed and sawed into pieces. |
| Date: | 09 02 1948 |
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| Description: | A garage and house at 537 S. Randall Avenue after a gust of wind blew two box elder trees into them. The trees were at the rear of the Owen F. Glissendorf'... |
| Date: | 10 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers repair an electrical pole that was partially blown over during a wind storm. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Regent Street and West... |
| Date: | 10 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Wind storm damage on Commonwealth Avenue at Keyes Avenue. A large limb fell on a new model car. |
| Date: | 05 05 1950 |
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| Description: | View down East Wilson Street where the plate glass windows of three storefronts were shattered during a high wind storm that hit Madison. The three stores,... |
| Date: | 08 07 1924 |
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| Description: | A view of the ruins of a cyclone, showing a roofless house and an overturned automobile in the yard. Several people are standing in the yard, and two child... |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Strong winds brought down a large tree on the car of Mrs. Ralph Schroeder of rural Ft. Atkinson. She and her son narrowly escaped serious injury. |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Strong winds brought down a large tree on the car of Mrs. Ralph Schroeder of rural Ft. Atkinson. She and her son Ralph, age 3, narrowly escaped serious inj... |
| Date: | 07 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Carl Trieloff of Cambridge looks over a barn rafter that pierced the side of his house. The rafter came from a barn located about 100 yards away. |
| Date: | 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Wooden hoop silo — ten hoops made of elm. Each hoop is made of three pieces 5 x 5/8. Silo had 8 - 2x4 upright supports: matched flooring used in walls. Cap... |
| Date: | 03 1978 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a man standing on a log. The trees around him are either broken or bent over towards the right, the result of a sto... |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A tree is lying against a house at 3534 East Washington Avenue. The workers who cut the tree down said it had been weakened by high winds the day before. |
| Date: | 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Downed trees and limbs litter the lawn on the lake-facing side of the Herbert P. Brumder summer residence at Pine Lake. The five year old, shingle style ho... |
| Date: | 09 1931 |
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| Description: | The wrecked water slide and sections of the swimming pier litter the shore and shallow water of Pine Lake at the Herbert P. Brumder summer home. Trees alon... |
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