Rail Car Tipped on its Side, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918
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- Created Date
- 05/21/1918
- Description
Divided back postcard notes: Divided back indicates 1907 or after. Stamp box indicates 1910-1930. Front Picture Description: Black & white photograph of cyclone / tornado damage to Lone Rock, Wisconsin which occurred on 21 May 1918. Shows train car tipped on its side, with rubble, tree & building damage in the background. Many unidentified people are standing about and/or looking at the damage. Front Writing: “May 21, 1918”. Back Print: “POST CARD, ^AZO^AZOvOZAvOZA, PLACE STAMP HERE, CORRESPONDENCE, ADDRESS”. Back Stamp: none Back Postmark: none Back Addressee: none Back Message: none Back Writing: “P224-07”, “COUNTY ROOM BREWER LIBRARY”, “Gift of the daughters of Max & Lottie Schmidt”, “Cylone at Lone Rock”. Description of picture from page 121 of book published in Plain, WI, 2008 called, “May 21st 1918 Cyclone, A Path of Destruction”: Houses belonging to John Brophy but occupied by Mrs. Burdick & family, Nora Stocks family of 9, & Henry Axelmaker, his wife & 2 children were destroye
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Richland County History Room
- Collection
- Tornado
Brewer Public Library - Subjects
- Unidentified
Brophy, John
Burdick
Preston Stocks, Elnora Isabel (1859-1922)
Axelmaker, Henry (1848)
Axelmaker, Clara (1860)
Button, Martha (1880)
Button, George (1890)
Schlouch
Core
Wells
Dickerson
Photographs
Buildings
Automobiles
Transportation
Railroads
Postcards - Type
- image
- Rights
- This work by Richland County History Room, Richland Center Wisconsin is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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- Rail Car Tipped on its Side, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918. 05/21/1918. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4167. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- (05/21/1918) Rail Car Tipped on its Side, Lone Rock, Buena Vista Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, 21 May 1918. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4167
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/rchr/id/4167>.