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These two Cyclone Maps (below) were made by Leroy Getz to illustrate the path of the cyclone of 1898 from when it entered Carroll County to when it left and entered Ogle County. These maps were made using an enlarged copy of part of the Outline Plan of Carroll County, Illinois, which is on Page 16 of the Plat Book of Carroll Co. Illinois 1893. The larger numbers on this map are each township's section numbers. The smaller numbers, which are circled and edged in blue, mark in sequential order (according to the path of the storm) each farm or other damage site described in either the Lanark Gazette's Carroll County's Greatest Calamity! or the Mt. Carroll Mirror's Daily Democrat. The table below provides the number of each Farm, Land Owner, Tenant (if different from Land Owner), Township, and (Township) Section No.

Note: Both of the above mentioned publications on the Cyclone of 1898 do not describe the damage to these sites in the order in which it occurred. The reader must find the damage site by matching the name of the land owner or tenant described in the publication to the name of the land owner or tenant listed in the table below the maps.

FARM # LANDOWNER TENANT TOWNSHIP SECTION #
1
Entered Carroll Co . Savanna
21
2
E.C. Tomlinson . Savanna
26
3
James Iden . Savanna
23
4
Henry Smith/James Smith . Savanna
25
5
Gus Bristol . Mt. Carroll
19
6
Henry Bashaw . Mt. Carroll
18
7
A.L. Dupuis . Mt. Carroll
20
8
Wm. Bashaw Estate John Floren Mt. Carroll
17
9
John Wacker . Mt. Carroll
20
10
John Kessler . Mt. Carroll
16
11
John Fulrth . Mt. Carroll
21
12
M. Markley D. Flaharty Mt. Carroll
15
13
William Petty Clayton Buckwalter Mt. Carroll
14
14
Albert Petty/Milton Dodson . Mt. Carroll
14
15
H.L. Downing . Mt. Carroll
15
16
C.L. Kinney . Mt. Carroll
15
17
Preston Prairie School . Mt. Carroll
14
18
J. Hartman . Mt. Carroll
14
19
S. Preston Pond/Home William Wires Mt. Carroll
14
20
George Bickelhaupt . Mt. Carroll
11
21
Lewis Bliss . Mt. Carroll
11
22
A.T. Hartman . Mt. Carroll
11
23
Henry Harnish . Mt. Carroll
14
24
Cummings Farm George Rauser Mt. Carroll
14
25
George C. Kenyon . Mt. Carroll
13
26
George Hirschmiller . Mt. Carroll
12
27
County Farm . Mt. Carroll
13
28
Campbell Farm Abner Nelson Mt. Carroll
13
29
Harry Witmer . Mt. Carroll
13
30
Frank Craig . Mt. Carroll
24
31
S.J. Campbell James Kauffman Salem
18
32
George Schneider . Salem
18
33
J.C. Richter . Salem
17
34
Andrew Kingery . Salem
8
35
C.H. Keim . Salem
17
36
A.H. Rohrer . Salem
9
37
Ira Zillhart . Salem
16
38
John Drewbach Gus Smith Salem
9
39
H.P. Moore . Salem
10
40
Henry Wise . Salem
15
41
Olive C. Holmes Wallace Williams Salem
10
42
Howard Lego . Salem
11
43
Joseph Arnold . Salem
12
44
John Kinkades . Rock Creek
7
45
John Searle . Rock Creek
8
46
Chris Rowland . Rock Creek
8
47
Joseph Flout . Rock Creek
8
48
Lanark Cemetery . Rock Creek
5
49
Henry Arnold . Rock Creek
4
50
Ezra Schrock Charles Wentz Rock Creek
4
51
Amos Wolf Seigel Taylor Rock Creek
9
52
D.S. Arnold . Rock Creek
9
53
Public Tool House . Rock Creek
9
54
Robert Harley . Rock Creek
4
55
Cal Puterbaugh . Rock Creek
4
56
George C. tabor Benjamin Helsinger Rock Creek
3
57
Conrad Dampman . Rock Creek
3
58
Conrad Diehl . Rock Creek
3
59
John Steinman . Rock Creek
3
60
Alt Nichols . Rock Creek
2
61
George Nichols . Rock Creek
2
62
David Rowland . Cherry Grove
35
63
William Manning . Cherry Grove
36
64
Scott Lowman Albert Shaner Cherry Grove
36
65
Jacob Grossman . Rock Creek
1
66
Conrad Peters . Cherry Grove
36
67
W.P. Johnson . Cherry Grove
36
68
Elijah Cheeseman . Cherry Grove
36
69
Henry Rahn . Shannon
31
70
Harriet Hyzer William Fry Shannon
31
71
Joe Warner . Lima
6
72
Christian Fry . Shannon
31
73
James Messner . Shannon
32
74
Peter Johann . Shannon
32
75
Samuel Layman Palmer Kemper Shannon
32
76
William Erdmier . Shannon
33
77
Jacob Daniels Sr. . Shannon
33
78
Chris Geiseman . Ogle County?
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79
Jack Daniels, Jr. . Ogle County?
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