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PAGE 10 CHIPPEWA HERALD-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1977' i Karen Bohl: many people were not home Bohls lose home, escape greater loss pickups, two or three cars (This is a story of what did NOT happen July 30th as much as what did happen. It may be typical of the experiences that the people of north Bloomer lived through Saturday night.) When the Eagleton tourney ended, league, officials began to clean up the debris around the soft-ball field. The wreckage still lay around Bloomer late Monday. score Baldy's last run with the basehit.

He had not dressed in his Baldy's uniform. Meanwhile, his brother (Jim) was backstopping for Morrison's which lost, 14-0, to eventual runner-up Cenex. RUMORS Saturday night suggested Jim Bohl of Morrison Implement had lost his home to the tornado. But, it was his brother Dick that suffered the loss. St ft -trr By MIKE LUCAS, Sports Editor Chippewa Herald-Telegram EAGLETON Deanna Bohl, who will be five in November, and Dawn Bohl, who will be three this Thursday, missed a rendezvous Saturday night with a potential killer tornado because a Softball game, lasted 13 innings and their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Dick (ana Karen) Bohl decided not to hire a baby sitter after all. The Bohl family showed up at Eagleton's Softball field for Baldy Mary's 1:30 p.m. winner-bracket clash with Crosby's Donkey Ball. They debated about Karen Bohl driving back to north Bloomer and hiring a baby sitter, while Dick and his Baldy's team mates tangled with Crosby's.

Crosby's saw a lead Slip away in the seventh inning. When the game moved into extra innings, players Dick Crosby and Gary Simmons of their foes slipped away for their American Legion regional tourney showdown with Superior at 5 o'clock on Stout's baseball field. Eventually, Crosby's prevailed, 6-4, in the 13th inning to remain unbeaten. The next game in the Eagleton tourney, a loser's bracket affair between Drywood and Tom's Tap, also proved to be a marathon affair, lasting 11 innings before the Cadott team won, 5-4. A total of 10 innings in overtime play had kept the Bohls from making a final decision on hiring a baby sitter.

They had planned to watch Morrison Implement play Pat's Happy Hour at 7:30 p.m. partly because Dick's brother would be seeing action. Meanwhile the Bohls decided to watch BloomeT Cenex take on Eagleton in the other winner-bracket semifinal. As Cenex, the first-half Eagleton League champions, was losing 6-5 to Eagleton, something was brewing about 25 miles away in Menomonie. Sheriffs office had blocked off the access roads to the disaster scenes.

They carefully checked identifications of people visiting the area to prevent looting and loitering: But, the Dick Bohls had salvaged most of their battered belongings Saturday night. The Morrison Implement soft-ball team had postponed its game with Happy Hour until 9 a.m. Sunday to help their friends. "Almost the whole team was there," Karen Bohl said, "as well as other ballplayers and people." Dave Steinmetz, a teenager watching the Eagleton tourney, pitched in, "We got there about a quarter to eight and worked maybe two hours." (The Bohl brothers Jim and Dick are his uncles.) Young Steinmetz added, "Some were wearing their game uniforms. Both Bud Bowes (of Morrison and Baldy's) were Jim Bohl said, "We have to unload two or three 1 pv 4' if.

Life lWL. i ooo)QD) and a machinery truck parked around Bloomer in sheds." All were stuffed with belongings of the Dick Bohl family. Dick, Karen, Deanna and Dawn stayed with his sister-in-law, Helen Bohl Saturday night. They live just a block away. "We took out a $30,000 loan," Karen Bohl said of their demolished home.

"Insurance? I hope so," she responded to another qustion. "We are lucky," she said more than once, "I was going to gera baby sitter." "Dick probably will play with Baldy's today (Sunday)," she added, "It's probably better for him." While she was talking, Morrison Implement's players (who had helped her family the previous night) eliminated Happy Hour, 13-6. Later, Morrison's team knocked out Dick Bohl's ballclub (Baldy's), 104. The losers in the latter contest used three catchers including Doug Bremness and Joe Jane. Dick Bohl came in to finish the game behind the plate.

He batted twice, smashing a hard drive back to the mound in the sixth to work of the Argentinian for the rest of the set. TRACK FIELD GATESHEAD, England American sprinter Clancy Edwards completed another double at an international track and field meet, winning the 200 meters in 20.9 seconds and the 100 meters in 10.4 seconds. He won the same events last weekend at the British Amateur Championships. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Signed Ray White, linebacker, to a series of one-year contracts; signed Mike Wedman, punter; placed on waivers Doug Brown, defensive back.

mi in i ni in i ii 1 pickup State Street slow pitch team in a tourney at the Bloomer Pines. Your home is gone," Bud Bowe told them. At the top of the slope beyond Bloomer's Hospital, Len Petska's home had been kissed by the tornado. (Petska was still at Eagleton where he had pitched in Cenex's first loss). But, Petska's home was relatively undamaged to those of his neighbors beyond.

"We found our charcoal grill across the street," Karen Bohl declared, "Our wedding pictures are all gone." (They had celebrated their fifth anniversary only Friday). "We had to dig to shut off the water running in the basement," she continued. didn't sleep," she said of Saturday night, "Lucky, Dick did." Late Sunday morning, she again viewed the destruction. "A lot is damaged," she said of their possessions. Dick Bohl was elsewhere, unloading vehicles that bore their damaged possessions.

From the north lane of nearby Highway 53, some of the damage was clearly visible. From the south lane, it was almost hidden. "My parents (Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jahnke of Cornell) came over and looked this (Sunday) morning," she added.

Early radio and TV reports did not suggest how extensive the damage was. Wearing a Baldy Mary's windbreaker, she contacted her insurance agent at the disaster scene. He told her to wait until a team of adjusters had arrived. The Dick Bohls residence was in ruins; less than a block away a flower bed appeared untouched. Authorities such as Don Strand, a volunteer reserve deputy from the County Superior, fighting to stay alive in the Legion tourney, was leading, 5-3, in the bottom of the seventh when umpires Chuck Stoffel and Loren Knutson called time.

Light rain was falling, as Dick Crosby and Gary Simmons hustled to the parking lot with their Chippewa team mates. It was too dark to take a useable photograph using ASA 400 camera film without flash. The skies hung black Just to the north of Stout University. Play soon resumed at Stout field, while the black clouds moved across northern Dunn County toward Bloomer. Superior won, 5-3, from a Chippewa team that produced 23 base runners.

Meanwhile, Falls Bowl warmed up to play St. Olafs at Eagleton, while players and spectators watched the storm moving to their north. "We knew something was happening up there," declared Duane Poeschel, former Cadott high school baseball coach who was playing for St. Olafs. "We never thought it would nit our house," Mrs.

Karen Bohl recalled. It was about 7:34 p.m. It was too late to get a baby sitter. The Bohls' new home on Duncan Road was not much more than a memory. The roof of their home was no where to be seen.

Only the bathroom was standing. Everything else had been ripped apart. Back at Eagleton, the softballers and fans watched official vehicles including those of the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department drive hard northward on 124. "We decided we better see what happened," Karen Bohl recalled. They reached Bloomer and met one of Dick's team mates on Baldy Mary's.

He had been playing for a KAREN BOHL sadly looks at the wreckage of her home tornado-torn north Bloomer. The Bohls had moved into their new house April 30th. Three months later to the day, it was AT" A BUD BOWE, Dick's team mate on Baldy Mary's, first told him the bad news: his house was gone! 568-3106, Bloomer 23S4671, HotcombComll 382-4211, Jim Falls Cadott 2394631, CorrfiM 7234333, Chippewa Falls 7234271, Chlppawa Falte 28488d, Cadott 568-6322, Bloomer .884757, Eagle Point 5684354, Bloomer 667-3619, Boyd 'A V. EAGLE P01WT FOR HORflE FAMILY DNSURANCE Even though you'll be away at school, we can bring you a little closer to home. yVe'll keep you up to date on all the local news, whaf happening around your town, what friends and classmates are doing all the things thafs of a special interest just to youl Plan now to take us along with you wherever you go.

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