[SEL] Rollag

[Dave Croft]

I received this from the steam list that is on ATIS.  Thought some of you
would be interested in the sad news.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Orrin Iseminger" <oiseming at moscow.com>
To: "'Steam-engine mailing list'" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: [Steam-engine] Bad news from Rollag

> Last night I received the following message from my brother.  He got the
> information from his daughter who lives in Moorhead, Minnesota.
> Orrin
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> "Bad news at Rollag.  Tornado went thru last Friday, tens of thousands of
> dollars in damage. The huge shed housing the threshing machines had been
> hurt in a previous storm. Demolished in this one and moved many feet.
Some of the machines destroyed, I think maybe the oldest, wooden ones.
> "Others badly damaged.  Other buildings also damaged. I assume that trees
> were hurt too.  Plans are to have the Reunion as scheduled, if volunteers
> turn out in sufficient numbers to do all the work."
> Orrin Iseminger
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This is news to me so I thought I should cross post it!
Dave Croft
Warrington
England
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