Flooding Causes Death, Wide-Spread Damage In Northern Wisconsin

WI)  —  At least two deaths are blamed on storms carrying heavy rain which have caused flooding in northern Wisconsin.  The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office reports the recovery of the body of a man whose pickup was found in a ditch along a flooded road Sunday.  The 75-year-old victim was about 60 feet from the truck in White River.  His name hasn’t been released.  Several major roads in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota have been extensively damaged.  A Minnesota man was killed when a tree fell on his camper in Sawyer County Sunday.  Fifty-five-year-old James Pluff died near Lake Chetac in the town of Edgewater.  One other adult and two children in his camper avoid severe injuries.