St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
Shattered BY HAIL.
a Terrific Storm of CONCEALED
Rain Descends Upon
Sioux Falls.
Masses of Ice Nearly Two
Pounds in Weight Among
the Debris.
All the Windows in the City
Smashed to Pieces by
the Destroyer.
The Damage Believed to Be
$1o,0O0--The Storm in
Other Sections.
special to the Globe.

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Sioux FALL, S. D., Aug. 3.-One OF
the most terrific storms that ever visited
This section took place this morning at
B:4O. Citizens who had not yet ap-
reared at the breakfast table were
rudely awakened from their sleep by the
roar of the approaching torn. The
dust flew in advance, binding and hid
ing from view everything it en-
yeloped. 1t is estimated that
the wind blew at least sixty
miles an hour directly from the north
west. Buildings rocked as ocean yes
sells, but in the city not one Succumbed
to the force of the wind. Following the
wind came hail of such large size that
no one would have believed such large
pieces could have fallen. For hours
after the storm sample was
Oh exhibition, which measured eight
inches in circumference. and weighed
one and three-fourths pounds. The side
walks were covered with the debris left
from the effects of the hail stones. In
ten minutes from the beginning there
was not a whole gas lamp in the city.
The tin tops were smashed and jammed
by the flying stones.
q Windows by the Thousands
were smashed to smithereens. Colleges
and hotels, public schools, pla tie glass
fronts the penitentiary, the street cars,
private residences, telegraph Office and
every building that had a piece of glass
in-the festive hailstone hunted it up
on6 of 70 dQctruntfUn morL
A cow, belonging to John Carrier,
was killed; trees were = stripped
and Banker Averup's son was knocked
insensible by huge hail stone. The
Illinois Central morning Chicago train
was Just pulling in at the depot when
the storm struck the city. Iuside of a
minute there was not glass windo w
left on the side facing the west. The
windows in the engine, the coach and
Pullman were treated alike. The Cen
tral round house and freight depot pre-
sent an appearance Of having been
gutted by firemen. The devastation of
glass is general. The handsome cathe
dral, built this year by Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, of New York. pre-
sided over by Bishop Hare, is
sorry-looking picture. The handsome
arched windows filled with imported
french Cathedral glass are ruined, and
lie in a heap alo ngside the hand
some structure. In the front part Of
the building was large wheel
Fifteen Feet in Diameter
with blue French cathedral glass for
spokes. The hail punctured it with
holes like a seiye. The loss of this
wheel of glass will foot up in the hum
dreds It will take carload of glass
to furnish the penitentiary. Thous-
ands of panes were broken in the
building, and there is no means
of estimating the damage done to glass
alone in this city. One dealer In glass
thought 1t would foot up $4,000. Spe-
cial telegrams from the west announce
that hail fell at Salem, but there was
no damage to crops. North of here
nc nail is reported, and south
the storm extended not over
four miles, but east the storm
spread out ten miles wide and ran to
Worthington, Mimi, taking in Beaver
Creek, Mimi; Valley Springs, S. D. !;
Luverne, Mimi; Ellsworth, Minn.:
Bruce, Mimi, and Rowena. S. D. At
Rowena, twelve miles east of here on
the Illinois Central, several bridges
were knocked over and destroyed by
the force of the wind, but no loss of life
is reported The crops in some places
suffered, but Sioux Falls seems to have
been the center of the hail belt.