Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-07-10
More Particulars of the Hurri-
cane that Swept over North
Dakota Monday.
The Democrats Select Six Men
to go to the Grand Forks
Convention.
The City Council Decides to Issue
Licenses for Original
Package Houses.
The Hurricanes Work,

The storm Of Monday morning was one
of the most disastrous that ever swept
over North Dakota pralries. It's extent
was also unparalleled. The western limits
do not appear to be known as yet. There
may be great deal of damage, and some
loss Of life not reported from the country.
The storm began as far west at the Mis-
souri, river, and probably west of that
line. It passed eastward over the state
and it's damaging path extended miles
into Minnesota. 1t greatest fury seemed
to be along the line of tn Northern Pa
cifc road for distance of from twenty
to forty miles on either side of the track.
In the southern portion of the state the
tornado was the most felt in the country
and the accompanying hail ruined the
crops Of scores of farmers. The greatest
disaster in the towns appeared to be in
the Red River valley and the worst dev-
astation to have centered at Fargo. In
Barnes county hail is reported to have
covered strip Of from four to ten miles
in width, travelling path that
has always been caught by
hail, when any fell at all, in that part
of the state. The neighborhoods ten or
fifteen miles south of Sanborn and Val
ley City have pever failed to get the
worst of hail storms for a number of
years. The clouds invariably have ap-
peareG to follow the Sheyenne valley and
to have deposited their burden of white
destruction to crops in about the same
locality, year after year. No estimate of
insurance or loss by acreage has yet been
made. The loss in the southern part of
this county came from the same storm
and is the heaviest of any year when a
big crop was to be destroyed. There
was little or no hail felt in Fargo, and
not much damage is reported south of
Cass county to crops, although the
heaviest wheat is in some cases badly
lodged, and blown about. A singular
feature of the storm was the fact that hail
fell in the right, something unusual.
The electrical disturbance that attended
the storm was very marked. The
heavens we're quivering with flashes of
lightning occurring at such short inter-
walls that continual glare was the re-
suit. The amount of electricity develop
ed was astonishing and the wonder
is that more house we're not struck
and people killed that have been
reported Reports of stock being killed
by electricity conveyed by wire fences
will doubtless be received soon. One
farmer In the northern part of this coun-
ty is reported to have lost a number of
COWS and calves that were crowded
against fence of this kind.
Lumber yards in all the towns along
the road are consolidated. The storm scat
tered them very promiscuously-forming
a big trust as it were. The roofs of sever
al elevators are damaged and that If the
railroad depot at Mapleton is badly torn
off. Graneries. barns, out houses and
wind mills generally are moved off their
foundations, and in many cases carried
several rods. Freight cars at all stations
were blown up and down tracks regard
less Of orders. This state OF affairs is
found all the distance west of Fargo to
Jamestown