Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-11
No Serious Damage DOne-The Worst
Part Of the Storm Passed
Around the City.
Meeting Of the Republican Central
COmmittee-A Call for a
County Convention.
All Indian Boy and a SQuaw Brought
From Berthold, Charged
With Murder.
The Electrical Storm.

About 5 o'clock Sunday the skies pre-
senteda striking appearance. Dark, heavy
clouds formed in the west, and as they
rolled up past the setting sun they assumed
hues of various colors and presented II
wild cyclone-like appearance. Every in.
dication pointed to a storm, but only occa-
sionally vas there a flash of lightning,
While the clouds kept approaching, they
seemed to move around the city on all
sides. About half-past six the sur again
shone bright and clear. After sunset the
evening was cool and pleasant until 10
o'clock, when the condition of the atmo-
sphere indicated rain with more or less
electricity. As the storm approached and
the lightning increased. objects could be
distinguished on the streets as in daylight,
and the heavens seemed to be one flash OF
electric fire, mingled with deatening thun-
der. The storm ragged in this vicinity for
about forty minutes, seeming to pass in an
eastward Hstcn w d1recti s11;ved Freight s{ Go Gend nfacr
at 1:3O, reported the storm be-
tween Steele and Geneva as being
very violent. His train was the last n
west Sunday night. No. l was blown off
the track near the N. P. round house
at Fargo. At II o'clock yesterday all
wires were down and nothing could be
learned. AS the storm clouds did not
unite until after having passed this point
not much damage was done in this vicini-
ty. Lightning struck the flagstaff on the
l.. N. Griffin building, now occupied on the
first floor by ". 5. DeGraff'S store and the
second floor by Judge Bartholomew for a
residence. The Judge and his family were
out of the city, and no damage was done
further than the shattering of the weather
vane.. The lightning seems to have fol.
either LOST its force or leaped to some Of
the wires near the building as no trace of
it could be found on the building below
the staff. The residence Of John Dahl was
also visited by an electric bolt, striking
the chimney n shattering the shingles
in several places on the roof, going into
the building tearing off plaster and rails.
was torn to pieces but no one was injured
beyond the shock caused by the neal ap-
proach of the lightning. A tree OF Sixth
street was either twisted off by the wind
or struck during the violent portion Of the
storm, as it lay several feet from the stump.
During the early part Of the storm hail fell
but no damage is reported in or near the
city. During the last twenty minutes of
the storm the wind did some damage to
growing grain. but not Of a permanent ma
ture. The storm doing the most damage
farther east was the one that passed here
about 4 o'clock, as the later and more vio-
lent n in this vicinity conferred near
Steele, passing east from that point.
IN Rel RIVER VALLEY.
Railroad Commissioner Underhill came
in from Dickinson on the evening train
and reports a terrific storm in the Green
river valley. 1t extended about twenty
five miles and swept all the crops in lis
path. No lives were reported lost. The
storm had abated before it reached Dickin-
son.
STORM NOTES
G.. A. King had three valuable horses
and one mule killed by lightning at Memo
ken during the storm,
All regular scheduled freight trains were
abandoned yesterday and specials run in
sections between here and the wreck, as
high as five trains lying in the city at one
time.