The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-18
WINDS WICKED WORK.


E. Bailey will take we'll earned rest
WINDS WICKED WORK.
A windstorm Blows Over Redwood Coun
ty and Damages Crops About 30
Per Cent.
A terrible and disastrous wind storm
general in its nature, swept over this
end of the State last Saturday morn
ing early, and carried destruction witt
it. There were rumblings of the ap
preaching storm Friday evening,wher
dark, threatening clouds arose above
the horizon from nearly every quarter
and quick and frequent flashes Of
lightning, in seemingly human forms
licked the earth's surface. Indeed all
day Friday storm was predicted, il
being extremely sultry, and only now
and then was refreshment found in
an occasional breeze. It was after
twelve o'clock, midnight, ere the first
furious gust of wind struck Redwood
Falls, and from that time on until five
o'clock Sunday morning, it increased
each gust with renewed fury. Frame
dwellings, were rocked to and fro
awakening the inmates, and causing
them to leave their couches, nearly
frightened out of their wits. But no
one was hurt
The tin roof on the west side of the
court house tower, long known as poor
specimen of the timers art, yielded to
the wind, and portion of it was found
strewn in the streets below, while the
remainder dangled from the tower
and took upon itself the authority of
giving the city disagreeable sere-
made. 1t will cost in the neighborhood
Of $3.50 to repair the samoan excel
lent recommendation for the St. Paul
firm that secured the roofing contract.
An old oaken tree that has stood
many a storm, in the neighborhood of
A. c. Burmeister's residence, gave up
the ghost to the powers that morning,
and now lies nearly in two on the spot
where it has found sustenance and
growth.
Crops all over the county, so far as
can be ascertained, partly from re-
portorial roundup, and partly from
careful interviews with reliable farmers,
are damaged to the extent of about 20
per cent. While hail fell in only q
few spots the wind blew so strongly
as to break the small grain and lay it
on the ground, some of it so fiat as to
make it impossible for a harvester to
reach it, but the greater portion of it
was left within the machines grasp,
although it was necessary, in great
many instances, to cut only one way,
and thus absorb vast amount of time.
On several farms, the Garner and
Tenney among them, the grain was
laid in such manner as to clog the
binder, and the energetic tillers of the
soil found a last recourse in the mower
and hay rake, obtaining about 70 per
cent of the crop.
The Powell and Tyson and other
eastern tracts, were badly blown
down, but harvesters at work Satur-
day morning were picking up IS per
cent of the grain. George Wingett,
west of town, and in Delhi township,
states that he will be able to thresh
nearly the full crop, while the Tiffany's,
west OF town, and J. j. Tiffany, south
of town, place tho damage at from 80
to so per cent.
One thing is quite certain. By u.s.
ing the mower and hay rake nearly all
of the grain can be saved for the
shock, but here it may be injured, if
the rain continues, for the reason that
heads protrude from both ends of the
bundle.
Hugh Green. of Redwood township,
states that hail struck his farm and
beat the small grain into the ground
badly. In Echo township, Yellow
Medicine county, hail is also reported
to have fallen and totally destroyed nu-
merous crops.
j. B. Robinson made a trip south
to Three Lakes, then towards the
Towle and Mcdonald farms Monday,
and states, as a result, that only about
one-third of the harvesting is done
He thinks that farmers are getting all
of the grain, but it is requiring more
time than 9th erwise, for them to do it.
The BiWeekly Meet.
The bi-weekly meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Methodist church
was held at the residence of Mrs. J.W.
Ferris last Friday afternoon, and
proved very beneficial affair, judg-
ing from the collection and the large
number of compliments bestowed up
ON Mrs. Ferris for excellent manage
ment. The meeting was held at ran
dom on the Ferris lawn and in the
residence, lasting from 4 to 8 o'clock,
during which time over one hundred
men, women and children crossed the
threshold of the Ferris residence. Re-
freshments we're served, GROUP ct and a
general conversation was INDUCED in.
Among the large number present Ito
obtain complete list being impos-
slble) were James B. Robinson and
wife, B. J. Reynolds and wife, w. M.
Skinner and wife, Joseph Tyson and
wife, Rev Williams; Mesdames E. R.
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