Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-08
4 Desert .Sint0On.

world has been subjected 10 aonOr- |
NAL atmospheric disturbances.
Can it be that Dame Nature is hot
in the collar and is venting her
spleen upon the helpless denizens
of this terrestrial sphere because
some of our prying weather proph-
cts have discovered the hitherto
undiscoverable secrets which gov
ern our elemental conditions? We
pause for reply! But be this as
it may, there is something out of
plumb somewhere, and this old
world of ours is, fguratively speak
ing, being cuffed and kicked all
over creation by some unseen Ii
tanic influence in the vast realm of
space.
The latest development of these
conditions was ushered in last
week. The weather on Friday and
Saturday last was sultry in the ex-
treme. On Saturday evening the
wind came up from the southwest
in great force and soon filled the
vacuum created by the preceding
heat. Soon after midnight the
tempest ceased. On Sunday, about
noon, another wind blew up from
the same quarter, veritable ST.
moon of the desert, without the
sand. 1t was a hot wind out of
cloudless sky which seemed to suck
the moisture out Of everything,
and the like of which has never
been known either by whites Or
Indians now living in this country.
Such storms are common enough
in the interior valleys of California
after midsummer, but up here in
Idaho on the second day of June
it is without a parallel. The wind
instruments at the Experimental
Farm registered at one time a We
locity of rs miles an hour, and for
four consecutive hours they regis
tered velocity of 56 miles per
hour. At sundown Sunday even
ing the storm blew itself out and
then the air turned almost cold
enough for fires. 1t threatened
rain, but finally cleared off, and
the atmospheric conditions have
been rather uncanny ever since.
The wind whipped trees to pieces
and blew the budding fruit from
orchard trees. Brick hues in Van
sise's residence and Higgins stable
were blown over. A few shingles
were blown from the Jersey House
necessitating a new roof. Wooc
sheds were turned over and some
fencing laid low. Trees were strip
ped of their foliage as completely
as if they had been raided by grass
hoppers the leaves of others wer,
shriveled and blackened, and gar
den truck wilted and lay fiat OIL
the ground as if stricken down b,
severe frost.
F The Holsclaw slaughter house
below town, was wrecked in tn
gale, and the center of Georg
Schmadeka's 70-foot barn wa
, blown in and the building itsel
moved two inches from its founda
tiOns. The west end of the ne,
! school building at Mt. Idaho wa
moved from it's foundations on
. inch. The water is reported t
have blown out of the Lake i
vast sheets, and sundry othe
! slight effects are reported from a
over the prairie
, The effect of the wind on tn
a mountain streams was to melt tn
4 snow and swell the rivers immcns,
4 ly. The Salmon raised 80 inche
in "a hours, and the water a
Freedom was reported to be ruI
, ming between the Rhett and Con
residences. John Doumeoq's hous
= at White Bird is afoat. A sawmil
= supposed to have come from Ere
Burgdorf's ranch on the south for
of Salmon, sailed gaily down o
the rising flood. What the watt
u was At Lewiston our corresponder
IL narrates elsewhere.
/ The mountains felt the full fOrt
II Of the storm. Little George She,
. arrived out from Florence MOnda,
: He had packed in a load of freigl
J. without any difficulty and IL
, train was camped at White Biz
during the storm, and was final
corralled by the down timber pilir
up around them to q hight of t.
3. feet. George fastened out for a
|; men to cut out the train and Gle;
a; trail, and said there was week
.e work to cut out the down timb
J; between Mt. Idaho and White Bir
). George is the oldest packer in the
$, mountains and he says this is t
\. worst storm he ever experienced.
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