Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-11
CROP on 25O,O00 ACRES IN NORTH
DAKOTA DESTROYED.
LOSS OVER A MILLION DOLLARS
WHEAT ON FAMOUS DALRYMPLE
FARM TOTALLY DESTROYED.
Some of the Farmers VIII Go to PIow-
ing in Their Fields Mt Once for
Fall Seedfng-Little of the
Ruined Acreage Was
Ipsured.

FARGO, N. D.. Aug. lo.-Two million
bushels of wheat are estimated to have
been lost in to-day's hail storm, which par
TALLY destroyed the crop on nearly $4,000
acres OF land in the state Farmers who
were busily engaged this morning were
driven to their barns for shelter and after
ward found it unnecessary TO take the
binders back TO the fields, as the grain had
been harvested by hail in a few brief mo-
ments
Just before II o'clock the storm struck
the northern part of Csss and southern
part Of Trail counties. In addition TO a
hig area over which hail fell thickly heavy
wind and rain storms compile ed the destruc-
lion of thousands of acres of grain on
either side of the center of the path of the
hail. Losses are estimated all the way
from 25 to 100 per cent of the crop. The
acreage lost in Cass and Trail is placed
at from 10000 to 100000 acres Many con-
servative estimates say that 50 per cent
of the crop on 125,0o0 acres are not too
large figures for the destruction in Cass
and Trail. In the northern part of the
county the storm seems to have begun as
far west Erie and Galesburg and gone
directly east on the county line between
Cass and Trail to Red river and then over
into Minnesota. The hail was apparently
heaviest along this line and crops on big
farms like the Grandins and Stanfords $
near Kelso were completely wiped out.
The destruction is SO complete in many
parts of the devastated territory that no
effort will be made TO harvest what is left
AS an indication of the loss, G. II. Knight
telephoned from his farm at Grandin, stat
ing that he had cut 30 acres before the
storm, and tomorrow would start his
piows 10 summer fallow the other 1000
acres Of his farm. a 30 per cent loss from
hail almost equals a total loss, as what is
left rarely pays for harvesting and thresh-
The storm swept east from North Da-
kota into Minnesota, and kilograms from
Halstead and Hendrum report terrible de-
strnctiop. The lowest estimate or the loss
in that vicinity has been placed at 5000
acres.
In all the storm stricken section insur-
of the acreage was covered by hail in
surance The large strips of country on
either side of the hail suffered just as
the grain and beat it into the ground so
badly that it cannot straighten up on ac-
count of the ripened condition. Another
Eddy county, where it is asserted that from
IS to 100 per cent of the crop on 10000 acres
Of wheat was laid waste The total loss
JAMESTOWN, II. D., Aug. 10.-The most
destructive hail storm OF the year occurred
last night. The storm began at New Rock
ford ana swept through Eddy, Foster,
Griggs and Barnes counties to Rogers, in
the latter county. 1t is estimated that 1900
acres of wheat was destroyed. The losses
are over Is per cent TO total Not over
one-half of the grain destroyed was in
gured,
HALSTEAD. MINI, Aug. 16-Hail to-
tally destroyed crops in this section to-day
Many windows were knocked in and sew
eral inches of hail were piled in the streets
The storm started near Kelso, n. D., and
cleaned a strip ten or fifteen miles wide
in a southeasterly direction, passing
through Halstcad, Hendrum. Pearley,
Highwind, Neilisvilie and Shelly, on the
north, and Georgetown on the south The
crops on Stanford, Dalrympie and Grandin
farms are totally destroyed. The insurance
among farmers is light.