The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-11
HARVESTED BY HAL
Terrific Storm In North Da-
I kota and Minnesota
POUNDS RIPENED WHEAT
On Probably 100000 Acres
Into the Earth.

! Halstead, Mimi. Aug. D-Hail totally
destroyed crops in this section today!
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 ffteer
, miles wide in a southeasterly direction,
: passing through Halstead. Hendrum, Pear
: ley, Highwind, NeilsvilIe and Shelly on
the north and Georgetown on the south.
The crops on the Stanford. Dalrympls
and Grandin farms are totally destroyed
The insurance among farmers Is light.
st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. 10-A Fargo. N. D.
special TO the Pioneer Press says: Two
million bushels of wheat are estlmated to
have been lost in today's hail Storm
which partially destroyed the crop on
nearly $4,000 acres Of land in the state.
Farmers who were busiiy engaged this
morning were driven to their barns for
shelter and afterwards found 1t unneces-
sary to take the binders back to the fields,
"a the grain had been harvested by hatl
in a few brief minutes. Just before IL
o,cylbck the storm struck the northern
bart of Cass ana southern part OF Trail
counties. In addition to q big era over
which hail fell thiclxly. heavy wind ana
rain storms completed the destruction OF
thousands of acres Of grain. On either
side OF the center OF the path Of the hail,
covering an era of fifteen miles north ana
south between Argusvile and Gardiner
to Kelso in Trail, end on east and west
territory ranging from i've miles west on
the south to fifteen or twenty on the
north, the country is practically devasta-
ted. Losses are estimated all the way
from Is to 100 per cent Of the crop. The
acreage lost in Cass and Trail counties
is placed at from 100000 TO 100000 acres.
Many conservative estimates say that 80
per cent of the crop on ES.0D acres Is not
too large q figure for the destruction In
Cass and Traill In the northern part OF
the county the storm seems to nave De-
gun as far west as Erie and Galssburg,
and gone directly east on the county line
between Cass and Trail to Red River and
Then over into Minnesota. The hail was
apparently -uedVfcSI i1AAS AsAO 49,
crot1s on the big farms like the GraadtHs
and staHfords, near Kelso, were com
Aletely wiped out. The destruction Is so
acomplete IN many parts Of the deysstat-
sed territory shat no EFFORT will be made
40 harvest what Is left. AS an indication
of the loss, G. H. Knight telephoned from
his farm at Grandin, stating that he had
cut two hundred acres before the storm
and tomorrow would start his ploWs to
summer fallow the other two thousand
acres of his farm. The storm swept east
from North Dakota into Minnesota, and
teIegrams from Haistead and Hendrum
report terrible destruction. The lowest
estimate in that Gwlc4nity mas been placed
at 60 600 acres. In ell the storm-stricken
section insurance men assert that less
than & per cent OF the acreage was covered
by hail insurance. Another storm Is re-
ported at New Rockford. 81 Eddy county.
where It is asserted from Is to 100 per cent
of the crop on 1900 acres Of wheat was
laid waste The total loss will be over q
million dollars.