Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-28
A HEAVY BREEZE.
Hot Spell Results in a, Violent Wind
Storm Friday Night.

Inc not weather of the past few
days proved a weather breeder. 4
violent wind and electrical storm
came up out of the west and northwest
Mt a little before midnight, and inter-
ested Il large and hastily dressed audi
ence that had gathered at various
places in the city and was looking for
a soft place to light. The sky at the
opening of the storm was ominous.
All over the heavens there was a black
and blue tendency that resembled Il
c~anvasman's eye in circus time. The
air was as full of dust as Il compliant
er's whiskers, and numberless sections
of land swept through the city in the
path of the storm. So thick were the
clouds of dust that the sky was at
times almost completely obscured, al
though the night was more than Ordin-
arily light.
The atmosphere during the evening
foreboded the storm. The air was OPP
pressively hot and sultry, and at 8
O'Clock the mercury was close to 80.
The heat continued intense until the
opening of the storm. which intro
duced itself in violent gusts of wind
from the west, that threatened to blow
the boundary of Morton county over
to this side Of the river. The con-
tinued blasts almost moved the rail-
road shops to this city. 1t is under
stood that the danger of this was the
principal source of worry over in Man
dan.
And so the wind blew. Every time
1t blew it blew harder. The zephyr
coming from the river picked up few
hundred gallons of water and scattered
it through the air, deluding spectators
into the belief that it might rain. The
passenger train from tie west came
in during the blow. and made about
sixty miles an hour on an up grade
without steam. At about this time
those who had cyclone cellars INDUCED
i'll Il promenade thereto. and these who
had no place to so staid there. The
wind took more dust out of the coun-
try than the shell game at the last cir
Gus.
On capital hill the zephyr was a
peach. 1t had wliskers on it. 1t is
said that when the roof of the capitol
went off Farmer Wallace got out
II talked to the wind-like he did to
the democrats up in Cavalier county
and it skunk away ashamed.
After blowing itself. the storm ran
out of dust. and found it impossible
to raise the wind. This was only
natural. And the storm ceased.
1t is reported that the wool ware
house in Dickinson was blown down
in the wind. Several buildings in
Mandan We're partially blown down.
Train No. . was struck by the storm
a few miles the other side of Mandan
and passengers say they thought the
train would be lifted off the track.
The train was held for thirty minutes
Mt Mandan to give the wind a chance
to go down.
The maximum velocity of the wind
last night was G. miles an hour. the
gale lasting for a minute at that rate.
The maximum 5 minute velocity was
a little less-fifty-six miles an hour.
These are the figures of Director Bron-
son at the weather bureau. Only on
one or two occasions has there been
Il heavier wind.
In the course Of the storm Il peculiar
species of turtle made it's appearance
in the back yard at the residence of
Cashier Rowland of the Northern Pa
cifc. The animal is not of the variety
usually seen in this country. 1t is a
large one. probably a foot and a half
in diameter across the shell. 1t is
not known where it came from unless
it blew in with the storm.
Trees suffered in various parts of the
city. and limbs are stripped off and
trees blown oyer in some cases. Still.
the damage to trees was not as great
as might be expected. The two near
the band stand went down before the
blast.
Many householders reports windows
left open and belongings scattered
about by the breeze. In some cases
windows were blown in and some dam
age done. I
About ell of the corr in the city
was blown down and injured.
There was a heavy rain reported
from Slaughter and the country up
north but hardly a drop could be
squeezed out in the city.