Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-02
DAMAGE By me- STORM
Belated Reports of Havoc Wrought
By the Wind and Hail Tues
day Morning.
Loss In the Northwest States Will
Reach Into Millions Of
Dollars.
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Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and
Nebraska Heaviest Losers
Trial of Toral.

ST. Paul, Aug. 2.-Reports received
here by wire from nearly all of the
grain-growing states in the western
Mississippi valley indicate that inn
measurable and widespread damage to
crops has been done in the last thirty
six hours by hail and wind.
The states that have suffered the
most are Minnesota, South Dakota,
Iowa and Nebraska. In Iowa a terrific
1 storm of drenching rain. accompanied
by furious and devastating wind,
damage did not amount to a total loss
| it left the fields IN such condition that
the farmers in many sections have
practically given up hope of saving half
i of the crop they planned on.
The storm took on frigidity and the
4 accompanying element of disaster as it
spread over Minnesota and South Da-
| kota. The rain was turned to sharp
/ edged hail in many places and to sleet
/ that cut the grain with almost as evil
results in others.
No accurate figures on the total dam
age can be made, but it is conservative
1 enough to say that fully half ii million
acres of richly fruited crops have been
lleveied by the storm. Not only one
cereal. but all of the various kinds that
are particularly easy prey to wind and
hail met injury. Corn was crushed or
torn up altogether: unharvested wheat
was fattened and wide strips of coun-
i try cut down as If by mighty, all
powerful clipper of an angry god.
Dispatches Indicate that the storm
was central in Iowa, Where it seemed
to gather and to leap along on its
northerly and westerly course through
out the night and during the morning
hours. Not only damage to crops is re-
ported, but many farmers have the
added loss of barns and sheds that We're
overturned or unroofed by the furious
gusts of wind.
Northwestern Iowa was among the
first sections visited by the gale Ply
mouth and O'lSrien counties tell of the
: most serious loss there. Hail fell in
pelting showers and the only comfort
} the farmers got from the storm was the
subsequent rain which fell in torrents
I, lover one and one-half inches of water
2 being precipitated in Sioux City.
Minnesota evidently suffered more
{. from hail than from rain and wind a
2 hailstorm of extraordinary fury swep,
I. over a section eight miles wide in the
9 vicinity OF Stephen and ruined abso-
z lutefy LOCO acres of growing grain. Eff
q, 3ty square miles of crops Were destroyed
&: last night in Polk county, this state
= the path of the hurricane evidently be
q ing along Red Lake River from Nal
z lory TO Crookston, thence south east fo
q ten miles. Most of the damage was
{. done north Of the river, but Nesbi
township was entirely cleaned out. am
q, Fisher. Fancy and Crookston are es
Z. tmated as being from quarter TO hal
destroyed. From Dawson City, MINI.
{. also come the story of great damage
@ Grain WIS cut and blown Us the earti
a by the storm, many farmers havin;
made the statement that heir crop
= are a total loss. The district south o
D Dawson City was also visited by tn
storm. to the injury of tins ripenin
Y crops.
= The hail grew in size and the impetu
behind it seemed TO increase when tn
gale reached South Dakota. The darn
age in this state, where the crops ar
ready TO be harvested. is unknown, bu
it is understood to be heavy From Des
met comes the report that 1000 acres
ms wheat and grain are total losses an
he that several thousand acres more al
a partial loss to the owners. But lit
grain in this section that lay in II
path of the storm had been cut so IL
injury is beyond estimate. From Gal
\ is heard the news that a hailstorm RI
Js ined utterly the growing grain a Sc
ton twelve miles long and four mil
,.rj1a The 6losS : extremely heavy
Corn and uncut grain in Nebrasl
were Knocked flat by the wind and tn,
drenched and thrown into soddy hea
>. by heavy rain. In Creighton and Il
:. outlying district in Nebraska an in
- and half of rain fell. this being a
companied by a fierce gale. numb
of buildings We're also demolishe
\ These reports are duplicated in a tho
sand others from all parts of the stat
which fell under the aim of the storm
Farmers generally We're anxious for
We little rain, but most OF all they dread
ana tIal, wind and hail. Coming at this seas
ngs. of the year, which is high tide in ha
for yesting. the damage is necessar
, .me much greater than it would have be
had the storm been timed differen'
and of a different nature.
- The storm was very severe over
northern part of Nebraska. At Rus
VILE hail-stones as large as eggs Il
Ma doing much damage to crops over gu
. an extent of territory. The wind {
molshed several out buildings.
Leigh the wind blew down the ho'
of Alfred Moore and demolished 81
r or eral smaller buildings. Orchards in Il
ston vicinity We're badly damaged, fully h
the fruit being destroyed. The sto
,;rls is reported to have been more sew
Vile south of Leigh. People were ba
frightened, thinking a cyclone V
r;ed coming. A heavy rain accompanied
,rIy wind.