The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-08-01
SUNDAY NIGHTS STORM,
A Heavy Wind Does Consider
able Damage in This Vi
cinity.

| Sunday was q hot and close day
much warmer than the two or three
which had proceeded it, and yet not
nearly as hot as q week earlier.
Toward evening banks Of clouds piled
up on the north and west and there
were indications of rain. Nine or
ten o'clock it commenced to rain gen.
thy, and few moments later a fur
ious wind broke from the northwest
driving the rain with great violence.
In the city considerable minor damage
was done-signs blown down. trees
broken and other like disasters. A
large chimney on w. 81. Biake's resi-
dence was blown down. The streets
were strewn with limbs of trees, and
in the yards of Alex. Tully, S. P.
Hansen, S. Pendergast and others,
trees were overturned. The flag staff
on the parochial school was broken off.
At the mill windows were blown in
and rain poured in upon some of the
machinery so that it had to remain
idle until cleaned. The damage in the
aggregate was not large, and no one
suffered material loss. The storm
was highly electric and a number of
very sharp flashes of lightning and
heavy psals of thunder startled the
ttmid, but did no damage
The steam boat was out On its eve
ming trip with about twenty passen-
gers. 1t had, however, gotten into
the lower lake before the storm broke.
and Mr.. Buck run it into the lee shore
east of Buffers Point where it lay for
an hour, and until the storm abated.
In the country, west and south of the
city, the wind was much heavier, ap-
parently, than in town. Corn was
badly fiattened, oats were blown down
and tangled, and the ripe wheat was
thrown down. The losses in the ag
gregate will be large. At Westport
and in southwest Ashley the storm
seems to have been at it's worst. A
barn was blown down on the Madison
place, and on the Dubois farm gran
AIRY and barn were moved little on
sheir foundations. Stacks of hay
were scattered and shocks of wheat
blown about.
A gentleman named Webster was
driving with two ladies and the buggy
and its three inmates were blown off
the road and into slough. The were
uuinjured and took refuge in the near
est house-that of Mr.. Sullivan. For
tunately none of them were hurt and
the horses and buggy were gotten out
without injury.
Erick L. Hedin was driving home
from Long Prairie, and was in the
| timber near Little Sank. Flying limbs
and overturned trees desputed the
right-of-way with him, and he turned
into thick grove where he remained
until the wind had spent its force.
The brick veneered front of tie
Vanish building on Third st was
considerably wrecked by the wind and
an unsig htly crack opened across the
front of it. With the aid of jack
screws it was thrown back into place.
Over hundred telephones of the To-
cal exchange was burned out, but
are now IN use again.
John Miller, who lives in the north
western Ashley lost three calves, a
yearling and colt by lightning. The
animals were in pasture and near a
wire fence. The bolt struck a post,
followed the wire to VIII ere they We're
and killed them.
There was nothing "yclonic about
the wind. 1t was straight blow, es-
timated at q velocity of sixty miles
an hour.
Tom McFarlane of Unity, says that
the wind on Sunday night stripped his
trees of apples. He has some fine
standard as we'll as crab trees, and
they were we'll filed. Several bushels
of half grown apples were picked up
under the trees on Monday.
Robert N. Smith of West Union. was
in town on Monday. He did not think |
the wind storm had done great damage |
in his vicinity, C. E. Bohall, from the
same town, corroborated him.