Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-06-27
;, MONDAYS STORM
Further Details of the Damage
Wrought by Hail, Rain and
Wind.
/. Considerable Grain Injured in Differ
ent Portions of Stutsmdn
County.
Buildings Demolished by Terrific
Wind That Prevailed in Some
Sections.


There was another heavy rain Mon
day morning lasting for over an hour.
The rain poured down and the side
walks and streets were covered. The
river is higher than it has been for
several years. The ground is soaked
!. and the rains run off into the streams
and ponds which are being filled up
rapidly.
Willet Bronson Of New York City
who has some farm interests here
spent the day in the country yester-
day. He visited the SharloW neigh
borhood and reports some damage to
the Brown Bros. grain and to Orln
Carter's barns from wind.
The Gull River Lumber co, at
Montpelier, had a part Of their yard
scattered by the wind of Monday
morning, and the lumber shed moved
4 tesrom it's foundation. Some of the
boards were blown over 300 feet.
There was little hail at that point,
however.
Judge Roses tenant came in yester-
day and reported that the hail had
done some damage to the grain on the
farm north Of the city. The extent
could not be learned, but it is not be-
lieved to be total. The farm lay in
the path of the storm but whether it
caught the full extent of the hail was
not learned.
Passengers from the north say that
there is a strip of country between
Buchanan and Parkhurst that is
. swept clean Of grain and grass. There
\ was no hail at Pingree, Edmunds or
Melville. The strip caught by the
heaviest part OF the storm is mar
row one, probably not over four or i've
miles wide. How far west it extend
ed is not known yet, but its path ex-
tended some 80 miles at least into
Barnes county, across Stutsman
county. The damage done was vari-
able, as usual, and all kinds OF freak
things are reported as the result OF
the hail The trees near Parkhurst
are stripped Of leaves and the tele-
Ygraph poles on the west side exposure
were chlpped off clean by the hail.
In the worst parts OF the track hit,
the grass is cut clean and in some
places drifted by the wind and rain in
to heaps.
The farm Of III. J. Vessey was hit by
the hail and cloudburst. Mr.. Yes
sey thought yesterday morning that
Il he would lose the most OF his growing
crops, but could not tell the amount
of his damage.
The Sheyenne river at Valley City
is reported to have risen over hve
feet before the rain of yesterday
\ which will swell the height consider
ably. Spiritwood lake had risen Is
inches this month and the rains yes
terday and today will add great deal
to the water of the lake which had
Afallen lower than ever known.
The Schollander barn probably the
in the county was demolished
Tby the wind storm that visited the
southern part of the county. Two
horses and colt were killed. Several
other buildings were damaged. Some
other stock injured and some saved.
1t was the continuation Of the same
!, storm that took out one end OF the
frank Brown barn. VIM. Mcknight,
farming on one Of E. p. Wells quart
!. ers north Of the city had his granary
moved some 10 feet and a quantity OF
glass broken. The Sabin house was
injured by the wind.
The greatest damage by hail from
the storm Monday morning seems to
have been in the strip Of country COM
prising township l41 extending across
Stutsman county, from the hills to
the eastern line. In some places the
crops were pounded down into the
ground. Among those who had grow
!, ing crops hit and who will lose more or
less, are: John Cyweski, the Gospo-
dors, T. Grunchalla, NJ. Mutz, Thos.
Kokott, r. r. Davis, Gus Sale, the
old Milsted place, L. Joos, Wojicks.
The hail belt extended into Barnes
county from Stutsman and as it went
eastward it seemed to loose none of it's
intensity. The losses in Barnes
county have been reported, but farm
ers coming in from the eastern part of
this county report some disasterous