Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-06-27
Tornado Destroys Considerable Property in a Num-
Der of Places in the County. Number
of Stock Killed and Injured.
House Picked Up and Carried Quarter of a
lille, Telephone Wires and Poles
Blown Down.

| The dealers in window glass sold out
early, by II O'Clock there was no glass
of the ordinary sizes to be had in
town and no putty. On number of
the buildings storm windows were
put up to await supply of glass.
Stories Of the immense size of hail
stones sound almost incredible but
the facts are that no such hail stones
have ever been seen in this part of
North Dakota before, and the most
wonderful record as to size has been
broken by this storm.
The stones sounded as if they were
the bricks from chimney falling
from the roof. In other cases the
weight of the stones was SO great that
it appeared as if someone was throw
ing rocks over the house and they
were falling on the roof. Tin roofs
J especially made mark for the hail
stones that was terrifying, and there
is not a tin roof in the town that is
not cut and damaged more or less.
I Many Of the stones were the size Of
hens eggs and of course some of them
were much larger. Stones the size Of
goose eggs were not uncommon. Some
were formed like an apple.
Plate glass losers in jamestown
were: Kirk & Allen, Buckley & Me
meyer, in the opera house block, The
Gladstone, Farmers s. Merchants
bank, Strong's, Chase & Grant, H. c..
Flint, Bert Fellows. R.. L. Scott &
Co., II. e. White. Scott & Co. in
insured their glass Friday.
The churches lost heavily. Memoir
ial windows in the Nj. e. church, quite
expensive affairs, were badly shat
tered. The Presbyterian church was
about the least damaged of any Of the
places of worship.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany lost heavily. Every window
light, 6l2 in all, was smashed in the
round houses. The other company
buildings and some cars were damaged
in similar manner
Joe Moody, the telegraph lineman,
is kept busy today with a large force
repairing the damaged Western Union
wires. Joe was awakened by the
sound of the heavy hail stones falling
on the roof. ''-the kids" said Joe,
"they will throw stones on my roof.
I'll fix them this time" Joe soon dis
covered his mistake on opening the
door.
The extent of the hail was very
great for storm of that nature. The
rain was flood from Buffalo to San
born and the most damage that is
looked for will be from water rather
than hail. At Valley City the hail
was heavy, breaking hundreds Of win
dow panes and flooding the ground.
The rains were much heavier than at
this place and the whole country along
the Northern Pacific was flooded. The
rain was cloud burst in some places.
At Valley City number of the small
bridges were washed away. The hail
seemed heaviest at Jamestown of any
town reported.
West Of this city there was much
less hail and the grain is not reported
injured to any extent. The same is
said to pe southwest.
The main damage is eXpeced to be
from the north and north
east. The country along the road east
of Valley City is said to be a regular
lake in places owing to rain. The
ground was soaked with water already
and the opening of the heavens
on top of it, simply flooded the land.
Many disastrous reports from hail