The Redwood gazette., 1902-08-06
Storm 5 FURY
Friday Nights Storm the Worst
Thot Has Ever Passed
Over the City.
Buildings Unroofed, Tower Torn
Down, 7 rees Broken and
Crops Destroyed.

The worst storm that ever passed
over this section of the State came
about II clock last Friday night.
Trees we're broken down or torn up
from the. roots, buildings were un-
rooted or partly demolished, resi-
dences we're more or less inl lured,
wind mills were brought TO the
ground, and residents in the storm
district were frightened so badly
that many of them took to the GEL
lars while the storm was at it's
heighth.
This city seemed to be in the cen
ter of the path of the storm. The
following morning the streets pre-
sented the appearance of a cyclone
having struck the town the even
ing before The warehouse OF King
Bros. on Third street had been un-
rooted and the roof blown to pieces
many feet south. The drying tow
er Of the Redwood Falls Fire de-
partment, located in the First ward,
and on the top of which was a fire
bell, had been blown over and fell
on the carpenter shop and resi-
dence of Asa Carkhuff. Mr.. Cark-
huff was not at home, and Mrs.
Carkh huff and her son we're badly
frightened as the old tower struck
the top of their residence and
crashed through the upper timbers
and let flood Of water through the
roof. For a moment they felt sure
that a cyclone was on the city. A
portion of the tin roof was torn
from the court house and sent over
into the yard. The weather-vane on
the Methodist church was blown
south wards.
Business and residence streets
were chaotic at all points. Huge
trees had been broken, or the wind
had wrenched mammoth limbs from
them, and scattered them over the
streets. Everywhere, in yards or
streets, these limbs were strewn.
and where the foliage was thickest,
streets we're almost impossible
Saturday morning. Work was COM
menced Saturday cleaning them up
and in short time beauty and or
der had been restored, although
trunks of trees are still standing as
tablets to the fury of the storm.
AS early as nine clock weather
prognosticators anticipated bad
storm. Threatening clouds in
creased in their threatening ap-
| pearance while the skies were white
with electrical displays. Every
moment added to the intensity OF
the Juror. A few moments before
II o'clock the cyclonic elements
had reached their greatest inten-
sity There was a whlrIing sound
as if some awful water spout was at
work. The rain came Now and
then few bail stones were heard
cracking at the windows. Trees
and limbs were heard to crack and
fall to the ground. Loose boards,
barrels, etc, were seen going
through space aud heard to strike
against buildings with a crash
| Doors to sheds and outbuildings
were being thrown from their
hinges.
i 1t was all over IN half an hour. The
| wind grew calm at midnight. The
rain moderated to practically NJ
fall. The awful clouds. sent up BY
a northeast wind and sent bach
| again by a north thwester, vanished
The stars made their appearance a:
if to smile on the awful wreck o
the StormKiug of a few moment:
before. -.
d, HT THE COUNTRY.
i At least fifty per cent of the mag
Il nifcent crop lying in the storm
path was cut away from the tiller.
lof the soil. That crop was good fo1