Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-04-23
STORM AT FARGO
WHILE ALL is WE'LL AT BIS
MARCK, THE REGION FROM
DAWSON EAST IS VISITED BY
A SEVERE STORM.

A SEVERE STORM.
Fargo Forum 22d: Snow and plenty
Of it, wet, very wet, clustering, blow
ing, falling and drenching, visited Far
&C and vicinity today. 1t was very
CONSPICUOUS and continued all day with
more or less Intensity, covering the
ground several inches deep with a slush
that made walking decidedly disagree
able. The heavy clouds that gathered
Monday afternoon and evening let
down torrents of rain, commencing
| shortly after midnight and continuing
for a couple of hours. when it
! slackened somewhat and grew colder.
At about { a. m. the ground was coated
with a thin sheet of ice, which made
things rather slippery. Then it began
to hail slightly and rain, continuing for
several moments. About $50 a. m. the
sky became thickly overloaded and it
rapidly grew very dark. In the south
the sky was almost black and toward
the east it was somewhat melloWed by
the rising sun.
There were all sorts of theories aired
as to the cause of the extreme darkness.
Some thought a tornado was coming,
others we're. convinced that it was an
eclipse of the sun, some thought the
darkness was caused by the density OF
the clouds and their. closeness to the
ground. The fact that the clouds were
not very dirk themselves and that it had
hailed considerably inclined some to the
opinion that they were filled with en-
bryonic hail and the heavy precipita-
ticn that followed covering the ground
several inches deep with hail, almost
eli the consistency of snow, but in he
form of hail. Nearly all were agreed
that for ten or fifteen minutes at about
SIS a. m. it was one of the darkest
periods except in an eclipse in the
daytime for years. Old men were heard
to remark that they had never expert
enced anything like it except in an
eclipse. Lights were turned. on all
over Lib tClLS dIlu III dppColSA VI
than on many a moonlight night.
:, The clouds broke rapidly shortly be-
:. Efcre 8 a.. m. and the snow began to fall,
= first in tiny pellets that stung sharply
as they struck the face and then grad
ually turning into a heavy snowstorm,
At noon there were a couple of inches
n Of snow and the wind was blowing
strongly from the north. though it was
not cold. The conditions were some
+ what akin to that of a blizzard. In the
# afternoon for some time the snow fell
- rapidly and in large fakes, piling W
g the snow like in January or March
II About six inches of snow fell before d:
D. M, and it was saturated with water
The extent of the storm was great
This morning it rained heavily sew
If eral times east of Glyndon and soutl
l. for a considerable distance.
y Fargoans are wondering if this i
Spring lingering in the lap of winter
Or what. ..,..
" Surveyor General Williams, who wa
I'd an arrival at the Waldorf today from
e Bismarck says that when the cas-
4 bound coast train left the capital city
about ? O'Clock this morning, tn
weather was clear and cold. The trai.
~ first ram into the stormy weather a
% Dawson, fifty miles east of Bismarck
and when it reached jamestown ther
A. were six inches of snow visible an
the weather was decidedly blizzard
esque. The vast darkness which COY
y cred these parts from Z to $50 o'clocl
~ was first noticed at Casselton.