New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-07-05
AFTERMATH OF HAIL STORM.
Damage of Storm OF Last Week is
Very Great.
Farmers in Some Localities Lose
Entire Crops.
Some Fields in RenviIIe County
Will be PIowed Under.

Will be PlOWed Under.
From the various sections of the
country come reports of the damage
that the storm o. last Saturday
wrought to the crops that have arrived
at that stage when they are most sus-
ceptable to damage. In parts of Red
wood county, so the papers state, the
hail was so heavy that it covered the
ground like snow and some of the
stones were as large as base balls.
Fields of grain in that section of the
country were complete wreck. The
wheat was beaten into the ground and
damaged so that tits impossible for it
ever to recover and the corn was
leveled with the ground; destroyed,
hopelessly Farmers from Linden say
that there was no storm of any con-
sequence there and grain in that vicin-
| ity looks excellent.
It is not the case with farmers to the
north and west as the following from
the Lafayette Ledger would indicates:
| "The fields which but few minites
before were waving in the breeze are
now entirely stripped of their crops
the wheat and other small grains cut
off even with the ground and corn
stalks were stripped of their leaves.
"The path of the hail storm was
about four miles wide and ten miles
long and everywhere through this
| district the devastation is very near
complete.
"One farmer who has $50 acres Of
good land all put to crops informed
us that he does not think he will gel
500 bushels of grain and he said tha1
some of his neighbors Jared ever
worse than he did for they cannot ex
pect anything whatever from theil
1 helds.'
i At Franklin and in the neighborhool
Of Fairfax the storm was equally a:
bad and the damage great. In the write
up of the storm the Franklin Tribune
contains the following:
"The hail storm seems to have com
menced it's work of destruction abou
two miles west of Fairfax, rising anC
falling alternately as hail storms usu
ally travel. On the farms of Gideo1
Anderson, Nels Boyum, Chris ant
Andrew Wigen, liver Brandiord, Oh
and Math Kelly, VIM. and Herman
Holm, Isaac Rovainen, 0. P. Rohne
Oscar Johnson, Jas. O'Shea, JOIN
Baar, Henry Allen, d.. Leary ant
John Long the loss is almost com
plete. Many other farms were strucl
and more or less damaged, the exten
however is and will be a matter o
conjecture for some time. Some of tn
farmers in the wake of the storm hav
already commenced to pillow thei
} fields. 1t is fact to be deplored tina
) large number of those who lost thei
crops are renters and cannot with
stand a loss SO easily as those VIII
) own the farms and are in easy circum
} stances. "
While the hail did some damage l.
this city the worst was done by tn
vast amount of water that has falle
: and the force of the wind. Its pOssibl
, if the weather remains comparative
dry that an average crop will b
harvested here, but if more rain fall
SO that it will be impossible for farmer
to get into their corn fields it is cel
tain that there will be a large short
: age On account of the damage ths
the rain has done in the state th
2 quotations on the price of future graf
has risen and there is every indicatio
9 that the new wheat when marketed wi
+. bring close to a dollar a buShel.
g The Echo Enterprise in speaking {
S the storm says: .sHail fell only
S streaks, missing some fields and entir