The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-19
DAMAGE DONE BY The CYCLONE
A Devastating Windstorm Came Up From the
West Saturday Evening and Created
Havoc in Property.
Two Residences and Several Barns in the Wes-
tern Part of City We're Caught in
the MaeIstrom.
No Lives We're Lost In This Vicinity But Much
Property Was Carried Away and
Destroyed.

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watching its oncoming. He placed
his family in a small hole beneath
the house and was ready to 20 in
when ever the need was apparent.
With an untold force the storm swept
down upon his little home and
wrecked everything about the place,
taking the house, the barn and the
chicken house. Portions of the
house were carried 300 feet TO the
northeast and strewn over the
prairie. The barn was dumped in a
heap and was crushed together. The
stove was carried perhaps a hundred
feet and the top broken off; a sewing
machine vas twisted and badly
broken. while near 10y lay a side of
the house with one window light
intact. The organ was wrecked and
was carried a hundred feet away.
When the wind struck the house 1T
carried high in tile air and evidently
tore it apart before dropping to the
gound. The barn was carried but a
few feet from the place where it
stood. The household goods are a
total loss and they we're strewn over
the ground in queer fashion, broken
and useless. Several iron bedsteads
were oroken badly and a mattress
was found wound around the wire
fence aud post. Mr.. Parks had not
finished his house and only that day
be had drawn some lumber to CON-
plete it and this he saved by not
having used it.
Sunday morning great crowds of
people drove out to the Regain and
Parks places and viewed the wrecks,
and it was a gruesome sight which
met their gaze. Mr.. Parks was
endeavoring 70 s~traighten things out
to some extent and seemed to take
his loss cheerfully enough under the
circumstances and was glad indeed
that they escaped with their lives.
At both places some parties started
a subscription paper to help the men
in their distress and those who called
we're invited to make a donation and
a long list Of names was.secured at
each place.
One or two other houses on the
Cassem addition were damaged by
the breaking of window lights. but
they were just beyond the edge of
the storm and escaped any serious
damage.
After wipine out the Parks home,
the storm veered around to the north
and then went in a northwesterly
direction. Perhaps a quarter of a
mile north OF the Parks place the
storm struck the new barn OF o. E.
assem-. MI. Parks said that he was
watching the progress of the storm
and the cloud seemed to hover over
the barn for two or three minutes.
The roof was torn off and the upper
part OF the barn was demolished, the
lumber being carried off to the north
west. All OF the he Ivy braces inside
the barn were torn out and rendered
useless. 1t is estimated that the
barn Was damaged to the amount OF
ST 900. Two chicken houses, 1OX12,
we're blown away, while a hog house
100 feet long was completely demol-
ished, as was a barn, 16x24, not a
yestige of which was left.
All day Sunday PARTICLES of grass
and dirt were falling over the city,
roofs being partially covered. The
storm clouds had carried an immense
quantity of stuff high up in the all
and it took some time to come down.
During the storm the air was filled
with all kinds Of material picked up
by the swift and powerful moving
clouds.
After tile storm cloud passed over
the Cassem barn it seems to have
suspended it's force as no other re.
ports were received during the day
as 10 damage done. Sunday evening
it was reported that a house and
barn a mile east and a mile north
of Riverside was destroyed, but tile
report was not confirmed.
i. Telephone Wires Down.
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