Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-11
fierce Wind
BLEW Sc MILES AN HOUR AND
BROUGHT 1903 INCHES OF rv
RAIN. -s-
HAIL AS LARGE AS MARBLES
CAME, Too-FoRT LINCOLN
DAMAGED.
TWO HOTELS AND COURT HOUSE
AT MANDAN DAMAGED
$4,000.
GRAVEL TRAIN CABoOSE WRECK
ED ON BRIDGE AND THREE
MEN HURT.

SlACy-SlA niles an nOur. lual ~"
ing some. w..
Everybody in Bismarck had an idea
Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock that
the wind was going even faster than
that, and in a number of cases cellars
were at a premium as an abiding place
At the hour named huge bank
of black clouds gathered in the north
west by west, and many people who
were down town scampered home,
as 1t was evident there was going to
be something doing.
And there was.
1t has been many years since such
a fierce wind has been experienced
in this section. 1t was accompanied
by a heavy rain which deposited an
inch and three-tenths of water on the
ground in half an hour, and to make
matters worse, large hail came along
with it, and it is astonishing there is
any vegetation left.
Lively tuInS AOfdUlS uIoFOu, oAo
trees and limbs were soon scattered
over the ground in many places, and
small buildings tumbled about like
Russian thistles in the seeding time.
However, comparatively little damage
was done in this city -~ H~.
The storm was about seven miles
wide, but its length is unknown, and
from reports received the hail part
of it was but a very narrow strip.
The lightning struck freight car on
the N. P. near Rhud's lumber yard,
and ripped it up in good shape. 1t
was also reported that Geo. Robidou' S
house was struck, but this was not
verified. The wind stripped the roof
| off a box car on the N. P. a board at
1 a. time, until the car was roof1ess, and
a number of other stunts of divers
kinds were reported.
The cornfield at the penitentiary
was stripped by the hail, but corn
patches in the city were only knocked
over by the wind. The penitentiary
seems to have been the eastern limit
of the hail, and there was hail as far
| as two miles west of Mandan. OBJ
server Roberts of the local weather
bureau says the storm was caused by
45-mile wind from the east meeting
strong wind from the northwest 6
short distance northwest of the city
resulting in a semitwister which came
down the river valley.
| At Mandan.
II Mandan seems to have been tht
storm center, and $4,000 worth O.
damage was done over there.
The Demars hotel was the wors
sufferer, the roof and one brick side
wall being wrecked by the wind. Thu
entire house was damaged by water
and the loss is placed at $4,000. Fol
tunately no one was hurt. -
The wind tore the roof off one o
the buildings in the rear of the Inter
Ocean hotel, and crashed it through
the glass roof over the dining room
completely demolishing that part Q
the hotel, with a loss of $4,000, and n
one was hurt there, either.
/ A part of the roof of the court hous
was blown off, and water damaged tn
building, the loss being $500. A ne1
, house in course of construction wa
blown against nearby house an
smashed into kindling wood TIE
= windmills bit the dust and a numbe
I of small houses were moved fror
3 their foundations few inches.
One odd thing which happene
at Mandan was the blowing of a bah
2 from her carriage across the stree
2 without injuring the child more than
2 few bruises. The storm did not e,
2 tend to the west more than two mile
beyond Mandan, but was general, s
far as the wind was concerned, fror
! Wilton south, and it is thought gres
> deal of grain has been lodged and POI
sibl lost in the country.
i At Fort LincoIn.
The wind got good sweep at Fol
Lincoln, and unroofed the barracks (
Company g. stove in one Of the wall
q few inches and carried away th
long porch in front. The roof wa
carried half a mile. Other mine
damage was done, but no one wa
hurt
A Close Call.
I The gravel train was crossing th
Missouri river bridge in the midst {
the storm, when the caboose, whic