The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-07-02
" SOUTH DAKOTA
TOWNS SWEPT BY
WIND And FLOOD
Destruction by Tornado, Flood
and Hail Reaches a Total
of 100000.

Beresfcrd, S. D., July Without
breath of wind, a hail storm covering.
a territory six miles wide and 10 miles
long, devastated the crops on nearly
two townships of land of which Beres-
ford is just about in the center, about 3
O'Clock Sunday morning.
Rain fell for several hours at a rate
never observed here before and by
a 1t is pronounced IA cloudburst.
Brule creek and valley were overfiowed
to ouch an extent that many houses
and outbuildings on what is considered
dry ground were surrounded and In
some cases flooded, while the deluge of
hail beat the crops out of sight and
the floods washed them away leaving
drifts of hail stones and crushed vege-
tation along the pathway of the flood
On places many feet deep.
Sixty square miles of rich farming
land was practically denuded of grow
ing crops and In many places the grass
is beaten into the mud to such an ex-
tent that 1t will furnish neither pastur-
age nor hay.
Corn which stood knee high on Sat
urday and gave promise of a fun crop
was cut off even with the ground over
IA large part Of the rail stricken terri
tory, while small grain is totally de-
stroyed.
j. w. Reedy, Oscar sundstrom and
Mr.. Deane, who have extensive holdings
80 'S"A 4 ailIC1lS lDe nedNV
losers. but there are at least 125 farm
ers damaged by the hail and food. A
conservative estimate by those who
have visited the stricken territory
places the total amount of damage at
$125,0o0 to $4,000, confined wholly to
growing crops and grass.
NIGHT CYCLONE HORROR
WIPES OUT A TOWN
10 RukWHna. ST .HJ1Ily@ 1 = Co ,,,l.
night Pukwana was a town of about
300 inhabitants with comfortable homes
and good business buildings. Sunday
morning practically every building in
the town was wrecked and many of
the people were homeless. A storm OF
wind and hail laid waste a TERRITORY
three miles wide inc 15 miles long and
Pukwana was in the center of the cy-
clones path. The storm struck at
about II o'clock Saturday night and
the work of destruction was completed
almost before the people could make
escape from their beds and get out into
the fury Of the storm.
The total loss will aggregate $500, 900.
The Carpenter-Sanborn ranch is the
heaviest single loser. the damage there
being placed at $3.50 1t was one of
the best equipped ranches in the state
with an outfit Of buildings which were
modern, up to date and extensive.
Both the Reliance and Hunting ele-
vators Were wrecked.
The Methodist and Catholic churches.
both fine structures, were DESTROYED.
The ID. M. Fell Implement house, the
Will Holeran furniture stock, the M. A.
Glass general store and building, the
Frank Powers store building and stock.
the opera house, the Mrs. Murray
house, We're all wrecked and there is
not a house left in the town without
serious damage.
The south side of the Reporter print
ing office was blown out, the Farmers
elevator was also seriously damaged.
The town was situated on a high site
and was M of the neatest and most
pl ,sperous in this part of the state
and today 1t is a mass of w~reckage.