The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-02
TWO DISASTROUS HAIL STORMS WROUGHT
HEAVY DAMAGE To NORTH DAKOTA CROPS
Million Bushels of Grain Were Probably Destroyed by the
Various Storms Walsh Pembna and Cavalier Counties
in the North and Barnes and Stutsman in
the South Suffered Most

Immense damage was wrought Sat
urday afternoon by series of hail
storms striking in western Pembina
county eastern Cavalier county and
eastern Walsh county.
With losses running from 10 to
100 per cent over large territory, it
Is impossible to estimate the number
of bushels of grain knocked out, but
the figures at hand would indicate
that in the neighborilood of 1000, 900
bushels were pounded into the earth.
Striking in territories where the
crop prospect S had been of the very
best, the losses come doubly hard.
Walhalla probably had the heaviest
of the storms, an entire township
being hailed out there.
| Cavalier, Leydon and Backoo in
Pembina county and Hannah, Munich
and Wales in Cavalier county, and
st. Andrews and Acton townships in
(; Walsh county, are the other places
that were struck hard by the storms.
The first of the north country
storms took place at about 2:3O or
3 o'clock and continued till z o'clock
in the evening, arising here and
there, doing terrific damage in all
places effected, and then apparently
going to pieces only to form some
where else to work further damage.
/ Barnes county had terrific storm
Friday evening, loss of several
thousand acres being sustained.
In other sections of the state last
week there were also very heavy hail
storms, the losses for the week being
1t is believed, the heaviest that have
ever been sustained from hail in this
state In SO short period.
Fields Are Black
Walhalla, N. D., Aug. 2-The dis
trict tributary to Walhalla was prob
ably the hardest hit in Saturday aft
ernoon's storms. The entire town
ship of Walhalla was practically
knocked out there being fields near
this city that have been pounded
black, not a straw being left of the
beautiful fields of last week.
About 100000 bushels Of grain. or
twenty per cent of the grain tribu-
tary to the city, was destroyed. The
/ territory covered is about six miles
by four miles and in that district not
pane of glass on the north side of
the buildings is left.
1. Jagged and rough, and measuring
from tn esize of marble to a hens
egg, the hail fell for Is minutes,
leaving ice drifts afte rit had passed
over. There was heavy loss near
Backoo.
Cavalier Loss Extensive
Cavalier, N. D., Aug. 2-Cavalier's
loss in Saturday afternoons hail
storms was very extensive, two storms
originating in the northwest and the
northeast sweeping towards this city,
joined forces and continuing south
westward. 1t Is as yet absolutely i'm
possible to tell the exact damage as
the territory covered is very extern
sive.
The country as far north as the in
ternational boundary to about seven
miles southeast of here was in the
district. In places the loss is almost
total, but on the whole it will aver
age about twenty-five per cent. The
storm did not extend west of this city.
The territory lying between here
and Walhalla, which includes Backoo
and Leydon, was in the storm district
and suffered heavily.
Wales Loss Heavy
Wales, N. D., Aug. PA strip about
four miles long and two miles wide
was hailed out here in storm Satur-
day afternoon. The storm had its in
ception about mile west of this
place and travelled towards the east,
going about three miles further be-
fore it let up. On about 1000 acres
the loss is total, while on the remain
der of the territory covered the losses
will run from 10 to 80 per cent. About
20 or Is per cent of the grain tribu-
tary to Wales was knocked out.
The storm lasted about half an hour
and the heavy ice stones smashed win
dows, ruined garden truck and work.
ed terrific havoc.
Hannah Has Loss
Hannah, N. D., Aug. "a storm
having its inception in Canada along
the boundary line three miles west of
Hannah worked total damage on
about 500 acres with partial loss on
$500 acres. The storm travelled in
a southeasterly direction towards
Wales, but did not clean out the en-
tire country between the two cities,
jumping a big territory.
Hail in Eastern Walsh