Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
light DEAD IN
DAKOTA CYCLONE
fwister Cuts Wide Swath in
North Dakota, Leaving Death
and Ruin in Wake.
many HOUSES ARE WRECKED

UFduu i vi No, Az. ~ cuAAo - "a
ryclone or tornado swept through
Northern and Central North Dakota
and Western Minnesota like blast
from furnace and blazed a trail OF
death and destruction.
Eight lives snuffed out like so many
dckering candles, five persons tnjur-
ID so that they will probably die. a
score of others more or less hurt,
quarter Of million dollars worth OF
property destroyed with one fell
swoop and telegraphic and telephone
communication broken and crippled
ls the record Of the whirlwind which
wrought terrific havoc in few hours
Saturday
The worst sufferer from the storm
was Langdon. N. D.. where five per-
sons were killed and twenty or more
injured The loss to property there
will reach fully $4,000, and the gen.
eral decentralization of business caus-
cd by the damage will reach a consid-
erably larger sum! as' so
Forty Houses Raced.
With but little warning the storm
swept down on the town about 6
o'clock in the evening. With wild
swirl 1t swept about the streets and
roadways and In less than FIVE min
utes forty houses were razed to the
ground, the Methodist church was
torn from. its foundation and scatter
ed in the streets like driftwood In the
surf and the huge grain elevators
| were swept aside like SO much kim
ding and left a pitiful heap Of broken
planks.
People rushed from their homes in
wild dismay and as they did so were
hurled by the wind like bits of paper.
Ypsiianti is Wrecked.
From Jamestown. N. D.. it 10 re-
ported that Ypsilanti a village thir-
leen miles south Of there, has practi.
eally been destroyed by the cyclone.
The farm house of George Graves
vas blown into the James river, and
Mrs. Graves and, her two young
oaughteFs,awho were in the house at
be time were instantly killed. Every
ouse in the village was either entire
or partially destroyed.
z After leaving Ypsilanti the cyclone
ped down the James river, destroy
ing farm houses and wrecking every
hing in it's path.
Damage in Jamestown.
In jamestown all the buildings of
Inc jamestown Fair association were
demolished, the Russell-Mille flour
mill was wrecked and a large portion
pf the Northern Pacific roundhouse
caved In, burying in the debris num-
Der OF locomotives and severely injur-
ing several Italians who had fed to
=the roundhouse when the storm first
Ecame up.
At Tyler, Mimi, grain elevator
was lifted from it's foundations and
carried several yards away. Four
Gears on the railway tracks were turn
led upside down and three men in
them were severely injured.
At Lakota, N. D., several buildings
were struck down. At Wahpeton the
state fair buildings were demolished,
and at Devils Lake the Great North
ern wires and telegraph poles were
Thrown down and communication cut
of.
langdon Hit Hardest.
Reports from over the state last
night indicate that outside Of Lang
don and Ypsilanti there was no loss
q life In the cyclone Of Saturday.
small losses Of property are reported
from various sections Of the state,
put the loss In Langdon overshadows
an others.
Residents Of Langdon, dazed by
their misfortune for a brief spell,
nave bravely responded to the needs
of the unfortunate people who lost all
20 the disaster. No help from outside
tne city will be required, It is an
bounced.