Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1909-06-03

"a, THURSDAY, JUNE 3 Il
hicles stored there. but these were
found smashed into fragments on the
river bank among the trees. A
phaeton and another buggy belonged
to W. B. S. Trimble. The roof OF the
Judges stand lodged in the debris Of
the grand stand. 'sS
The roof of the baseball stand per-
formed Z regular airship feat. It
was carried, according to the obser-
vation of William Tompkins, who
was in his house near the entrance to
the Fair Grounds, to height OF
some 40 feet above the ground and
made two wide circles, passing be-
tween the house of Sam Pulver and
the house of Bert Tompkins and
around the W1lmart house. Mr..
Tompkins expected to see the roof
that was whirling in the air drop up
on any one of the four or five houses
in that immediate vicinity, but it
fell, when the force that sustained it
gave way, and did no one injury or
damage. 1t is about 200 feet from
the starting point and probably made
one of the most remarkable aerial
trips that q roof Of any building of
that size ever performed.
Sam Pulver's wagons were scatter
ed In all directions, Two Of them car
ried north along the street from his
yard a distance of over a block, one
milk wagon was overturned and his
out buildings badly demolished, his
chimneys knocked of and a small
piece Of board driven thru windows
on opposite sides of the house. Mrs.
Blades was In the kitchen at the time
and daughter Of Mr.. Pulver was
sick in the house. All the houses In
this vicinity lost chimneys.
Tail Rose and Fell.
The barn on the william Tomp-
kins lot was badly damaged by part
of the roof Of his buggy shed. The
shed contained two buggies and q
stove and other property. This shed
was 1920, and part OF the roof was
found afterwards on top of a box car
on the roller mill track, about two
blocks distant.
In the Thompkins yard near the
riyer,..the trees show where the lower
end of the tornado's tail raised and
descended. A strip of trees next to
the ESir Ground west fence. are prac-
ctically untouched, A little further
west Mr. Tompkins claims to have
seen the nucleus or center of the tor
nado with its hanging tail dip down
to the ground, and where it hit the
ground brush and large trees we're
completely torn up and scattered. and
grass and weeds scraped of the
ground. The whirlwind after doing
this damage to the trees, again rose
like big balloon, and by the time it
reached the mill bridge was high
above the top of the bridge and as it
passed the tall mill and elevator, the
southwest corner of the latter shows
where a strip Of siding was snatched
off. The mill itself is intact, but the
smokestack lies broken in several sec
tions on the ground and in the river.
East Of the road the barn or John
Schroeder was blown totally away,
and about all the pickets on the yard
fence we're smashed in the middle.
"A telegraph pole is broken in three
pieces and nearly every window light
on the east and south side Of the mill
isgone. Mr.. Thompkins house was
not injured; it vas brick structure
with aveneered siding but the win
dows were broken and the house
flooded. Mr.. and Ms.> Thompkins
stood In the kitchen door and observ-
ed the storm as closely as possible.
She said it sounded like an approach
ing rumbling freight train and the
long pillar or tail resembling that Of
at kite was uncertain fn'its direction
and rose from and then dipped to the
ground. s',Sa@ &
After passing by the mill the tor
nado again descended to the ground
and blew the sheds and chicken
houses Of the old Walter Miller place
occupied by Mr.. Stevens, to the
ground. The Joe J. RIPLEY house,
north, had shingles torn Of and Ben
Baenan's barn, large building, was
moved : considerable distance OF its
foundation and the chimneys Of his
house torn of. s5 sIs5,
r. Koehn's new ice house was