The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-06-04
1wister Cuts Wide Swath il
North Dakota, Leaving Death
and Ruin in Wake.
MANY HOUSES ARE WRECKED
Heavy Property Loss At Langdon, Ypsi.
lanti and Other Towns-Many
Are Injured.

Northern and Central North Dakota
and Western Minnesota like a blast
from a furnace and blazed a trail Of
death and destruction.
Eight lives snuffed out like SO many
hickerinG candles. i've persons injur-
ed so that they will probably die, q
score OF others more or less hurt, a
quarter Of million dollars worth Of
property destroyed with one fell
swoop and telegraphic and telephone
communication broken and crippled
is the record Of the whirlwind which
wrought terrific havoc in Q few hours
Saturday.
The worst sufferer from the storm
was Langdon. N. D., whore five per.
sons we're killed and twenty or more
injured. The loss to property there
will reach fully $4,000, and the gen.
eral Decentralization Of business caus-
ed by the damage will reach o consid-
erably larger sum.
Forty Houses Raced.
With but little warning the storm
swept down on the town about 6
o'clock in the evening. With a wild
swirl II 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
we're swept aside like SO much kin.
ding ana left pitiful heap Of broken
plspks. -,,,-.ll-!!1sf 4s'~
People rushed from their homes In
wild dismay and az they did SO were
hurled by the wind like bits Of paper.
YpsiIanti 10 Wrecked. b.
From Jamestoyn, N. D.. Il Is re-
ported that Ypsilanti. a village thir-
teen miles south of there, has practi.
cally been destroyed by the cyclone.
The farm house Of George Graves
was blown into the James river. and
Mrs. Graves and her two young
daughters. who were in the house at
the time. were instantly killed. Every
pouee in the village was either entire
iy Or partially destroyed.
After leaving Ynsilanti the cyclone
sped down the James river, destroy.
ing farm houses and wrecking every.
thing in its path. 90
Damage In Jamestown.
In jamestown all the buildings Ct
the jamestown Fair association were
demolished. the Russell.Miller flour
mill was wrecked and a large portion
of the Northern Pacific roundhouse
caved in. burying In the debris a mum.
Der OF locomotives and severely injur.
ing several Italians who had fed to
the roundhouse when the storm first
ealtie up. .a'-!s-....;"!-~A'~''.'
At Tyler. Mimi. a grain elevator
vas lifted from its foundations and
carried several yards away. -Four
cars on the railway tracks were turn,
ed upside down and three men IN
them were severely injured.
At Lakota, N. D.. several buildings
we're struck down. At Wahpeton the
state fair buildings were demolished,
and nj Devils Lake the Great North.
ern wires and telegraph poles were
thrown down and communication cut
OF.
lanedon Hit Hardest.
Reports from over the state last
| night indicate that outside Of Lang.
don and Ypsilanti there was no loss
of life in the cyclone Of Saturday,
Small losses OF property are reported
from various sections Of the state
but the loss in Langdon overshadows
oil others.
| Residents OF Langdon. dared by
their misfortune for brief spell
have bravely responded to the needs
Of the unfortunate people who lost al
in the disaster. No help from outside
the city will be required, 1t Is an
nouneed. u - Nr~-t-'