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

lifted into the top. of tree in a
neighbours yard and anc-e remained.
Mrs. Ayers herself was reported to be
seriously injured, but will get along
all right, having no broken bones. A
young son was injured slightly.
The house occupied by Gilbert
Langseth was a stone building in
part. and part frame. The south end
of the stone portion was sucked out
ward by the force of the wind leav-
ing the interior, . bed room, expos
ed. The house belonged to Leo
Wiese.
A telegraph pole crashed into the
roof of a small frame building across
the street tearing large hole thru,
and frightening the occupants, q man
and his wife, but doing no injury.
Lawrence Obermuller's barn In this
locality was completely blown away
and he has been unable to locate any
evidence of it since. The barn of c.
Martlett, the Standard oil agent,
was blown into the river and was
fished out in portions Sunday. 9y
In the StormGenter.
The center of the storm caught the
Al. Clemens house and the R. Wiese
house, the latter a new two story
we'll built structure. Gus Clemens
was in the kitchen trying to close
the door against the wind. He had
partly succeeded and was standing at
one side of the doorway, when huge
stick of timber struck the side of the
door frame near the top tearing away
the plastering from the inside and
breaking the frame. The windows
we're crashed in and the house, both
up and down stairs, flooded with
water, dirt and rubbish. The piano
was badly damaged and the furniture
spoiled. The barn at the rear of the
house contained four horses. One of
the animals was tied securely to a
stall and could not break the rope
and was dragged bv the wind and
timbers across the lot into the ad-
joining yard Of r. Wiese. The barn
was completely demolished, large
stove blown out some distance, but,
strange to say, none Of the horses
were injured. The Others managed
to get out from beneath the wreck
into the ward. @
There were about two tons of hay
in the barn and this hay was blown
across the lot fully so feet, thru the
windows Of &. Wiese's house. filling
the rooms both up and down stairs
with hay that was packed tight
around furniture and other objects.
A curious freak Of the storm at this
point, was seen in the transportation
of six little kittens in the hay that
was blown from the Clemens barn
across the lot in thru the windows
into the Wiese house. Mrs. Wiese
gathered the kittens in her apron
and returned them alive to the Gle.
mems family. A large tree In the
Clemens yard was destroyed and just
missed crashing into the house in Its
fall, which smashed the front gate
and spread out over the front walk.
. Mr.. Wiese's house presents sorry
sight, being scratched and battered
by the flying timbers and debris, the
windows broken, the chimneys gone,
the floors and furniture soaked, and
the rooms filled with hay. His barn
west OF the house and his dove cote,
were completely demolished and the
barn timbers swept across the river
to the opposite shore. "A wagon box
belonging to Al. Clemens was found
In Wiese's yard 100 feet away, and
the end gate stuck up in tree.
Big Trees DESTROYED.
Z After leaving the Wiese residence
the tornado followed the Pipestem
river northwest towards the round
house and its destruction was mostly
to trees. Over 100 large trees along
the river, and In the western part Of
Klaus park, have been either broken
81 overturned. Some enormous elm
trees probably 200 years old, have
bowed before the force of this May
day storm. Roots that have held in
many . summer and winter blast, are
now upturned and the huge trees are
PROSTATE on the ground. The two
or three large handsome elms on the
east end of the Klaus park, near the
bridge, which are admired BY every
visitor, we're fortunately unipjured.
1t was reported that the Frank
Bennett planning mill had been de.
stroyed, but this Is incorrect, aitho
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