The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-02

Walsh county Saturday AFTERNOON at
about 5 o'clock, knocking out about
100000 bushels OF grain.
In Acton township about ten quar-
ter sections were almost completely
hailed out, the grain previous to the
storm, being of the very finest.
In st. Andrews township the loss
will not amount to- as large as that
of Acton township, the fall OF hail
there not being as heavl.
Among the places hailed out were
G. w. FoOgman, j., j. OBrien, S. Nc
Lean and Fealtman, which are total
Stephen Damage Slight
Stepnen, Mimi, Aug. "A hail storm
travelling from the southwest to the
northeast, passed over Stephen Satur-
day afternoon at about 3 O'Clock. The
damage in this vicinity will! be in the
neighborhood of ten per cenS, the
width of the storm varying from three
to five miles. About six miles north
east of here three or four farmers
sustained total losses, F. j. Grand
strand and August Rybhols beng
among the losers.
Eastern Pembiaa Untouched
Pembina, N. D., Aug. Eastern
Pembina county suffered no losses in
aSturday afternoons storms. There
were several rain showers in this i'm
mediate vicinity but there was no hail
and no damage was done. The dam
age from the hail seems 10 have been
confined to the western and south
western sections of the county.
Munich Damaee Slight
Munich, N. D., Aug. 2-The damage
in the vicinity of Munich was very
slight, the storm striking here about
2 o'clock in the evening.
Barnes County Storm.
Valley City, N. D., Aug. 2.-Friday
evening from $50 to $50 o'clock
Barnes county was visited by one of
the worst hail storms in the history of
! the county. The stdl"n had it's incep-
ton somewhere nor.., Of Oriska and
/ travelled west and little north. Much
damage was done over strip varying
in width from half mile to three
miles until the neighborhood of the
White Bros. and the Harper Bros.
farms were reached north of this city
The storm did the Whites but little
damage while it destroyed from 25 to
SO per cent of the wheat on the Harper
farms and go per cent of the barley
The oats and flax through this section
was not damaged to any great extent
The storm was several miles wide at
this point and as is customary with
such storms, was freakish leaving
some grain in its path and taking
other fields outside of it.
| AS soon as the storm struck the
/, Sheyenne river near Senator J. H.
Whitcher's farm which suffered con-
siderable damage, the storm either di-
vided and some of it continued north
! west and the main division bore sud-
denly south or else the storm abated
it's fury and continued west and north
&, and new one went south down the
river. In any event, the path in which
the greatest damage was done, runs
south from where it crossed the river
although much damage was done for
several miles west of the river The
| storm left the valley north of the city
,, and passed about two miles to the
west a'rd struck the river again just
south of town and followed down the
| valley to the southern boundary of the
county.
Ice Laid in Drifts.
The damage appears to have been
the heaviest west and south of the
city. South of town the grain was
pounded into the ground and at $3.50
Saturday morning the ice yet laid in
drifts on some~of the farms from five
to ten miles south of the city. There
was quite heavy wind and the great
pieces of ice, half as big as man g
fist, tore through the fly screens and
broke the glass in many of the farm
houses.
The thermometer suddenly dropped
here in the city from the neighborhood
of 80 to 60 degrees.
1t is all but impossible to ascertain
the exact path of the storm. There
are rumors of all sorts on the streets
of who lost and who did not but the
path of the.storm itself can be traced
with but little trouble. There are
breaks in it before it reached the river
on its westward course but after 1t
struck the river, it increased in in
tensity and the destruction was some
thing terrible. Its path west, or more
properly, southwest of the city, was
fully four miles wide. Down the val
ley in places it appears to have done
damage over a path six or seven miles
wide.
Another hail storm is reported from
the western part of the county. There
was hail at Jamestown but the path
| of the Stutsman county storm appears
to have been southeast from Spirit
wood. Reports from the latter point
are tn the effect that great damage
was done there by hail. From Spirit
wood to jamestown. the damage was
total over a path of unknown width.
This storm entered Barnes county
near Eckelson and extended southeast
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