The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-24
sevsraI Were Inlured.

PS7Si0AS " ktt Auh reports OF the dam
age.
Several Were Injured.
The farm home OF Peter Foats.
twelve miles east Of Hillsboro. was de-
molished and Mr.. Foats and several
members OF his family were badly in
jured. The storm struck the Foats
farm at 1880 and Mr.. Foats aroused
his family as he heard outbuildings
crashing and hurried them to the cell
lar. The building was lifted over their
heads and went crashing TO ruin much
of the debris falling into the cellar.
Mr.. Foats was struck by heavy beam
and it is feared he may not recover.
One child, aged 8. Is also in a critical
condition. Mrs. Foats had her shoul-
der broken and was otherwise injured
Medical aid was secured from Hills
boro by neighbors but did not reach
Mr.. Foats and family until 4:30 this
morning.
Damage at Cummings.
At Cummings the large r. ". ware
house was overturned and badly de-
molished. The Kirtenderger general
store was badly injured, two barns
belonging to C. z. Carver were destroy
ed, as was a new barn worth several
thousand dollars which had just been
erected by T. L. Rohman.
At Larimore the residence OF Te-
wald Johnson was struck by lightning
and badly injured One part OF the
building was entirely shattered by the
bolt
At Kempton, a barn belonging to r..
w. Aldrich was struck by lightning
and was burned to the ground. Several
head Of stock were killed.
Storm Was General.
Although the greatest damage was
done by the wind in the section OF the
country between Grand Forks and
Hillsboro the storm was general last
night from Winnipeg to Fargo.
Throughout the whole section of the
Red River valley there was a veritabIe
cloudburst and considerable damage
has been done to the grain In shock
as a result. Beside this the heavy
soaking rain will delay harvest and
threshing operations for several days.
The storm seemed to stop about six
miles south of Fargo.
The Storm in Fargo.
Fargo was visited by a veritabIa
cloudburst about Q o'clock and for a
time the streets were flooded with
water. There was little damage I'm
Fargo however, as far as can be
learned. The water flooded few base
ments along Broadway to the depth OF
a foot or two, but no damage was re-
ported.
The worst flooded basement was al
the operahouse where about two feet
accumulated and there was trouble in
getting into the dressing rooms. The
Girl Question was forced to get along
with one set OF scenery for the full
play as that for the last acts was in
the basement and could not be gotten
out.
No Hail Damage.
Although a few hailstones fell in
Fargo and 1t was the general idea that
q big hail storm had occurred some
where in the immediate vicinity,
there are no reports OF any damage
from hail today.
Chickens Were Killed.
During the storm terrific and ex-
traordinary gust OF wind blew away q
substantially constructed henhouse on
the farm of Bill Curry, near Argus
Vile, and 500 fowls were killed out
right, not bird in the house es-
capped. The roof of the henhouse cur
iousiy parted from the rest Of the
building. was waited like feather
onto the main line Of the Great Nor
thern and when the night east bound
passenger train came along 1t dash
ed into the roof cutting the latter
cleanly in two.