Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-08
fierce HAIL STORM
VISITS VICINITY
Of grand FORKS

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Grand Forks, N. D., July 7.-Prob-
ably the fiercest hail storm that has
ever been experienced in the history
of Grand Forks county, and certainly
the most damaging that has occurred
in recent years, covered wide range
Of territory in the north central Sec
ton Tuesday evening between and
O'Clock, finally crossing the Red
River valley into Polk county, where
it continued it's work of devastation.
| In the path of the storm trees were
stripped of foliage; the earth was
robbed of all signs of vegetation;
| telegraph and telephone poles were
torn down; small outhouses and
barns were twisted and demolished;
Windmills were torn down and de-
stroyed, while windows in residences
and stores were smashed out before
the terrific onslaught of the elements.
McCanna and Inkster on the Han
nah line of the Great Northern; Meki-
mock and Honeyford, on the Northern
Pacific valley line, and Marvel on the
boundary line of the Great Northern,
appear to have been in the storm re-
gion, although Marvel was just at
the outskirts of two heavy hail storms
and did not suffer any damage.
Mekinock Storm Worst
Honeyford and Mekinock were in
the hubs about which the worst storm
seemed to center, and in both of those
places damage to windows, small
buildings, trees, etc., is very heavy,
while the crops in district which
it has yet been impossible to bound
are a total loss, the ground having the
appearance of never being seeded, so
black and bleak is it since the fierce
fall of the balls of ice from the sky.
Damage on no fewer than 100 Sec
lions of land has been done, and on
the great majority of those it is total.
The territory over which they spread
reaches from point west OF Nc
Gamma and Inkster to the Red river.
In Polk county, Minnesota, great
damage has also been done. After
leaving Grand Forks county the storm
struck Northland township, about 8
there it has caused a total loss on
between thirty and forty farms. The
next reports of damage come from
Tabor, Minn., in the eastern part of
the county, where a strip about a
mile and a half south of that place
was struck and the crops moved down
and pounded into the earth.
"Sixteen Inches Of Hail"
Michigan, Nelson county, had ter
rifle hail storm few minutes before
nine o'clock and an excited telegraph
operator, during the height of the
storm, notified Grand Forks that
there "was sixteen inches of hail On
the depot platform" On the street
levels there was about an inch of hail,
but it came down in such a manner
that windows did not suffer destruc-
ton.
Bottineau county also had little
hail, but no very great damage was
done in that section.
Rugby, Devils Lake, Churches Fer
ry, Lakota, Petersburg, Niagara and
several other points report rains &C.
curing early in the afternoon and the
last at about 10 O'Clock at night.
Rains also accompanied the hail
storms in this county, and Gilby,
where they had no hail, had a splen'
did rain. Grand Forks city had fair
shower, as did practically all of this
portion of the county. Thompson had
a high wind and threatening condi-
tons for few minutes Tuesday
night, but no rain. Northwood had
slight sprinkle, as did Larimore, but
that was all. Grafton, Pembina, Cav
alier, Langdoa and Park River did not
have anything but very light showers
during the evening.
Telephone Poles Torn Down
From Mekinock to Honeyford the
storm seems to have spent it's great
est force Thirty-four telephone poles
were torn out of the ground along the
Northern Pacific right-of-way between
those two towns, while in both of the
little villages very heavy damage was
wrought.
The storm came from the north
west, the fall of hail being preceded
by an extremely high wind which
tore and twisted at smaller outhouses'
rocked larger buildings and gave
alarm of the approaching storm.
Then came the storm. Chunks OF Ice
as large as hen eggs fell, and win
dows on the north and west sides OF
practically every building in both Me.
KNOCK and Honeyford were smashed
out. The terrific fall continued for
ten minutes, and when it was over
the ground was covered white with
hail stones, lying to a depth OF about
of an inch.
Fields Are Black
Today the fields, which had already
been put in bad way because OF
the extreme heat and continued
drought, are black. Passengers ar
irving on the Northern Pacific train
this morning report that the condi-
ton extends back from the track as