The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-05-04

ing points. Occurring on supda,
there was not so much Of a chance
to be taken in this respect as there
we're not SO many trains running.
Monday a. m. the Western Union
was to send messages outside
OF the city and before the day was
over their lines were in very good
working order. So~far as the Ions
distance lines are concerned, 1t will
take some little time for them to
be placed in good condition, al
though one line may be placed With
in a day of so.
When the local telephone lines
commenced to break and 60 down
they fell across the electric light
wires in all parts of the city. BY
reason of the danger Of the people
receiving shock when they used
the phone Manager Sherwood shut
down the plant during the day, and
during the day there was no DOW
er on. Late in the afternoon two or
three men had finished going over
the residence district, and cutting
the telephone wires that laid across
the electric light wires and thus
broke all possible connection. With
that done 1t was possible for the
lights to be turned on about z
O'Clock in the evening. The electric
light wires were not damaged to any
extent by reason of the fact that
they are very heavy and are capable
Of sustaining greater weight than
the telephone wires
1t is not believed that any damage
will result to the growing crops.
Wheat is up the highest, but it is
not so far advanced that the ice and
freeze will affect it to any great ex-
tent. The moisture that came will
more than Offset any damage that
will possibly accrue. The precipita-
tion Of the rain, the sect and the
snow, which came late In the after
noon, amounted to lao inches. The
ground did not freeze during the
day and every bit of the water found
its way deep into the SOIL The
freeze came Sunday night when the
mercury went to "a degrees. All
day Sunday the mercury remained
at the point Of 80 to 33 degrees,
while 80 degrees was the coldest
Saturday night. Last year the wheat
and oats had worse experience than
the storm of the present period, and
the grains came out In fine shape
and produced good crog.
Last year the storm came on
April Is, when vast quantity Of
snow fell, and covered eyssythtng at
least ten inches deep. The two sue
ceding days of that storm showed
exceedingly cold, the mercury touch
ing at 21 and 25 degrees, making
the cold period much longer than
the present. BY reason of the pos
sible absence of longer cold spell
it is believed that wheat will not
sustain anywhere near the damage
that resulted year ago.
The storm did not reach very far
north, that is the rain part of it.
The rain showed as far north as AL
pena and from there on snow fell in
large quantities, and heavy cold
wind blew all day long. The wealth
er turned exceedingly cold in the
north part during the night and was
much colder than in this section.
To the south about the same con-
ditions prevailed-more snow and
less rain. In the vicinity OF Scot
land Tripp there was large guam
tity of snow fell, and in the rail-
road cuts in that section on the Mil
waukee road there was three feet of
snow in the cuts. A freight train
coming up this morning was stalled
in one of the cuts for half hour
before it would get through. Much
damage was done to the telegraph
poles on the Milwaukee system. Be-
tween Mitchell and Chamberlain 700
poles went to the ground, while
south of here to Scotland there are
35 poles down, but only about ten
between here and Alexandria. At IL
o'clock Trainmaster Anderson and
a large crew of men started west to
set up the poles to Chamberlain. Be-
yond Kimball it is reported, that the
rain was much lighter, although
west of the river it grew heavier and
turned cold and below the freezing
point.
The Omaha road suffered quite a
loss in telegraph poles going down,
1t being reported that there were
800 down. between Mitchell and
Humboldt. A crew was sent out
from Sioux Falls to put them In po-
sition again.
Ford Zeitlow came down from Alb
erdeen Monday a. m. with force of
men to put to work in restoring the
telephone poles and wires Of the
Dakota Central Co. He left some
men to take up the work at WOon-