The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-08-24
TORNADOES IN
NORTH DAKOTA
NORTHWEST CORNER OF STATE
FEELS THE BRuNT OF A
TERRIFIC STORM.
SEVEN DEATHS ARE REPORTED
Score at Antler Believed to Be In,
iured.-Loraine, MohaIi, Souris
and MeClusky Hit.-Property
Damage Heavy.

Mohall, Aug. 22.-Tornadoes origin
ating at four different points north
west of this city killed two people,
a man and a girl, and caused sew
eral thousands of dollars worth of
property damage. The storm travelled
east. A dozen or more of farm build
lngs were demolished and several per-
sons are reported injured.
MinOt.-A terrific storm SWEET over
Northwest North Dakota, killing sew
eral people and devastating prop
erty and placing the lives of many
people in jeopardy. A child was kill
ed and several picnicers injured near
Antlers. The picnickers were enjoy.
Lag an outing at a grove just out of
town. The pleasure seekers were
picked up in the air and landed hun
dTeds of feet away in all directions.
Several of them were badly injured.
According to the best information
obtainable twenty-four persons were
seriously injured. Telegraphic and
telephone communication with Ant
Ter is out of commission and direct in
formation is not to be held.
All of the physicians and surgeons
from Westhope and other n~eighbor-
hood towns have been rushed there.
From Antler the storm swept south
and a trile to the west, where it
again came to the earth, ]uprooting
trees and doing untold damage at Nc
Clusky. Three people are reported
dead there in collapsed buildings.
McClusky is on the Turtle Lake
branch of the Northern Pacific.
The storm was the heaviest near
Sherwood and Antler and the report
comes that thousands of dollars worth
of property was destroyed. Heavy
property damage is reported at Lo-
raine. Mohall and souris.
Two cyclones struck in the vicinity
of Sherwood. The first took a path
southeast of Sherwood, striking the
farm home of Ingemar Nelson, where
all the buildings were destroyed. Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson and the children
saved their lives by lying fiat in the
wheat fields.
i>illC Val lScI anu Wli6 OIL
Sherwood We're out milking their
cows they noticed a heavy black cloud
approaching from the southwest and
started for the house, which was
about a quarter of a mile distant,
but before they arrived the house was
swept away and their ~61year-old child
killed.
Mr. rnr1Cpn C,,ctoi nJ inyrr;oo about
the head and a two-by-four scantling
was driven into his side, breaking sew
raj ribs and leaving him in an I'M
conscious condition. Mrs. Carlson was
hurled several feet into the air, and
while suspended was struck by a fly
ing missile, which rendered her I'M
conscious. 1t is believed that her in
juries will prove fatal.
John %Jeneves, a hermit who resides
in the same neighborhood, was severe
ly injured and his house was entirely
demolished.
The second cyclone struck north
west of Sherwood, demolishing the
buildings of Ole Johnson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson were slightly injured.
@-S SNi " " was hlllS VI DIT
Hope two are reported killed.
farm buildings were blown
down in the vicinity of Mohall and
Lorraine.
McClusky, Aug. %. - Olaf Lee is
dead and his wife and infant daugh-
ter probably fatally injured as a re-
of the storm which crushed their
farm home ten miles from this city.
Lee was found by the rescue party
lying nearly 800 feet from the resi-
dence, unconscious and with his skull
and he lived only a short
Mrs. Lee was conscious but
was so badly injured that she could
render little aid, yer having to let
her infant baby shift for itself, al
the babe, too, was very badly
Lee was a member of the
McClusky lodge of Masons.
Winnipeg, Aug. 22.-Winnipeg was
struck by the tail-end of a storm &C
by vivid lightning and
heavy rain which apparently has
swept over much of Saskatchewan and
grees in some localities and appar
emily most sever along the inter
national boundary line. Hail is re-
from Perdue, Sask., and farm
buildings were demolished at Gilmore,
Sask., with n person seriously in
Iured. Further south in North Dakota
conditions appear to have been worse
reports indicate a cyclone with
fatalities.