Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-01
Heavy Crop Loss by Hail

The loss to crop in the Mt. Carmel
set tlement as a result of the storms oil
Friday and Saturday evening last week,
means a destruction of upwards of 1000
acres of grain, which as it stood before
the storm broke, was one of the best
crops grown in that section of Cavalier
county in the past twenty years. The
storm of Friday evening, which broke
between five and six o'clock, did not do
damage to the extent of the one which
passed over at about the same hour Sat-
urday evening. The first one did it's
damage more in the eastern part of the
township, but similar to the one which
followed twenty-four hours latter
took as tits course about the
same angle through the settlement as
the Pembina river does. The losses
sustained by the farmers hailed out,
and who number nearly a score is esti-
mated v%ariously from twenty five to
seventy-fve per cent loss, while in the
cases of Louis Fischer, Henry Bergman
and Jos. H. BOSNIAN it is stated the loss
is practically total. Hervy rains we're
experienced both nights, almost amount
ing to a cloudburst, while the cyclone
clouds which lowered overhead to the
east helped to make the experience more
hldeous. Somea re already turning over
their hailed out crop with the plow.
others hold back with the hope that
enough may yet be harvested to give
them feed for the stock and perhaps
seed for next year, while others, whose
grain was late still look for perhaps as
good as half a cop. None OF those in
the path of the storm escaped without
having windows of their homes broken,
some having to buy all the way from a
dozen to twenty panes of window glass
when they came into town Monday. Fol
10 wing is a partial list of those hailed
out in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel, either
in the storm of Friday or Saturday
evenings: Louis Schneider, John Hell,S.
L. oehmstedt, A. I. Koehmstedt, Wendell
He'll, John L. Kartes, Mat Kartes, Jacob
Gapp. John BOSNIAN, Jno. J.E Fischer
Adam Witzel, Harry Witzel, Louis Fisch.
or, Henry Bergman, Joseph Fl. Schiller
John Illerbrun and j. NJ. Fischer. There
are undoubtedly others who were in the
path of the storm and whose CROP sui.
fered more or less serious damage but
their names have not been learned.
Robert Scott, n prominent farmer oil
the Mona neighborhood in addition tc
having his crops damaged to the OK.
tent of seventy-tive per cent by hail had
his house struck by lightning in the
bad storm which got in its work over
the northern part of the county Satur.
day evening.
The house Peter Weaver, who moved
into Hay township a couple of years ago
from Illinois was IN the path of the
storm that passed over the Osnabrock
nelghborhood Friday evening. The
house was struck by lightning and
quite badly damaged. Five distinct
and separate electric storms are stated
to have passed over that vicinity last
Friday.
Peter Peterson from Wang is reported
as numbering among those who hac
their farm homes damaged in the severe
electrical storm of Saturday night. The
bolt tore a large hole in the side of thu
house under the roof descending to the
! ground floor from the bed room, Peter
son his wife and family narrowly escap
. ing death. 1t does not appear that thu
l house was at anytime set on fire.