The Dickinson press., 1912-07-20
STORM WAS
NOT so BAD
Careful Estimates Place Loss in
Stark County. at five Per
Cent. Severe on
individuals.

noon of July 18th. was serious for many
individuals. but collectively for Stark
county, it was not nearly as bad as
person would at first think. 1t has been
figured out by good authorities that
when the entire crop acreage of the
county is taken into account. the actual
damage does not amount to more than
S per cent OF the whole.
The worst spot in the path of the
storm is in the territory starting at a
point about IL miles northwest of Dick
inson and ending at the old Powers
place now owned by George Wolf. The
strip averages about miles wide and
it was completely cut down. In the
Bohemian territory northwest eight or
nine owners out of every ten were in
sured to the extent of about one-third of
their losses. At least this is the esti-
mate of Louis Petricka and H. j.
Blanchard, local agents for the Central
National. They have already sent in
losses aeereeating about $4,000.
In the territory further east the hail
appears to have struck in places, travel
ing in a freakish sort of way. The
storm was bad around Gladstone as the
names of individual losers in our Glad
stone correspondence will indicate.
South of Taylor the strip was about
two miles wide and Charles Offet and
Fred Pound appear to be among the
heaviest losers. Mr.. Pound had 100
acres insured.
Richardton escaped. the storm passing
four to five miles to the south and some
six or seven miles south of Antelope.
The path Of the storm was about five
miles wide here and hit grain fields on
both sides Of the Heart river. The
storm continued in southeasterly
direction for some 30 miles or more in
Morton county.
The late grain fields. particularly fax.
stands chance of making crop yet.
The wheat fields that were entirely cut
down of course will not make any crop,
not even fodder, and many of the farm
ers are already plowine the ground.
This will put the fields in prime con-
dition for the 1913 crops.
INDIVIDUAL LOSSES
H. Froelich. miles northwest of the
city. had no crop insurance. He had
180 acres hit. go acres cut to the ground.
about 1870 acres escaped.
Lloyd Raider. north of the city. had
large acreage damaged. He carried
over So, 600 insurance and the late fax
is likely to make quite crop yet
George Upwright, three miles north
of South Heart. had 90 acres of crops
hit by hail. About five acres escaped.
He had insurance.
As stated last week, the big crop of
Misses Currie and Alcott out south es-
capped the storm which came very near
their north line and then around to the
east. They had no insurance and felt
that kind providence favored them.
V. A. Baker said Saturday that the
Emerson storm was not proving as
serious as at first supposed. He had 270
acres of oats and wheat injured but his
lbs acres of flax is all right. E. o.
Baker and son. Oscar, had so per cent
loss on 700 acres with 81. 800 insurance.
Louis Baker has 400 acres that were not
hit at all.
Joe Oukrop. 10 miles northwest Of
Dickinson, had over 500 acres hailed
out. A field Of 165 acres was insured,
J. S. Pirkl. miles northeast, had 375
acres destroyed. partially insured.
T. N. Hartung had 290 acres de-
stroyed. His policy, in his own agency,
gave him insurance of IS per acre, but
the day before the storm he had wired
the company to increase the amount to
SO.
]. H. Shurtliff has about 800 acres of
grain wiped out by the storm and he
has as many acres of fax that are all
right. He had no insurance.
Commisbioner Frank Roquette and
Jake RoQuette east of the city had 275
acres of oats. barley and wheat wiped
out. The wheat. was heading and
looked aS une dS COulO De- lney 0dQ no
insurance.
The path of the storm south Of the
Sprngyale farm was about 5 miles wide.
Otto and William Alpert were hit.
Philip L0ran, who was carrying ON the
Mrs. Willows place, lost this part Of his
crop but escaped the storm at his home.
farm. s.7,s5 1sSE
F: w. Pelton has about 200 acres at
the old w. j. Pelton farm which es-
capped the storm almost entirely i The.
course of#the storm was south and east.
The Damsite farm on Green river was
partially destroyed. The crop was in
sured.
Dominick Vranna and J. P. Carroll
had quite q loss by the storm. The
Mike sDrury wheat was not hurt SO much.