The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-15
Hail Puts Large
Dents in Roofs
From FRIDAYS Daily.

from FriOdyS bdiiy.
Mankato was again in the storm
belt last evening. Old timers say
that last nights storm was one OF
the blacklist and most threatening
punches of rain, hail, wind and thun.
der that has ever passed oven Man.
kato without leaving utter desolation
in its wake. AS the clouds came up,
everyone went up stairs to close the
windows, and some got all ready to
go down cellar in case a cyclone
should break. However, as far as
Mankato was concerned, the damage
was not nearly as great as was an.
ticipated Other towns in this Sec
much more heavily.
Window in Saulpaugh Damaged.
The large window pane next the
rear of the building in the Saulpaugh
bar was blown in, and the big cleo
trio sign on Fred Kron's store was
loosened so that it had to be wired
up temporarily. The awning at
landmarks barber shop was torn
clear off the building, as was also
the awning in front of ]. M. Vance's
feed store on South Front street. A
window in the rear of the Unique the
atre was also blown in. The big
picket gate at the Hayes-Lucas Lum-
Der company's yard was torn off the
carriers and thrown out in the mid
die of tac street The streets in the
residence districts were >strewn with
broken branches, and in North Man
kato many trees were blown down. A
stately maple tree on the E. NJ. Pope
property, South Second street was
broken off just above the ground, and
a big tree on agency hill was torn
out by the roots. The Milwaukee
train which arrived here at seven
o'clock, northbound, was stalled few
minutes on the Front street crossing
while the trainmen removed the brok-
en- branches of trees which had blown
across the tracks. John A. Lulsdorff
picked up hail stone near his resi-
dence on Second street that was al
most as big as an egg.
Baggage trucks on the Union depot
platform were whirled about by the
wind, and a wagon standing in the
rear of the Commercial college build
ing was picked up and almost driven
into the rear door of nearby store.
Hail Hit Lake Crystal.
Other towns were not so lucky as
Mankato, New Ulm suffered to some
extent from hail and wind, but per-
haps Lake Crystal received the hard
est drubbing. The hail came about
six o'colck, with but little wind in it.
About mile and a half south of the
city the corn was stripped and the
damage is estimated at from Is to
% per cent. Hailstones covered the
sidewalks in the city, and this morn
ing the icemen put a number of
teams on the streets cleaning up the
ice to be preserved and used when
the summer zephyrs fail, and
Old Sol pours forth his golden rays
unremittingly. Hundreds of window
lights were broken in by the hail
stones, and some of the roofs suffer
ed a great deal. Holes were punched
in some of the store roofs Geese,
ducks and chickens wer scared from
their houses by the racket, and
killed outside by the hailstones.
Some of these pieces of Old Jup Plu-
WINS solid refreshmept were built like
icebergs and measured ten and one
half inches in circumference. The old
timers say they never saw anything
like it. A wag at Lake Crystal said
today that the icemen in that city
laid coveteous eyes on the hailstones
they were so large.
Damage to Corn.
New Ulm was more fortunate, but
still the damage to the corn was
considerable. Much fruit was knock.
ed off and ruined and many windows
suffered. Nicollet came in for its
share of the beating, and corn and
fruit were quite badly damaged A
man who came to Mankato from
Nicollet today said that he picked
up hail stone in Nicollet last night
that was two inches thick, four
inches wide and six inches long. 1t
was planned off square, but the cor
ners were slightly rounded from it's
whirling in the air. He says they
make 'em to order up above Nicol-
let somewhere.
There was no storm at Blue Earth
last evening.
Little Hail at Madison Lake.
There was little hail at Madison
Lake The wind blew, however, and
rain fell in a mass. A large tree
near the George B. Owen cottage,
Point Pleasant, was blown down.
But little hail fell at st. Peter The
rainfall was heavy.
Considerable hail fell at Essig, on
the Northwestern road, early this
morning.
~---'>~ the storm last evening
darkness set in. An incoming train on
the Northwestern road, due here at
seven O'Clock was caught by the
element between Smiths Mills and
Eagle Lake. OF sudden the interior
of the coaches became as black as