The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-11
BIGGEST RAIN
STORM IN YEARS
THIS SECTION is VISITED BY
HEAVY RAINS AND SEVERE
WIND STORMS
4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN BR0OMNGS
Huron Has Eight Inches Of Rain Inside
of Five Oays-Destructive Wind
Storms in Several Places

This section during the past ten days
has been visited by the heaviest rains
in years. In Brookings it rained every
day, in showers, from Wednesday of
last week to Monday of this week. Dur
ing that time 3.99 inches fell, soak
ing up the ground thoroughly and pro-
viding enough moisture to insure the
crop beyond doubt. There has been
some complaint that there Was too
much rain, but outside of a few places
the moisture has been a mighty good
thing.
The rain was general and heavier at
other places than at Brookings. At
Huron, for instance, eight inches of
rain is reported from Thursday until
Monday. Every cellar in that city was
flooded and the Jim river was away out
of it's banks. North of here in this
county and at Estelline, Castlewood
and Watertown very heavy rains fell,
flooding the low places, but little dam
age was done. The Sioux river west of
here is the highest it has been for
years and every creek is up to the top
of it's banks.
Destructive wind storms have &C.
Cured in several places. At Elkton
Tuesday afternoon a heavy windstorm
tore down a number of buildings and
moved others from their foundations.
Locally there was not much damage
from the wind, outside of a few broken
trees, but in the country neal here
some damage was done.
. Over at Canistota a destructive
storm occurred Sunday evening, tear
ing down a number of buildings and
seriously injuring foul people. On
Wednesday night of last week a storm
did damage estimated at between $25-
900 and $50 1000 in Codington, Grant
and Day counties, north of here.
During the same storm lightning
struck the farmers elevator at De
Smet and burned it to the ground, en-
failing a loss of several thousand dol
lars. Two farm homes and a barn in
the vicinity of De Smet were also
struck and destroyed.
Lake Campbell is higher now than it
has been for years and the water was
running over the dam on Tuesday.
Tho hnauu roipc month IF hnra uyoch-
ed out several miles of track On the
Northwestern line between Watertown
and Tracy and the evening passenger
from WATERFOWL to Minneapolis has
been coming around this way the past
week. Part of the track on the north
line between here and Waterfowl was
under water, but M great amount Of
damage was done. Passengers coming
in from the west report that some of
the fields and part of the railroad track
between here and Pierre are covered
with water.
In this county considerable damage
was done, a number of bridges being
washed away and fences torn down.
No damage to crops is reported.
We wrote the above yesterday norm
ing, when the weather seemed to have
cleared off, but yesterday afternoon
another heavy rain fell and the pros
poets this morning are that we will
get more moisture.
Yesterday afternoon a hailstorm
struck south and southeast of here,
and while the damage is apparently
great just now it is thought that most
of the grain will recover, although of
course it is damaged. Some rye that
was about ready to cut is a total loss,
but the corn will come up again with
out much injury. The grass in some
places was cut down as though with a
scythe. Windows in some of the
farm houses were all broken out. The
storm apparently started in Moody
county, near Lake Campbell, and
travelled in a ~northeasterly direction
toward Elkton, along the county line.
It was two or three miles wide and
several miles long. The roar of the
storm could be plainly heard in Brook
ings. A heavy rain fell in the same
locality, and last evening Frank Sim.
mons received a phone message from
neighbors near his farm to come and
take his cattle out of the pasture, as
the water was rising rapidly. Mr..
simmons farm was in the path of the
storm. The green cloud from which
the hail came formed in the southwest
yesterday about DOB and hung there