The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29
CONTINUED Next Week.
THE BIG

From the White Leader We get th'
details Of the bad hailstorm which
swept over the northern portion o
this county last week and which wa!
particularly severe in the vicinity o
White:
The most destructive hailstorm il
the memory of the oldest settler visit
ed our fine farming region Saturday
evening and as a consequence about
thirty-two Of our farmers have nothine
to show for all their hard labor. II
rained now and then on the day of the
storm but late in the afternoon clear
ed up somewhat and the indications
were for settled weather. But this
was not to be for the distant rumbling
seyen-thirty, foretold a storm of some
kind. At eight-thirty the coming storm
had assumed such proportions that it
was evident something was to happen
and the people prepared for the worst.
They had not long to wait for at nine
O'Clock sharp it struck and with a
Isledge hammer blow. The threaten
ing clouds drew the attention of every
body and visions of cyclones, hurri-
canes and waterspouts" passed
through their minds. Nothing came of
this however, but a stiff wind and a
deluge of rain and a few hailstones.
East and west of town, however, the
storm struck in all it's fury and at this
stones in the crop destroyed area. AS
far as We have been able to learn the
hailstorm cloud east of town began it's
work of destruction on a corner of
the quarter section farmed by F.
Eberts, about fifteen or twenty acres
being wiped out. 1t then travelled
south and east and completely destroy
ed the crops of Chas. Cowels, Melvin
Cowles, E. E. Tompkins, J. Higgins,
NJ. P%aulson, w. Lamb, J. Stair, J.
Steinback, F. Jones, August Gripen-
frog, Harry Gorton, Roy Parks, c.
Holman, H. Lambertus, August Chaser,
Clarence Martin, B. Thompson F.
Kleinke, E. Benz, w. H. Wood, Stafford
Bros, Clarence Sherwood, NJ. E. Akker-
man, Art Blackman, L. J.. Gibbs, H.
D~eerkoop, Ted Haber, J. Hiser, G.. Nor
quist, A. Eldridge, A. Hicks, T. Muir
ply, and others.
Some of those who were partly hail
ed out were H. Kracke, who lost a
quarter, H. Kracke, ST., crop damaged
some. Milton Simmons who is farm
ing a ha~lf-section, lost a quarter, and a
number of others who suffered hail
losses more or less. We understand
this hail storm was five miles in width
and went as far as Elkton, a number in
that vicinity reporting total or partial
losses.
Another hail cloud passed west of
town but this was not so destructive
and few reports have come in at this
writing of any serious losses. Peter
and L. NINTH, however, re-
port their crops badly cut up and the
losses may reach one-half or two
thirds. AS we write this, Chas. Giles
reports a one-third loss on small grain
and a complete loss on his IT'S acres
corn. His son Leon also suffered
severely from hail losses. Mrs. Chas.
Giles declares it was the worst storm
she had ever seer in her twenty-five
years. residence here.
A majority of those hailed out car
ried no insurance and the loss is a
severe n Some of them have been
here for the past % or 80
years and they tell us this is the first
they have suffered a loss of this
This probably accounts for
the fact that there were not more hail
insurance carried.
The hailstorm was followed by a de-
luge of rain which assumed the nature
of a cloudburst, washing out and un-
bridges and taking out
Hailstones were washed into
the creek bottoms where they lay two
and three feet deep.
This storm of hail and wind seems
10 have its inception at Estelline
where 1t is said crops were more or
less damaged. 1t then let up to a GER
tain extent until this neighborhood