The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-08-10
Fierce Storm Levels All Crops
Over Big Part Of Two States

More than 100000 acres OF wheat
fields were more or less badly dam
aged in the storm which swept over
the northeastern part Of the state late
Thursday evening. Not until about
noon yesterday did details of the
storms ravages begin to leak through,
telegraph and telephone lines having
been put out of commission.
Wind, hail and rain are reported
from various sections, all three COM
bining in some localities. Northwest
ern Minnesota was also swept by a
storm, 100000 loss being reported
from the CrOokston district.
In North Dakota the storm had its
origin at point close to Devils Lake
but soon split, one branch sweeping
south through the southern end of Mel
son, across the northwestern corner
Forks county. The other branch NOV
ed northeastward from Leeds to Ed
more and on into southwestern Walsh
county.
Around Portland it is cleaned that
about 800 square miles were swept
clean by a hail storm. Crops in the
Mayville region were laid low. Ram
sey county was hit in spots by wind,
hail and rain, and the crop damage
is reported heavy.
Around Portland it is claimed that
about so horses were killed in storm
of cyclonic violence. The fire tower
at Aneta was blown over and crashed
into the roof of the city hall. There
was much damage to trees and win
dows.
plement building was completely
wrecked. 1t contained several new
buggies, two new autoes, and machin~
cry, all nearly ruined His large Iiv~
cry barn was practically wrecked, as
was Joseph Despain's big livery stable.
S. T. Kvamen's new barn will have to
be rebuilt Lincoln Drew's new barn
was scattered in all directions, not a
stick left standing.
Ten boXcars on the siding, several
loaded, were blown onto the main
track several miles east near Klo-
ten. One elevator was slightly moved.
as were several houses from their
foundation. The baseball grandstand
! is completely demolished. Buildings
all over town were more or less DAM
| aged. The deluge of rain also did much
| damage to homes and stocks in build
ings. J. J. Arneson's furniture build
ing lost it's front, George McMillan's
! blacksmith shop is uncovered and N.
| N. Brakes large icehouse is fiat.
From CroOkstOn come reports that @
| tornado, with cyclonic outcroppings,
| swept seven counties in the Red River
| valley, doing enormous damage to
crops, farm buildings and city prop
| erty. The storm was the most de-
| structive and covered the largest area
of any ever experienced in this sec
ton.
In Crookston, the plate glass fronts
! of the C. o. D. Clothing house, the
, Golden Rule department store, Bray &
Halvorsen's department store, the Slo-
cum Francis grocery store, the Daily
Times and number of small places.
were blown in, signs were torn down.
trees uprooted in Central park and
throughout the residence section of
the city, and vast amount of minor
damage was done.
In the rural districts, the damage
to farm buildings was widespread Big
cement block silos were destroyed.
barns turned over and outbuildings
scattered.
The Great Northern flyer from Win
nipeg ran into barn which had been
blown across the track, distance of
half a mile from the John Bull farm,
and cut it in two. The train was de-
layed but few minutes.
The crops between Crookston and
Grand Forks and north to the Cana
dian boundary through northern Nor
man, Polk, Marshall and Kittson coun-
ties are as fiat as though a steam roll
er had passed over them. Portions OF
Pennington, Red Lake and RoseaN
counties were hard hit.