Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-06-01
STORM DAMAGE TO TOWN AND
FARM PR0PERTY-WlND PLAYED
HAVOC WITH MANY BUILDINGS

| less extent, and deposited in the
coulee several hundred feet away
This is the third time the Default
garage has been destroyed by the
wind The last time it was rebuilt
the building was fastened securely
to foundations of dead men" and
anchored with large wire cables. 1t
seemed impossible to tear the build
ing from such foundation as the
frame work would be torn off or
broken off first. An examination OF
the wire cables indicated that some
one had cut them before the storm,
at some time unknown. The cuts.
were evidently made by some sharp
instrument as they were clean cuts
and had rusted over.
At the Grand Army point, the gar
age of Andrew Tellner was blown
down and a portion of it left leaning
against the Bolinger cottage nearby.
and the Bolinger garage, which had
been built in the rear of the cottage.
on higher elevation, was also
blown down and left in broken parts
behind the house. The usual freak
evidences of the force of the storm
were seen in meat chopper being
carried from the garage, and left on
the roof Of the Bolinger house.
which also had a 2x4 plank driven
through the roof. A number OF
trees were twisted and torn up. None
of the other cottages in that part OF
the lake were damaged.
On the north side Of the lake, the
grove at Flint's cottage was whipped
by the wind and two large trees
broken of, and the row boat which
has been stored at LaBrashe's dock.
was picked up and scattered tor
pieces by the fury of the wind.
LaBrash himself suffered consid:-
erable loss including three or four
OF his best boats, which were piekssf
up and broken to pieces and the oiR
tanks carried away; also two smalD
cottages damaged.
The old Frenzel farm house was;
left undamaged, but one OF the barns
was completely crushed in. Tho barn
on the Paul Zarkowski farm near
the big coulee had the middle of the
roof taken out and part Of the sides
This was a clean cut piece of work
by the wind A small dairy house
was also blown, and twisted from
it's foundation but threshing sep
arator standing close by was not
damaged. The owner had some tor
nado insurance.
On the old Walski farm, the barn
was completely torn to pieces. Fur
ther north among the barns Destroy
ed was that of VIM. Reed.
The big barn on the old Gray Bros
farm was wrecked.
Judge Coffey also had some dam
age done to farm buildings.
Among those who lost farm build
ings or had some damaged, in vicin-
ity of Courtenay an d Wimbledon,
the following are reported:
VIM. Anderson, Mrs. Albert Kru-
ger, Paul Durupt, C. M. kribtas;-
Geo. Lewellyn, Geo. Wellman, Frank,
Lem, Geo. Darkenwad, Mrs. Anssw..
Joos, Lorens Arms, John Joos, Jf:.
Jake Micheton, Geo. H. Simpson
James Larkin, VIM. Price, Louis Al
tringer, w. F. Colberg, John Michel
ton and Henry Baltima.
In the vicinity of Sanborn a large
amount of damage was done to-
barns and windmills.
Reports from farmers OF the
northern part of the county who had
losses from Thursdays storm con-
tinue to come in. Medina Citizen
tells of this one in the western part
of the county:
Nels Johnson was in from his
place on section 14-141-69 yester-
day morning and reported that that
section was visited by quite heavy
wind storm Wednesday night that
did considerable damage. At his:
place the cow barn, building about
14x8O feet, was wrecked. There was.
25 head of cattle in the barn at the
time and some of them were SOME
what bruised up but not seriously
hurt. One of his horses out in the
pasture was struck by lightning and
killed and some of his young pigs
are missing. He had insurance on
the stock but none on the building,
which is practically a total loss. not
much of the material being fft for
anything except kindling wood.
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