The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-02
Loss OF MILLIONS
In HAIL STORMS.
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rain that sewers were. inadequate to
| carry the water away, and in many
Easements in the business district
| floods occurred. Losses were sus-
tanned in several instances on &C
count of the backing sewers.
Cutters were quickly filled to the
| Sidewalks, the hail forming barrier
| that retarded the flood of water into
the sewer systems, and in one or two
instances, the water flooded over the
sidewalks into Easements,
The Fargo storm covered a district
approximately so miles long. SO far
as information available today re-
veals, although it did, not operate
continuously in that region, the losses
being spotted.
The Grand Forks. or northern Red
river valley storm, traversed a terri
tory at least 80 to 100 miles in length
and the losses incurred by reason OF
it probably are even greater than
those eXacted by the Cass- Clay
county storm.
Grand Forks city war gardens suf-
fered heavily. the same general con-
ditions existing in that city as in
Fargo, according to reports received
from there today. -...&-
Some Crops Will Revive
That a portion of the crops will re-
viYe is generally expected, although
the percentage of recovery probably
will be slight.
Truck gardeners in Fargo and
Moorhead interviewed by The
Forum this morning had little
hope Of saving much of their crop.
The district in North Fargo, given
over to truck gardening, and the
region Immediately south OF Moor
head, also largely given over to truck
gardening presented a bedraggled
appearance this morning.
ArqusViIle District Stricken.
The first trace of the Cass anC
Clay county storm is found in the
district west of Argusville, about q
miles directly northwest Of Fargo.
A strip there about five to sever
miles east and west and from two tc
three miles wide, was hard hit, heavy
losses in that territory being sus-
tanned by J. Plat, c., H. Hodgson
Louis Vigel, Harry Muhs and Classor
Bros.
At a point near Argusville, the hal
stopped, and apparently no more hal
fell till the storm reached a point
north of Fargo. There was heavy rair
at Harwood and a little hail, but nc
damage.
| Arthur had no rain, but at a point
three miles east Of there, the hal
belt begins. Hunter had rain, a few
hail stones, but no damage.
Clay, County Loss.
It is estimated that the storm
damage in Clay county is close to a
| million dollars in the, townships OF
| Moorhead, Oakport, Kurtz, Glyndon
ElnlWood, Elkton, Alliance, Barnes
vile and Humboldt and the city o,
| Moorhead
The hail cut a swath about foul
miles wide following The main line
of the Great Northern railway
southeast through the county. The
Catholic cemetery about a mile
north of the Moorhead city limits
and the south line was the Swedish
cemetery, a mile and a half south
Of the city. 20
Growing grain was practically
wiped out and the damage to- pota.
toes and corn cannot be estimated
Market gardeners in Moorhead and
farmers who were growing vegeta-
bles for the Remington Packing
written by companies having no
resident agents here.
North of Moorhead the farms OF
| company are heavy losers as prac-
tically all garden truck is destroyed
At Sabin the western limit Of the
storm was about a mile west of the
schoolhouse and about two miles
and a half east. At Baker the width
was about the same with the lines
about mile west Of the village and
midway between Baker and Downer
Some hail insurance was carried by
farmers but the amount is not
known as most OF the policies were
L. S. Thorn in Oakport township
and the land farmed by w. H. Davy
and William Wagner was hit hard
and the grain and hay crops prac-
ttcally wiped out. Charles Peterson.
market gardener; Peter Horn and
Walter Baker lost their entire crops
About one-fourth of the glass in the
north side Of the Briggs greenhouse
was broken and the truck garden
was destroyed 49, ~
The George Waite, Herman Boss
hard, Ernest Dommer and other
truck gardens south OF. Moorhead
were ruined. East OF the city the