Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-06-27
Another IT WiSter"
Passed Over City
Langdon and Vicinity Were
Damaged by Bad Storm
Monday Evening

over Langdon on Tuesday evening, be-
tween seven and eight 'clock had all,
the appearance and ear marks of be-
ing storm of unusual violence and
had most of the townspeople on the
look out for 'twister'' of the same
vintage as that which visited Lang
don in May, of the year 1909.
Here in town barn on the prop.
erty of Joseph Crawford was de.
molished and the old flour mill on ad.
joining property was badly shaken on
its foundation and wrenched out of
shape. Others report the overthrow.
ing of small buildings and west of
town the further you go the greater
the destruction of property that has
been done by the violence of the wind.
Quite an interesting account of
what the storm had done in his neigh
borhood was brought to town yester-
day morning by X. L. Lauve, who is
located on the farm operated by C.
w. Toews, in Moscow township, be-
fore the leaving of the latter, with
his family for Littlefield. Texas, a
little over two years ago.
Mr.. Lauve saw the storm with its
funnel shaped cloud coming in that
direction along about seven O'Clock
in the evening. He knew from its ap
pearance and. previous experiences
what it portended and sent Mrs.
Lauve and the children to the cellar,
himself watching the slow moving ap.
proach of the storm from the high
knoll of ground on which the house
stands. 1t did not strike his farm,
but from where he stood he had an
unobstructed view of buildings on the
Albrecht farm as they were swept to
the ground and scattered to the wind
by, the storm. The granaries and
barn were a total loss and the house
considerably wrecked.
Next in the pathway of the storm
in its travel from across the line in
Manitoba, traversing this county from
the northwest to the southeast, was
the Sam Gunderson place. This is
located near the Norwegian Lutheran
church of that settlement, which
seemed to be just outside of the
storms path. A So, 900 frame barn,
that Mr.. Gunderson had built only
three years ago, was entirely demol-
ished and granaries and other farm
buildings were overturned like pack
of cards. The Gunderson home, for
tunately however, escaped with moth.
ing worse than bad shaking up. 1t
is understood he is the only one in
the neighborhood who carried insur.
surance effective in case of wind
storms.
By narrow margin the house on
the Ed Peterson farm, which stands a
mile east Of the church escaped the
storm, which completely wrecked the
barn, granaries and other buildings.
No one seems to have suffered in
jury, neither has there been any ap-
parent loss of horses and live stock,
which in most cases was out in pas
ture. Mr.. Lauve, however, states
that when he got over to the Gunder-
son place he found work under way
in tie rescue ttof horses and cat.le
from under the wreckage of the barn.
The storm is thought 10 ',ave broke
at this point and struck more to the
southwest and no further report of
damage are learned.
A second storm, following over
much the same path, but keeping
slightly further north was experience
ed within an hour. 1t travelled more
rapidly and was accompanied by both
rain and hail, the former in many To-
calities almost assuming the proper.
tions of a cloudburst.
Damage is stated in the vicinity of
both Wales and Dresden. 1t was in
this storm that the large house on
the Domres farm, seven miles south
of Wales, is thought to have been
almost totally destroyed Many cases
are reported of windows being broken
by the hail. which has also done
much permanent damage to the ear.
lier sown crops of that vicinity.
Nearer Lapgdon the barns on the
Windemuth and 1. N. Kitchin farms
have been visibly shaken up. The
storm after reaching town hit the
home of r. B. Falconer and made a
clean up of smaller buildings around
all of the elevators before it struck
the old Crawford mill, which now has
a decided lean to it
1t was storm, that in the ex-
perience of the old timer was only
surpassed by the Lanedon cyclone of
Saturday, May 18th, 1909.