The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-13
HEAVY WIND AND
GOOD RAINS HIT
WESTERN SLOPE
Velocity Attained Here Last
Night Highest Officially
Recorded in Decade
DROUTH COUNTRY HELPED
Good Precipitation Reported in
Minot and Beach, Where
Moisture Was Needed
DROUTH COUNTRY HELPED


line drawn north and south on a par.
allel with Fort Lincoln and extending
westward into eastern Montana en-.
joyed a splendid soaking rain last
night. At Minot, where there had
not been a decent rain since May II,
the precipitation last evening was
1.2O inches. More than half an inch
OF rain is reported at Beach, and
Dickinson and New England, two
other dry spots, had .39 and As re-
spectively. The official records for
Bismarck show .23 of an inch. Good
rains are reported from all parts of
the reservation country on the North
S0o, Plaza, Douglas, Ryder, Parshal
md other communities which had not
fecSiyed a. thorough soaking for more
than q month, had over: an inch OF
rain. @'&
Hsavy Winds Here.
: In Bismarck the welcome rain fol.
lowed one Of theS sultriest days the
city has experienced in many years.
The downfall preceded by q vio'
lent wind storm, during which the air
currents sweeping in from the noun
tains far tosthe west gained q veloc.
ity of rs miles, which speed was
maintained for one minute. For i've
minutes without cessation the wind
blew at the rate Of 64 miles an hour.
The highest wind velocity ever re:
corded at this station for five min:
.utes't duration was ~ miles, more
than ten years ago. 71,slg =
Trees were uprooted; huge branches
were torn off and went sailing
through the air; street lamps were
extinguished, and in many instances
wires were wrenched from their
moorings. The whole downtown dis
trict was left in darkness for great
er part of the night. So far as can be
learned, the storm was local in its
nature, and there was no severe prop.
erty damage, althugh many a Bis
marck home-builder today is mourn
ing the loss of handsome trees which
cannot be replaced in quarter of a
century
Played Havoc in Country. .
Reports Of material property dam.
age resulting from the storm are
coming in from the country, especial.
ly from points five and six miles east
of Bismarck The rain freakishly be-
gan or ended on a line with the
Northern Pacific spur 10 Fort Lin.
coin. East Of that point there were
only few drops of rain, but there
was an abundance of wind.
C. F. Kreuger, who farms the Ham.
mond place, five miles east of the
city, was IN this morning. He report.
ed that, one of his large galvanlged
granaridgs was picked up by the wind,
carried half mile across the fields;
and smashed to smitnereens. Har.
rows, boxes and hay racks were brok-
en- and scattered, and the glass was
blown from windows in his dwelling
house before he could bar the shut
ters. Mr.. Kreuger suffered no stock
loss.
Frank Gress, who operates the
Lahr farm, east of Apple Greek,
CAME in this morning to report a
number of telephone and telegraph
poles snapped short. He also advises
that one of the barns on the Lahr
place, structure 16 by "a, was COM
pletely wrecked, and that the roof
was torn from the big house barn and
doors were wrenched from their
hinges.
Mike Claussen, on the Baker place.
lost an entire hen mouse full OF
chickens, the building and all of its
contents, including mother hens and
half-section by the wind. Ames Ives
lost a roof from his barn and gran
ary, and there is probably not d
farm in the Apple Creek vicinity that
did not suffer some damage.
The farmers feel that they are es-
pecially mistreated in view of the
fact that the rain, which would havs
been so welcome, passed them by,
while they got more than a plenty Of
the big wind which they did not
need at all.