Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-07-21
BIG HAIL STORM
DESTROYS CROPS
Path of Damage Reaches From
Lake Andrew to Roseland
From Half Mile to
Three in Width

\ hail storm which for it's damage
; the. county since 1907 occurred last Sat-
ur,uN AFTERNOON about o'clock. The
cloud came from the north and travelled
due south. ut Willmar there was a
heavy Aownlour Of rain but with few
ham. The hail centre of the storm
PASSED about two miles west Of the
city. 1t started along the western part
of Lake Andrew and continued alons
,he town line between Lake Andrew
and .\rctundtr, no>re and Mamre Will
mar and St. Johns. Whitefeld and Ed
wards and }oseland and Holland a dis
| lanre of nearly thirty miles. 1t seems
! to ha>e been at its worst in the Solo
n"n Lake locality and south where
II any Of the farmers report a total loss
OF crops.
In Lake Andrew the following have
been reported to the Tribune as hav-
ing sustained 50 per cent loss: Oscar
{ Man<el. Gabriel Stene, Henry Swenson
Carl llnitlson, NJ. A. Syverson, c. A
S>Eerson, and part of the jackson
Farm"
Among the many povre. Willmar and
, st. John farmers to lose are Carl Ber-
! lin, total; Emil Harrison, total; o. Har-
stad. total; Theodore DenSerud, nearly
total; Albert Hanson IS per cent; Berg
man Farm emil Johnson renter)
nearly total; y. B. Leines, 25 per cent
former John H. Olson farm, total; Ole
Skaft edahl. and Ole Birkeland nearly
/ total: Chas Bergman, 50 per cent; J.
&. E.mberland and Lars Erickson farms
total loss: Other losers are F. +. Alvig
Julius Holland, Fladeboe Brothers, r. c.
Slctten. f.. \. Swanson. Hans Christ
, l;tnSon, otto Carlson, Jorsan paulson
| Arthur l;aSnusson, 'totaD, Foster anc
| Frost farm totaD, Nels H. Anderson
| HAGEN Irothers, Ed. Peterson, Z. w
Hedman. John -\mundson, Robert Lar.
| son. Joe Nelson. th;,s. Rasmussen. Car
Swanson. Emil T;bert. John Rykken
G. btn-erld. David Swenson. Robert
l.oNan'er. august Bergman. Ole Tvete
J. G. Strand. Horace Reese, H. Nordin
Tin=vall Brothers. Other total losers
or nearly SO are Elmer Martin (Norc
Farm). Chris j. Hanson, Johnnie Mel
son. Martin Nelson. Rosslund Brothers
+. j. Nelson, Nels Peterson, Oscar And
erson. Chris Rasmussen, Edw. Hanson
ON the f. S. Barker. j. C. Freese, NJ J
| l>usten. Peter Frazer and John Sven
| son farms and others in that locality tn,
| loss is nearly complete or IS per cent
In Whitefield and Edwards consider
! able damage is reported including tn,
| farms Of II. Vessels. S. J. johnson
! Theander Johnson, John Olson,. the for
! mer &. A. Bengtson place. Eskel Sven
! son and others.
In Roseland some of the heavies
losers are Klaus Hoekstra, John Sweer
| Oscar Olsen, J A. Engvall, Mrs. TOPAZ
| Pope Holwevda, Ed Sluka, Geo. Kostka
Aug. Newberg, VIM. Sluka, Joh,
| DraSt all with a loss of about IS pc
| cent. r. Custer on the Spicer Ian
| Cos farm where the cyclone struc
| some years ago, has sustained about
total loss. Nick Dykema. Ben Dykems
-\lka Bulthuis, Ed Williams, Ed an
| Ludwig Feifarek have sustained about
| half crop loss. Other losers are Axe
Swanson. A. Durham, John Pheife1
| John korthuis, John Bulthuis, K. Knott
John Zuidema, John Hoektra Henry an
F'obbee Hoektra. K. Douma, VIM. Hoff
man and many others not reported
| n heavy wind accompanied the hal
| which helped the work of destruction
ln some places big trees were uproot
ed. In the Solomon Lake communit
hail as big as big hens eggs were re
ported to have fallen
1t is safe to say that probably no
more than 20 per cent of the farmer
aHected carry any insurance. Many O
the farmers struck report this thei
nrst loss by hail since coming to tn
county thirty or forty years ago.