Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-07-21
HEAVY DAMAGE BY HAIL
AND WIND IN STUTSMAN
COUNTY AND OVER STATE
Broken Glass and Ruined Gardens in City Only Very Small
Part Of Loss-Crops in Bloom Township Practically
Wiped Out-Hundreds Of Acres Of Grain Beaten Into
und-Damage in Other Parts of State.

| A destructive hail and wind
storm occurred Saturday evening
about 6 O'Clock in jamestown and
extended throughout a considerable
portion OF the county north and
east of the city, and also in
other sections Of the county, i'll
the city many stones being the size
of an English walnut or larger, and
many were irregular in shape. Win
dow glass in all parts of the city were
broken by the hail and great deal
! of damage done to gardens. Branches
of trees were broken Off, some large
limbs also were broken, and in sever
al instances small trees we're broken
down. The sidewalks were Uttered
with leaves from the trees. The storm
was of short duration and came prin-
cipally from the northeast.
In the city tho loss from the break
age of glass will be considerable. At
the Russell-Miller mill most Of the
| window glass on the north side Of the
building was broken, and rain poured
| in at one floor where the water in
terrupted the running Of the machin-
cry. Many window glasses were
| broken in houses and in the court
house. Over a hundred panes were
smashed in the Bridgeman-Russell
building. Much damage was done to
glass at jamestown College. the art
glass or colored picture glass. in
Voorhees, chapel, being badly dam
aged. In the gardens. tomato plants.
cucumbcrs. corn and all tender veg
etables were more or less cut up.
Grain Damages Extensive
BY far the greatest loss. however,
is to growing crops and the township
of Bloom appears to be partially
hailed out. Many of the losses are
from 80 to Is per cent, and in some
cases practically total. The storm
damage extended along the Northern
Pacific mainline both north and south
of the track. covering scope of cOun-
try from five to eight miles in width.
Some of the damage is due to wind.
The crops in this county were among
the finest in the county and the rye
crop alone had been partly secured
by being cut. Wheat, oats, barley and
corn were badly damaged, and pota-
toes were also injured along with gar
dens. Some of the losses are severe
and the wide extent of the storm can
be noted together with the extent of
loss from the following list Of losers
III Bloom township:
The old Wilhelm farm, the Ole
Oleson, or former Default quarter.
the Nowlin land just north OF the
college. Martin IIoveland, the Eddy
farm, the old Kavanaugh place. Peter
Hoveland, Ferd. Koch, the Warner,
Jeske, Joos. Jeske and Kellogg, Hint
re, Madison, Yaeger. Christ, MUTT,
Mrs. Murphy, Charles Murphy J. E.
Ellis, Joe Schmitt, Otto Reglan. Emil
and Charles Frey The latter two had
about a thousand acres badly dam
aged. The Henderson-Fulle farm
was hit with loss on about four
hundred acres. In Homer township
among those reported losers are
Peter Vandergeest, Ed Frey and G..
M. Haskins.
The storm lost it's full force about
five miles north of the city and there
was no hail at the Legler farm. There
was no damage done at the hospital
for the insane, either to the crops or
to the buildings. The storm was
freakish in the direction which it
took. The first storm came from the
south, and it is reported that hail
fell at different points in the county,
as far as twenty miles south. The
main damage appeared to come from
another storm that developed at the
same time east and north, and the
hail that hit jamestown came from
a northeasterly direction. The dam
age is reported as far east as the
big coulee or about seven miles from
this city.
Another storm of hail and wind
did much damage west of Buchanan
and Pingree.
The same storm is reported to
have done great damage south of
Streeter in Logan county, where for
a distance Of six miles south Of
Streeter crops were damaged from 81
to Is per cent.
A destructive hail near Gackle was
reported to have occurred Friday.
West of Streeter there is little or no
crop Ito be damaged. sx.s
Hail. was also reported nearTKen-
sal. -. !" - =,
The. .destructiveness of the, storm
can be seen in the fields of grain
just north of the city, at the Birks
and Default farms. Fine fields Of
grain that promised big yields have
been cut down and in some instances
will not be worth cutting.
Heavy Loss West of Buchanan
1t is reported in the same storm
Saturday about four thousand acres
crops were damaged west of the Pipe
stone river in Roundtop neighbor-
hood. From Round top, a strip Of
country north six or seven miles. long
and about four miles wide. was badly
losses running from so per
cent to total. .s
Between Parkhurst and jamestown
there were also hail losses reported.
Some of the losses in the vicinity
Of jamestown are very heavy to In
dfviduals. On the Mrs. Peter Hove-
land farm. two and one half miles
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