The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-02
HAIL AND RAIN
CAUSE HAVOC
IN NORTHWEST
Broken Trees, Wrecked Barns
and Garages Mark Path
of Big Storm
SLOPE IS HIT BY HAIL
Flood Waters Sweep Railroad
Bed; Motorists Marooned
on Main Highways
SLOPE is HIT BY HAIL

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on Main Highways
st. Paul, July 2.-(AP)-
Broken trees, shattered glass,
wrecked barns and garages, and
fallen telephone and telegraph
poles today marked the path of
a heavy wind and rain storm
that swept sections of the Dako-
tas and Minnesota last night
and early today. No lives were
reported lost.
Information ~ to the exact
extent of the storm was lacking
because of the crippled eondi-
tion of telegraph and telephone
lines, but the damage was esti-
mated in thousands Of dollars.
Heavy rains followed the
high wind, nearly two inches
falling at Moorhead. The twin
cities also felt the storm with
high winds, rain and an electri-
cal display.
Five members of the Martin
Sperle family. living IL miles
south of Napoleon, were injured
yesterday when q windstorm de-
molished the Sperle homo and
three other farm buildings.
Sperle and his wife were re.
ported seriously injured.
Forty per cent damage to
crops was reported in q strip of
country south of Ventura, five
Kuhn, nine miles wide and IA
miles long.
Hail damage Of 80 to 10 per
cent was reported in q strip of
country sou1t Of venturia, five
miles wide and six miles long.
Eight hundred acres Of crop
near Herreid was reported dam
aged 50 per cent by hail.
In the southern part Of the
state nany farm buildings were
reported wrecked by wind.
Fargo, July 2.-R)-Thousand!
Of dollars in general storm property
damage, including the wrecking hun
dreds of buildings, tearing down o.
telephone lines and the damgae K
crops, resulted from storms which
struck center and southeastern
North Dakota and southwestern
Sunday.
In the Fargo Moorhead areas con,
siderable damage was done; 1.4s
inches Of rain fell in an hour and .
half; lights and telephones in thu
:ity were cut off for several hours
airplanes at the Municipal Fielc
were wrecked; trees were uprootec
or badly broken and several store
windows were blown in, causing
much damage. Residents in the De.
troit Lakes region, dependent fol-
light on q highline running south
from that city, were without lights
TOR several hours when the line was
broken.
Telephone communication through
southern North Dakota still was cut
off today with Wahepton and Lis.
BON, central points, being out o1
.ouch with the rest Of the world.
Nearly total crop loss was report.
ed in q 40 mile stretch along the
500 Line railroad between Kersa
and Wimbledon as a result Of !
severe hail storm and high winds
500 Line tracks were flooded Al
Bordulac and 500 trains reroutec
over the N. P.
Sabin, Minn.-Reported that prac.
sically every house in town had its
roof blow off, the lumber yard root
was torn loose and carried for q
block, = potato warehouse room
blown loose, cut through the trans.
line Of the Bell Tele.
phone company, cutting off eastern
communication with Minneapolis
and St. Paul, an auxiliary wire
however, gave Fargo direct connec.
lion with Chicago.
A washout occurred on the N. p
railway line near Edmunds and 4
second one near Melville.
The wind in the Fargo Moorhead
lrea reached maximum Of 40 mile,
per hour about 9:O5 p. m. Sunday
The maximum for q five minute pe.
Rod was 45 railes per hour. One
thousand telephones in Fargo-Moor.
head were out Of order early today
but at noon all but 500 were back
n shape.
From Alexandra to Barnesville
Minn., practically every telephone
pole was down, the greatest damage
being in the vicinity Of Sabin. Con.
siderable damage from wind wal
caused At Detroit Lakes where sew.
:ral small buildings were blown
iown.
Torrential .ains swept isolated
districts in the Missouri slope coun.
try yesterday, delayed railroad traf.
tic, made state highways bogs Of
mud where Trey are not graveled
scores Of weekend motor
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