Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-07-04
STRONG Wind
HITS COUNTY
Does Considerable Property
Damage in Willow River
Neighborhood.
Hail in Kettle River Vicin-
ity Injuries the Small
Grains.

Following closely on the heels of
tornado of small proportions which
visited the Finlayson community two
weeks ago, but doing little damage,
another storm visited Pine county to
strike the hardest in the Willow
River section.
After a day marked with flying
clouds and intensive heat at times, a
cloud finally gathered on the western
horizon and slowly travelled to the
northeast. Near the supper hour,
after approximately thirty minutes of
gathering and rolling the wind
changed sand a storm, accompanied
by wind of hurricane proportions
swooped down upon the Kettle River,
Sturgeon Lake, and Willow River
communities leaving considerable
damage in its wake.
In Willow River where the damage
was the greatest, the roof on the new
addition to the Anderson Bros, garage
was torn off and deposited on the
south side of the building on top OF
five cars which were parked there
and which belonged to the garage,
doing considerable damage to some of
them.
The addition to the Anderson garage
was made of hollow tile, faced on the
front with brick and was of 16X4S TT. di-
mansions with 10 feet walls, and was
used principally as a driveway or
parkway from the street to the main
repair shop. The north wall and a
part of the front was blown down
when the roof was torn away. No one
was injured although Mrs. Anderson,
who was in the place during the sup
per hour, had just returned to the Of
flee after having been in that part of
the building to note the progress of
the storm. The loss to the garage is
estimated to be about $4,000, which
was covered by tornado insurance.
The structure will be rebuilt immedi-
ately.
Other Damage Done.
Across the street from the garage,
the large plate glass window was
blown out of the old bank building
and in other parts of town, damage
was done to shade trees, etc. The
chimney of the Golfer residence was
demolished and the porch on the Ed
Clough house was damaged.
Travling on east of Willow River
the storm wreaked havoc with build
ings on various farms in Norman
township, twisting the barn on the
Gust Overbecke place out of shape;
Siln h1nyun
away from the barn eight inches; the
wind wrecked the large barn, corn
crib and a well house on Julia Dobos-
zenski's place and did considerable
damage to six stacks of hay; some
damage was done on the Frank Devall
farm During the storm lightning
struck and killed horse on the Wal
lace Ogilvie farm.
Telephone lines belonging to the
Willow River Telephone company west
of Willow River were damaged to
some extent by the storm.
1t is reported that hail did some
damage to small grain crops near
Kettle River, northwest of Sturgeon
Lake and west of Moose Lake. Near
Sturgeon Lake, the silo on the John
H. Cunningham farm was blown over
and demolished. The old barn on the
Hartley Gray place was blown over
and several windows in the Kettle
River school house were broken out
by the hail.
Wind LaShes Waves on Lake.
The writer gained first hand know
ledge of the immensely of the storm
in the Sturgeon Lake community be-
cause of the fact of being forced to
wait it out in the precincts of one of
the camps there. The storm dashed
the lake into a sea of foam with waves
dashing at times to a height of from
four to six feet. 1t moved the newly
constructed bath house at Camp Edel-
weiss, from its foundation, causing the
son of c. A. Rogers, who was taking
shelter in it at the time, to scamper
for safety in the thickest of the down.
pour.
At Bruno the wind did some damage
to the roof of the Joseph Marihart &
Son garage and many trees were up
rooted and others were blown down
both i'm the Bruno neighborhood and
at Kerrick.