The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-24
GROUND SOAKED TO
SUB-S0|L DEPTH OF
ALMOST TWO FEET
Western and Northwestern
Sections Receive Three
Inches in Three Days
CONDITION SAID Excellent
Average Fall in All Sections
Since Sunday Morning Has
Been III Inches

All sections of North Dakota have
received an average of LII inches of
precipitation since Sunday night, it
was announced by federal weather
bureau officials here Wednesday
morning following another night
during which rainfall was general
throughout the state.
Weather men estimated that the
moisture has sunk into the ground
to depth of about one and one-half
to two feet since the sporadic down.
pours began.
Western and northwestern Sec
tions, where moisture was needed the
most, received the greatest precipita-
ton. Beach and Max have reported
more than three inches while the
reading at Crosby totaled 2.96 inches
since Sunday.
The showers have delayed farm
work in the northern sections, but
this delay has been more than COM
pensated for by improvement in soil
moisture conditions, which are de-
scribed generally by agricultural ex-
perts as excellent"
Precipitation Is Listed
Total precipitation for North Da-
kota stations for the period from Z
a. m. May 81 to a. m. Wednesday
follow: Bismarck. 156; Armenia, Its:
Beach, SOC: Bottineau, 1853: Car
rington, 2.38: Crosby, FOG; Devils
Lake, lib; Dickinson, ISL: Drake,
1.76; Dunn Center, IA; Fessenden,
1876; Grand Forks. 90; Hankinson,
80: Jamestown, EOS; Larimore, 2.23;
Lisbon, LAB: Max, 319; Minot, 2!03;
Napoleon, LOG; Cakes, 100; Parshall,
ito: Pembina, 1.72: Williston, l62;
Wishek, 1.26, and Fargo. "a inches.
Rain recorded at Bismarck for the
24-hour period ending at Z a. m.
Wednesday totaled 8 of an inch.
Grant County Hart Hit
Residents Of Grant county We'd
nesday were surveying the results Of
tornado which killed four persons
near New Leipzig Monday night in
jured eight other persons and caused
widespread property damage.
The tornado struck first near the
Harold Lamb farm home at New Leip-
zig, where four girls of the Lamb
family were killed. The farm Is IA
miles south of New Leipzig.
DR.. Leonard Meyer, Elgin, attending
Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb, said Wednesday
that Mrs. Lamb is in q critical condi-
ton. She Is suffering from repeated
heart attacks, the physician said. and
the shock caused by her childrens
deaths has aggravated her condition.
Lamb, suffering from an injured back,
was reported In favorable condition.
Funeral services for the four storm
victims were being held Wednesday
from the home Of their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Parr, II miles
south OF Elgin.
Continuing its path Of destruction,
the disturbance swept northeastward
to point eight miles north of Elgin
before its fury was dissipated.
The injured included Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Lamb, their son, Harold, Jr.,
and five men employed on a con-
struction crew. caught in the wreck
age Of their shack.
AS the twister descended on the
Lamb home. Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb and
Harold sought to keep door shut as
the strong wind tugged on it. Four
small children were in the next room
where heating stove with a fire in
it collapsed. Both the baby and Dor
othea, who was holding the child,
were instantly killed