The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1945-07-19
Wind TOPPLES
SHEEP WAGON
HERDER DIES
Storm Sweeps County; Power
Lines Are Snapped and
Granaries Crushed

A windstorm that swept through
southern valley county early Tues
day evening claimed one life and
caused damage in both farm and
town areas.
Guy Vidal, about go, herder for
Andrew Levandoski, sheep rancher.
was killed when his sheep wagon
IN an isolated section II miles north
OF Nashua was rolled and tumbled
4OO rect into a ravine by the high
wind.
In Glasgow, the weather bureau
station wind instrument recorded
velocities as high as SIS miles an
hour before flying branches severed
a service power line or the north
SIDE and cut off electricity.
Vidal'S body lying on the prairie
was found late Wednesday morning
by Harry Hill and his son of Nashua.
who were rounding up stock. Coroner
j. A. Holland and UnderSheriff Bud
Richter were called. Vidal was either
thrown or jumped from the canvas
covered camp wagon after it had
rolled 300 feet from its original To-
cation, they said. The bed of the
wagon was found 100 feet further
east at the bottom OF a ravine. The
aged herder had suffered a broken
neck and head injuries.
Montana Power company reports
indicated that the eastward sweep
ing rain, hail and wind storm was
not so severe at Hinsdale, although
further west, between Dodson and
Malta the war departments high
tension line between Fort Peck and
Rainbow dams was put out of COM
mission.
In Glasgow, rainfall of AZ inches
was reported by E. Wilbur McCol-
lum, in charge of the weather
bureau station. About the same was
reported at Opheim.
The local power interruption came
when branches tore down line over
the alley east of Second street north.
That section of line was taken off
the circuit and power was restored
elsewhere in town in about %
minutes. 1t required two hours to
repair the torn lines.
one tent was shredded at the Boy
Scout camp on Treasure Island near
Fort Peck but Director E. A. Gill
bertson said the storm there other
wise vas without mishap.
A silo on the Nels Cotton farm
at Paisley west of Glasgow was
crushed. while three granaries made
Of two-inch %planking, two belonging
to Sidney Cotton and n TO Robert
s.. Cotton, also were destroyed. Trees
were uprooted.
Storm damage in Tampico was
reported by Mrs. Chris Molvig,
Courier correspondent. one granary
belonging to the Triple-A was
wrecked, she said. while a second
was unroofed. Flying boards cut a
huge hole on a third granary, the
property of Richard Motzkau. An
other belonging to Chris Molvig was
moved from its foundations and the
roof torn off. All we're empty. Mrs.
Pauline Stephens lost a small labor
house, while a garage and shed at
the L. S. Humphrey farm collapsed.
An uprooted tree hit the lambing
shed at the Roy Billingsley place
and destroyed the roof and walls.
Mr.. Billingsley's machine shop was
blown down.
Dry Run flat showed everywhere
layStacks flattened and tossed by
he storm. The rainfall at Tampico
vas estimated as heavier than in
glasgow.
The gale blew in the sides of the
elmer Cotton barn and ripped off
he roof. Pieces of metal roof cover
ng were blown as distant as a
Iuarter-mile. One piece struck a
wagon wheel and cut COM
letely through a spoke.
1T was the worst windstorm We
an recall in our neighorhoOd in 40
Sidney Cotton said today.
Scattered reports of hail damage
north of Glasgow and Nashua
lso were received, although the
eriousness and extent Of damage
ere not determined.