Glyndon, Aug. 18. The cyclone and hail storm of last night extended several miles south of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and resulted in greater damage than at first reported. Quite a number of fields of grain in the shock were swept clean, and the grain has not been found. Several self-binding reapers which had been left standing in grain fields were utterly demolished by the force of the tornado. The hail did much damage in several localities by breaking glass. The loss to crops does not reach a large aggregate, but is severe upon many individuals.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Thursday, August 19, 1880, Page 1
Fargo. Reports are received of a hail-storm at 1 o’clock this morning, six miles north, destroying all crops in its track. The heaviest part of the storm was south of Casselton, thence southeast. Several hundred acres of wheat were swept away and machinery destroyed. Buildings vanished as if by magic. The tornado was about one-fourth of a mile wide where it struck the northwest quarter of section one, township 138, range 52. The damage on that section is from $500 to $1,000. Reaching Sheyenne the cyclone was one mile wide, sweeping the timber, crops and buildings clean.
Source:
Minneapolis Tribune
Thursday, August 19, 1880, Page 1