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W. SASKATCHEWAN, 'An Inopportune Destructive StormWind, Rain and Hail Play* Havoc With Cut and Standing Crops in the Oxbow District.Content with the feeling that this season's crop had been garnered to such an extent that Providence might almost be defied, many farmers of this district almost conrted the idea that the omir.oua clouds that gathered in the western and northwestern skies on Saturday afternoon last carried with them destruction in some cases most severe. This storm came with o roar that was muffled and continuous,and when it bioke with all its fury it seemed wild in its desire to lick up what little standing grain that was left In this district which had been particularly favored with such splendid growing weather all through the season; and, as a result our comparison with other sections of the west had been considered as touching the too per cent, mark in crop production. However, the storm king boa in the past, and did on this occasion, prove himself to tie no respect or of districts, individuals nr fields, as from every point of the compass, with Oxbow as the huh, came reports ot the damage done from rain and hail. The storm came along about s p.m. on the above date. It seemed to part when directly over the Dalcslxiro district—one arm going to the east aud south, while the other followed in a southerly direction dogru the valley of the Moose Creek and the. west valley of the Souria river.1 .With the latter storm cloud came a deluge of rain of sufficient volume as to almost wash the Alamedaites spotleaa from their sins, white with the eastern cloud came a heavy bail . storm accompanied with an equally severe downpour of moisture that almost represented a cloudburst.The hail cljoud began to drop its destructive pellets at a distance of about six miles northeast of Oxbow and continued east and south with , slight variations from the above point on down into th« Meridian and Goschen districts. Among the the most heavy looters being Win Lonev. R. Forsyth, Robt. Evans. Win. Dickson, Fred Simons, Fred Amos, I. H. Noble, and I,. Iiarn-blatt, in the Oxbow district, while 1 many farmers north of Glen Ewen report considerable damage to both standing and cut grain. The losses all range in estimates from 30 to 80 per cent.,with the exception of that of J. H. Noble and L. Bamblalt, southeast of town, on whose farms the grain uncut ia a total laaa, and where the storm Is supposed to have been tbe heaviest.Many of the farmers who reside ' in the psth of this storm had their wheat crops well taken care off, ' but nearly all had the equally valti , able crops of oats only partly bar- 1 vested. With the damage done to ' tbe standing grain, and that of the grain in abeaf and in stook, the J loan to the district will total vrry , high when taken as a whole. All 4 the damaged district was insured by tbe government hail insurance lt;and in some instances this was sup- | piemen led by protection in old-line , companies, but with even tbe re , numeration from these sources the loss to the Oxbow and Glen Ewen '-■»- 111 I a -_ . . I
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Oxbow Herald
Oxbow, Saskatchewan, CA
Thu, Aug 27, 1914
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