I drove to Enderlin-Sheldon-Anselm area yesterday. Along Highway 46 some of the tornado damage is very evident. Across the road from the Doug Kellerman farm where some buildings flew in the wind, the shelterbelt now holds great quantities of torn pieces of tin from those buildings hanging in the trees or laying scattered about. Closer to Enderlin quite a large plot of twisted and splintered trees sat in disarray across from the Pfaff place where the house was destroyed.
Curious if I could find the spot on the Soo Line where all the railroad cars rolled off the tracks, I found it near its crossing on the Sheldon road. About twenty heavy duty lowboy trailers sat on the edge of the gravel road. The machines they’d hauled here had been unloaded and were trackside working to set things back in order.
The nearby farmsteads showed extensive damage. The buildings once known as the Larson Brothers place had lots of broken trees and branches scattered about. On the south side of the road, friend Ralph’s old place took a heavy hit. I wondered how the wind made the roof of the large quonset building look like a giant fist had squashed it down, making the building unusable except for scrap.
Then it was on to the Anselm Trinity Lutheran Church for the Dale Kaatz funeral where he filled the sanctuary with people saying goodbye.
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