The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-09

being entirely destroyed and the room damaged
by water. The injury to the windows of stores
along Market street was not great as one
would have imagined. At Nos. 722, 724, aud 40 |
a number of lights were broken, aud only thirty
were broken in the large store of Wanamaker 81
Brown, Sixth and Market streets.
The Tenth Presbyterian Church, at Twelfth
and Walnut, suffered severely In broken win
dows, nearly every pane of glass exposed having
been broken.
Inthesouthern portion of the city the storm was
very violent, especially in the First and Second
wards. Very many of the stained glass windows
in the Tenth and Dickerson street fronts of the
Church of the Annunciation, the Scott Metho-
dist Episcopal Church on Eighth street, below
Dickerson, the Calvary Baptist Church on Fifth
street, below Carpenter, and in the Mariners
Baptist Bethel on Front street, below Christian,
At the Naval Asylum several hundred lights
were demolished.
In the front windows of the Second District
Police Station (old Southwark Hall), eighty-nine
panes of glass were shattered.
The splendid hot-house of Mr.. Lippincott, at
Broad and Walnut streets, was completely rid
died, and the plants much damaged.
In the front windows of the Shiler Hose
house, new building on Moyamensng avenue,
below Dickerson street, there were but seven
whole panes of glass when the storm subsidized.
Very considerable damage was done to the
lighthouses of the Widow Bisset, florist, on
Tasker street, between Moyamensing avenue
and Fourth street.
All over the city skyghts were broken,
in the business quarters. The services of the
Insurance Patrol called into requisition
in some instances, and their waterproof cover
ings were of great benefit in preventing damage.
The drivers street had great difficulty
in managing the horses during the violence of
the storm, and the application of both brakes
was necessary to prevent spirited animals from
running away. Two handsome horses attached
to light wagon took fright in the upper part of
the city and dashed off at full speed. The
wagon was overturned, the driver thrown out,
and the animals kept on. The owner had not
been able to hear anything of them up to last
evening.
At st. Marks Church some two hundred
| panes of glass were broken, including some one
hundred and fifty of the stained panes consti,
! tuting the -Four Apostles" window, which will
| take several hundred dollars to replace.
On Chestnut street the damage was not very
extensive below Sixth street, but beyond that
| point some of the buildings suffered severely.
At the Continental Hotel about sixty of the
| large lights on Chestnut street were broken, and
| two hundred and fifty in other portions of the
building. About three hundred were broken
| out of the windows of the Girard House.
The Mercantile Library, on Tenth street,
above Chestnut suffered severely, one hundred
| and twenty lights in the side windows having
| been broken, and about the same number of the
side lights on the roof and the ground glass
inside. Several hundred dollars will be required
to repa 90 the damage.
MuclS Sof the glass in the towers of St.
Stephens Church was broken.
The Bingham House, at Eleventh and Market
streets, had over 343 lights broken (250 of which
were large ights), and the windows on Eleventh
as well as on Market street presented a most
dilapidated appearance.
The damage also serious along Broad
street.-The windows of warehouses; churches,
and dwellings being much broken. The hand
some circular window of stained glass in the
chapel of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal
Church were completely riddled; while nearly
every pane of glass was broken from tower and
steeple of the First Baptist Church, Broad and
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west. .... ...
The stained glass in the windows of the West
Arch Street Church is badly broken. One light
in one of the windows cost $125.
The hot-house of Mrs. b. A. Fahnestock,
Eighteenth and Arch Streets had over $50 lights
broken, entailing loss of near $1,000, without
counting damage to the rare and costly plants.
From $1,000 to $l500 will be required to repair
| the loss sustained by the breaking of glass in
| Mr. Dryburghs hot-house in Cherry street,
| below Eighteenth.
| Nearly all the glass in the windows of the
| Southwestern Presbyterian Church, Twentieth
| and Fitzwater streets, are broken
The beautiful stained glass in the windows of
the Church of the Holy Trinity, Nineteenth and
| Walnut streets, is much shattered.
The stained glass windows in the Church of
| the Covenant, on Filbert street, near Eighteenth
| are damaged beyond repair.
| At the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church.
! Eighteenth and Filbert streets, the communion
| service had just commenced when the storm
broke over the city. Many of the lights in the
windows were broken.
The hot-house of Rodney King, at Nineteenth
| and Race streets, was badly damaged. Also the
one belonging to James Pollock, Fifteenth
| street, below Walnut.
| large number of lights were broken in the
| new Colonnade Hotel, Chestnut street, above
| Fifteenth, and considerable damage done to pri-
vate dwellings in the immediate vicinity.
| In most of the churches, Sunday School SER
vices had commenced, and there was much eX-
| element among the children, caused by the
breaking of glass and the loud noise made by
| the falling hail.
A large number of lights were also broken at
the Episcopal Academy, on Locust street, below
| Broad At horticultural Hall 1876 lights were
| broken, but the Academy of Music, ad dining,
escaped with but trihipg loss.
| The large rose window in the new Baptist
| Church, at Broad and Spruce streets, was COM
pletely riddled, also two smaller ones. The
large window in the north end, which cost
about $4,000, was damaged but 1t is thought 1t
can be repaired
DR.. Wiley's Church. Broad, below Spruce,
| was also damaged to some extent, the stained
glass windows being broken badly. The oriel
window of the beautiful church at Broad and
Green streets was also riddled.
The large hot houses of Mr. Mackenzie, at
| Broad street and Columbia avenue, were seri-
ously damaged, not pane of glass remaining.
Calvary Presbyterian Church, Locust street,
above Fifteenth, was damaged badly, the stained
| glass windows being ruined. 1t will cost at
least $1,000 to repair the loss The stained glass
windows in the church at Seventeenth and
Spruce streets, also in st. Marks, Locust street,
above Sixteenth, were badly riddled with the
hail. At Third and Pine the storm was not so
severe, the windows of st. Peters being little
damaged. Most of the churches in the city, as
well as school-houses and other public build
ings not protected by shutters, are more or less
damaged.
The Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church
had nearly all the lights fronting west aud north