Delta chief., 1884-04-02
High Winds.

storm visited Denver and vicinity yesterday
causing great destruction to tin-roofs, swing
ing signs weak fences and telegraph wires.
The rear part of the city hall was unroofed,
the tin being neatly rolled into balls and car
ried a goodly dis ance The portion unroofed
is over the Masonic hall, and as there was
nothing left to protect the fine furniture Of
the room from rain or snow except the plas-
tering ON the ceiling, which was puiictnred IN
several places by failing bricks and pieces of
timber, the Masons at once proceeded to
take up the carpets and get ready for
siege.
The tin roofing on the MofYatt X kassler
block was torn up and scattered promiscuously.
This sort of thing continued for some time
and the air was In consequence filled with In
Vulnerable sheets of tin, tarred felt paper,
gravel, etc.
HOTEL WALL BLOWN powS.
A portion cf the southeast side Of the old
Lindell Hotel, on Larimer street, West Deu-
yer, WIS blown down, the debris extending
across the street car track and obstructiug
travel. The roof of +. l.. scholtzs drug store
on the southwest corner OF Thirteenth and
Champa streets, was lifted up in one immense
sheet and dropped down on two small cottages
to the north OF IL. The Exposition building
escaped with but little damage, the tin roof on
the northwest side being loosened and par
TALLY torn of.
There were but two casualties reported A
young man, named Woodbave, who lived on
Downing avenue, was seriously injured. while
working In an excavation At the corner of
Twenty y-eighth and Curtis streets, by an old
brick wall falling on him. The wall was q part
of building which was destroyed by n fire,
some time ago,and II was 10 weak to stand the
force Of the wind. Woodhsvc was injured
about the head and face, receiving severe
cuts.
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tcrnally. He WAS taken 10 his home and at
tended by physicians Another man who was
employed with Woodhave escaped uphurt
The other accident occurred on the Circle rail
road. coach was blown from the track near
Fleming station, and the only passenger, an
engineer, was considerably bruised, but not
seriously hurt
Sergeant Neal, Of the signal service, said
the wind blew with a velocity Of sixty miles u
minute at times, and that all day there was an
average OF fifty miles. Men who chased hnts
up the street willing to swear the Sergeant
don't know anything about the rapidity with
which the zephyrs travelled. They say It blew
a hundred riiles per minute. The storm con-
tinued until near midnight, when the wind be-
gan to subsidc somewhat.
OTHER DAMAGES.
dwelling at 255 South Eleventh street was
blown down. The occupants were at dinner
They felt the house moving and managed to
escape unhurt.
t1The large transparency over Elitchs oyster
house was blown down. Tbi- IL the second
time within n few weeks. JOHN says he IL get
ting tired Of such work.
A plate-glass window In T.. Barnett's cloth
ing store, Az Lnrimer street was dIslodged
from the casing and broken into fragments ON
the sidewalk.
The residence OF w. r. Lawrence. corner
East Sixteenth street and Pennsylvania nv
enue, was badly damaged. portion of the
walls was blown away and the furniture badly
damaged.
A chimney on the Opera.house was blown
OF. and the falling brick made pedestrians
scatter widely.
The front Of the new brick store being
erected at 237 Lawrence street was blown
out.
A portion Of the roof on the hall Of the Pa.
triotic Order Sons Of America. was torn OF
and carried away.
On South Fourteenth street, house was
blown down.
The building at the northeast corner Of
Curtis and Thirteenth streets, was unroofed.
and the debris damaged several fine trees.
The residence Of United States Deputy Mar
blown in.
Some trees in the eastern part Of the city
were blown down.
Some Of the smaller pinnacles were blown
from the county building yesterday. Damage
light.
Officer Mclean walked about five miles in
taking prisoner from the City Hall to the
jail on Thirteenth street. The prisoner was
drunk, ieclincd 70 go with the wind, and the
officer had TO follow him, being the lIghtest
man.
Hundreds OF chimney caps we're blown away,
and bricks were hurled In all directions.
The damage wrought by the wind Is hard to
estimate.
McPhee & McGInity will put fifteen or TWEEN
ty men at work fixing the roof OF the city hall
to-day. The damage 70 the building is estim-
ated at over one thousand dollars.
The tin roofs on the buildings adjoining the
Windsor, on Larimer street, were blown of.
Most NIL trains were late last night on sc-
count Of the storm.
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