The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
THAT TREMENDOUS WIND.


Considerable Damage NepoTte"'
On Thursday morning last at about 9;3(
o'clock, lasting till near noon, one Of thu
hercest of wind storms struck Ottawa. BE
roeus, whose chaldic tablets, found in TIT
ruins of Khorsabud and Koyunjik, dating
over SOL 900 years before the flood, gives
nothing like it. and OF course the /" oldest
inhabitant' is stricken speeches.. 1t howled
through alleys, roared in the streets, scream
ed through the telephone wires, yelled on the
house tops, growled in the cellars, sounded
in the towers, squealed in the church bel
fries, yelled in the areas, and went wild In
shrieks and war-whoops over the plain. 1t
was Irregular snorter!'
It tore awnings into rags, reversed UNI
brellas, caught hoop skirts "out on ny
and rendered them hideous wrecks. 1t
started loose dry goods boxes back towards
Chicago, where they came from; it demol-
ished bulletin boards, revealing forgotten
back alleys and old cellars. II blew outward
the front Of Christy Kerstes small store on
Madison street, took out large pane OF
glass from Lawyer Shows office window and
smashed il into smithereens on the walk be-
ow. 1t ripped up the tin roof on Miss Ber-
tina Schueilers, Norris and one Of Sher-
wood buildings. 1t blew down COlwell's
smoke stack and left in shapeless ruins one
Of De Ia Chappelle's large straw sheds; 1t
partially unroofed the tlatteninS house OF
the double thick window works. ltcrushed
Moore's blacksmith shop, in South Ottawa,
and carried a large plank fifty feet up in the
air and 100 feet away, and drove II through
an upper window on the tower Of Joe Par
kcrs RESI- lence, and the breeze damaged the
roof Of SCOTS dwelling The iron smoke
stack of Stiefels overall factory was dashed
to the ground and broken into pieces
oyERsTRETCHED STORIES.
There was no fire at King & Hamilton :, as
reported by an evening daily; nor were the
roofs taken of from any Oe the window
houses. The Glass company, as matter OF
pure caution, got their fire apparatus ready
for any emergency, and telephOncd Charlie
Hahn 10 keep steam up in one Of his fire en-
gines, request which he promptly obeyed
Noban's roof was not damaged, neither was
there a fire at King & Hamilton's shop ex
cept in the furnace; nor did the smokestack
of the heating apparatus sway in the wind;
nor did the court house culver; nor Lynch
mammoth well cease to flow. That man S
false teeth were blown out: that Col. Hits
knife was blown open while in his pocket
that the music was blown out Of the Kendall
brass band go that they hadn't "A "oot' left
for their noon concert, and that Jim Cross
mouth was blown open wider than before;
are fall thing' to he taken with grain of
salt and then doubted.
THE WIND AT sTREAToR.
The damage from Thursdays wind was
greater at Streator than here, The steeples
of Park Presbyterian and the Episcopal
churches were blown down. SO also were
The new towers of the Coal Run shaft, the
smoke stags and one of the roofs of the
Strea!or brick works, the walls Of the old
Sohaf,aberg building. The large iron smoke
stack of the glass works, over the east fur
mace broke off above the roof and fell, its
immense weight carrying it through the
building AMI partly destroying the brick
furnace; and the hattening oven suffered In
the same way by the fall Of its smoke stack.
The loss will be several thousand dollars TO
the glass works alone. The tower Of the
new Star coal shaft was leveled, as was Dr.
Elders barn. sheds at the driving park, Col
leys ice house: the smoke stack, sheds aud
kiln roofs Of Lukens & Co.'S brick yards
were blown down. A box Car on the railroad
track was unroofed Joe Bertiaux's barn
WAS hattened. Flck's wndm II was torn
up and blown away. The loss at Strealor is
put ut $40 ,0OO
THE STORM ELSEWHERE.
At Braid wood the wind lifted cars from
the track and landed them in the ditch. 1t
twisted the tower at the Eureka mine so as to
render il useless and stop work for several
days. All over the county reports came in
Of wind mills blown away. sheds wrecked
and fences, orchards and shale trees total y
ruined.
No lawyer, minister or saloon keeper can