San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-20
THE STORM.

II O'Clock, and has spread devastation in
its track. At this time it is impossible
to make any detail or estimation Of the
damage, but it is considerable. Among
the storm damage noticed by the LIGHT
reporters were the following:
Post Office windows blown In, and
considerable water.
Club house windows blown In.
Carter a. Mullaly, part of awning
blown away.
Grenet building, part Of embattle-
ments blown of.
House on East Houston street partly
unroOfed.
Menger hotel, lattice work blown
away. tree torn down, and some OF the
roofing blown of.
The roof of the FourL b ward school
blew entirely of.
Neumann & Icke's roof is on the
on the ground.
The powder houses are blown down.
Travis Park is complete wreck.
The courthouse, Devine building and
Terrell building, are partially unroofed.
Praeger's store on East Commerce
street was unroofed.
Kaiser's saloon awning on Alamo
street was blown down the street. struck
man who is not much injured.
The roof of Cotton & HOrnung's works
is blown off.
The steeple of Madison square church
was blown down.
house, corner of Villeta and Presa
street, was unrOOfed.
10 fnR Ill IN ENinR
Large warehouse on Market street I'M
rooted.
Government work shops were blown
down.
North end of Literary hall was blown
In.
1t is reported that the new govern
ment barracks are unTOOfed.
Trees are blown down in all direo-
tons.
Telegraph and telephone wires are
down over the city.
The government buildings were dam
aged considerably, and the clerks were
compelled to move out.
A delivery wagon was blown over on
Commerce street. The driver was in
side, but was unhurt.
A roof of a millinery store opposite
Duerler's was blown off.
Pant of the roof of Wolfson's building
was blown into the plaza.
At government depot many houses
were unroofed and the damage is rough
ly estimated at $4,000.
Three windows were blown out of the
San Antonio Club room and the room
drenched.
One of the large plate glasses nearly
half an inch thick, was blown out Of the
Maverick bank on the east side.
Harnisch & Baer's garden and restau-
rant were flooded with water and
damaged.
The building occupied by Mic Tengg
has part of the roof off,
Mrs. Hills millinery store again sui
fered.
The awning of Sam W. Benefits store
was partly blown of, and the roof leaks,
badly damaging ROnse Il Co.'S books and
office.
The roof of the Lewis mill was partly
blown of, also the roof of the iron clad
warehouse opposite.
Part of the roof of Paul Nagner's store
blew of and his stock was damaged.
A large plate glass window in Half &
Bros. store was broken.
Schools sign on LOsoyO street, is
broken, and signs are down all over the
| city.
The river and creeks are rising rapidly
and an overflow is threatened.
Trees on almost every street of the
| city were blown or twisted of.
The roof of the old Literary hall on
| on Houston street, recently burned, was
entirely torn of to-day by the wind.
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was blown down to-day, and also some
trees in William Muth's yard on Gray
son street.
The wind this morning blew down
one of the brass balls that form the sign
of "UnGle Emerson's" pawnbrokers
shop.
The rain and wind produced a stag
| nation of business in the courts of the
| justices and IN the county clerks office
to-day.
Two chimneys of the court house
were blown down this morning.
An awning on Losoya street, and
several signs were blown away to-day.
Awnings in front of the Maverick
land Office, Houston street, window avn
ings In front of Dulling's building, Lo-
soya street, and the Devine building.
Solidad street, were blown off to-day.
One of the tall smoke stacks of the
San Antonio Ice factory was partly
blown down by the wind to-day.
Awnings on Commerce treet we're
blown down.
A piece Of tin roofing from the Ger
man convent near st. Joseph church,
was blown over the block and struck
Dullnigs store to-day.
Part Of the roof of the Dullnig build
ing is off and the entire upper floor is
damaged by water.
The roof is of one-half Z. Reeds fur
niture store, and both floors were
hooded.
Windows in Lorra's and Mrs. Waters
stores were broken and their stock dam
aged by water.
The chimney of house on Sherman
street was blown off this morning In the
storm and the house caught fire, man
who got upon the roof to extinguish
the fire was also blown off but was not
badly hurt.
The Storm at Galveston.
Great anxiety is felt here about the
effects of the storm upon Galveston, as
the meagre kilograms that have been re-
ceived represent the city as inundated
by the waves. The report is current in
the city that the warehouse in which the
freight Of the Sunset road is stored
was In imminent danger of being