Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-09

The business failures far the past week
number 2iS, compared with 231 the previous
week. For the corresponding week last year
the figures were 243.
How the Zephers Played In Topeka.
Topeka was served with twenty-fou hour
gale, commencing Thursday night.
The State Journal of Friday p. m. gives q
two column account mostly taken up with
mention of small damages done by the wind
through the middle of the day on Friday.
Telegraph communication with the outside
world was entirely cut of.
Awnings everywhere suffered; many went
to the country.
The roof of the east wing of the Santa Fe
machine shops was partially torn off it
was SO badly damaged that 125 mechanics
were compelled to quit work for the remain.
der of the day.
At Washburn college part of the slate roof
of the library building was blown off. One
of the big chimneys on Science hall was
blown down and the roof on the south side
of DR.. McVicar's residence wac torn off.
The Santa Fe lumber yards were turned
upside down; big pieces of timber were car
ned over into Fourth street like shingles.
This was stopped bya big force of men carry
ing railroad iron into the lumber yards to
be used as weights.
A large plate glass window in the building
occupied by the Kansas City Piano company,
and Armstrong & Priddy, at 1916 Kansas ave-
nue., was smashed by the wind.
A plate glass window in the Metsker build
ing, 81 Kansas avenue, was blown in.
A large barn at the south end of Kansas
avenue, owned by j. S. Mcintosh, was car
ried off its foundation.
A big galvanized iron chimney blew over
lrlr " Wprvr Il -
q man, on the sidewalk, in the back and
knocked him down, but did not hurt him.
Miss Mabel Morgan, cashier at the Capital
Grocery, narrowly escaped being struck by
brick chimney, which fell on the sidewalk
behind her, as she was going to work.
At the fair grounds about one-third of the
the horse sheds along the north side are
blown over into Swift & Holidays field.
Wooden sidewalks tumbled about promis-
cuously.
A large amount of glass is blown out of
Lull's building on South Kansas avenue.
The list of chimnies blown off is very large.
half block of lumber sheds at Henry
Strong's north side yard, is total wreck.
The tin roof was blown off of Patsy Multi
gan's brick block on the avenue in North
Topeka
The tin roof was blown off and part of
the north wall carried away of the brick
building in the rear of the carriage works on
KANSAS avenue, near crane street.
At L. II. Whitiner's residence, in Potwin
Place, a large chimney was blown off, dam
aging the roof. Whitmer's large barn was
also carried off its foundation and smashed;
loss $780,
Hundreds of tile shingles are being blown
off of the public library building.
Thomas Hicks barn, in Potwin Place, was
blown fat to the ground.
The chimney of the city electric light plant
was blown OF, consequentlythere may be no
lights for the next three or four nights.
The cornice and part of the tin roof is
blown off of the Armstrong and Priddy build
ing, 1926 Kansas avenue.
! Thirty-five feet of the rear of the top of the
old cracker factory with roof was taken off
by the wind.
Numbers of covered delivery wagons were
blown over in different streets, while making
their rounds.
The slate roofing of the Santa Fe round
house and paint shop was carried of in many
places.
The roof of the erecting shop of the Santa
Fe has several times been raised eighteen
inches or more, but is still on.
Two smoke stacks in the Santa Fe yards
were blown down completely.
A report reached here from Lawrence that
. plate glass window at the university was
blown in, and Prof. Dyche's collection of
stuffed animals badly injured.
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the northwest corner of fourth and Liberty
streets was badly wrecked.
One of the large chimneys on the Fifth
avenue hotel was blown over.
The wind mill at the natatorium on Tenth
street was blown down.
The starch factory, east of the city, loses
considerable metal and composition roofing;
also some outside sheets.
The Quincy school building in North To-
peka, in which there is several large cracks
and has been considered unsafe for some
time, was thought to be in danger, and all
schools in that building were dismissed.
The Potwin schools were also closed, the
trouble at that building being large num-
ber of window lights blown in.
One OF the most serious accidents occurred
ak IL O'Clock at the Presbyterian manse, adj
joining the church on Harrison street, oppo-
site the State house. The large chimney was
blown on and fell into the attic, carrying
with it almost the entire roof ON that side Of
the gable. The family of Rev. Mr.. Anderson
we're IN the house when it fell. but none of
The wreckage went below the attic. The dam
s.: 81 to the house will be between $500 and
Numerous plate glass windows ON Kansas
ayeane have been broken and many others
doubtless would have been had they not been
ueotected by braces of timber.
It Is estimated that the damage in Topeka
viii reach from $10,0 600 to $4,000.
The wind blew at the rate of eighty five
miles an hour.
Injunction Suspended.
xAxsAs CuY, Mo-, April "a telegram no
caiyed from Commissioner A. S. Vanlandine-
Inn, Who i 1t Hot Springs, states that the
onse Of the Wichita Grocery company against
- railroads was tried before Judge CaA-