The record-union., 1892-11-28
HOWLING WINDS.
One Of the Worst Gales That Ever
Visited This Section.
Considerable Damage Done to Roofs and
Trees-Two Old Houses Toppled
Into a Slough.

morning. 1t was quite calm up TO mid
night on Saturday, at which time fierce
gusts of wind came up from the southeast,
and within an hour a perfect gale was
blowing.
From that time until 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, when rain began to fall, the
storm was fearful one. Houses were
shaken, sheds and outbuilding over
turned, shutters torn off, roofs damaged,
trees, fences and signs blown down and
all sorts of pranks perpetrated by the
angry winds, which seemed at times to
come from ali points of the compass at
once.
The sight about Capitol Park yesterday
morning was, on small scale, about what
one might witness in the track of West
ern blizzard. The grounds, as well as the
sidewalks surrounding the park, were
strewn with branches and big limbs of
trees that had been wrenched and twisted
of by the storm, although none OF the
large trees were blown over bodily. Per-
sons who lay awake during the latter half
of the night and listened to the howling
winds and the clatter made by lying
boards and shingles expected to hnd the
great pines and expresses in the park LAID
flat, but, although somewhat dishgured,
they were all in their places in the morn
lng.
While the storm was at its hight it
PLAYED many queer pranks. A small
frame annex to the Central House on X
street was smashed in and some of the
boards blown over the main building
and across the street, where they were
dashed into one of the large plate-glass
windows in Hale Bros store,
shattering the glass and doing consldera-
I H. Il, L. -aH
Mrs. George Suydam's three-story
brick residence, at lll3 Third street,
south OF X, was badly damaged. The
tin roof was blown OIL, leaving the lnte-
rior exposed TO the fury Of the storm. The
rear portion of the building was drenched
to the basement, damaging the furniture,
plastering, ETC., to the extent OF several
hundred dollars. Bricks from chimneys
were hurled against an adjoining resi-
tlence shatteriuE WindOw-g lass and doing
other damage. Some men while working
on the roof of Mrs. Suydam's house were
severely injured.
Two small vacant houses on the line of
Sixth street were turned over into China
Slough. one was formerly occupied by
j. A. Parker.
Out at Oak Park, where the gale had
full scope, scores of outhouses were top
pied over and many of them smashed
into splinters. There will be a demand
outin that locality for some days to come.
one small house out there, which be-
fore the storm stood few feet above the
ground and rested on blocks, was depos-
tied right side up on the ground.
Between and 8 o'clock in the morning
the tin roofing OF the structure in the
rear Of the Central House was rolled up
into big scroll and carried over into X
street, where it alighted on the electric
railway trolley wires. Then followed a
unique and brilliant display of electrical
pyrotechnics that would have been
drawing card at a Fourth of July celeDra-
ton. Flashes and sparks shot out from
the wires and played on the tin in way
that caused the crowds on the streets to
stand and gaze in wonder and admira-
tion at the weird display. Following are
some of the other
RESULTS or THE sToRAI-
Two windows in the Hall of Records
blown in and one in Judge Catlin's cham
bers in front OF the Courthouse.
4 large tree in the Courthouse yard
blown down.
Two line large pepper trees on J street,
near Twenty-tourth, leveled with the
ground.
Skylight on the roof of Damm's Pacific
Oyster House on j street lifted off and
shattered.
A large section of the tin roofing on the
The old board fence on the K-street side
of the new Government building blown
down and splintered.
Upper balcony in front of Henry Eek
hardt's gun store on X street wrecked.
Railing on the east side of the balcony
of the Lardner building, at Fifth and K
streets, blown OFF.
Some damage was reported to the roof
ing of Pythian Castle.
A section of the roof over the grand
stand at Snowflake backgrounds carried
away nearly one hundred yards.
The water tank on the roof of B. L.
Steinman's residence on l street, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth, was blown
of, and some windows crushed in the
Lull House, near by.
In addition to these, hundreds ofswing-
ing signs were torn from their fastenings
knocked down, fences leveled, and any
number of old canvas awnings torn into
ribbons.
At a residence on p street. a dish of
milk that had just been left by a milk
man, was taken up by a whirlwind, the
vessel broken, and the milk carried up
and scattered over the side OF the building
up to the caves.
Two skylights that had adorned the
roof of the Mansion House disappeared
without leaving their itinerary.
Several windows in the residence of
John Allen, OF the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, were blown to frag
ments.
The same miniature cyclone made
splinters of the blinds on a neighboring
house, and smashed in the window.
Down the river the ferries were forced
to stop, and people had to drive miles out
of their way to reach the city.
A CHURCH INJURED.
C. r. Miller OF Freeport writes to the
RECORD UNION that the new Catholic
Church on the Nolo side of the river. on
the gale yesterday and moved about a
foot and a half out of plumb.
The residents of that neighborhood
placed braces on the north side of the
building, or it would have been over
turned.
WOULD A-HUNTING GO.
One lady had little experience that
she will probably not soon forget, and
which VIII be apt to cool her ardor for
going duck hunting. Her husband has
little shooting -boX' down by the lakes
on Merritt Island, near Clarksburg, some
fifteen miles down the river. He had
long been promising his wife that he
would take her with him on one OF his
shooting expeditions.
The outlook on Saturday was so tiatter-
ing for good days shooting that he con-
eluded to go and stay over night in the
camp" and yielded to his wite's urgent
solicitation to take her along. What
must have been the lady's sensations dur
ing the terrible night down on the wild
marsh can only be imagined. They can
not be described here, because the couple
hao not been able to reach home in the
ram yesterday. Their friends say they
doubtless removed yesterday morning to
lne nearest farm house.
hlle the gale had spent its force be-
lore noon yesterday. still the storm
tnrOughOut the faNr aud List rnirrht nxns