Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-14
CITY DAMAGED.
A Wind and Rain Storm of Ter.
rife Force Passes Over
Chicago.
Large Amount of Glass Roofing
Broken and Exhibits Badly
Soaked.
-Four Persons Drowned on Lake
Michigan by a Yacht Cap
sizing.

VSNAb . AAn OnOONDSs July W.
A windstorm Of terrific force, followed
by a heavy downpour Of rain, passed
over the White City a few minutes be-
fore 6 p. NJ, doing considerable damage
to the small building, and exhibits
stored within. The glass was broken
in nearly all of the windows, but the
exact amount Of harm done the displays
by the soaking they received will not
be known until morning.
The afternoon was sultry and as it
drew to a close the atmosphere became
oppressively heavy. Not a breath of
air was stirring and heavy black clouds
banked up at the north and east. About
Is minutes before = the heavy storm
Burst Over the Park
and the crowds scattered throughout
the grounds. Ten thousand people
We're grouped about the pavilion to the
east of Manufactures building, enjoy
ing the music being given by the Gin
cinnati band. The wind. sweeping
dense clouds before it. caught them as
it did everybody, totally unawares.
They hastily rushed for the shelter of
the big building and entered the doors
in much disorder, many a frightened
woman losing hat and parasol in the
confusion. The guards, after admit
ting the crowds, endeavored to close
the doors, but the force Of the wind
shut the doors with such violence that
the glass in the three big entrances was
shattered
Into Thousands Of Pieces,
while the uniformed p~reservers of the
peace were sent sprawling on the floor.
There was much confusion, but as the
blow lasted but 10 minutes the people
soon became calm. The gale cam
from the northeast and did but little
damage to the evenly formed east front
of the building. On the west side near
the north end, however, two sections of
glass roofing, 80 by 100, were blown in.
doing considerable damage to the Japa-
nese section, the rain drenching the
paints and varnish department of the
United States division as we'll as that of
Japan, which it adjoins. The number
= of handsome japanese fans, parasols,
vases and carved bric-a-brac were
soaked and water stood on the floor two
or three inches deep for some time un-
til holes were bored to let it escape.
The other exhibits in the near vicinity
were hastily covered and
Further Damage Prevented.
The full force of the gale was felt
mainly in Agricultural building. Large
crowds had thronged the east front OF
the building during the day, inspecting
the newly arrived Spanish ~caravels, and
rushed for shelter in the building. Just
as the greater portion of them had
gained the doors a section of glass roof
ing over the centre aisle near the north
door gave way and came to the floor
below with a resounding crash. 1t fell
all around Miss Minnie Bates, an at
tendant at q candy counter in the CEN
ter of the aisle, but she miraculously
escaped without a scratch. A minute
later a smaller section fell over the
edge of the French division of the
building, breaking one of the glass
show cases containing exhibits. This.
added to the great confusion occasioned
by a frightened woman rushing from
place to place, put the building in an
ulroar and but for the fact that the
crowd was not very large there would
have been a panic. The storm lasted
but a few minutes, but the rain fell
heavily for nearly two hours.