San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-29
SAN ANTONO'S STORM.
Wind Of Yesterday Did
Considerable Damage.
RAIN WAS ALSO VERY ANNOY
ING TO PICNIC AND FISH,
ING PARTIES.
In The City Trees Were Wrenched,
Several Houses Wrecked Smoke
stacks And Signs Laid Low,
And News Stands All
Cleaned Ont.

Fishing and picnic parties VINO
started out about daybrelk yesterday
morning in a light drizzliug rain evil
IDENTIFY thought the sun would dispel
the clouds early and give them fine
weather for their frolic. They were
borne out in this feeling too by the
Saturdays weather forecast printed in
the papers, but alas, they were mista-
ken and bedraggled parties of disap-
pointed ladies and gentlemen were
seen late last evening coming in by the
back streets, many thoroughly drench-
ed by the storm that broke about
o'clock in the afternoon.
1t came quickly in the shape of a
twisting wind storm, accompanied by
a heavy rain and tremendous thun-
der claps, with terrific electrical
flashes, and continuing for two hours
left quite a lot of damage to fences,
houses, bill boards, trees and shrubs
in its path.
Fortunately all the services at the
churches were ended for the morn
ing and a great many people escaped
the fury of the wind and rain, but
many fruit and news stands suffered
and considerable damage to the own
erS resulted.
The gale struck bargains news
stand, opposite the Light Office and
papers and magazines were blown
along EAST Commerce and Alamo
streets and ruined by the rain and
mud
stable of c. NJ. ParkersOn, of the
corner of River avenue and Josephine
street, was blown over by the wind
yesterday. An iron arch extending
across two rock pillars at the entrance
to Mr.. ParkersOn's yard was also
blown down.
At the Lone Star brewery the two
large smoke stacks and part of the
roof of the new brewhOuse were
blown away.
The big smokestack of the Collins
Manufacturing company, on st. Ma
RVS street, was blown down.
About a dozen china trees on San
Pedro avenue were broken. Two
china trees on Marshall street also.
Dozens of trees on Avenues G d and
e were broken.
A fine blackberry tree on South Flo
res street was twisted of.
Two chimneys of the West End
Protestant Home were blown over.
The wall of the San Antonio Fee
male college at West End was dam
aged considerably.
small frame house in Morin's
stockyards on South Flores street was
wrecked.
The iron clad building at the corner
of East Houston and NacagdOches
streets, used as a blacksmith shop by
J. r.. Pettus, was wrecked.
An advertising case with glass
face was blown down in front or Ed.
Jungkind's drugstore yesterday and
was completely demolished. A piece
of glass struck a Mexican candy ven
dor, named Lazaro Barrentes, and cut
a cash between his eyes. He seem
ed more worried about the damage to
the glass than to himself. He was
taken into the drugstore, where Mr..
Jungkind fixed him up.
The southeastern part Of the city
particularly Dreiss Hill vicinity, did
not suffer from the wind, except the
breaking of a few small china tree
limbs. Notwithstanding the fact that
the wind blew with considerable vic,
lence.
A tree in front of the county court.
house was broken.
Very little damage was done to the
convent at Lakeview.
1t is reported there was some little
damage done at st. Louis college, neal
West End.
Two poles at the San Antonio Gas
and Electric Light station were
blown down.
Two fine pecan trees in Riverside
park were broken.
The remainder of machinery hal
in the old fair grounds, which had no
been pulled down, was leveled.
The wires of the city fire alarm sys
TEN were not damaged.
A great many bill boards about tn,
city and also many street signs wer
blown down.
A fence on ConchO street was blow
down.
Some trees in Paschal Square par
suffered.
Some trees on North Flores stree
were felled.