La Junta tribune., 1898-06-08
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electric storm which occurred Mon
day evening about 8 o'clock. Yes
terday morning he had not been
able to dig up anything in ancient
history that proved half as inter
esting as the tales of Monday
nights storm and food. He adj
mitted that the electric storm sur
passed anything within his memory
that had occurred in this section,
although he claimed that he had
witnessed greater and more disas-
trous floods.
The pyrotechnic display in the
heavens was the most brilliant and
awe-inspiring spectacle that it has
ever been our good fortune to wit
ness. and caused terror and alarm
in many faint heart The peals
Of reverbcrating thunder were ter
rife, and caused many wag to
remark that dewey was after 'em
again and giving it to 'em hard"
The pyrotechnic display lasted
for an hour, and then the electric
lights went out, the rain descended
in torrents and an alarm OF FIRE was
rung in, all within the space OF a
minute. The FIRE laddies turned
out with their hose cart, bray-
ing the elements, and deserve all
praise for their heroic action, de-
spite the fact that their services
were not needed. The lightning
struck the residence OF T. A. Pep
low, on Cimarron avenue, but no
FIRE resulted, although some Of the
family were quite severely shocked
by the stroke and some of the
woodwork splintered.
The rain descended in torrents
for two hours, and by that time the
water came down from the hills and
most Of our principal streets were
raging rivers, the water being a
foot deep all along Santa Fe and
Colorado avenues.
Water entered all OF the build
ings even with the grade of the
street along Santa Fe avenue, al
though not much damage was done.
The store rooms along Trinidad
plaza were also flooded, water be-
ing foot deep in Bland's barber
shop. G. B. Rounds cellar was
filled to the level OF the floor. 1t
contained 100 sacks of potatoes,
100 cases of canned goods and a
lot of other merchandise, which
has Of course been considerably
damaged. The store rooms of G.
E. Smith and T. NJ Finney were
flooded, and the former sustained
considerable damage to stock. r.
c. Inge, by hard work, kept the
water out of his store and no dam
age was done. Water entered the
court house at the southeast cor
ner and flooded one room OF the
cellar. No damage.
Several houses were struck by
lightning, among them the Presby-
terian manse. The woodwork was
splintered in several places and
Rev. Coltman received a shock
which stunned him for several
minutes.
Frank LeHew, while at work at
McNeen's brickyard, was struck
by lightning and taken home in an
unconscious condition. He was
attended by DR.. Dow, and was this
morning reported out Of danger
and in fair way to recover.
AT the electric light works one
Of the dynamos was burned out,
resulting in about $Ioo damage.
The lights went out twice and the
town was in darkness for two
hours.
So far as reported there was very
little hail in La Junta. The Hol-
brook country had q little. but not
enough to do any damage. In the
Fairmont country. however, . heavy
fall Of hail is reported, some Of the
stones being as large as hens eggs