The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-13
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FEDERAL BUILDING STRUCK.


FEDERAL BUILDING STRUCK.
The new federal building was struck
by lightning, which tore away the apex
OF the tower The damage is slight.
Wind blew down the SiXty-foot smoke
stack of the Minnesota Soap company's
plant Eagle and Washington streets.
serious washout on Minnesota street,
near Fourth, caused a fifteen-foot hole
I to form in the gutter. Through this
opening water poured in a stream during
the storm into the basement of Adam
Mattson's saloon, Fourth and Minnesota
streets. There were three feet of water
In the cellar, Several casks of liquor
and other articles stored in the base
| ment were badly damaged.
Fully 100 feet of sidewalk at Tenth
and Fort streets was lifted by the wind
and deposited in sections along the
street.
| store room occupied by the McKibbin
Fur company, at Seventh and Pine
Streets was blown out
Half a dozen trees were blown down
on Eighth street. At the old club
house, 229 Eighth, street. a big tree In
the yard was blown against the house,
and broke off a corner of the building.
Under fifteen-foot high stone wall
at 376 Wacouta street the rain made a
large washout, rendering the wall unsafe
for pedestrians passing by.
Half a dozen large trees In the vicin-
ity of Ninth and Willius streets were
blown down.
Wind seized the porch OF Matt Shinas
home, Western avenue and Superior
street. and carried 1t fifty feet away.
Several bad washouts occurred on the
upper part of Duke street.
The cellar at the central police station
was flooded with a foot of water.
The rain did serious damage to the
Fourth street tunnel, in the Northern Pa
cific yards. The earth was washed away
from both ends of the tunnel, and the
masonry was badly disarranged, so much
so, in fact that the tunnel is regarded
as in a dangerous condition.
Fully thirty feet of the roadbed at
Chatsworth and Charles streets was
washed out by the rain.
Wind blew down a telegraph pole at
Fourth and Franklin streets. The Frank
lin street pavement of cedar blocks was
partly washed out, between Third and
Fourth streets.
An entire block of sidewalk on Rice
street, between the Great Northern
tracks and Sycamore street, on both
sides of the, thoroughfare, was torn up by
the wind. The walk from the west side
was thrown in pieces, in the middle of the
street while that from the east side was
into vacant lots.
A large bill board, twelve feet high
and fifty feet long, was blown across the
sidewalk at Harrington and University
avenue.
A window sash and glass were blown
out of the south side of the Central high
school.
One of the stained glass windows in
court room No. 1, on the top floor of the
city hail. was blown out
A section of sidewalk on South Robert
street, near Chicago avenue, was torn up
by the wind.
Sections of sidewalk In half dozen
blocks on State street were thrown into
the middle of the street.
Water bored hole fifteen feet In diam
eter in the roadbed at Granite and Mis-
sissippi streets.
At De Soto and Case streets a large
washout occurred. The lamp post on the
corner and twenty feet of sidewalk went
down into the hole
Part of the approach to the Dale street
bridge was washed away. There is an
other washout at Dale and Minaehaha
streets. Several sections of Dale street
sidewalk in this vicinity were also blown
out.
At Iglehart and Arundel streets there
was a washout, also at IgTehart and st.
A!bans, where the cross walk was torn
up. A section of tho street at Dale and
Edmund streets was ruined by wash
out
Several limbs We're blown from trees in
Rice park.
Two vacant houses at Lake Como were
twisted around on their foundations by
the wind Several fences about property
near the lake We're also blown down.
The wind and driving rain broke the
overhead wires on the Selby avenue car
line on Fourth street. near Robert dur
ing the early part of the storm, and traffic
was delayed for nearly an hour No one
was injured.
HEAVY RAIN FALL.
The rain gauge last night showed a
rainfall locally of 2.2 inches The area
of st. Paul is 52 square miles. Assuming
that the rainfall as measured at the top
OF the Chamber of Commerce building.
was uniform over the city.s area, then
the total deposit of water on ST. Pauls
upper surface was 667 2s7, ,610 240 cubic
inches, which amounts to 3S6, III ,5Oi cubic
feet, or 2,455, ,G6G, $50 gallons
This volume of water would cover
pond one square mile in extent II feet 8
inches deep, and would require the efforts
of a pumping engine the size of the new
one at Centerville, pumping Is, ,000,0 gal
Ions every twentyfour hours nearly a
month to pump the water into such
hole, If there was one, without allowing
anything for evaporation.
1t would keep all the steam fire en-
gines in the st. Paul fire department
busy for weeks to pump such an amount
of water.
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