The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-11-27
A TERRIBLE WIND STORM
STRIKES COLORADO SPRINGS

ed. The family escaped in time. The
plant of the Ell PasO Ice and Coal Com
pany suffered severely from fire, the
furnace being blown into Il falling wall.
The loss was over $1,000.
The department was out all day, but
mostly on false alarms. Forty extra
firemen We're employed and the appara-
tus was kept constantly hitched. Two
extra wagons loaded with hose were
hitched in the street before the police
station. Captain McNew, in charge of
the police, endeavored to send out pa
trolls constantly, but could not owing to
the severity of the storm. Baff1ed by
the wind until the horses slipped and
stumbled, the department made run
"a very wild one-to a suburb where
the Smith greenhouse collapsed and
caught fire at 6 o'clock. The loss WAS
in the neighborhood of $1,000 Fire
alarms from burning roofs and chin
neys sounded continuously.
During the excitement Il holdup was
reported by f. Moore, an employe of
Carpenter * Draper, grocers. He said
two men had stopped him in front of
300 North TETON street and took his
money and papers. This was the only
report of lawlessness. The town was
deserted and people shivered in their
houses while the wind shrieked unre-
mittingly like steam siren.
The roof of the Durkee block blew
over the roofs of the other buildings
for a half a block and landed in TETON
street. Fifteen feet of the wall of the
same building crashed down at Z
o'clock and took down many wires and
skylights. The Telegraph building
was struck and the postoftice windows
shattered. Bricks struck several men.
but did not injure them seriously. A
woman hugging n pole i'll front of the
Shove-Aldrich mining office screamed,
n girder missing her by a few inches.
The fire walls of both the GiddingS and
Mcintyre buildings were blown Off.
The west end wall of the Opera house
blew in, and the wind played havoc
with the scenery. \ four-foOt coping
stone was hurled through the air and
fell on the street. going into a manhole.
A chimney of the Durkee building al
most intact fell through the roof OF
Wyman's jewelry store, and buried
show cases and jewelry. A large por-
ton of the roof of the Temple theater
blew Off. AT midnight the wind had
gone down considerably, but it was
still blowing between fifty and sixty
miles an hour.
The roof of the Colorado Springs
Transfer Company was entirely demol-
ished. Plate glass windows all over
the city We're blown in, and the loss
from this alone will amount into thou
sands of dollars. The skylights of the
Mining Exchange building were shat
tered. Tiles We're torn from the roof
of the unfinished Antlers hotel. but it
was otherwise undamaged. Offices in
the Ell Paso building were damaged by
the falling of the Durkee roof. The on
ly means of illumination is by candle
and gas. The Colorado Springs Elec-
trio Light works caught fire and were
badly damaged.
The High school building was badly
damaged. The Colorado College build
ings wer uninjured. The Gazette build
ing, the most exposed in the city. was
uninjured. By candles and feeble gas
jets the morning paper was issued, af-
ter n delay of several hours in getting
together the scattered printers. Fully
100 small buildings aud cottages over
the city are down. The roof of the
Antlers livery stable was partly torn
of and the building damaged by fire.
Hundreds of shade trees are down and
many have fallen on dwellings, but
few other than reported are believed to
be injured.
One death Is reported, that of n child,
but the rumor could not be verified.
Only the prompt action Of Mayor
Robinson in turning off the electric
current saved great loss Of life. Two
or three street cars were carried 100 to
200 feet from the tracks. The Fire
Department signal service was knocked
about, but men placed all over the city
kept the department Informed. 1t took
four horses to pull wagons against the
wind. Twelve alarms in all were
turned in. Loss by fire is about Sc, 900;
loss by wind not less than 100000.
Police officers went around tonight
and ordered all fires in furnaces put
out to prevent flying sparks. The may
or, at 2:30 o'clock, ordered all the re-
serve water supply turned into the
main reservoirs 10 be ready for use.
Lake Moraine reservoir on Pixies Peak
is brimming full.
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