Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-22
Colorado Springs, Visited by
a Terrific Wind Storm,
Last Night.
THE DAMAGE is GREAT.
Business Blocks Unroofed, Street
Cars Overturned and Telegraph
and Telephone Lines in Appalling
TansIe-But One Fatality Occurred.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Nov. 22.-.
The sun rose this morning on this
city badly SCARED and wrecked, but
not discouraged by the most
frightful ordeal in it's history. The
gale began to subside about midnight
when it was blowing at the rate of
about fifty or sixty miles on hour. It's
highest velocity was s5 miles an hour.
No loss of life is reported.
Edgar T. Ensign, formerly state
forestry commissioner is probably ia
tally injured by a falling pole. The
damage is greatest in the business
portion of the city. The Ell ,Paso Ma
tional bank, the Durkee building,
Gliding block, opera house, high
school, postoffice, Antler's livery sta
bic, Colorado Springs Transfer Co.,
and Mining Exchange buildings have
their roofs torn off or badly damaged.
Wreckage blocEades the principal
streets. Plate glass windows all over
the city are shattered and the loss in
these alone amount to many thous-
ands of dollars. From sections of the
city outlying, reports come of the de-
struction of many small dwelling
houses.
Wire situation in the city is ;.ppall-
ing Few telephones are in service.
Trolley wires are down and street
cars are on their backs being over
turned by theywind. The Postal Tele-
graph company has not a single wire
anywhere and the Western Union
only one to Kansas City.
Tennessee Reports Are True.
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 22.-Tele-
graph and telephone communication.
with most OF the places struck by
tuesdays storm have been restored.
but reports thus far indicate that so
far as loss of life is concerned nearly
the full measure of the disaster is in
mississippi and Tennessee as told in
the dispatches of yesterday and last
night.
Trains Run Without Orders.
Denver, Nov. 22.-Owing to the dem.
olltlon of the telegraph and telephone
"1ASo oouLl luu WSSI Ol DGQVer, very
little news of the havoc caused by the
cyclone in those portions of Colorado
reached here. Trains are run with.
out telegraphic orders and are arriving
hours behind the schedule time. The
delayed trains, bringing tired and occa-
sionally frightened passengers, brought
Ifragmentary news of the storm at Col.
orado Springs and along the road from
Pueblo to Denver. So far as learned
there are no fatalities but there is
great damage to property.
Wires and Poles Down.
All along the Denver and Rio Grande,
Colorado Southern and Santa Fe
roads the wires and poles have been
blown down and engineers were COM
PEELED to grope their way thru the
storm belt without train orders. Only
by good luck and thru the exercise Of
Exceptional judgment were collisions
and added horrors of wrecks avoided
Windows Blown Out.
Nearly every train that came in bore
marks of the storms fury. Coach win
dows were blown out, glass in engine
cabs We're broken and headlights and
coach lamps We're extinguished.
From Fountain to Monument trains
were run thru the storm with the sand
| blowing in such dense volumes that at
times the engineers could not see the
smoke stacks of their engines.