Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-12
A storm N CHICAGO
.Fag End Of the Tropical Cyclone
Reaches Illinois and the
Lakes
Considerable Property Wrecked BY
the Fierce Wind and Two
Deaths Result.
Lake Shipping Saved BY the Timely
Warning Of the Weather
Bureau

SSHlcaSO, sept. l2.--Oul OF the SOutn-
west came storm yesterday which
gave Chicagoans just a touch Of the
kind Of weather which in vastly greater
intensity and with roaring surges assits
tool, devastated Galveston Saturday
night. 1t was the flag end Of the same
West Indian hurricane, but its power
had been re-enforced by those of a
storm from the region of the Dakotas
which Joined forces with the southern
hurricane west of the Missouri river.
The storm center was during the
greater part of the day near the Ills
nois- Wisconsin line, moving northwest
to the lake and all over Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa and in some extent in the
states to the east the same conditions
We're experienced as in Chicago.
Two men We're killed in Chicago as a
result of the storm, one of them losing
his life from electric wires, the other.
being drowned thru the capsizing of his
boat in the lake. A score of other per-
sons We're injured some of them seri-
ously,as a result of the high winds.
For hundreds of miles around Chi
cago telegraph wires were down last
night, and in some directions there
We're almost no lines in good working
order. This was especially true in the
east. Nearly every city in this region
that could be reached answered tele-
graph inquiries by Saying that much
damage had been done, not only to
buildings in the towns, but to crops in
the surrounding country. On the Mis-
ssissippi river a number of steamboats,
We're reported wrecked.
Shipping on Lake Michigan was, how
ever, exceedingly fortunate. The warn
ngs of the weather office had prevent
ed any but the largest and staunch-
est freight boats from leaving the Chi
cage harbot, and on the northern part
of the lake vessels We're reported. before
the storm reached there as scurrying
rapidly to shelter.
The big passage boats that run every
day in the year along the west coast on
the lake had no difficulty, but the
Graham & Morton boats that run to the
east shore We're all held in the harbors
on the other side.
Apart from the overturning of one or
two small vessels no accidents were re-
ported.
In Chicago the day was an intensely
disagreeable one. The southeast winds
We're so high that they threatened to
blow foot passengers from the side
walks, and women especially. with a
sull spread of skirts to the breeze. were
sent sailing along, or else brought to a
lstandstill when they ventured out.
The man who did not get his eyes full
q a.. 4 o
I the exception.
The occasional bursts Of rain, driven
so violently that the water penetrated
thru window sils, made mud out OF the
dust that was blown into houses Just
before, despite the greatest precautions
|against 1t, and made the day anything
but pleasant one for the ordinary
housewife.
The worst damage from the storm
vas in the case of one or two unoccu-
|pied buildings which We're crushed. One
PARTIALLY finished apartment house in
Woodlawn and vacant two-story
store building on Halsted street We're
among the number wrecked. while oth-
or structures lost rt,fs or outbuildings.
There was much confusion occa-
stoned by the hurricane in various
parts of the city, especially for street
railway transportation. tho none of the
car lines We're delayed for any great
length of time Now and then sign
board or a piece of cornice would be
liopped off a high building and sent
down into the middle OF the street and
one bit of cornlce on Madison street,
downtown, was neatly shot into a base
men doorway on the opposite side OF
1.-The street
Trees We're blown down in many
places, and trolley poles and wires went
1 too. A State street cable car got
mixed with trolley line and made
things exciting for the passengers for
la time. Especially in the south side
suburbs We're the movement OF stree,
cars impeded
lboulevards and streets wherever there
4 their purpose We're unwilling targets fol-
the wind, ard so many Of them were
4 blown down early in the day that the
#lpolice in some ports Of the city began
to regard the boards as dangerous ant
4 sent out squads OF men to tear dowr
lalf that We're in any way weak OF
lshaky.
i AT various times there was grea1
4 element Of danger in the damage to the
) fire alarm wires. With such higf
i Hnd a fire once started might have
Quickly developed into dangerous con
4 Migration. and at times there were a!
Imany as fifty boxes out OF order al
once
4 Az for the lake front embankment.