Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-07
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Three Hard storms III Close succss.
sion Do Damage 70 Crops and
Buildings.
Small Tornado Partially Wrecks !
House and the Dunkard Church
East Of Town.
Monuments and Trees Blown Down
Small Grain Lsvelsd In Spots
Damage in the City.

Small Grain Lsvelsd in Spots
Damage In the City.
Cellars were in demand in this city
Friday evening and later in the night,
when this vicinity was visited by one
OF the hardest and most dangerous app
ipearing storms ever known here. There
were three storms. in fact-one shortly
before p. M, the second at 1875 p. m.
and the third at 3:15 a. m. AS re-
suit small grain was leveled in places
corn was blown down in spots, and
there was more or less injury to the
telephone wires and to the fruit trees.
while four and one-half miles east OF
the city a residence was unroofed, the
sDunkard or German Baptist church
was partially wrecked, and trees were.
Suprooted.
The climax to the hot, moist weather
of more than week past came Friday.
when the signal service thermometer
registered So degrees in the shade-one
degree higher than the previous high
record. In the evening storm gath
cred in the southwest. and was met at
l6:45 by a harder one from the north and
northwest. The clouds rolled and
tossed in all directions, and bacls.of the
first black bank the storm assumed the
pinkish- green hue that portends high
wind. The wind whipped around from
several quarters, tearing limbs from
trees and carrying them hundreds of
feet in some instances. The storm
lasted three-quarters OF an hour, and
was accompanied by rainfall amount
ing to fraction less than one inch.
"A report soon reached the city that
Steamboat Rock and Abbott. north of
this city on the Iowa Central. had been
destroyed by a tornado, and considera-
BILE credence was placed in the rumor
because the storm appeared to be more
severe north of town. 1t was later
learned that beyond the blowing down
OF several barns no damage was done
near Steamboat Rock, and that the re-
port grew out of the fact that passen-
gers on the south-bound Central train
said they saw at 4:30 o'clock WELL
defined Cyclone" approaching the two
Towns named.
Citizens retired for the night with the
I.belief that the storm was over and that
the torrid spell was broken. but at 1926
another one come from the southwest,
accompanied by considerable wind and
rain ard excessive electrical disturb
ances. This storm, however, was not
as severe as the one of the evening, or
las the one that followed at 3 a. m.
A REAL TORNADO.
ic11 q
lothers. was preceded by a great veloci-
lty, occurred the heaviest rainfall, the
Total for the three storms amounting to
2.24 inches. Just east OF the city. across
tte river, tornado-one of the twisters
commonly miscalled a cyclone-tore
Things up generally. The Dunkard
lchurch, completed within the past year,
was partially wrecked, the residence OF
Wiliam Mcintyre was unroofed, and
sheds and outbuiidings were blown
down. Mr.. A. w. Hausafus, who re-
sides near the church, was in the city
To-day. He says&the tornado seemed to
60 tlst above hip house and struck a
grove and a corn field just beyond. The
A storm left a track not over 200 feet wide
Twisting on and uprooting large trees
and twisting the growing corn In all di.
rections The church was almost direct
lily in its path. A portion Of the cornice
4 Is &c torn away. the doors and both sldes
were blown in and flying timbers and
debris punctured and splintered the cid
ling. The team sheds on two sides OF the
church were demolished and half q doz-
4 en- Of the monuments in the cemetery
were leveled. Sixty rode east OF the
church was the one-story frame dwell
ling OF William Mcintyre. The roof OF
4 this house was torn completely off and
1.-The furniture OF one room was piled pro.
4 miscuously in one corner. The McIn-
\ tyre family escaped unhurt. Several
3|outbuildings were destroyed and the
barn on the place was turned partially
|around. The storm reemed to lift again
as a short distance beyond the Mcintyre
place there was no material damage
A The Dunkard church was insured in q
tornado company.
OTHER DAMAGE.
Mr.. Hausafus gays the crops are dam
aged only in spots east OF the city, ant
THAT half mile north Of his place the
4 effects OF the storm are not visible
Robert Denbow. OF Albion. was In thu
lefty and said that considerable OF the
email grain was lodged badly in thai
A vicinity. but that the corn would come
tout all right.
Z. NJ. Wentworth, Of State Center
g|says there was considerable rain anc
some wind in that section, but little
damage to growing crops.
(. Both the Marshall. and Iowa telephon,
companies report more or less damag.
to their linessin the city. number o.
breaks being caused by falling trees.
The west circuit Of the city stree
lighting system could not be operated
after midnight, owing to a break In tn,
I wires. A broken limb from tire,
struck the arc light at the corner O
Church and Fourth streets and shat
tered the globe.
Two chimneys on the c. F. Rede
home on Summit street were blown
;; down.
A sign in front OF the West baker!
was blown from its fastenings ant
against the plate glass window, shat
tering the latter.
] The river rose about four feet durinl
!, Friday afternoon, but during the nigh
was almost stationary. the floods from
I Minerva creek having subsidized. fur
. Their rise is expected az the result Of
! heavy. rain north.