Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-27
TERRIFIC HAIL STORM.
Local Storm Strikes City Of Minneapo.
lis and Wrecks Windows and Build

ines.
| Minneapolis, Aug. 27.-Flooded by
rain, buffeted by hail and beaten by
wind, Minneapolis experienced the worst
| short, sharp storm in its history Sunday
night, and Monday morning large sec
1 tions of the city lay in state of partial
wreckage.
The storm that struck the city during
the still of Sunday night was the most
peculiar one known in this section of the
country. 1t was purely local in its char
acter, but to those who lived thru the
| half hour of terror 1t appeared as If the
whole earth was suffering under every
| form of fury known to the elements, and
| it was not alone the most timd people
| who feared that the end had come at
| last
1 Just as church was ready to let ou.
the storm struck. With mighty rush
there was thick envelope of water.
Then came the incessant lightning,
| which hardly penetrated the thick rain,
and, strange to say, there was hardly
any thunder to answer the flash OF
heavens artillery. 1t was purely an
electrical storm. and following almost
the first heavy flash of lightning came
the worst.
With a mighty rush Of wind from the
northwest came the icy bullets from the
clouds, and probably the largest hail
that ever struck Minneapolis was hurled
| thru the foliage, upon houses, thru win
dows and roofs, and crashing upon the
pavements. Almost every window in
/ its path that was unscreened gave way
at the first crash, and then the work of
destruction began. Where the wind was
the worst buildings succumbed. plate
glass windows went, store fronts We're
| broken in, churches We're left without a
| pane of glass left whole ON certain sides,
expensive memorial windows were torn
to shreds, the leading only left partially
4 in place, and then the trees which have
made Minneapolis a garden We're at
| tackled and the work of destruction was
complete.
| Street cars were tied UP for the reason
that it was dangerous to proceed under
/ the stress of weather, for fear of run
| ming into branch from some trees or a
board torn from some fence or outbuild-
ling.
This morning the city is sight. In
the path of the storm streets are car
peted with green, fences are down, tele-
y trees that We're SO soon to put on their
gaudy foliage of autumn are stripped oil
leaves and smaller branches, while In
many cases the huge trees themselve.
are laid low. Lawns and gardens have
been laid waste. Rose bushes and vines
have been stripped and broken, orna-
mental trees and shrubs are torn up o!
stripped of all beauty. houses are win
L ~ eeI,o
Everything of beauty rendered ragged
by the awful fall of hail. such as no cit,
ever saw before. 1t was fusillade o
balls of ice that nothing could with
stand that was not protected by some
. thing that could sustain the shock O
such a mighty rush of balled ice.
Now that 1t is all over it seems won
J derful that more houses We're no
: wrecked. storm that stripped leave
from trees until they were almost bare
} that killed birds by the hundreds, unit
. their little bodies could be seen in larg
numbers scattered among the leave
that had formed their homes, tina
9 smashed thousands of windows. an,
e eevn drove the icy missiles forced by tn
J wind, thru shed roofs, certainly cam
8 very near leveling the city where i
S struck.
e There is no doubt but that the wors
: storm that has ever visited Minneapoli
7 has passed into history.
i, Consul General Stowe Talks.
London, Aug. 27.-James G. Stove
United States consul general at Cape
town, has arrived here from South AT
: RIGA. Mr.. Stowe said to a representa-
tive of the Associated Press: