The age-herald., 1902-04-30

dummy takes on water and coal and is called Coal Chute saloon. The exact damage could not be ascertained last night.
 Beermans grocery store on the corner of First avenue and Eleventh street was brown completely down. It IS here the negro is supposed to have been Kill ed Efforts were made last night to find out if he was in the ruins, but the police forbade any determined efforts until day light. Several people were in the house at the time, but they all escaped.
 Two stacks of the rolling mills and the stock house were next in the track of the storm. The stacks did no damage in fall ing. The roof was taken from the stock house and the contents damaged.
 The roof was torn from Concordia Hall, which is on Avenue B and Eleventh street A part of the walls of the house are said to have also been blown down. In Richmond Place. several blocks to the south of Concordia Hall, a number of trees were laid low and 1t was erroneous ly reported that several houses were de- molished.
 On Avenue c, Avenue D. and Avenue E, south, a number of trees were blown down and more than half the leaves were stripped from those left standing. The sidewalks are covered with leaves and in several places are blocked by fallen limbs and trees. Trees were damaged as far out as Twelfth avenue, south.
 RESIDENCES DAMAGED.
 Around Five Points the wind seems to have been particularly fierce. Many windows were blown out by the wind or shattered by the hail. Among houses which suffered most were those of Judge Stiles, Mir. J. N. Gillespie, MT. R. w. McAdory and MT. R. S. Munger. At the latter house a chimney was blown down and the roof damaged. The Highland Pharmacy was damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars by the wind talk ing away a portion of the gable end and by the rain and hail beating into the building. The damage to the Tomlin Grocery Company is said to have amount ed to about $50. The Greek fruit stand at that point was also damaged.
 On Twentieth street in the neighbor hood of Avenue and farther south the pavements were overfiowed and water and hall were several inches deep in the streets The pavements are covered with trash, sticks and portions of boxes in many places on Twentieth street where the water washed over the curbstones.
 HAIL BANKED UP. | At Twenty-ifth street and Avenue D the hall was probably deeper than any where else. Here it was banked up eighteen inches. It was almost impossible to pass there until late at night. The hail was very large and melted slowly In the center of the city the streets were flooded At Fourth avenue and | Twentieth street the water was deep | enough to float large boxes. At Nine | teenth street and Second avenue the en- tire street was flooded and boxes and debris are to be seen in the center of the street, left high and dry by the receding | water.
 The Avondale car line was blocked at | Thirty-f1rst street by trees which had | fallen across the tracks. Until 10 o'clock 1t was impossible for cars to pass, and men were busy cutting the trees in order | to open the way. The only other place where the car lines were blocked was on the Gate City line at Twenty-seventh | street and Eighth avenue, north. The storm was severe in the neighbor- hood of Strawe's hill along Thirty-fourth l and Thirty-f fifth streets between Avenues F and G. The residence occupied by Mir | D. w. Gayner on Thirty-fourth street was | blown from the foundation and badly | damaged, the clustering knocked from l the walls and the windows shattered
 The building rested on pillars six feet
 high. MT. Gayner Is carpenter in the | employ of the Louisville and Nashville
 railroad. The house occupied by Mr. Skid
 more, foreman of the Southern railroad boiler shops on Thirty-fifth street was | also blown from its foundations. A ser wants house in the neighborhood was | badly damaged.
 TELEPHONE LINES ESCAPE. Less damage was done the telephone
 wires in the city than was thought possi- | Uh witnessed storm. The managers of the Bell compa- nv stated they had about seventy-ive ] telephones out of order. but none of their