The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-09
HAD A 6O.MILE WIND.
To-day's Blow Was Accompanied by
Nearly an Inch Of
Rain.
Elevator Tanks Blown Down, Trees
Broken and Many Windows
Smashed.

The most violent windstorm Of the sea-
son disturbed Minneapolis at breakfast
this morning. Between and o. clock
the wind attained a speed Of sixty miles
an hour and blew six miles In six con-
secutive minutes. Within the same hour
nine-tenths of an inch of rain came with
the wind. The thunder and the lightning
proved the most emphatic Of the year.
The local damage, however, was small.
Two elevator tanks, a number Of trees
and many signs and branches were blown
to earth. barn was destroyed by
lightning. Numerous telephones were
temporarily silenced.
After brilliant dawn, clouds gathered
In the northwest at $50. The wind be-
s o'clock the tempest had declined into
Ia shower.
AS usual in Minnesota. the thunder
storm did little more than interrupt the
current hot SPELL The highest temper
ature to-day will be a few degrees less
than the maximum yesterday, which was
s6h. But CONTINUED warm is predicted
for tonight and Friday. Thunder storms
are also probable.
Grain Tanks Suffer.
The two grain tanks overwhelmed by
wind were large steel structures in course
Of erection for the Electric Steel Elevator
and Fourth street The sides of the tanks
had been raised to the height Of sixty feet,
but the roofs had not been added. The
great steel wells, fifty feet from side to
side, proved too hospitable to this morn
ing's gale. The steel walls bent down like
tin, the tanks moved bodily a dozen feet
beyond their stone foundations. The loss
will not prove great, according to an Off
Ger Of the Minneapolis Steel Machinery
company, which is putting up the tanks.
The material has not been permanently
damaged, and can be Strengthened. The
additional expense for labor will not ex-
coed $500.
Many Minor Losses.
A barn at the Vine Grove Nursery
Forty eighth street and Bloomington ave-
nue.. In Richland, was struck by lightning
at a. m. and was burned to the ground
The barn was valued at $4,000. 1t was
! owned by A. Shepard. ...
The lightning put out" Of use, within
twenty minutes, no less than 800 tele-
! phones along the lines of the Northwest.
ern company. The Twin City company re-
ported like percentage Of Irritating
| 'fpermanents." ,.-- -...-..
At 2eo1 and 2eo5 E Twenty-second stree,
! the wind blew In the large front windows
| OF dwellings occupied respectively by
| Charles Carlson and C. G. Nelson. Smaller
side windows were shattered in the same
| houses. Several trees close by were broker
off close to the ground
| Two big trees were overturned in Sew.
enth street S, near Fourth avenue, anc
were stretched across the sidewalk oppo
site No 400 Seventh street s. On Ninth
avenue S, between Twenty-ninth stree
and Lake street, the roadway was com
pletely blocked by two big trees that fel
before the storm. The residence streets
in many neighborhoods displayed {
Christmas-like multitude of scattered
| branches. -" ''.-
In the midway district the anger o
the storm awoke applause It centere,
Its attention upon the advertising side
boards that disfgure University avenue
But some passengers upon an interurba1
car were startled, near Lexington avenue
by the uncommon antics of an enormou
wooden cigar. This great Havana, tori
from it's supporting posts, sailed directl
towards the car, rushing onward, poin
first, like a Santos-Dumont flying ma
chine. 1t descended close to the track
few seconds behind the car. m.-E
At Minnehaha ball park about thirty fee
Of fence were downed; at the Nicolle
ball park the fence lost twenty feet. a.