Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-23
DAMAGE WROUGHT BY WIND
RspOris to Weather Bureau Indicate Wide
spread Atmospheric Disturbance.
.MANY BUILOMss n TAE cItY suIIIR
Glass IN vestibule of street Car f.
Blown in and MotOrman is se-
vereIy Cut About the
Head.

The wind that howled through Omaha
all day yesterday and which rose to the
fury OF gale about sundown, was general
all over the west, At least that is what
the reports received by the local forecast
oficial from the o'clock observations indi-
cate. Not great deal OF rain accompanied
the wind. At Havre. Mont, the greatest
precipitation was reported. seven-tenths of
an inch, in the form of snow. Other places
reported from a trace to two-tenths of an
inch. At Omaha only trace was reported
For the twelve hours. from a. m. to Z
p. m, the reports show the following
maximums attained by the wind: Bis
niarck. N. D., 80 miles an hour; Havre,
Mont, 80; Williston, Mont. So; Amarillo,
Tex, "a; Denver, 4s; Pueblo, Colo. A;
Dodge City, Kan, 60; Omaha, 81. Shortly
after the hour Of observation the breeze in
Omaha spurted to thirty-eight miles an
hour.
Considerable damage and inconvenience
were caused In the city and It's vicinity by
the wind of the evening. Telegraphic COM
munication with the east was interrupted
for four hours, but the lnemen were able
to restore communication. The Nebraska
Telephone company reported that It had
suffered little about the city beyond the
crossing of wires. The electric light COM
pany suffered considerably in Council
Bluffs. its poles and lines being down in
several places. In this city three poles
only were blown down, but the wires were
blown down in various places and street
| lights extinguished The street car COM
pany was considerably hampered by tele-
phone and electric wires which were blown
across its trolieys and by limbs of trees
and other small Instructions left on the
tracks. Poles were blown down at Thirty
fifth and Thirty-seventh streets on the
Farnam street line, at Emmett and at
Manderson streets on the South Omaha
line and three more on the East Omaha
branch.
Car Lifted from Track.
At Seventeenth and Webster streets a
car was forced to lee so hard, by the sauail
that the fore trucks left the track. and the
line was blocked for some time. A South
Omaha car ran full tilt into a whirlwind
about o'clock at Twenty-fourth and L
streets and the glass in the vestibule and
windows was blown in, the curtains torn
from their fastenings and other movable
things carried away. The motorman, Tom
Penny, was cut by the glass across the
1 throat, on the ear and nose and seven
stitches were necessary to close his wounds.
| A heavy metal cornice and some brick
| work were torn from the building at 147r
| South Sixteenth street and the former
carried a block up the street. The occu-
| pants OF the building--four families-left
the premises precipitateIy: None were In
jured.
The work OF the Ingerson Construction
company at Krugs park was much dam
aged. scaffolding and skeleton work to
the value Of about $4eo being laid low. The
foreman of the carpenter force telephoned
to Labor temple asking for Q crew of men
to repair the damage today.
eelcipn CitS Hall suffers.
The city hall contributed one of lts
conical spires as spoil to the wind lord
This cone of copper. with a little of its
masonry, was blown across the street tc
the Davidge block and to the north
knocking q good sized piece from the steps
of that building, The missile was about
nine feet In length and might have done
considerable damage in a crowded street
A billboard on the south side of Cunning
street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
was toppled over on the sidewalk. At the
Country club little damage was done, bui
a number of doors were blown open
Windows, trees and chimneys suffered
all over the city. In the Karbach block al
Fifteenth and Howard streets, nearly the
entire front of the store of the Rrus
Brewing company was blown in. One OF
the large show windows of the Adroit hail
bazaar, 1920 Douglas street. was smashed
windows were broken in the Paxton iiote
annex and In the second story of Orchard
& Wilhelm's. The Madison hotel contrib
uted part of its skylight. The houses OF
Jonathan Edwards at 2l5S Farnam street
Jailer clover at SS1s Grand avenue and
roarsv othara foat rrindou, fIoffa saA IN.
house of George Krug. 1917 Writ street
lost two chimneys A large tree at Twen
tieth and California streets was broken Of
about six feet from the ground and treei
and branches Uttered the streets in man,
parts OF the city.