The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-22

A Eastwood tree, eighteen inches in
diameter and with correspondingly heavy
roots and foliage, was picked up from
it's home, nobody knows where, and laid
gently down on the sidewalk in front Of
Rowett & Co.'S blacksmith shop, .221 Sew
enth street s. Not branch is broken
and the soil still chngs affectionately to
its roots. The freakish part Of it is that
no one can find where the tree came from.
It must have been carried a block, and
possibly several Of them.
isn't it shame that your windows
are broken!' sympathized a Second ave-
nue. resident as she leaned out Of her
window to address g. neighbor who had
been visited by misfortune during the
| torndao
Yes; but it was your old chimney
that did it," replied the lady thus adj
dressed.
Our chimney?' in tones Of terrified
amazement
yes; your chimney is in our cellar,
and I'll trade 1t back for our windows"
The lady with the broken windows then
visited the other side of her house and
suddenly became penitent when she dis
covered that her own chimney had top
pied over and had played havoc with the
premises of the neighbor on the other
side.
/ f. q
A small boy Of an inquiring turn Of
mind went out on the porch Of the brick
house at the corner Of Seventh street
and Second avenue 8 to view the havoc
the storm had wrought. His attention
was at once riveted upon a mammoth tree
1 which had fallen so that the limbs nearly
touched the porch. Noticing an activity
among the branches, he went a little
nearer, and then, with a sudden fear-born
i n 10 hoa1 la
/ Look out for the hornets!''
/ The lawn hose was called into reuuisi-
ton and an attack made upon the forti-
fled position of the active enemy. The
effort was only partially successful, and
inmates Of the house have not spent their
time on the porch since.
i One of the revolving doors on the Fifth
street side Of the courthouse and cityhall
altho some forty feet within the entrance
and that distance from the street door
was blown to bits by the wind. D. +,
Hickey, who had taken refuge behind
that particular door beheld visions of tn.
small Fifth street towers descending upo1
him, and fed toward Fourth street. wher,
!. he paused in safety, under the big Fourth
street tower.
A big tree was carried from one side
Of Eighth avenue s to the other withou
: touching the trolley. Did it go over q
: under?
A sheaf Of wheat was picked up In tn
) Omaha, railroad yards, near the turntable
: and is supposed to have been brough
3 from some farm at least five miles dis
|, tant.
: At Grant street and First avenue s tina
4 portion Of a telephone pole bearing tn
Y crossarms Is suspended in nidair. TIL
2 pole is broken in three pieces.
!, The roof of the Normandie flats a
1 | Fourteenth and Nicollet avenue narrowl
. escaped demolition. The wind CAREFUL
: removed a few brick from under the cor
4 nice of the northwest corner Of the build
8 ing, and then seemed to have tired Of tn
. sport and left the roof intact.
+ The roof of the third floor gallery q
: the rear of the Trossachs flats, -Four
. teenth street and Spruce place, was lifte
. off, carried bodily over the building an
= dumped into the Emerson school var
= across the street. The roof of the Tros
: sachs was shot to pieces by falling chin
: heys and ripped up by the wind.
. The Bethesda Baptist church was evj
IDENTIFY struck by a whirling gale TIL
rear end of the church was blown in an
all the glass shattered to bits. A larg
! telephone pole that stood in front {
I, the structure was broken off and ramme
thru the front of the building at the sid
. of the entrance. The damage on til
!. jbuilding will be about $1,000,