The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-24

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to grow as fine trees as those the storm
destroyed.
City Engineer L.fW. Rundlett put a
force of $50 men on the work of clean
ing up the debris yesterday morning.
Fhe task was of herculean proportions
for there scarcely was, a street in the
entire city that was-not strewed with
wreckage either of trees, broken teie-
graph or telephone poles or the wreck
age from buildings. Half a hundred
teams were pressed into service and
commendakle progress was made the.
first dayo in sthe morkB of making, the
city streets spresentable to the crowds
week.
Jobbers Rush Repairs
In the wholesale district the big
merchants are taking. active steps to
protect their stocks. from danger of 4
rain which may fall before their
buildings are thoroughly repaired. Re-
pairs are being rushed without refer-
ence to the expenditure involved. and
C. Sommers & Co., who suffered SO
heavy a loss by the torrent of water
from tank in the top story of the
building, have aobxiated the danger
from another rainfall by removing the
stock to9the old Gordon building, on
Fourth street. pending the making or
the necessary repairs In their bulidihs
on Fifth. Sonmers & Co. are pro-
tected by $1o0, 600 cyclone insurance.
~ Lindeke Warner &l $50. state that
their loss is covered by insurance and
insist, atf1ats carrier reports sovefstated
their loss In the big. establishment OF
Finch. Y DUNG 30 MeConyille, their loss
of $4,000 is covered by cyclone IN
surance. These4houses, with the ofner
wholesale establishments of the job
bing district,rare caring for their traoe
without interruption,5eth though they
were badly crippled for a day or two.
The city has a large force of work
men engaged on the; task of opening
Water street, which was hopeiessty
blocked by the fall of the west end OF
the Smith avenue high bridge. A II.
Starkey, of the engineers. ohce, is IN
charge Of the work. and hopes to utli-
ize some of the iron in replacing the
part of the bridge blown down.
Bridge Fund Will Aid
Comptroller Betz has announced
that he believes that the larger part
of the cost of restoring the Dridge can
he paid out of the general bridge
f,,nd in which there is still comfort
able balance. No effort will be made
to remove the part of the bridge now
in the river until Water street is mace
passable for teams, for it is an impor-
.tant t1ioroughfare to the hundreds OF
families living west of the bridge ana
along the river front to the erlcK
yards. a.
The city building department has de-
.cified that the standing walls OF the
Schurmeier wagon works are damaged
to quite an extent. and that 1t VIII pc
Unsafe to build anew from the Iourth
floor UP. Deputy Building inspector
r. 81. Ellerbe has announced mat tne
company will not be permitted TO start
REBUILDING operations on the Iourtn
floor. but the new, work will start from
the third floor This will necessitate
the tearing down of the fourth story.
The building was originally hve-story
structure and the top f1eer. was anioWn NIn
away by the storm. The loss OF tne
company is now estimated at not less
than $4,000.
The repairs on the, damaged scnool
buildings will be rushed to an carry
completion, and strong hopes are en-
itertained that the schools Will tpe aple
to occupy all their buildings. with the
opening of the school year, Sept D.