The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-22

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| Across Wabasha street the Empire
theater, a two-storY brick home of the
same character as the Tivoli. was I'M
Nearly all of the business blocks on
1 Third street between Wabasha and
| Sibley streets, a distance of five blocks,
were damaged Roofs were blown off,
plate glass windows shattered and
huge signs sent scurrying through the
air like feathers. The Minnesota club
at the corner of Fourth and Cedar
streets was damaged, while the Globe
office building, ten-tory building just
| across the street, escaped with but lit
tie injury. Only a few panes of glass
remained unbroken.
Press Building RiddIed.
The Pioneer Press building, a history
brick and steel structure at the corner
orally riddled by the wind and flying
debris. Nearly every window on the
south side was shattered, part of the
cornice was damaged and a huge sky
light above the court was dashed to
pieces, the glass falling like hail in the
| corridors beneath. There was Stam-
pede among the printers at work in the
composing room on the twelfth floor,
many of them being cut by flying pieces
of glass. The Western Union telegraph
office on the eleventh floor of the build
ing was flooded by the sheets of rain
that came in through the broken win
dows and the operating force was COM
PEELED to make a hasty exit. The gem
eral manager of the Pioneer Press COM
pany states that beyond the broken
glass the building was unchanged.
The wholesale houses on Fourth
street for two blocks below Robert suf-
fered extensive damage. The wholesale
dry goods house of Finch, Young & Nc
Conville was unroofed and the win
dows blown in. The stock was consid-
erably damaged by water, the loss from
this cause being estimated at $4,000.
] Sun g mol Ia
suffered a loss to their stocks of about
10 per cent and the building also was
damaged Lindeke Warner & Sons,
Lanpher-Skinner company and Scheher
ed considerably. The Davidson building
at the corner of Fourth and Jackson,
was unroofed, the entire roof being
picked up and blown on top of an ad-
Joining building A stock of furs stored
in the Davidson building suffered dam
age.
The storm then swooped across
Smiths park, levelins all shade trees.
and struck the five story brick building
of Noyes Bros. & Cutler, wholesale
druggists. blowing off the roof and car
rying away part of the upper story.
Nicol, Dean & Gregg. the Goodyear
Rubber company, Clement, Granger &
Co., Ogden, Merrill & Greer and c.
Kotzian & Co., wholesale houses fac
ing on the park, were all damaged to 4
greater or less extent
Seven Blocks Damaged.
On East Seventh street, between
Wacouta and Kitson streets, a dis
lance of seven blocks, much damage
was done.
The Habighorst building at Seventh
and Wacouta, occupied by the Econ
omy department store, was unroofed
and the stock damaged. The five-story
brick building occupied by the Scher-
mier Wagon company on Rosabel
street near Seventh, was badly dam
aged. the entire top story being blown
away. The Union livery stable in
same vicinity. WAS wrecked, about half
of the building being down. Along |
the north side of East Seventh street |
every building was damaged, some be- |
ing nothing more than heaps of debris. |