Arizona republican., 1907-07-23
AFTERMATH OF TM SUNDAY NIGHT STORM
There Was More General Destruction
 Than Seemed Apparent at the Time.

The storm of Sunday night was rath- CT more of startling incident than appeared until yesterday when people began to report the damage done and the narrow escapes in various quarters. only little over half an inch of wa ter fell but that made good rain and was very beneficial to the valley. Small losses were experienced by scores of people. but only a few suf- fered in any considerable amount. The most notable feature of the storm was the number of people who were not struck by lightning bue came awful near it and would have been, only for their surprising good luck, for the juice was flying nightly low and hit all the high places.
 II. L. Morden. the dealer in second hand goods at Second and Washington street, was so close up to the contact that he was put out of the running for a time and it was fAred was seriously hurt. but he was all right again by yesterday morning Will Marian and a NouIlS lIltllu NClt AAi6 DAA eAiN McDowelI road when the storm began to take a serious turn and they start ed back toward the city, intending to stop at the first farm house they came to. Before they reached a house it began to rain, and hitching the horse under d cottonwood tree. they sought shelter under a bridge over the Grand canal. A few minutes later the horse was struck by lightning and killed. After the rain the young people walk ed back to town. The horse belonged to the ROderick Walker stable on Gen. ter street.
 The heaviest financial loser is the Phoenix Iron Works, owned by G. R. WilliScroft, and located on South Sev- enth street. The plant consisted of a brick structure with an iron roof, about {0X6O feet in size. devoted to the pur- poses of a machine shop and an addi- tion or L, built of lumber and with a large shed roof, where the foundry part of the business is housed. All the damage was done to the brick building. the wooden structure being unharmed. The building was first struck by lightning. thought fortunate ly no fire was started, and later the wind played havoc with the shattered structure. The gable ends were knock ed out of the walls and the south wall was quite badly shattered, while near ly all the walls were bowed or thrown out of alignment, and the roof was shifted by the wind from its position, so now it hangs suspended over the north wall. It will be necessary to tear down the building and erect new one, which MT. Williscroft proposes to do at once. There is a great deal of valuable machinery in it which it was feared at first had been all but de- stroyed, but yesterdays exploration revealed that most of it is not so bad ly injured. It will be removed after which the house will be torn down to make way for a new one.
 A buiIdino occupied by Mrs J. C. Nolan and mother was partly unroof- ed. a tree in the yard was struck by lightning, and a number of pickets torn from the fence. The occupants of the house were frightened, but were not injured.
 Similar damage was done to other small structures and trees were up- rooted and struck by lightning in va rious places both in the city and country districts.
 over hundred telephones were on the trouble list yesterday morning and there was general disorganiza- tion of the system. but it was pretty well fixed up yesterday and by today all the phones will be in working order again. The wrecked awning in front of the office of the Arizona ostrich Company was taken down yes terday, and some nice trans parent pine boards were used to re- place the broken plate glass in the window.