Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-09
STORM HITS CAPITAL
Des Moines Suburbs Partially
Wrecked BY Severe Wind
Saturday Evening
THE HAIL ADDS TO DAMAGE
Thousands Of Windows, Electric Globes
Destroyed-Damase Will Amount to
Many Thousands Of DoIIars-House
Wrecked at Valley Junction-lnser.
soil Park Hard Hit.
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Des Moines, Sept. "a terrific wind
rain and hail storm swept over central
Iowa at $50 o'clock yesterday evening,
resulting in much damage to the corn
crop generally and many thousand dol
lars damage to greenhouses and other
business places where glass Is used
extensively, besides loss Of flowers and
small plants in all parks and ceme-
| teries.
| The aggregate loss in and about Des
Moines will probably run into the hum
dreds of thousands outside of 10 to
! Ii per cent damage to the corn crop.
| The band stand at Ingersoll park
was totally wrecked, all the canvas
awnings and tents on the grounds de-
stroyed. about 1000 electric lights de-
stroyed by the hail, and all the mann
moth signs that spoke the wares OF the
city in that locality were shattered.
One man was injured at the park
Officer Glasgow, who was hit in the
head by flying sign. He was not
fatally Injured. but was sent to the
hospital.
Manager Fred Buchanan Of Ingersoll
park, where the center OF the storm
evidently struck, states that it came
from the northwest and was genuine
twister, tearing up trees by the roots
and whirling signs, fences and every
thing movable about in the air. The
full force of the storm did not drop
close enough to the earth to vent its
full force upon the city.
Thousands of dollars worth of win
dows were broken in the city, and the
streets at the time of the onslaught
of the big storm, presented scene OF
ponf!emonicm. Twenty runaways
were, reported in the downtown district
the horses becoming unmanageable
under the cruel pelting they received
from hailstones as large as walnuts.
Miraculous is the fact that there
were NO fatalities. The storm was slow
In coming and most people Mad Sc
cured shelter in the big stores. hotels
and downtown buildings before the
fury of the wind and hail was vented
upon that section.
But for sudden turn of the wind
center just at the outskirts of Valley
junction, the entire town would have
been swept away. Only the corner of
the terrific bank of wind struck and
overturned lone house. leaving the
floor upon the ground piled high with
broken and tunlbled furniture. while
the main part OF the house was split
in twain and the two parts separated
and blown a short distance in differ
ent directions.
At the destroyed house a clock lay
upon the tmubled floor with the hands
stopped at $40.
Police Officer Elliott states that on
his beat in South Des Moines nearly
all the windows on the north side of
houses were stripped Of window glass
Officers Elliott and Mcdowell both re-
port large r-foot double strength
glass windows broken.
John Allen. a barber near Fourth
street and Court avenue, saw four
runaways at the same time on Court
avenue when the storm first struck.
In University Place hailstones were
reported as large as hens eggs, and
In other localities even larger hail was
seen. In the downtown district the
hail were not much larger than hickory
nuts. East of the city practically no
hail is rennrted