The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-05-29
YOUNG CYCLONE
SWEEPS REGION
Fatal Injury And Disaster caused
By Terrible Windstorm Which
Hits This Neighborhood


driven by John Listen and was keeled
over by the force of the wind. Fort
unately the driver escaped injury. The
horses were unhitched and the over
turned wagon was left by the roadside
until morning. 81
Damage at Glue Works. 81
Over at the Hirsh Stein glue works
one of the walls of the fertilizer plant
was blown down and the roof of the
water tank was blown off. The damage
to this plant will be considerable.
The storm also showed great fury in
some parts of Homewood. The resi-
dence Of Mr.. Koch, 129 Detroit street,
was struck by the wind and a large
lamp which happened to be in the din
ing room was blown through the house
to the kitchen where rugs were thrown
house on fire.
Horse Blown 100 Feet.
Probably one of he most peculiar
barn on these same premises was lit
terly blown to pices. There was a
horse in the building at the time and
watching the storm she saw the wind
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it was made of cardboard.
The horse was found 100 feet from
original site of the barn and the roof
way across the Monon tracks where it
tn old Kinks addition.
The residence of A. II. Stebbins in
his vicinity was thrown off from its
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There were also two cars on Monon
their trucks az the wind.
william ater, who lives on the
same street. 5 i israfed.~a similar experi-
ence and hts hnaass was toppIed OF frdzn
ite 1oune oks and thrown TO the
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both cases the residences were cottages
which were set on cedar posts which
probably had rotted away until they
gave way under the force of the storm.
Lake Level Rises.
One of the peculiar effects of the
storm was the remarkable rise in the
level of the lake due to the difference
in atmospheric pressure. Jake Kasper
at the pumping station in Robertsdale
says that the water of the lake began
to rise at about noon.
It rose rapidly until by four of five
o'clock it was IS inches higher than the
usual level of the lake. From observa-
Iphenomen alawys proceeds a severe
the north.
Instead the storm came up from the
south and then after it had spent 1t,
4Io TORS Of 1oIr as
suddenly as they had been piled up
There was no serious damage done BY
the storm in the vicinity of Roberts
dale.
In the main portion of Hammond tn,
storm broke without warning and sen
the large number of people who wer,
the doorways of the stores.
The sudden fall in temperature, tn,
high wind and the vivid flashes O
the sky made many people fear that tn
and many people sought as safe place
crash.
windows Suffer.
In the residence portion of the cit
trees were broken down and everythinl
that was light and exposed a large sur
face was carried away. billboard O.
South Holman street, IN the vicinity O
Douglas street was blown down.
, window In Demfngs house on Sout
, Holman street, was blown in and H +
Meikle suffered q similar experience.
In Hedrick's buffet at the intersectio
of Holman street and the Nickel Plat
tracks the wind blew in through tn
door and picking up a picture on TIL
wall hurled it against some fancy glass
, ware on the bar and destroyed quan
: Itity of it.
: In West Hammond, just acress tn
: line in the vicinity of RimbNch avenu,
there were several cottages which ha
!. their roofs torn off and were damage
: lin other ways. Fortunately there wa
: no one injured. The Lewandowskf bar
on the north side was blown off il
Foundation. The South Shore Gas
Electric company suffered by havin
I its wires damaged.
r TWO INJURED IN GARY.
e In Gary Frank Aillard and his vii
S were severly injured and their res
e dence on Fourth avenue, between Cor
i Inecticut and Delaware streets. wa
j burned to the grounds as result
< a bolt of lightning which struck tt
e lplace at about S:15
1t was only due to the assistance
o the neighbors who carried out the VI
t conscious man and his family and the
h assisted the five children IN escapin
g that prevented several fatalities
e When the bolt struck the house it
+ once caught on fire and the rof ws
8 soon a mass of flames. Frank Hubi1
Iger, who lives IN the vicinity ra
d Through the storm to the burning hou.
I Ito see If he could be Of any assfstanc
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