Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30
PLATE CLASS WRECKS MANY
Big Store and Office Windows Favor
lite Victims.
T. D. wEAD HEAVIEST SUFFERER
Various Articles Larger Thar Chin
neys aud sign Boards Are kept
Flying Through the
Fierce wind.

Blowing in or sucking out whole store
fronts OF plate glass. the wind did thous-
ands Of dollars worth OF damage in the
business section Thursday night and early
Friday morning. other damage I'm the way
OF chimneys, roofs and wires being blown
down. was also sustained.
The plate glass front and sides OF F. ID.
wead's real estate offices is the biggest loss
OF the day. 1t was one OF the finest In the
city, having some Of the largest single
windows In them. The breaking OF the
front pane was soon followed by the smash
ing OF those on the east side OF the build
ing. at Eighteenth and Farnam streets,
and some damage to a corner of the kahl
4 Johnston millinery store.
One or two hundred doilers will be neces-
sary to cover the damage to the inside OF
the wead office, and the glass was worth
fully $500. 1t was insured
Some of the victims.
The firms and buildings which had glass
broken or had their property otherwise in
1ured, are as follows:
Goodyear Rubber Co., Sixteenth and
Davenport streets. glass.
Joseph +. Biz. 94 North Sixteenth
street, glass and stock.
Regent Shoe CO., POS South Fifteenth
street, glass.
Courtney's grocery, Seventeenth and
Douglas streets, glass and liquor window.
Sol Brodkey Loan Co. glass out at three
stores. Thirteenth and Douglas streets, 14Ol
Douglas street, and Fourteenth and Far
nam streets.
Palace Clothing Co, 1924 Douglas street,
slass.
Boston Store building. Sixteenth and
Douglas streets. second story. glass.
Brsndeis building. Sixteenth and Douglas
streets. eighth floor. glass.
Bebee & Runyan Furniture company,
Eleventh and Douglas streets, glass.
Joe Sonnenberg, 1907 Douglas street,
glass.
Union QUILTING company, 1877 Farnam
street, glass.
Howell Drug company, Loyal hotel build
ing, glass.
Goldman's pharmacy. twentieth and Lake
streets, glass.
Thompson, Belden & Co, Sixteenth and
Howard streets, glass and stock in win
dow.
Omaha Safe and Iron works, Tenth and
Dodge streets, glass.
Henry Hardy, 1918 Dodge street, glass and
stock in window.
Omaha Paint and Glass company, 1915
Dodge street, glass and stock in window.
Bennett company, Sixteenth and Harvey
streets, glass.
Candy factory, Linton block. Thirteenth
and Mason streets. glass. !
Emmett cafe. 1906 Farnam street. glass.
Creighton Medical college, Fourteenth
and Davenport streets, three panes OF plate
glass and a piece of tin roofing, 20 by a
feet. torn off and landed on trolley wires.
Guarantee Clothing company, 1925 Doug
las street. cornice and sign.
Henderson building, Fourteenth and
Capitol avenue. three-stofy porch torn
from back of building,
Hayden Bros, Sixteenth and Dodge
streets. glass and stock in window.
Arcade hotel bar, 1915 Douglas street,
glass.
Omaha Printing Company.
J. L. Brandeis & Sons. one show window,
Long List of Accidents.
Outside communication was cut off at
the Grain exchange and commission houses
there being practically no market as a re-
suit. as the consignment houses were un-
able to report, and the few on the cash