The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-12
HEAVY Rain FALLS
Nearly an Inch Recorded Early
This Morning.
Came Immediately After the
Heavy Wind.
TEMPERATURE DROPS.
Thirty-E Eight Degrees Register
ed at 8 a. m.
Maximum Velocity of Wind 60
Miles an Hour.

Easter head gear suffered greatly
from the wind Sunday. At 9:45
Sunday morning. just about church
time, gale was in progress. and the
weather mans speedometer registered
81 miles per hour. An extra puff
about this time ran the score UP to so
miles for about a minute. and the
town was full of flying hats. skirts.
profanity, etc 1t appears that the
March winds were delayed somewhere
in transit but were in good con-
dition when they arrived.
From midnight Saturday to mid
night last night, the wind kept up an
average speed which exceeded 40
miles per hour. 1t did not drop be-
low 80 miles at any time during this
period, and averaged AZ miles per
hour hour during the first half of
Sunday. from o'clock to noon.
Just before 1 o'clock last night it
began to rain, and the wind died down
a little. falling to 25 miles per hour
and less. In a short time so of an
inch had fallen. Just before the
rain, the temperature began to drop
hurriedly. Between midnight and
1890, the temperature dropped 16
degrees. and during the next 80 min
utes, came down Ii degrees more.
The lowest temperature was reached
just before s o'clock this morning.
when it was 3s. Since that temporary
drop of one degree, it has held stead
Sly at 80.
This was the second best wind of
the season. On January 29, when
several buildings were damaged in
the city, the days average was a.
miles per hour, against the AZ mile
average of yesterday, and on that
date the wind blew for half an hour
at the rate of so miles per hour.
which was only reached during a
period of one minute yesterday.
Some damage was done by the
hats. A few billboards and limbs OF
trees were removed. and the principal
occurred at the Kansas Avenue M. T.
church. where the chimney was
blown down while services We're IN
progress. Smoke escaped inside the
building. and the North Topeka fire
department was called out before it
was discovered that the fire was stu
in the furnace. The services IN the
church were delayed but few min
utes.
Farmers in the vicinity suffered
some inconvenience as a result of the
wind storm. Trees were blown down,
a few sheds unroofed and hay stacks
distributed over the landscape.
Today the wind has dropped to
CnaRd
and no further trouble is expected.
The telephone companies report that
they have suffered no material dam
age. but the telegraph lines, par
ticularly in the south and southwest
ern part of the state, We're dlstur peo,
and the Postal company had two wires
mt ont of commission temporarily
High winds are reported from all
points west. and some damage to
wheat fields. Owing to the dry con-
dition. fields of grain in the western
mart were damaged considerably by
drifting sand.
Sa1ina. Kan. April 12.-Central
Kansas for two days was in the grasp
of a sand storm that is little the
most severe of any storm OF that kind
Saturday morning and in a short time
the air was filled with dirt, dust and
other debris. The gale broke branches
from trees. destroyed a number of
awnings and fences and small build
ing suffered more or less throughout
the country Most of the time during
the two days the sun was obscured
by the dust and sand in the air.
Great Bend Kan, April 12.-One OF
the worst windstorms in years ragged
here saturday and Sunday. The dam
age is not heavy unless 1T is In the
country districts where it is reported
the farmers have suffered some loss
on account of wheat being blown out
of the ground or buried bv the heavy
dust blown upon it.
Junction City. Kan, April 12.-This
part of the state had the worst dust
storm that it has had in years. The
storm commenced on Friday and con-
tinued Saturday. Farmers report that
the wind has done much damage to
wheat fields in this county. The soil
i
been blown away from the wheat roots
in some places and the stalks covered
by the dust in other places.
Kansas City, April 12.- A wind
reaching in some localities the velocity
Kansas, Oklahoma and greater part
of Missouri last night. Many telc-
phone and telegraph poles were blown
down and much minor damage was
done. Locally a heavy rain and hail
storm followed the wind in the early
hours today. Billboard and chimneys
were blown down.
At Junction City a severe dust storm
prevailed salina and Wichita re-
hours but no damage.
Bennington, Kan. April 12-After a
heavy southwesterly gale which blew
all day Sunday, this section was visit
ed last night by one of the most vio-
lent hail storms experienced in years
The wires are down west of here and
there has been no communication
from tht direction today. The hail
storm was followed by torrents of
rain Live stock suffered greatlv and
not even an estimate of the damage
done in this section can be made on
account of the break of wire service.
Mount Etna Is Active.
Naples, April 12.-Mount Etna is in
or,rpfiop great cloud of Sy,oba iu