Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-30

All records for wind velocity and dura-
ton OF the same were shattered and laid
away by the atmospheric snorter that reg
istered at the weather bureau as tenn
porary visitor late Thursday afternoon.
At 10:45 Thursday night the wind was
blowing noisily along at the rate of sixty
six miles an hour, sort of discouraging
the ambition of the Wright aeroplanes.
At 8 a. IN. the velocity sixty miles
an hour and the energy was tremendous
stlll.
At Friday morning the fiends that ride
the storms had tanned their gait TO forty
two miles In tile hour; but on the second
tlap thereafter, 'at . o'clock, they had hit
Vt up again to forty -eight miles, ana COM
ing without a halt
You can date things from this storm, as
Me folks do in Ireland from "the night OF
the big wind That time almost every
thing blew away but the island and the
faith that st. Patrick had planted in the
light hearts that live long. A few sprigs
OF shamrock were the only other excep-
tion, and the explanation was that the dear
little plant turned three sides TO a wind
blowing one way.
Il Not as had Norway.
They have a story in Norway that wind
once blew the ice out Of the frozen ftords
and the suction brought the fish ashore.
saving the fishermen from starvation.
This did not happen on the Missouri be-
cause there il still a trickle OF running
water here and there in the channeli but
the river depression accommodated vol
umcs of helter-skelter. Tam o. shanter
fussnoss that even the fish viii remember.
Salina sea is still in its old locale, but
word comes in that many summer bun
galow has lost q corner here and there,
with an occasional roof, that are possibly
rriskinC about at Lake Manawa, or farther
4 in the distance.
Billy Bulge teleEraphs from North Ds-
kota that Jud LaMoure's wind Factory Il
WORKING again, and the report can wei
he taken as Srue. This factory is located
lust north OF Plgs-Eye bend on the Rec
River of the North, near the point the
northern Minnesota prairie Joins the Dakots
blizzard belt. The streams flow north IT
that Immediate region, thus reaching back
10 Q'Apelle and Klondike gulch, also lap
ping over Moose Jaw.
The Bees farmer boy from Grundyser
precinct asserts that on Joyce's prairie, In
Minnesota, they once were handed Windy
message from LaMoure's plant which kiileC
ali of a nice bunch OF steers except on'
prize youngster. He wasn't killed unit
the next summer, and was still chilled
meat Old man Wicoxsen from Webfoo
creek neiEhborhood said 1t put him in min'
Of old times before people got into tn'
Il habit of saving ice for summer. They
ksed to do all the freezing in winter
some of the Features.
Folks out in the Webster street schoo
district assert that boards wero blown of
the fences
Pedestrians navigating uphill on the out
living street car lines had TO tack, and back
and beat their way to the street corner
by using all the tricks Of the crack sum
mer yachtsman. uneonsciously. The be
skirted citizens had an especially tougl
proposition to face. where they had am
distance TO go TO reach car. Caught il
bewndering cross currents Of wind at ever!
step, fighting TO maintain their footing
with shivery gusts snatehing the YER,
breath from their bodies, twas nothing les
than bravery that was exhibited by womei
and girls striving to report for duty o
time
once down town. on aiightinE from stree
cars. It was again a fight. On uppe
Z larnam, the city hall and the Bee corne
proved particularly difficult places 1
pass Women had to be helped 10 the side
walk from the street by passing mer
sand several women were in danger o
broken limbs by being tossed bodily aSsins
the iron corner supports Of the welcom
arch in front OF the city hall. Even tn
whistling kids who wanted TO convey IN
impression OF never feaEed me" let &
their tunes at these spots
Iron brackets half an inch in diamete
we're blown out of the walls on the mort
end of the city hall and many OF theI
Uttered the alley In the rear
Rush Job Postponed.
The excavation for the new Brandei
building at the corner OF Seventeenth an
Douglas streets is a rush job. but the me
and teams were not working today. Here
~ once when winter building must stop
Omaha, for the first time since that Gus
4 tom was established. Even inside work o
buildings only partially enclosed wa
brought TO a standstin constrlAction OF al
castles, too, was abandoned 10 give cor
(Ccntinued on Fifth PaRsl