The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-29
BUT ONE LEFT SWEPT BY WINDSTORM.

that the storm extends as far west
as Denver north into Nebraska and
east into Missouri. It is expected that
the severest portion of the storm will
have passed over Topeka. by dark and
that during the night the mercury
Will gradually fall until the zero point
is reached.
In Topeka the wind has whistled
and howled throughout the day and
night and played prauks of all kinds
and done considerable damage to ex-
posed property. Numerous signs have
been blown down, trees broken and up
rooted sidewalk show cases demolish-
ed, plate glass windows smashed and
buildings relieved of their tin roofs.
The streets and alleys are Uttered with
the storms wreckage and hundreds of
telephone and telegraph wires as well
as electric light wires are down or
swinging dangerously near the walks
and streets.
Store Front Blown Down.
Early this morning the front end of
the W. s Goss grocery store as well
as the small building attached to it on
the north was blown out by the force
of the wind Several people were
building but none of them were in
jured- The steel flag pole erected on
top of the Mulvane building by the
double by the force of the wind,
though the old wooden pole retains its
place on the southeast corner of the
building.
Heavy damage has been done to the
awnings along Kansas avenue and else
where. The big plate glass window IN
the Hurd building where the tubercu-
!osis exhibition is being held was
blown in as was one in the Felix Cloth
ing eompany's store A skylight in the
city building went out under the force
of the wind and caused a light dam
age to be sustained
The wind caught the roof of the
Throop hotel. which is of tin and rolled
1t up like blanket and transferred It
TO the center of Fourth street where It
remains plaything for the gusts Of
wind which sweep that tI1oroughfare.
Miss Lena Church was attempting to-
cross the state house grounds this
morning on her way to work and was
swept from her feet. She fell in such a
way that her face was badly bruised
and her nose broken.
One of the chiInneys on the west end
of the Victoria hotel at 11S West Sixth
avenue was blown down about 8 o'clock
this morning A shower of bricks fell
on the south second story porch of the
Topeka hotel at 122 West Sixth. The
boards Of the flooring of the porch were
broken up and the bricks We're scat
tered all over the pavement below.
The Devon Is Damaged.
The tin roof which covers the porch
at the Devon apartment let go early
in the storm
The plate glass front at the Central
drug store is a wreck from the winds
force.
The big electric sign which has had
a conspicuous place over George Burg
hart's cigar store and advertises his
makes of cigars slipped its noorings
early last night and lies on the Kansas
avenue pavement total wreck
The chimney on the Lowman chapel
unable to stand the tugging and strain
OF the Wind in its exposed position of
the building let 60
Half a dozen sidewalk show cases
and their contents were scattered the
length and breadth of Kansas avenue.
while awnings flap about in the fierce
wind and whipped themselves to
pieces.
At the Dudley farm south of the city
several hundred feet of fence was
blown down, the roof blown off of the
hay shed and the wind mill went down
early in the storm It is expected that
reports from the country will disclose
considerable damage to barns, fences
and small outbuiIdings.
Big Electric Sign Down
The large electric sign in front of
the new smoke house of H L Tromp
at SIS Kansas avenue was completely
night The sign has been in use only
about six weeks and cost $3.50.
The Crawford bill boards in many
sections of the city were blown over
by the wind last night Roy Crawford
this morning stated that nearly all of
their bill boards had suffered consid-
erabiy, but that he was unable to esti-
mate the loss.
A short post in front of the Rosser
Brothers drug store at 500 Kansas
avenue, which was used as a mooring
for guy wires, was broken off this
morning and the wires broken.
Two Girls Hurt
Miss AIena D. Church and Miss Mel
lie Scott, both employees of the Santa
Fe general offices. met with accidents
today which were caused by the high
wind. Miss Church, who works in the
treasurer's Office. was on her way to
work when she fell to the sidewalk
blown over by the wind and sustained
a fractured nose. She was taken to her
home, 622 West Eighth. Miss Scott
works in the freight auditing depart
ment On account of the heat falling
in the part of the building in which she
works, she was allowed to go home for
the day. On her way across the state
house grounds the force of the wind
and the shpperiness of the pavement,
caused her to fall She tainted from
the fall Robert S. Morrison, also an
of the freight auditing depart-
ment, saw Miss Scott fall and assisted
her to her home, s07 West Tenth. She
is the daughter of Henry c. Scott, a
Santa Fe Official