The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-06
Put Generous Supply of Air Slaked Lime in Cellars Say
the Health Authorities, the Refuse from the
Streets and Sewers Is an Excellent Breeder.
of Typhoid and Other Diseases
STORM DAMAGE LIST IS STILL INCREASING
Deluge in Centervlle Was as Bad if Not Worse Than
Experienced in Richmond, and People of the Town
Heavy Losers-Horse Electrocuted by Fall
Wire-ce Cake Formed by Hail.

in the rear Of the store, holes were
chopped in the floor. thus giving an
outlet into the basement The Rich.
mond brokerage company and tho
Great Central Tea store. both stores
on Ft. Wayne Avenue. will have quite
heavy losses.
Some other losses.
Jones Hardware company ofacials
still estimate the loss incurred to
goods stored In the basement. consist
ing Of all kinds OF hardware. at about
$4,000. Factories with Easements were
flooded. Ofncials of the Hutton Conn
Factory. Hoosier Drill Company.
Wayne Works. Gaar Scott and COM
pany could not estimate their damage
but it was reported as heavy at each
plant
The Home Telephone company ON.
cials say their damage will be nothing
less than $1,000. George Mashmeyer
and number of merchants along
Main street were damaged no less
than $500 each. Every building. wheth-
er residence or business block In
which water stood, will be damaged
to some extent
Contractors doing work for the city.
and the city itself. are heavy losers
Many washouts were reported on diff
ferent streets. Sewers we're stopped up
and will have to be opened. The city
light plant lost considerable by wires
being blown down and crossed.
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Linus Meredith. holder OF tho cone
tract for the Improvement Of North y
street. was . loser by ye1terday'e
storm to the extent Of between 500
and $500. A large quantity Of cement
in sacks, piled up at the edge Of the
street was water-soaked and rendered
useless. Large quantities Of sand that
had just been screened and was in
readiness for use was washed away
and according to Contractor Meredith
the water flowed 30 swiftly through
the excavated portion of the street
that picks and shovels floated like
chips.
Reid Memorial Church.
Damage done to the basement Of
Reid Memorial church was not a.
heavy as reported yesterday. The car
pet in the Sunday school room was
soaked in part but was not seriously
damaged.
At Centerville, Dunbar Bros. own
ers of lumber yard had to watch .
thousand dollars worth OF all kinds Of
lumber wash down Paddys Run. ordi-
narily a stream with about two bar.
rels capacity an hour. but yesterday .
raging torrent measuring q square or
so in width in some places. They do
not know how much lumber will uiti-
nately be recovered and thus reduce
their loss. The bridge over Paddy's
Run on Cross street. was damaged.
and made unsafe, though not impassa-
BILE. It has since been strengthened.
Between Richmond and Jackson's park
corn Is laid flat and 1t Is doubtful II
many of these fields. which gave
great promise, will now make half
crop. Some fields and gardens in the
lowlands went along with the raging
| water.
A Horse 10 Killed.
Eggemeyer and company were hea-
| wy losers at both the East and West
Main street stores. stock Of the prob
able value Of $1,000 being damaged.
Yesterday afternoon about o'clock
| this Arm again incurred another heavy
loss by the electrocution OF q horse,
direct result of the storm Paul Fad
Ter, driver. was delivering an order
at Richard Sedgwick's home on West
Fifth street. A telephone wire was lay
| ing across the driveway and the horse
stepped on 1t. its muscles twitchsd
and the animal fell over dead EadleE
was uninjured but he lost little time
! in getting away from the dangerous
territory. The horse was OF the prob
able value OF $3.50 to 5000. The tele-
phone wire had become crossed with
/ a live wire, but of what plant II not
known.
! Coincident with the death Of this
horse. another Eggemeyer wagon. driv.
en- by Walter Jones. became mired in
a ditch just opposite the Earlham col.
lege entrance. The horse vas removed
without injury, though he had sunken
up to his stomach. He had to be dug
out
The residence Of Clarence Jessup on
/ South Fifteenth and B streets was
damaged by lightning. though ire did
not break out. The sash to one OF the
iattic windows was torn out
A peculiar thing exhibited as q mo.
mento Of the storm was nifty pound
cake Of ice, made up entirely Of hail
stones. varying In size and shape,
from small round stones 70 some -
large as a quarter The hail fell into
a crevice between house and Steg-
mans grocery, where the cake formaA