The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-03
Shopping Those Who Would Economic This Week

they were called out of the cozy station |
to face storm like that. 1t developed
that the little boat in which the fisher
man was pursuing the fnny monsters
OF the deep, was safely moored to the
emergency crib. and the man having
rugged up canvass canopy earlier in
the day to protect his from the sun,
turned the canopy to good account as b
protection FROM the rain.
At sawmiu park where the Carpen-
ters were holding their picnic. two men
were rendered unconscious during the
storm. Report had 1t that they were
struck by lightning but some unsym-
pathetic wretch limited that the indispo-
sition might have been from a different
cause. However authority quite as
trustworthy vouches for the bona fde
character OF the lightning diagnosis.
One cow was killed in the storm. not
however by lightning but the next
thing to it. This was a bullet from the
trusty gun of Officer Gabriel Bedes. the
COW having had three of her legs brok
en- by being run into by an auto. The
cow was the property of Charles LAX.
/ 5053 Melville avenue and the accident
Happened in 151st street near the
Canal bridge. The man who was driv-
/ ing the machine who refused to divuige
his name but is said to be an alderman
rather small of stature, and living in
the fifth ward building contractor by
occupation. The Machine is small one
which 1T Is understood is as frey and un-
| tanned as the most unconquera BILE
broncho that ever bucked a COW boy off
its back. and IL has distinguished itself
in times past by similar achievements.
| driV Of he ntl Y
paid the owner OF the cow $50 when in
formed that was it's value and 1T is safe
to assume that at least one alderma n
will hereafter keep u sharp lookout to
see that the city ordinance against al
lowing live stock to stray. is enforced.
The Catholic church, whose spire was
struck by what the fire department
characterize cold bolt" was dam
aged very slightly, there being no blaze
and the spire being only slightly scar
red by the contact with the bolt.
/ The telephone company report the
. service seriously dea,orslized with 81
lines. and 40 phones out of order. A
crew of fifteen men has ben working
since daylight to restore the service
but 1T will take al day before the work
viii be completed. The company means
/ to make a thorough inspection of the
the equipment on every telephone serv-
E ice line, the object being to prevent
, lightning that follows the line, from
/ entering the house and setting fire to 1t
9 The lines between East Chicago ans
Hammond were In especially bad shap,
8 from the storm.
The power was off the South Shor,
0 line for. while and when 1T did com
5 on 1t was intermittent, the cars for sew
J., eral hours after the storm crawlfn,
. along at times, and being plunged ii
e darkness every little while. Service Oh
0 the Red Line was also interrupted TO
r a while.
: Chief of Police Mccormack was
r sufferer from the ssurrn He was at
tending the picnic att Sawmill parl
8 when the storm came-up. He saw
e coming and started on a desperat
d sprint on his motorcycle, for cover HI
c was caught in the midst of the storm
: his machine giving out at Forsythe an
15oth street. from which point he wa
obliged to hoof 1t, dragging the heav
tcycie after him distance of thre
quarters OF mile to his home at Bea
con street and Wegg.
But this was not ALL FIis family wa
away and on arriving at his hom
drenched to the skin he changed hi
clothes and then with n sigh of relic
started for the cellar where in the re
frigerator he knew nice suppe
awaited him. What was his horror o
descending the cellar stairs to fin
everything loose afoat in eight incht
: of water, and the refrigerator marone
some thirty feet away, supper and al
Arriving at which point In the dram
: the orchestra might strike up a lit
soft music. as the curtain descends.
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