The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-24
Was A HIGH Wind
Tt Blew 55 Miles an Hour i'm
Topeka Sunday Night.
Storm Confined to Northeast
Kansas, Report Railroads.

thunder storm, accompanied by
the heaviest wind that has been re-
corded in Topeka since April IL, 1909,
and laden with fine dust of a yelloWish
color blown from the northeastern Sec
ton of the state. broke at 7:55 o'clock
Sunday night.
The storm lasted but Is minutes.
| There was a heavy precipitation of
both water and hail. The water in
the gauge at the government station
| measured .13 of an inch.
The maximum wind velocity attain
ed was so miles an hour. On April IL,
1909, the speed was 54 miles an hour,
and it chanced that April II, 1909 was
Easter. Some Topeka people are Won
dering of the old saying that rain on
Easter brings rain for seven Sundays
afterwards will come true this season.
Telephone Company Suffers
The Bell Telephone company reports
much damage done to lines A half
mile of poles was blown down near
Shorey, a short distance east of the
reform school. Fourteen toll circuits
We're involved in this break. Eleven toll
circuits between Topeka and Kansas
City were put out of commission, and
a half mile of poles between Wamego
and Clay Center involving four circuits
were blown over. According to the
management service will be restored by
night.
The mercury did some queer stunts
Sunday night. The maximum tempera-
ture for the day was 20 degrees at
1850 o'clock, just before the storm
broke. Twenty minutes later the ther-
mometer reading was 50 degrees, and
by the expiration of another hour the
quicksilver had gone back to the 65
degree point. The temperature at 8
o'clock this morning was 35 degrees,
showing a decided drop.
No heat record was broken Sunday.
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at 81 degrees.
The forecast calls for fair weather
tonight and Tuesday. The tempera-
ture will probably be below freezing
Tuesday morning.
Reports at Railroad Offices.
Reports from the telegraph depart
ments of the Santa Fe, Rock Island
and Union Pacific railroads in To-
peka today show that the storm last
night extended not only over the
a sprinkle and a damaging display of
electricity in the southeastern por-
tions- Not a wire down in Kansas on
the railroads. The Santa Fe reports
trouble east of the Mississippi river
and the Rock Island is unable to get
word from Omaha or ST. Joseph on
account of broken wires. The Union
Pacific is having no trouble in its
service out of Topeka to the west or
to Kansas City.
The towns in this section of the
state report a storm similar to the
wind, hail and rain that visited To-
velocity of at least fifty miles an
hour in many towns, blowing down
chimneys and doing slight local dam
age. The hail and wind lasted only a
few minutes. This applies to the dis
trict within a radius of sixty miles
from Topeka in all directions.
In southeastern Kansas a severe
electrical storm accompanied by a
high wind and only a little rain was
reported by the agents of the Santa
Fe. In western, southwestern and
west-centraI Kansas no rain is re-
ported.
A special dispatch to the local of
flee of the Rock Island, from their
general agent in Omaha, describes the
tornado crossing Leavenwortn
street at F'iftieth street, sweeping to
Fortieth street, along which it pro-
ceeded two blocks to Farnum street,
cutting it's way through Bemis park.
The tornado then swept into North
Omaha and across the Illinois Central
tretle demolishing that structure. The
dispatch states that about fifty per-
sons are known to be dead in that dis
trict, and several hundred injured.
Property losses are exceedingly large.
The home of C. B. Hoover, former
Topekan, in the Bemis park district of
Omaha, was probably destroyed by
the storm last night. Mr.. Hoover has
been in Topeka for some time but will
leave for Omaha tonight.
Below Freezing Tomorrow.
The temperatures have averaged six
degrees below normal for this date, a
north breeze blowing at the average
rate of Is miles an hour holding down
the mercury.
The shippers forecast: Protect 36
hour shipments north against temper
ature of 20 degrees; west. "a; east
and south above freezing" This indi-
Gates that the quicksilver will be
slightly below the freezing point in
Topeka Tuesday morning.
The hourly readings:
O'Clock .36i11 O'Clock 40
s o'clock 35 II O'Clock 80 !
O'Clock 35 O'Clock ...- 40 !
10 o'clock .....37 O'Clock 49,. IL !