Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05


of dollars in glass. fruit, and shade
| trees and gardens in the city and its
vicinity. Hail stones as large as small
! walnuts and, according to some OBJ
servers. even larger. fell with great
| force. The damage done spreads thru
all parts of the city and into the coun-
| try.
| The heaviest losers were some of the
green house owners. Fruit and veSet-
able growers are others who lost heav-
f, ly. The plum and grape crops are
| practically ruined, and what few
peaches were being grown were pelted
TO pieces or knocked to the ground.
! Garden vegetables suffered. being cut
10 shreds in many places. In some in
| stances as at the blessing Bros. truck
garden. this loss will be heavy.
| Lightning. in at least one instance,
! did some damage. 1t struck the home
! of Mrs. Anna Taylor. 500 East Boone
street, and badly damaged the in
| terror.
Green Houses Dsmased.
| Among the heaviest losers are the
green house owners. James l.. Den
mead estimated his loss of glass in his
new green house at between $500 and
/ s40a covered by insurance. About one
third of the glass was broken. It could
| not he told this forenoon how much
1 damage was done by the hail stones
to the flowers growing inside.
| Between 1900 and $500 panes OF
! glass Were broken in the blessing Bros.
| green houses. making a loss of $3.50 to
I 1915 A large plot of carnations was
! badly riddled by the hail. In their
truck patches late garden crops, sucn
| as cabbage, egg plants. peppers, to-
matoes. and other vegetables were cut
! to pieces. The owners could not esti
mate this loss, but it Will be consider
! able
The losses BY glass being broken at
! the Kenble and Ford green houses
were small. Ninety panes were broken
at the Kemhle houses, and even fewer
+, at F'ord's.
Windows Broken All Over Town.
In all sections of the city window
glass was broken. the photograph stu
dos being among the heavier loses by
hail cracking and breaking the glass
of their skyiights. One or more pane.
were broken in scores OF homes.
I Thirteen large windows in the north
side of the Franklin school were brok-
en-. Most of these panes were 3sxi2
! inches, and the loss will be $50 to ss5.
! None OF the other buildings suffered
/ more than slight damage by having
windows broken.
House Struck by Lightning.
4 bolt q lightning that ripped thru
( the home 0. Mrs. Anna TAYLOR per-
] formed trsakishly. even for lightning I;
entered t9e hose thru the roof and af-
+ ter tearing thru the upper and lower
ecors. turned toward the sky again and
~=nt ou- tlrU the roof. One man, a sfr
( TAYLOR. r9oulsr. was slightly stunned
and -ha five people IN Tie dwelling were
ta--i1ly frightened. The damage done
ri, amount 20 500 or $500.
The lightning hit a tree near the
aouse and Jumped from IT 20 the north
west corner Of the roof tearing a hole
large enough for a man 10 crawl thru
t passed ever a bed occupied By Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor, punctured the fool
thru rug and ran into the sitting
room below. Piastering was knocked
OF both rooms. and the light fixtures
were torn from the ceilings. The boil
that entered a closet, followed III;
wires Up stairs and went out thru the
roof. tearing another large hole The
bolt set fire to the rug upstairs, but
the flames were extinguished without
calling the department.
Trees and Shrubs Broken,
/ Trees. shrubs. vines and flowers O
all kinds were damaged, in some case:
being almost entirely stripped of theil
leaves, and in some places trees wer,
blown down.
Some arc and electrolier globes OF tn.
street lights were broken, and manI
electric lamps in signs were pelted L
pieces. A number Of windows in pas
senger train No. 8. of the NJ. & ST. L
were broken when it struck the storm
Many Birds Killed.
Many small birds, especially English
sparrows were struck by hail stone
and killed. One hundred ffty-fy.
sparrows were gathered from the law
of the Deaconess hospital this morn
ing. They were in tree, large liml
Of which was blown of.
Rainfall LA inches.
The rainfall amounted to liza inche
in the city. The extremes of temper
ature Friday were so and so, com
pared with 80 and A, the range Fri
day, and 101 and So. the range a yea
ago Friday. At o'clock this mornin
the temperature was Ga, fourteen de
grees warmer than at the same hou
Friday morning.
Mills Crops Are Hurt.
r. w. McCreery, manager of tn
Western Grocer Mills. estimated tina
perhaps the damage done to twenty
FIVE acres of tomatoes the mills ha
north OF the city would amount 10 per
! his.iS>ss % &c: cs2:: 90 The crop. II
thought that perhaps the good done b
the rain would Offset the damage tn
/ mali mao done. Inc company grow
only small part Of the tomatoes
packs. Cabbage the company is grow
ing was badly cut.
According to information receive
Il from growers for the mill living sout
OF the city. the damage done was ne
nearly so severe in that part OF TIL
county.
Damage Sewers At Albion.
To the northwest the damage wa
saia -, Alhinn nennIn have hee
more severe than In this city. In som
places corn was damaged, here an
there ears being cnf of clean ffor
the stalks. The general opinion. how
ever. was that corn was not damage