Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-02
THE GALE OF SATURDAY NIGHT
SWEEPS CITY AND COUNTRY
WITH TERRIFIC FORCE,
FARM BUILDINGS AND
WlNDMILLS BLOWN DOWN
Roofs Of Cars Arc Carried Away-8arn
Being Moved Blown OF Trucks
BilIboards and Windows Blown In
Wagons Loaded With Hay Are Over
turned-Rumored Half Of City Gone.

was not of serious nature, was done
by the high wind that started blowing
Saturday and increased in velocity un-
til it blew with terrific force late in
the afternoon and up 10 about 10
O'Clock at night. In the city some
slight damage was done 10 buildirg s,
signs, billboards, windows and trees.
In the country the wind storm was
converted into sand storm by picking
up clouds of dust and dirt from the
plowed fields. Some buildings, wind
mills, and stacks were damaged. Roofs
OF cars were blown off. and in one in
stance part OF the roof OF car in a
passenger train was stripped from its
fasrenings.
Barn Blown OF Trucks.
An old barn. a part Of the buildings
Of the vacated plant OF the Standard
Oh Company, that was being moved
OH trucks n the soc:heas: part CT the
city, was blown off the trucks, rack
ing and twisting il.
a stretch Of billboards on Nevada
stree: between First and Second
avenues, were blown down.
The large glass in the door OF
Thompson's cafe, 325 South Third
avenue, was blown in.
Some OF the panes of glass in the
Ford green house. East Nevada street,
were torn out by the wind and carried
several hundred yards.
Fifty to sixty telephone lines were
put out Of working order IN the city.
but they we're all restored to service by
this morning.
Cars Are Unroofed.
While N. & St L passenger train
No. was standing at New Sharon.
while on its way north Saturday eve
ming. the wind tore off large section
OF the baggage car. Trainmen secured
an ak and cut away the torn roofing.
Several box cars that were IN transit
in trains Saturday night came into this
city with parts OF their roofs gone.
A section OF porch railing. twenty.
five or thirty feet long. was torn from
the porch Of the Gilman hotel and
blown into the street. The railing
narrowly missed two women who were
passing by the hotel
Damage in Country.
In the country some small building s
were blown down. and trees were dam
aged. In few cases wind mills were
overturned and in one case loaded
wagon was blown over.
A part Of the scale house at the
Worries elevator. in Liscomb. was blown
down. A sixty-foot windmill on the
Albert Fiscus farm, in the Bethel
Grove neighborhood. was blown down.
It fell across the chicken house, demol-
ishing the latter, and striking a horse
on the head, cutting a cash from ear to
ear.
/ While Harrison Hurley. a tenant on
the Henry Leise farm, was hauling a
| load of fodder, the wind overturned the
| rack and pitched it and Hurley into a
| ditch that was filled with two feet OF
water. After much hard labor Hurley
got the rack back on the wagon and
was loading the fodder when the wind
overturned the rack again. Hurley ran
! to the horses heads to hold them, and
when he turned around again. he saw
| the fodder being blown across the field
A farmer named Jessup had his rack
load of hay overturned while hauling i,
/ from the farm to Liscomb.
Several fruit trees in LeGrand were
| badly twisted and broken, or blown
down.
Wild Rumor Circulated.
wild runor. that reached at leas
as far as Cedar Rapids. became circu.
lated Saturday night. The Cedar Rap.
ids Republican telephoned its cor.
respondent here asking for the list O.
dead and injured in the storm. and thu
amount of property damage. The rum.
or at Cedar Rapids was to the efec
that half Of this city had been de
stroyed by tornado and that severa
people mad been killed and injured.