The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-01
Roof of Chrisman Livery Sta.
BILE Gives Way Under
Heavy Burden of Water
and Slush.
MACKE LOSES STOCK
Water Drips Through The
Shelves at Furnishing
Store Shed Back of
Frankel's Store Collapses.

AHousdnuS Oh oolIare worth or prop
erty was jeopardized yesterday and
today when steady rain fell and a.
most doubled the weight of the deep
est snow which has covered Richmond
for years.
A partial collapse of the Chrisman
livery barn on North Seventh street,
resulted from the enormous weight on
the roof. The north wall is partially
caved in and the roof has settled to
one side.
The owner of the building, Charles
Chrisman will be at an expense of
several hundred dollars in repairing
the wall and replacing the roof, which
will not have to be renewed, however.
Fall Injuries No One.
The accident was a fortunate one in
some ways. It happened yesterday
morning when there were few persons
about the libery barn and when the
saloon was closed. In the downpour
of water and snow which followed. no
one was injured.
Inc place is now in a DANGEROUS con.
d1tlon but men are working on the
roof in an effort to prevent further
collapse. The roof lightened itself of
much weight when the wall gave way
Frank Macke lost about 5000 be-
cause OF frozen downspout which
caused water to collect on the roof
and finally find a crack in the wall
by which it poured down two stories
into the store room and flooded the
shelves on the east side of the store
A quantity of shirts. underwear and
collars were soaked by the dirty
water.
A shed in the rear of Sol Frankels
clothing store collapsed entirely but
gave Edward Hollarn. night watchman
at the Palais Royal a burglar scare
first.
Rear Shed coliapses.
+ Late Saturday night the crack of the
stratning timbers were heard in Frank
els store and In the Palais ROYAL.
After midnight the straining of the
timbers resembled the noise caused by
a burglar using jimmy to open a win
dow. Mr. Hollarn Investigated on the
outside and after finding no burglars
came to the conclusion that the in
truders were in the basement PATROL
man Remmert was called and while
the investigation was under way, the
| shed fell with a crash.
The roof fell to the floor and the
sides were flattened out There was
little in the shed to be damaged. The
wreckage Will be torn away and the
shed replaced.
the high school to the skylight of the
n q ci1rro ;r
pieces of glass and let water and snow
on the gymnasium floor. Charles Jor-
dan of the school board and Principal
Plckell moved the apparatus so there
was no damage. Damage to the sky
light will be only a few dollars. The
two men also opened the cutters on
part of the old Garfield building roof.
Ice has caused the water to back up
and leak into several rooms
Leaks Through Root.
At the International Harvester COM
pany on Fort Wayne avenue, some
damage was caused by water which
found crack in the wall from the
roof to the basement and let the rain
and melted snow make its way through
the building
Streets were in bad condition as
only few residents took the trouble
to open cutters. The sewers carried
away what water reached them with
out being taxed. The city made no
effort to clean away the slush which
stood ankle deep at the crossings al
most all over the city.
Hundreds of roofs leaked yesterday
and many citizens stayed home from
church to shovel the heavy loads off
the roofs and prevent damage. Nealy
all drain pipes were frozen and the
water was held on the roofs until they
were opened.
Country roads were softened and
city streets were placed in bad con-
dition to handle heavy hauling About
half the water was held by the slush
and allowed to soak into the surface.
On Main street which was barred today
for the first time, many bricks have
worked their way up and the city will
be at some expense to repair the dam
age.