The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-22
DOUGLAS EXPERIENCES
 STORM IN ALL ITS FURY

 community with unabated fury Thurs day and last night. The rushing co- horts of the wind tore and battered at the houses. like veritable fiends of the night. seem ng more furious than at any time since the storm began. A great many chimney pots have been blown off, windows smashed and more water pipes frozen up. This morning tho temperature was ten de- grees below zero. and the wind was stlll tearing like maddened furies.
 Three skylights were shattered in Elmer E. Smiths drug store Thurs lay night. They were repa'rod and blew out again at ten then they were again repaired, but when Smiths sales force arrived yesterday morning ,he found that the storm oemon had been at 1t again, the same windows had been smashed in, the water pipes were all frozen and it took until al- most neon to get the store thawed out The windows in the front of the build ng occupied by the Douglas Mar ket were smashed. the glass in the rear door of the Royal Grill Restau- rant was battered. and window in .he second story of the same building was broken: a window was broken ,n the third floor of the Sans Souci Apartment House. window was bro ken in the residence of Jerry Cashen md another window was broken in he second story of the residence oc- ,upied by Wm. Balruff. as a result ,f which the water D pes froze up md when Mir. Baltuff built fire in his home the pipes thawed out and Hooded the entire upper story The .carcity of water on account of the 'rozen pipes is said to be Q cerious matter !n private homes and busine1s places. the Douglas Dairy was yes erday morning. entirely without wa. .er for their cows, and it i5 thought hat there would be difficulty in fight 'ng fire should one break out.
 There was an excellent opportunity Or a fro to get started yesterday when a large ccal range exploded ir he rear of Leivers & Leivers candy tore. Mir. Levers had just built . ire in 1t. He then went down into he basement to build Q fire in the andy making department. and had lust started Up the baeement stairs when the explosion occurred. The
 tove was completely wrecked and Ire was scattered all over the room .tartine a small blaze in some rag md papers in one corner of the room but Mir. Leivers stamped 1t out beforo t made any headway. It s not lmowr what caused the explosion, unless h vas gas from the coal.
 There has. so far. been no serioue casualties reported as a result of tho old. Little Lizzie Bowie, daughter If James Bowie. had her fingers lightly frozen while on her way tc .chool yesterday morning. and c. n Gr.er. an employee at the cyanide oilant. Treadweil has his nose badly 'rosted while walking from Treaawel 70 Douglas last night
 The destructive fury of the storm
 ecars a similar wind which occurred n 1910 or 1911. In speaking of the alter storm. M J. O'Connor said to. lev. "That was the most rcmarkabl- wind I ever saw. 1t blew the tcp of ! brick chimney on my houge. carrie t several hundred feet and landed t on the ground without even tearinr the bricks apart It picked up the rrandstand at the baseball grounds .arried 1t across the road and lande' t against James sawmm It cavef n a plate glass window cf Julius Jen ems hardware store. blew off a roof lid other minor damage around Doug as. and raised old Ned at Treadwer IS well. but that is not all not beinr ,atisfled with such playful prank ( picked up. off the city wharf. hirty foot length of railroad tracl -teel. carried 1t up into the air, ane lropped it end foremost. through q beat that was moored to the wharf. was mayor of Douglas at that time md tried to get down to the dock t' inspect the damage that had beer lone. but it blew so hard that I abso 'utely could not stand up, when l at ,empted to walk from Front street tc he wharf. l remember that when ' got down to where John Hensou's building stands. the wind was kicking I'D such row and tumbl'ng so many things about. that l had to lie flat down next to the building in order tc escape the debris that was being swept down Front st. Although thc weather it net so cold now, the win' IS blowing more like it did then, thar t has at any time since