Arizona republican., 1917-07-27
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While the damage to buildings, glass and awnings in the business center by the storm of last night does not seem to have been as great as during the heavy storm earlier in the summer, yet the damage in the country may have been much more because of the heavy rain which permitted the wind to blow down trees and which all by itself damaged unstacked hay. The rainfall established a new hour record for the local station of the weather bureau. for in the hour from SIS o'clock on, over an inch of rain fell. To be exact, the rainfall was 1.05 inch es as against .97 of an inch for July 2, 1911 the nearest approach to last evenings record.
 The storm was heralded by sudden drop in temperature, the mercury fall ing from about 100 degrees above to 70 degrees in very few minutes. Dur ing the storm the coldest temperature since June 2S was indicated upon the automatic thermometers at the gov ernment station and the wind reached a velocity of 45 miles an hour. as high as any recorded this year but not as high as some records of the past. The wind came from the east soon after the storm broke and so continued during the rain.
 Lightning was brilliant and ire quent. A boXcar on the Arizona East ern was struck during the storm. The
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 Trees near the fair ground were up rooted and fell across a power line of the Pacific Gas and Electric company. This will work hardship to many people for one of the power lines ran to Dr. Norton's dairy and the shutting off of power means that he will h"
 -rahle to deliver milk to his customers today. His model dairy is dependent upon electric power for lighting, cool inf, aerating and other essential nro- cesses and without power the dairy cannot operate His employees had to milk the cows by hand. by the light of lamps, and the milk had to be at once rushed to the creamery for it could not be kept cool for delivery. At a late hour Samuel H. Mitchell, superintendent of the street railway. reported that several trees had been blown across the track of the company east of Glendale and also that a num- Der of poles are down west of Glen dale. and one car was stalled east of that place. full crew of men is at
 work and the line will be cleared and traffic resumed as rapidly as possible. From all points in the valley come reports of trees uprooted, for the heavy rain softened the earth so that the strong wind did more damage than it would have accomplished had it not been for the downpour
 Despite the fact that the storm of last evening was of longer duration than the one of some weeks ago, the business section suffered considerably less damage.
 Apparently the most serious damage vas suffered by the Central Pharmacy where the wind tore down the awnings the supports breaking two large plate glass windows and a showcase just in eide the windows, letting in a deluge of rainwater.
 The basement of the Sun Drug com pany was partially flooded from the vater which gathered in the excava tions where the city is putting in . new curb on Monroe street just below First avenue. The amount of damage | done to goods stored in the basement was apparently slight
 Considerable water leaked into the l basement of the Ford Soda shop. bu no damage was done.
 Several awnings were blown dowr or torn from their supports. anon, l them the new awning of Hunter. | T. replacing the one torn down by tn, l storm of two weeks ago