The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat., 1920-07-03
'CLEARING Up
| AFTER STORM
Several More Instances OF Freak
Damage Come to Light in What
Happened at the keokuk
Library.
GLASS INTO INKWELL
Books are Torn Apart by Wind After
Window Sn1ashes in-Camace
Through Country to SiIos
and Grain.

piece or plate glass driver
through the top of an inkwell, the
contents of, the well sprayed over the
top of book, pages fr1m brand
new book driven up against the iron
safe with sufficient force to be plas
tered against the steel as If glued
there-these are few of the freaks
that the storm played Thursday night
when it blew in window near the
librarians desk at the Keokuk public
library
/ The most unusual feature is that
of the piece driven through the top of
the inkwell The glass has torn a
cash through the metal lid, with the
ease that cne would break an egg
she'll The wind evidently sprayed
the ink out of the well and covered
! the edges of one book as nicely as
4 the regular machines for this kind
of work could do it
| The other freak damage is the
| tearing to pieces of one book and
+! driving the pages against the safe.
They are glued there as tightly as if
pasted with real glue. Some OF
the books have leaves tightly stuck to-
gether- The rain simply poured in
through the windows and caused con-
siderable damage
Picking Up Wires.
The task of picking up the wires
and putting them back in place is
fast being completed
The trolley wires on the north side
of town were put back into place last
night and service was being resumed
on the line today. Electric light cir
cult wires were restored by last
night, and the situation is rapidly as
suming normal conditions. The tele-
phones are being restored as speedily
as possible with an extra force OF men
at work.
People all over the city were at
work yesterday and last night clear
ing broken branches from the side
walks. The street department yes
terday got the branches out OF the
way SO traffic could be resumed. but
it is UP to the property owRers to
clear up the debris.
More Reports From Near Here
Silos were blown over at the Den
mire, Moriarity, and Grimes farms IN
the Sandusky vicinity. large hay
barn on the Layton farm was blown
down and part OF the roof of the big
barn on the Carpenter farm was
peeled off. There was very little
damage done to the trees.
People driving in from WJaennda
and Kahoka report that trees were
felled across the road, that grain
fields were levelled and that there
was much damage, generally.
had little Cfnrnl--- ike
wise Fort Madison, compared with the
big blow here. The Democrat says:
Electricity at Fort Madison.
The hardest electrical storm that
has visited this city IN many months
descended about $50 o'clock Thurs
day evening. bringing with it torrent
of rain. The hard rain only lasted
a few minutes, but during the night
frequent showers occurred.
Reports received from the rural
districts indicate that in some cases
considerable hay was down and CON
sequently badly damaged. Several
wheat and corn fields were lald 10"
but only N few instances.
During the storm the city was
plunged in darkness at frequent inter
walls, considerable trouble being
caused at the local sub-station- NO
fires in the city or rural section were
Probably the only damage OF any
consequence that resulted from the
storm here, was at the Perfection
base ball park, where portion OF the
north side of the fence was laid TO
the ground. Several trees near
Richardson school were also blown
down. The storur>hit the city hard
est in the west end, in and around the