The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat., 1920-07-02

streets. A plate glass window at
'O'Neils grocery store, window in
the Westminster Presbyterian church
and windows in residences all over
the city were blown out by the
storm.
A large limb OF tree fell against
the c. S. Pond residence at Fourth
and Morgan streets, wreckfng part of
the fence. The fence at the Boyce
home at Fifth and High streets was
damaged by huge tree limbs which
fell. A chimney was blown off the
u. w. Townsend home. A large
branch fell onto the roof Of the Will
liam Aldrich home. Further out the
street at Ninth and Morgan streets
tree limbs were blown against the
houses. A limb fell over in the yard
of the Hurley home on High between
Eighth and Ninth wrecking the
porch. A tree damaged the c. J.
Smith residence at Thirteenth and
Franklin streets, breaking several
windows on the north side. The
cupola on the e. l.. Aldrich home was
damaged aa
Trees Down In Park.
Rand park is ruined!" was the
word that went around this morning;
but investigation proved that, as
usual, such things were exaggerated.
There are number Of trees down,
of course, but considering the num-
ber of trees and the fact that the
wind had clean sweep over the
field, the damage in the park is
slight. Old Chief Keokuk is serene
as ever, and the flower gardens are
only beaten down by the water. The
stands are intact and only few OF
the trees are down, and most Of
them are trees that have rotten spots
in the trunks.
New Factory Damaged.
.Brickwork on the Reese brass
foundry at Third and Palean streets
will have to be replaced. The north
wall went over and other brickworls
will have to be rebuilt, according to
reports.
Albert Lorig had seventeen small
chickens. The storm blew the chick
en- house over and killed all but one
Of these. .
A horse was electrocuted out on
Nineteenth street last night when 1t
wandered into some brush in which
there was a live wire.
. Firemen Get Two Calls.
The fire department had two calls
last night, right at the height of the
storm. The first was from Ninth
and Palean streets, and no blaze
could be found. 1t is believed that
the fire was caused by electric wires
and that this was extinguished when
the current was cut off.
The second call was from st.
Peters, where the firemen were call
ed to help clear up the damage caused
by the fallen chimney.
The Gamewell alarm system was
put completely out of business. The
firemen and the fire operators had
"sweet time" getting the alarms, but
they stuck to it until the location
was finally distinguishable. The con-
dition Of the wires and the noise of
the storm made it almost impossible
to distinguish voices over the phones.
Reports From Nea
Buildings and houses in &ontrose
withstood the wind and storm last
night, but many trees, and among
them some large ones, We're blown
down, this being the chief damage
there. A barn still in the construc-
tion stage on the Vermazen place out
Of the town was practically torn
down. There was also report IN
Montrose this morning that three
cottages at Bluff Park we're complete
ly demolished.
Communication with Nauvoo by
telephone was impossible this morn
ing and no accurate accounts OF the
storm damage there have been ob-
tanned. Sandusky colony was not hit
as hard as Keokuk, with only few
trees blown down and practically no
houses damaged.
The lake road suffered some from
broken limbs of trees and the like,
but summer residents from Sandusky
drove into Keokuk this morning with
little difficulty, they said upon ar
irving here.
AS for Hamilton, it evidently got
some of the fury Of the storm SINH
Lar to Keokuk's portion-terrific
wind and thunder and lightning. The
telephone service was thrown off, the
dixie covered with fallen trees to
such an extent that cars could not
cross it, and the Warsaw and Ham
ilton car stopped between the east
toll house and the slough bridge,
where the current was cut. The pas
sengers got off and walked to Keo-
kuk.
Fallen trees in nearly all of the
streets, the top OF dwelling house
on lower Main street blown off and
the electric light company wires out
of order on the north side Of town
were the storm results at Hamilton.
1t was reported in Hamilton this
morning that Chute's beach suffered
some, too, the diving board and
chutes being hurt Rumors in Ham
ilton also reported that Chute's cot