The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-09
TERRIFIC WIND
 SWEEPS JUNEAU DURING NIGHT
Taku Wind Blows at Rate of 5 to 40 Miles an Hour
 Through Night.
BIG DAMAGE DONE TO
 BUILDINGS IN CITY
Business Houses Suffer Great est Loss = Gas Boat
 Is Swamped.

Blowing at the rate of from B tc 40 miles an hour the Taku wind swept over Juneau last night and is said to have caused more damage than in any winter since 1916.
 From 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon until this morning the wind blew al most continually. Sign boards, pieces of glass, wood and tar paper from roofs were carried through the air and are scattered all over the town today.
 Severe Losses
 Among the most serious losses caused by the wind are the follow ing:
 Two of the large plaUe- glass Win dows in the Valentine building on Seward Street, blown out. The sign from the Grand Trunk Pacific office was torn off and crashed through one window in the Salvation Army headquarters, also in the Valentine building
 Lynda Hotel Damaged
 The Lynda" sign, 50 feet long and 12 feet high on the roof of the hotel, was torn down, striking the building as it fell, knocking out two windows on tho fifth floor and three on the fourth floor. The sign also tore down a 2,300-volt electric light line. The line was repaired at once by the company, it was stated.
 The sign of the Alaska Beverage Company, in the Zynda Hotel build ing. was torn down and one window in the office of the company knocked out
 The electric light shade at the cor ner of the Zynda Hotel was twisted ont of place and the shade on the post in the middle of the block across the street from tho Post Of fice was torn off and carried to the corner by tho B. NJ. Behrends Bank.
 One small window was broken in the Goldstein building and piece of the tar paper on the roof was car ried away.
 Light Office Flooded
 The offices and stock room of the Electric Light & Power Company were found flooded this morning. The water came from upstairs, where "a faucet had been left open. the drain pipe freezing and causing the water to flood, it is said. Two room and the hallway of the upstairs wer0 flooded, four windows in the second story were blown out.
 The large sign in the front of the Case store building was blown down yesterday afternoon.
 One of the large windows in the Boston store was blown out.
 The small sign in front of the Sharick Jewelry Store was blown down.
 One of the large windows on the ground floor and one window on the s-cond floor of the Pioneer Barber Shop was smashed.
 One of the large plate-glass win d1ws in the Wright Jewelry Store was badly cracked
 window in the Liberty Lunch was cracked
 A part of the top of the gable on the Occidental Hotel was torn off
 Winter 6s Pond Suffers
 About ' o'clock in the evening one h9lf of the tar roof on the Winter & Pond building was torn completely of. carrying with it three chimneys The biggest damage done by the flying pieces of tar paper anld peb bles from the roof was to the Ju raau Electric Company shop, in the Brunswick building. Every window in the front of the shop was smashed out and pebbles thrown inside. break ing the top of one show case and C using other damage amounting tC about $50, according to a statement made by w. R. Barnes, manager.
 Two windows in the G. & c. Motol Company shop, also in the Bruns x';ck building, and a large window above the entrance to the flask; Film Exchange building were smash e1 out by pieces of the roof iron the Winter & Pond building, it wa said.
 SaWmill Smokestack Down
 The three smokestacks and tn whistle of the Juneau Lumber Mil buildings were torn down and carrie out into the street
 One of the windows of the Whit Moose Barber Shop was blown out.
 The letter "S" in the Alaskan sign on the roof of that hotel wa torn down but has been fastened | the sign, it was stated.
 Tn the residence district numerou windows have been smashed ou