The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-10
GALE SMASHES
WINDOWS And
LEVELS TREES
TeIephene Wires Down. Glass Bro
ken and Trees Uproeted; Green
house Suffers.


we're casualties in the war OF the
elements which struck Rock Island
saturday night when q miniature
tornado ragged. The gale started
Early in the evening, but reached
It's height at between 1 and
o'clock Sunday morning.
weather bureau reports an Off
eiaI velocity OF ~ miles an hour
INIT In the outskirts 1t was said to
III between so and so miles. 1t
was the strongest wind since May
~. 1920. when velocity of IS
miles from the northeast was re-
corded. The barometer fell TO
ass inches Another high wind
Is forecast for tonight.
Il was a rapidly northeasteriy
movement of an area of low pres
sure which developed to the south
vest Saturday. The wind contin-
ned from l o'clock in the morning
10 o'clock this morning.
Local telephone service was not
much impaired early Sunday morn
ing. only so cases of trouble being
reported and those being promptly
repaired. Many important direct
lines, in the long distance service,
. we're down, however. Trouble was
especially pronounced in the vicin-
tiles of Aledo and Sterling, accord
ing to F. L. Eby, manager OF the To-
cal exchange. Gangs were out all
day yesterday and today making
pected service on mos of the lines
would be restored In most cases
falling trees caused this damage,
breaking the wires.
A few telegraph poles were re-
ported blown down along the Rock
island Lines right of way to Pc
oria, and % poles were down be-
tween here and Sherrard.
With two plate glass windows
smashed by the force of the wind,
the Great American Stores COM
pany establishment, corner of Six
teenth street and Second avenue,
suffered its second wind damage in
ronth. At that time one window
wiz broken. The panes faced Six
tenth street and Second avenue
A plate glass window about 10x10
feet at the Safety Printing company
office, in the Safety building and
facing Eighteenth street, was shat
tered by the storm. At the same
time two big panes were broken in
the front Of the Young & McCombs
store.
Smashes Glass Wall.
Damage which will total more
than $500 resulted when one side
OF the greenhouse owned and OPP
Grated by Ludwig Stapp, 1904
Twelfth street, was blown down.
The bulk Of the growing roses rails
ed by the Stapp company were ex-
posed by this accident. Had the
storm been a cold one the plants
would have suffered. The side wall,
$50 feet long and feet wide.
which had blown down, was re-
placed as quickly as possible by
wooden one.
City employees were called to
eight locations in the city after the
storm, to remove trees or branches
which had fallen so as to block
streets and siGcwalks. Trees or
parts of them we're reported down
on Seventh avenue at Twenty
sixth, Thirty-eighth, Thirty ninth,
Forty-irst and Forty-second streets,
at Seventeenth street and Twelfth
avenue, Thirty-seventh street and
Fourteenth avenue, and Twenty
nth street and Fifth-and-a-half aV-
enue.
Billboards on the vacant lot on
Third avenue at the Twenty-fourth
street intersection were blown
down.
Davenport experienced the same
toll of broken windows, uprooted
trees and damage to buildings. In
terurban service was tied up an
hour as result of damage to power
wires.
Rural Damages.
Hay sheds on the Harry Wither-
all and DR.. Peter Eckhart farms, |
near Milan, were blown down and |
demolished. At the David Johnson !
iarm, near Milan, the windmill was /
blown over, falling on the kitchen |
roof and causing considerable dam |
age
A temporary home erected on i
the Robert Little farm near Taylor |
Ridge was twisted around, the |
Kitchen stove knocked over and |
many dishes in the cupboard bro
ken A garage, recently erected on
me farm, was also carried several |
feet.
= On the Witter & Walker farm,
near Wagner Station. occupied by
fal Martin, a four-room house,
which was being moved and was /
sanding on timbers, was carried i
% feet and demolished.
A chicken brooder was destroyed |
on TIE Dave GRAVEYARD farm.
IN Milan a number of windows
IN residences we're broken.