The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-02-16

ROADS and lack OF telephone communications.
At the Henry Godecke ranch barn was blown
down and the same report comes from the Fred
Alderman ranch. Hay stacks were blown to
pieces and stock suffered severely during the
blizzard.
DAMAGE DONE AT GARDNERVILLE
While little removed from the path of the
violent "twister' that hit Minden, Gardnerville
did not suffer such great loss, but the damage
was extensive at that. The home Of George A.
Montrose suffered the most, both chimneys fall
ing, and caving in the roof of the building. The
chimney on the fire place fell, smashing in the
roof and broke eight rafters. Windows were
broken and considerable damage done to the in
terror furnishings According to Mr.. Montrose,
the first crash came at 2 o'clock MASKING win
dows and doing other damage. He made an eff
fort to repair the broken windows but pillows
stuffed into the broken panes would not stay.
AT five o'clock the final crash came and for
time Mr.. Montrose said he was certain the
building would not withstand the terrific wind.
The roof was blown off the high school build
ing, the roofing being stripped clean from the
boards chimney fell from the Hotel Ritch-
ford the A. Jensen home, Herbert Dresser's.
Two chimneys fell from the Record-Courier
building with crash at 5 a. m. and for a
few moments the occupants of the two-story
building though the structure would surely go
to pieces.
A large plate glass window in the garage
building at this place owned by the Helberg
Motor Sales company, was blown out by the
high wind and the roofing on the Valhalla
building was damaged to some extent
After daylight the storm continued unabated
and one could not see more that few feet for
the driving snow.
With electric power of both lines off, tele-
phone service dead and then to add to the
situation, the water in the Gardnerville mains
ceased flowing pending the rigging up of gas
engine at the pumping plant Modern con-
veniences were eliminated as if by magic, and
many housewives not knowing of the COM
plete damage at the telephone office were ring
ing franticay for central and between acts,
melting snow to secure water for coffee and
dishwashing.
HEAVY SNOW DRIFTS ON ROADS
The wind CARED snow from fields and roads
are completely blocked with drifts five and six
feet deep Between Minden and Gardnerville
snow in some places is piled up on level with
the top of fences while at Millars the drift
continued across the highway, making travel
between the two towns extremely difficult. This
condition continued until Tuesday afternoon
when c. F. w. Dangberg with team of eight
horses hitched to the road grader, cleared the
road.
The mail stages were unable to keep their
schedules Monday. The Bridgeport auto stage
could not get out of the limits of Gardnerville,
and the mail was sent out on horseback. 1t is
said the drifts between Gardnerville and Ruben
stroth's are four and five feet deep. The Genoa
stage arrived Tuesday, making the trip through
the Miller lane. The highway at the Chas
Springmeyer ranch is blocked with five foot
drife and travel to Carson is going by the
way of the Sheep Camp detour.
GENERAL NEWS OF BIG STORM
Monday train service was demoralized, and it
was not until 5 p. m. that train reached Min
den from Carson.
Monday night Mnden and Gardnerve were
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houses that remained open reSorted to candles
for illumination. But few people groped their
way through the total darkness that enveloped
both towns and then only to get the mail to
ascertain the extent of the storm, but no late
news was received
From the fact that the West side of the VAL
ley always stands the blunt of storms cosider-
able apprehension was manifest here as to the
extent of damage. When meagre reports be-
gan to arrive telling of little damage the news
was cheerfully received.
Carl Boerner, of the Douglas Power company
reports that but one pole that line went
down in the storm and it would have been
possible to restore service Monday night, but
this was delayed to ascertain that none of the
lines were crossed with other wires Service
was restored Tuesday noon.
The Truckee company restored service in
some parts of Minden at IL o'clock Tuesday
night.
Owing to the impossible conditions of the
Valley roads, many of the district schools re-
manned closed this week, among them being the
Minden and Gardnerville consolidated schools.
The school buses will not be able to cover ac-
customed routes for some time unless the roads
are cleared of snow by the county commission
ers, according to information received here
yesterday.
The timely discovery of the fire on the pole
at the rear of the telephone office in Gardner
vile was exceedingly fortunate Had the fly
ing sparks ignited nearby buildings during the
raging wind, the business section of the town
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