The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-02-16
Heavy Wind Does Measurless
Damage in This Community

damage in
The most violent wind-storm ever known in
the history of of this community, broke loose
m all its fury early Monday morning and ragged
for eight hours, wrecking buildings that stood
in its path and doing damage estimated at
100000.
TELEPHONE SERVICE CRIPPLED
At two o'clock Monday morning the heavy
wind caused a high tension electric wire to
part and dropping onto telephone lead carried
the high voltage to the fuse blocks Of the tele--
phone system, located on pole at the rear OF
the exchange office in Gardnerville, setting
fire to the pole and burning off the wires. The
fire was discovered by a number of men at
tending dance. The chemical engine was
called out and the blaze extinguished. Carroll
Haugner, line chief for the telephone company,
rushed to Minden and had the power turned off
at the sub-station there while Carl Boerner of
the home company started on horseback to the
power house at Ruhenstroth's on the same
mission. Owing to great snow drifts across
the road he was forced to abandon the trip and
returning to town was able communicate on
direct wire to the power house and the power
was shut off, The pole line leading into Min
den was demolished and a crew of men are now
at work rebuilding the lines. E. ]. Phillips.
manager of the United Farmers Telephone
and Telegraph company, Immediately. wired to
Sacramento for crew of linemen and material
for the reconstruction of the cable leading
from the office to Main street Telephone
service cannot be restored until this work is
completed.
BIG HAY BARN RAZED TO GROUND
The big hay barn at Minden and owned by
the Carson Valley Hay and Produce company,
the biggest structure of it's kind in Carson Val
ley, was literally torn to pieces by the "twister'
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of corrugated steel scattered in all directions
The building was 200 feet long by 80 feet
wide and was filled with timothy hay being
held for the race horses at the Reno meet. The
heavy beams and timbers were broken as
though they were matches and carried through
the air for hundreds of feet. Two big motor
trucks and threshing machine were stored in
the building and received but slight damage.
The building, while a portion of two walls re-
main standing is hoplessly twisted out of
shape and is probably total loss
SWEETS HONEY HOUSE DEMOLISHED
A flying timber from the hay barn knocked a
gaping hole through the wall of the Sweet
honey warehouse. The wind did the rest tear
ing off the roof gable end and wrecking the
building beyond repair. The building was
stored full of honey boxes and materials used
in the bee business. The owner was in Reno
at the time, and volunteer works Immediately
secured truck and transferred the material
to the wool warehouse, brick structure, that
escaped damage.
ROOF OF ICE BUILDING BLOWN AWAY
The roof of the building owned by the Union
Ice company, standing short distance from
the Sweet building, was damaged, the roof be-
ing carried away by the wind.
GRAUNKE WAREHOUSE DAMAGED
The warehouse of VIM. Graunke stood in the
path of the wind, but withstood the force of the
storm, inasmuch as it was not blown down.
However portion of the roof was blown
away and the end wall of the structure bulged
out
OTHER BUILDINGS DAMAGED
AT the home of John B. Danbgerg the brick
chimney of the fire place was blown down, do
ing considerable damage. The roofing on the
Farmers Cooperative Mercantile store build
ing was torn off while the building of the Min
den Dry Goods Store suffered similarly.
portion of the shipping porch of the Minden
Flour Milling company was demolished. Sew
era small buildings were blown down and at
number of homes windows were smashed in by
the violent wind and more or less damage re-
suited.
CROWDS VIEW DEVASTATION
News of the damage caused by the wind
spread rapidly and when the storm subsidized
Monday afternoon people of the community
viewed the damage wrought by the most severe
windstorms in the history of this part of Carson
Valley The wreckage of the giant hay barn
reminded one of the devastation left in the
wake of cyclones of the middle western states
as shown by the Pathe motion pictures. As
the crowds moved about among the wreckage
an occasional gust of wind would pick up
piece of corrugated steel, carrying it rafting
across the open space between the creamery
building and the stripped guant frame of what
was once giant barn.
small Indian shack near the hay barn. has
half demolished and the occupants sent running
to safety A garage building owned by the
Mono forest service was blown down, as was
the county rock grader.