The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-05
65-MILE GALE SWEEPS OVER JUNEAU AREA


 through Juneau yesterday after noon, last night and early today. leaving in it's wake damaged btild- ings. power lines and automobiles. At the peak of the storm. gusts reached speeds of 65 miles per hour, toppled two garages, ripped loose and scattered hundreds or square feet of, roofing on downtown buildings. and hurled debris which cut through power lines. No injuries due to the storm were reported. The high winds. which begaa shortly before noon yesterday. be-. gan dying down this morning. First damage to be reported was the collapse of support for the roof at the new Juneau Lumber Company plant under construction near the charred ruins of the Ju- neau Spruce Corporation mill. Ju- neau Lumber Company officials said the damage will not delay the plants going into production April Is.
 Garage Flips Over
 At pm. yesterday garage i1 front of the Burrows Welding Com pany shop at 73 Willoughby Avenue was Tipped over on it's back by a heavy gust. Landing. it crumpled the roof of a car at the shop en- trance and damaged the entrance to the shop.
 A second garage was blown down at the Colonial Hotel on Second Street rear Franklin. It fell on top of a small truck and car parked at the curb. Both vehicles were damaged.
 A section of corrugated iron mar- quee on the Caro Building. South Main Street, fell and broke platt glass window in the Miner Publish ing Company office before being carried by the wind 300 feet across Marine Way.
 Shingles Ripped Off Meanwhile the gusts were ripping wood shingles off the City Hall and other buildings and composition roofing off the Goldstein Building and the old First National Bank building at Front and Seward Street.
 Composition and wood shingles filtered sidewalks today evidence that roof damage had been sus- tained by many buildings.
 At the peak of the gale yesterday evening, the Juneau Fire Depart mcnt was called out twice to ex- tinguish small blazes which could have grown quickly in the high wind.
 The first fire call was a one-four alarm at 6:30 pm. Bremen extin- guished a blaze caused by the back fire of furnace in the Decker Building. Decker Way at South Franklin Street.
 The second--a three-three alarm took the fire department to Cas- tineau Avenue and Rawn Way, where a small chimney fire was ex- tinguished. Neither blaze caused damage.
 City In Darkness Early this morning short circuit in the line between the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company's power plant and Juneau put the city in darkness. Lights went off at 4:55 am. and come on again at 5:l5 am. i At the Army wharf shed over 2 Fish and Wildlife Service boat was ripped off and carried away. The boat was undamaged. Windows Broken Several windows were reported broken by the force of the wind. A cottonwood tree fell against a power pole at SIS Third Street. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company workmen were called to chop it down when 1t threatened to break power lines. Light company officials said today that many service lines-but no feeder lines-were down in the city. Most of the breaks can 5e blamed on flying debris" they said. At 10 am today workers in the Federal Building reported a skift. adrift in Gastineau Channel, was picked up by tug. The skiff. owned by the Rev. R. E. Baker, had broken loose from it's mooring at the Union Oil Company dock. It was brought to shore by the tug Foss l9 and moored. No one was aboard while it drifted in the channel.
 A party of longshoremen re- ported early this morning they nar- rowly escaped injury by flying sheet of corrugated iron. The metal sheet. from the roof ot Winter and Pond. driven throug'. the air by gust. struck the cur at their feet, they said. Shingles and roofing are strev.. everywhere on down town stree-. and on the uphill sections. LUMBER MAN HERE A. L. Besaucon, connected with