St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 13, 1890

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Best Axminster Carpets ..................At $1.50 Extra Quality Wilton Velvets .............At $1.15 Medium Grade Wilton Velvets .. . At 924¢ Extra Body Brussels Carpets................At 95e Extra Tapestry Brussels Carpets. At 65e 2-Ply Carpets................. At 40e, 50e and 60c | * | Portiere Curtains ......,.....-At About Half Price Swiss Lace Curtains...........At About Half Price Table Covers. At About Half Price Fancy Searfs.................-At About Half Price Nottingham Lace Curtains...........One-Third Off Irish Point Lace Curtains /..........Qne-Third Off We intend to open in our BROADWAY STORE with an entirely new stock. Everything on our shelves now for Sale at much less prices than similar grades have ever been offered. Special inducements to merchants. 4 — — — ä ἈwQü—e — D — — — — — — — — — THE LEADING CREDIT HOUSE OF ST. LOUIS, DIaUs-EMerich Outfitting b. 1121, 1123 and 1125 Olive St. — — Ihe i A Tornado Leaves a Mournful Trail Throwae the City. Four Persons Killed and Many Seriously Injured. — Strong Walls Fall Like Card Houses and Roofs Fly Off Like Paper. Church [Spires and Factories in the Path of the Whirlwind Crumble Before It. — All the Eccentricities of a Tornado Dis- played im the Sights Along the Path of Ruin — Strange Experi- ences Told by Houseless Families— Carried Over a House-Top — Walls Fall In and Out—A Church in Brooklyn, III., Moved Eight Feet From Its Founda- tion While the Congregation Was at Prayer—The Birth Flace of the De- stroyer—Its History aad Cause. TORNADO, ac- companied by aheavy fall of rain and little lightning, swept over a portion of = St. Louis doing ~~? much damage to 22 oy houses, killing * four persons and injuring many. The morning was cloudy and sul- try, the afternoon warm, with occasional glimpses of sun. About 8 0’clock a wind rose in the southwest and about 4 o’clock the tornado swept down upon the city. Rain fell in sheets before and behind the mighty whirling wind. It was in the neighborhood of Jefferson and Chouteau avenues that the first effect of the wind’s work can be seen, though the tornado evidently came down from the direction of Tower Grove Park. Between Jefferson avenue and Eighteenth street bridges, in Mill Creek Valley, there was much curling of tin roots, breaking of sky- lights, destruction of signs, toppling of smoke stacks and overturning of chimney pots. reastward of the storm center, She was fonnd pinned to the debris a t the root which, n sheltering arch over Bowman also rescued r next door nor and saved her life. Mamie Conners. Adam Deppe, the saloon-kee to the Connors’ residence, said the cylone was all over within teu seconds. He said the building went down with a craeh like thun- der. The bouse No. 920 Mound street was also y wrecked. FRIGHTENED TO DEATH. Perhaps as sad a death as any was the sudden death of little Joseph Marks, aged 9 #£«years, who lived: at 1931 North Broadway. The poor little fellow had been quite lil and was in bed ina room in the second story. He was vonvalesc- ing, and at the time ofthe storm was sitting up in bed. The family was badly frightened at the terrible windstorm and were crouched together fearing the worst. Suddenly there was a crash and a roar of falling debris caused N the falling ofachimney on the house. hen the force of the storm had sub- ided the family burried upstairs to the room occupied by the sick boy and found bim lying back on his bed dead. His spirit bad passed away from fright undoubtedly, as he was rapidly recovering from his illness. The house was tottering on its foundation, haying been nearly blown down. The family hur- riedly moved into a one-story addition, and the police gave orders to have the building torn down to prevent further accidents. THE STORM. The storm which was central in the nortb- western portion of the country yesteraay morning moved northeastward rapidly with great energy, passing over the central valleys and lake regions, attended b severe gales and destructive local storms. Unusually warm southerly winds prevailed to the while the cold wave extended southward over the Mis- sissippi Valley to the gulf coast, the — in temperature in twelve hours ranging from forty to fifty degrees from Missouri and IIII- nois southward totbe west gulf coast. The temperature is now below — point in Northern Louisiana and Texas. It Is above 60 deg. from Florida northward to New York. »The cause of the tornado in St. Louis, LIEUT. DAY OF THE SIGNAL SERVICE said, is probably due to the meeting near St. Louis of bodies of air of widely differing temperatures. That is the theory of the origin of tornadoes, and last night’s reports showed a difference of 48 deg. be- tween the temperature of S8t. Louis and Kansas City. The temperature in St. Louis was 60 degs. and in Kansas City,12 degs. I do not think that the tornado went far into lilinois. Ido not know anything of its course after it left St. Louis, but speak from the re- ports in the papers and the signal service re- ports, which do not indicate lis presence any- where east of Venice. ‘*l went over part of the tornado’s course this morning and saw some of the phenom- ena. One way a tornado has of destroying a building is by the creation of a vacuum at the side of the building. The wind moves by a wall with such speed that the alr is all taken away and the pressure of the air on the other side of the wall forces It out. In the early part ot the storm’s track Isaw the south walls of builaings suffered most. But about Fifteenth and Wash streets I saw a house which had lost its north wall. Ican only account for this on the theory that the wind increased in energy as it proceeded, and passing over the building drew away the air from the north side of the building, causing {the wall to collapse. 1 intend to make a careful examination of the and the mother’s Injuries, beyond her fright, amounted toalmost nothing. Their escape from death is almost incomprebensibie. ' CHARLES MILLER, WIFE AND BABY. The second story of the house 120 South Twentieth street was wrecked. The rear wall was blown in and the roof was partially torn away. Mrs. Charles Miller and ber baby nar- rowly esca death when the house was wrecked. rs. Miller had the baby in her arms, and seeing the window sag In rushed to it and pla her against the lass. Hardly had she taken this position hen the roof was lifted, the window was blown in and a shower of bricks fell abont her. One brick struck her on the bead, cut- ting along, deep gash. The force of the blow rendered her unconscious. She fell upon the floor, still holding the baby. A brick struck the little one, but did not injure it much, as the mother’s arm partially protected it. Mrs. Miller’s injuries are quite painful, but not serious, A physician attended her as soon as her husband, wito was slightiy cut by broken giass, could get out to summon one. BURIED WITHOUT WARNING. The tornado piled the house 1412 North Twelfth street, in the rear, about the heads of Heinzel Wenzel, a stonemason, and farlly. Mr. Wenzel, wife and three children were sicting in the front room of their house, which is a one-story brick cottage, when the storm arose. They did not dream of danger and had no warning of it. Suddenly the nouse col- lapsed and all were buried in the ruins. Neighbors came to their assistance after the storm, and all were taken out alive and but slightly hurt. Scratches and bruises were the sum of their injuries. EXCITEMEDT AT THE NATATORIUM. There was terrible excitement in the Nata- torium, Nineteenth and Pine streets, during thestorm. The Natatorium lay a short dis- tance to the west of the track of destruction, but the wind passing over it was very strong. The building was shaken and seemed upon the point of being wrecked. Between 500 and 600 girla and men were there, dancing as is usual on Sunday afternoon. The girls be- came wild with terror and bad it not been for some cool men there would have been a stampede from the buiiding. Several women fainted in the excitement but no one was in- jured and the building was not damaged. FRANK KOHLER’S BPSCAPE. The office of the Smith & Heljer Lumber Co., 1828 North Broadway, asmall one-story frame building, tell during the storm, burying Frank Kohler, an employe ofithe company, in the wreckage. He lay there until the firemen who were summoned removed the boards and drew him forth. He was badly frightened but not burt, and walked to his home, 2913 North Broadway. BLOWN OUT THE SIDE. No. 920 Mound street, owned by Mr. John H. Diel and occupied dy Mr. Burns and Mr. Horn. Mrs. Horn, on the second floor, was blown out through the side of the dwelling, with most of her household effects, and landed almost uninjured, but scared nearly to death, on the wreck of what had just previ- ously been known as 922 Mound street. The St. Louis Planing mill, at Tenth and Mullanphy streets, was badly shattered. An unknown man, standing under one of its sheds, had his leg broken by failing timber and was cared for by the police. South of Clark Avenue. In the district lying south of Clark avenue there was great damage, though no large buildings were very seriously injured. All the wrecks seemed to be west of Eighteenth street, east of Jefferson avenue had the entire roof blown away and the side wall dashed in. | „ Breen’s residence on the northeast cor- ner of 2 — and Randoipn lost its roof 2 er damages from the cyclone The residence 2608 Rutger street, occupied by William Bernd, had the roof biown om The bouse 2222 negroes, was badly wrecked, one wall and the roof having torn away. Houses 2212 to Gratiot street, owned by the Walters estate, one of them John Walters, suffered considerable loss from chimneys, fire walls and roofs being blown away. The walis of the old Harrison wire-milis a8 Twenty-third and Chouteau avenue were blown down aud filled the vacant lot of an en- tire block with the debris. The roof and wall of No. 242 South Twenty- first street were blown away. The roof was biown off of Moerschei’s butcher shop, 120 South Twentieth street; damage, $300. The front wall of Holmes Grivate’s resi- dence, 108 South Twentieth street, was blown in; damage, $75. The roof was biown offthe vacant house, 2119 Scott avenue; damage, . John Sexton’s house, 249 Hickory street, houses of Mrs. Bailey and was damaged $150 The boarding Mr. Hall, Nos, 2106 and 2108 Clark avenue, were badly injured. j A portion of the roof of Mr. Brannon’s house, No. 2108 Adams street, was blown off. The storm went through Calahban’s saloon and grocery store,on the corner of Twenty- first and Adams streets, carrying away the front and back entrances of the first floor, but paying no attention to the upper portion of the bullding. A vortion of the premises No. 206 Adams — fell in, demolishing the interior of the ullding. The front of Donohoe’s saloon, No. 2001 Clark avenue, was blown in, and Donohoe ase his wife were greeted with a shower of Klass. The roof of John Stanica’s bullding, No. — * Clark avenue, was partially blown off. The round-house of the Wabash Rallroad Co., Twenty-third street and Scott avenue, was unroofed. The smoke stack of the Pacific Elevator and a portion of the roof went overboard. ne side of Lutz's butcher shop and vegeta- ble store, No. 108 South Twentieth street, fell with acrash, and a Mrs. Meyers, who lived in the — 2 was injured, A baby that was in a cradie in the same building, was covered with debris and was reported killed. It, how- ever, was uninjurea. The smoke stack of the Crown Linseed Ou Co. at Seventeenth street and Clark avenue was overturned. Several of the old brick buildings on the north side of Mill Cree Valley, which the Union Depot Co. has purchased and intends to tear down to make room, it is alleged, fora we as were torn and unroofed by the Ww n > 4 ratiot street, occupied by © The two-story brick saloon building of Ham- mond & Reese, at No. South Twentieth, owned by Levi Stern. had a south window blown in and a north wall blown out. None of the occupants were injured. A large portion of the front wall of the resi- dence of William Holmer, 108 South Twentieth street, was blown out. The damage done will amount to about $75. The building occupied by H. Drees as a saloon and residence, 100 South Twentieth street, was damaged to the extent of $100-by a ay. portion of a wall being blown out. About 20 feet of the wall in the building oc- cupled by Sherida&é’s saloon, 101 South Twen- tieth street, was blown out, and the damage done is placed at $100. The Union Depot Elevator, Twentieth and Poplar streets, suffered a loss of $200 by a por- tion of the building being blown down. A telegraph pole encumbered with ten wires was blown down by the storm on Broadway. near Bates street, which delayed truffic on the South St. Louis Railway for about half an bour. * A vacant two-story frame house on Bates street, near the city limits, was blown down’ by the wind and its timbers werg- scattered: around for a distance of 150 feet. 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January 14, 1890. CHAS. EK. HASBRO OK. President. E. T. CAMPBELL, Secretary. January 3. 1890. LECTION NOTICR— Continental National Bank, St. Louls, December 31, 1889—The regular an- nual election for eleven directors will be held Tues- day, January 14, 1890, at the bankiug house. Polls open from 9 a. m. until 12 m. CHAS. W. BULLEN, Cashier. Ce ee — — — Furniture, Carpets, Stoves and Household Goods Or anything else for 2 home, or if you want Clothing for Men, Boys and Children, Ladies’ Seal Plush Coats, Wraps, Raglans and Modijeskas, Dry Goods, Dress Goods or anything else to make you comiortable and think you cannot purchase from us on Our Liberal Credit System At as low a price as you can from houses doing a strictly cash business a visit to our establishment and inspection of our goods and a comparison of our prices will prove to you the great mistake you have made. Terms to Suit Ewerybody. The Straus-Emerich Outfitting Co., 1121, 1123 and 1125 Olive Street. 8 , LECTION NOTICE—The Third National Bank of St. Louis, December 13. 1889. The regular annuai election for nine (9) directors of this bank will be held on the second Tuesday, 14th of January 90, at the banking rooms. Polls open from 13 o clock m. until 4 r m. T. A. STODDART. Cashier. POURTH NATIONAL BANK OF ST. LOUIS December 23, 1889.—The annual election for nine (9) Directors of this bank will be held at the bauking-rooms, northeast corner 4th st. and Wash- ington av., pn Tuesday, January 14, 1890. Polls open from 10’ clock a. m. to 12 «’clock noon. F. W. BIEBINGER, Cashier. TICE—Schulenburg & Roeckeler Lumber Co.— The annual meeting vf the stockho'ders of the hulenburg & Boeckeler Lumber Co. will take place the office of said company in the city of St. Louis on Wednesday, Januarv 22. 1890, at 9 o’clock a. m. of that day, for the election of directors of said com- anv, and for such other business as mav come be- ore said meeting. ADOLPHUS BOECKELER, President. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 11. 1890. HE annual meeting of the stockholders of the R'ddie-Rehbein Manufacturing Co. for the elec- tion of directors and such other business as may come before it, will be held at the office of the com- pany, corner of Thirteenth and O'Fallon streets, in the city of St. vis, Mo., on Wednesday, January 29, 1890, at9o’clock a. m. GEORGE T. RIDDLE, Prest. and Treas. HENRY REHBEIN, Secretary. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 9, 1890. HE annual meetine of the stockholders of the Great Western Planing Mill Co. for the elec- tion of directors for the ensuing term will be held on Thursday, January 16, 1590, between the hours of 6 and 8 p. m., at the Planing Mill office, southwest corner Anna and Bismarck. WM. STUTZ, President and Treasurer. St. Louis, Jan. 6, 1890. STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS. Nous is hereby given to the stockholders of the West Granite Mountain Mining Comgany, that the 2 named in the resolution adopted at the meetlug of said company on October 5, 1889, have delivered two hundred and fifty thousand shares of the Elizabeth Mining Company to Massena Bullard and Augustus B. 2 Trustees. Any stockholder of the West Granite Company may, within sixtv days from the 20th day of Decem- ber, 1889, exchange his sharesin said company for Flizabeth Mining Company stock at the rate of two shares of the former for one of the latter on the terms provided in said resolution, by applying to Au- gustus B. Ewing, Esq., room 124, Laciedé Bullding. St. Louls, Mo., or Massena Builard, room No. 8, Gold Block, Main street, Helena, Mont. At the expiration of said sixty days the stock of the Elizabeth Mining Company remaining unexchanged in the hands of said Bullard and Ewing will be sold as provided in said resolution. AUGUSTUS B. EWING, MA>SENA BULLARD, Trustees. FFICE of North American paphals Co., Room 703, Bank of Commerce Builaing, St. Louis, January 2, 1890.—A meeting of the stockholders of the North American wry Co. is hereby callea for Monday, January 13, 1890, at 4 p. m., at Room No, 703, Bank of Commerce Building, Fifth and Olive sts. St. Louis, Mo. ADOLPHUS BUSCH, President. C. E. Soxsr. 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The tornado lifted the chapel of the House of the Good Shepherd on Chestnut and | Seventeenth streets, tore away parts of the Presbyterian Church stee- ple at Seventeenth street and Lu- cas place, unroofed Pius Hospital, Fourteenth and O’Fallon streets, destroyed the spire of the Emanuel German Evangelical Lutheran Church at Fifteeeth and Morgan “Second 2 —— * irr 74 } Wires on the Venice Crossing. streets and a house adjoining, demolished the house 922 Mound street,and wrecked the Vorn- prock Furniture Factory at Main and Tyler streets. There were many other buildings injured. The course of the tornado has been indicated in theciting of the most conspicuous instances of damage. Near Tyler street the tornado left the city, swept across the river and did much damage in Venice, a small town on the Illinols shore opposite North St. Louis. FOUR FATALITIES. In atwo-setory brick house at 922 Mound street occurred the death of three of the vio- tims of the storm. The house was a two- story structure of a substantial appearance, one that might be judged to be perfectly safe. The terrible gust of wind struck the building in the southwest corner and, with a horrible grinding and crunching sound, the whole cor- ner was literally forced in. This took away the support of the upper story which fell in a heap. The wind appeared to have biown a hole directiy through the side of the house. The first floor of the wrecked house was oo- cupied by Bernard McConnell and his tam- ily. MeConnell was in the building when it collapsed and was carried to the cellar by falling bricks and mortar. His body was taken out shortly after the accident, but life had away. In The second storv lived Mrs. Connors with her family of four children, Maggie, Mamie, Annie and Frances. Two children, named Joe and Theresa Weaver, were visiting the Connors children when the cycione struck the house, making in all seven persons on the e ond floor. It was almost a miracle that they were not all Killed, but death only called two of them—Mrs. Connors ttle Weaver boy. Maggie Connors proken by the falling debris, tly bruised. The others pe scratches and 1 trights. age'e, 16 12 years old; Frances, » is aged Wen the 6 youngest work of rescue, an he killed, M eiii — — „% „% . 2 r * BROOKLYN CHURCH, BLOWN FROM ITS FOUNDATION. tornado’s track and chart it on a map of the clty. ‘*There is one peculiarity about this tor- nado. The center of the cyclone now moving over the country was near Chicago yesterday, and so 8t. Louis lay in the southwest quad- rant. These tornadoes usually occur in the southeastern quadrant.“ NONE OF THE OBSERVERS happened to be looking west from the Custom- house dome yesterday afternoon during the passage of the tornado and so lost the oppor- tunity of seeing an intense storm in progress. Such observation might have been made in- teresting and valuable. Terrible Experiences, There were four families in the three-story building at 101 South Twentieth street yester- day afternoon when the roof was lifted off by the passing tornado. In one room a husband and children were gathered about the coffin which contained the late wife and mother. S he died Saturday night and preparations for the funeral were not yet completed. As the wind tore away at the roof the crashing and. booming came to the earsof the mourning family. Theterror of the children was piti- ful and it was long before the neighbors could calm them. No one was hurt in the building. UNDER A FALLING STREPLE. , Wm. Brady of 1512 Morgan street was pass- ing the corner of Fifteenth and Morgan streets when the tornado struck and toppled the spire of Emauuel Church. He n the borribie roar and ran with ail his migbt to es- cape from the fly ing debris, but a fragment of prick struck him onthe head, felling him to tne pavement. His scalp was tornand his skull fractured. BLOWN INTO A CELLAR. Behjamin Verfieid of 1447 North Tenth street was injured in a very peculiar manner. He was near the corner of Tenth and Mullanphy streets when the storm arose, and ranto the door-wuy of the St. Louis Manufacturing Co.’s works for shelter. The wind was driving directly upon this door and succeeded in bursting its fastenings. Varfleld was thrown down astairway into the basement the wind. He was injured internally and bis — — leg was broken below the knee. So sudden was his mishap that he can give no account of it. One minute he was in the door-way and the next he was lying at the bottom of the stairway. HBAVED OUT OF A BUGGY. John Obarles and two companions were y He also aboutthe head. Dr. Dierworth of 2354 Rutger street dressed his wounds and he was taken tm His companions were but slightly IN A HOUSE WALL. SMASHED Mrs. Elizabeth Carr and her daughter were / th in the southern room of their house, 2117 Ecott avenue, ;when the tornado struck the house. The force of the wind was so. at that the south wall was blown in. A window sash wae blown against Mrs. Carr and MRS. MORROW’S The 90-feet high smoke lor Brewery, at Kig w wn down by the and from the marks it left it seems that the most destructive portion of the storm passed south on Twentieth street. A large smokestack on the building 1801 Clark avenue, owned by the Water Gas works, was blown off; also a portion of the building. Damage, ° The roof over the residence of Mrs. Cun- ningham, 212 South Twenty-first street, was blown off. Damage, $100. The tin roof that covered the residence of J. E. Roberts, 2101 Clark avenue, was blown away. Damage $150. . The roof over the residence of J. 8. Con- nor, 2104 Adams street, was carried away. Damage, $100. Aside wall ofthe residence of J. Glace, 2108 Adams street, was iaid ina heap after — 5 wind had struck the house. Damage, 1 The front portion of H. Murray’s residence, 2182 Randolph street, was blown down. Damage, $100. The house 2112 Randolph street, vacant, was damaged tothe amountof $200 by the root being blown off and the walls being left shaky. The wind blew off the roof and left the walls ina dangerous condition at 2102 Randolph street, occupied by Miss Hache. Damage, The large smoke-stack over the Ancher Mills, Twenty-first and Randolph streets, was blown away. Damage, $200. The roof that was over Mrs. Carr’s rest dence, 2117 Scott avenue, is now in kindling wood. a ay $100. The Joseph Schneider Brewing Co. suffered a loss of $150 by a portion of one of: the buildings at 2235 Chouteau avenue being blown away. . The roof was blown off and the wa badly damaged at Ehlermann’s ne Twenty-second and Scott avenue. Daihage, Two dwelling houses, belonging to vols, and situated at 2337 and 234 uteaa avenue, were damaged to the extent of by the walis being blown down. te The residence of OC. W. Smith, 2319 Chouteau avenue, was damaged to the of $100. A portion of a wall was piled in a ° ; Thomas Hades residence, outeau avenue, was da to the amount of $100 biown off. residence of Henry Wiiger, 2333. avenue. The residence of a Mr. Henderson, 2302 Papin street, suffered a loss of $100 by the storm. A portion of the roof and a wall were blown down at the residence of Charles Davis, 2300 Papin street. Damage, $500. he dwelling house, 2222 Gratiot street, owned by Mrs. Grandy of 2806 Dickson street, was damaged to the amount of 3800 by a por- tion of the roof and aside wall being blown — ren School, on California avende, yette, was in the track of the cy- of the roof on the soutn west icted. 1 at Twentieth and had 21 2 biown country district south of the city. The two-story residence of Joseph Gruen, on Chippewa street near the Oak Hill tracks, was unroofed, but fortunately all ofthe fam- 2 were on the first floor and escaped without njury. Almost the entire second story of the frame building at 2608 Rutger street, occupied asa residence by W. J. Bewicks, was biown away. The loss is estimated at All members of the family were down stairs at the time of the storm. : From Clark Avenue to Cass Avenue. In the district bounded on the south by Clark . avenue and on the north by Cass avenue the damage was very considerable, beginning on the south with broken windows and trifling accidents and ending to the northward with wrecked bulldings and serious harm to per- ns. 1 — * following is a list of buildings dam- aged: At number 100 South Twentieth street, a saloon and b — oer | house owned by Levi Stern and occupied by Hammond Reese was — destroyed one, wall being biown own. The roof ot a three-story building at No. 101 South Twentieth street was badly dam- aged, and the upper portions of the walls were blown down. The lower portions of the structure is occupied by E. J. Sheridan, who*™- keeps a saloon. The root of atwo-story building at No. 120 South Twentieth street was torn off by the cycione, and three persons in the bui were hurt by flying bricks and tim The show-windows of astore belonging to J. H. Hulsemann, No. 36 South Twen street, were blown in and some ot bis stock was damaged. A large portion of the front wall of the residence of William Holmer, 108 South Twentieth street, was blown out. The dam- age done will amount to about $75. | 2021 Market street, occupied by the Home Dairy Co. was badly wrecked, the front be! blown in among the milk cans. The s and fixtures were dam „ both residen down. lower portion of the buildings are ms a smoke-stack, but age. 1827 Market street, a saloon James Mea ae — 8 the Cl nuts Livery occu e Cleme 9 tee office and damaging « number of coffins. At the southeast corner of Twentieth Pine streets about 100 feet of fencing, ing to the Cottrill Bill Posting Co., was completely across the s ° Several large panes of French plate the building southwest corner of and Pine streets were biow | building is Oarriage Co,, and the damage 22 will amount to several A small portion of the wall of : 1917 Pi = 1 were biown down, by water ing n out, the ‘dons to. ig done , . Des be 4 + 1 * 45 * * * * 8 * er, was blown down anda ee through the adjoin building Sarge N 1 * gis 4 ° 9 * * ‘ *